JEFF: Speaking of engineering, that stupid engineer inside my head just couldn’t let go of the idea that vertical answers going down and turning to the east would be TURNING LEFT, NOT RIGHT. He wisely proposed that the answers should start as Across entries and then pivot into Down entries on the “right On.” I wanted his help in building the grid because of his skills in grid engineering. In my original pitch I proposed that the theme entries start by running Down and then turn into Across entries on the word(s) that could also go with “right SAM: I first wrote to him with the idea for this puzzle. JEFF: What can I say? I like to make butter. It’s as if his mantra is “How can we make this better?” SAM: I like collaborating with Jeff because he thinks through every detail of a puzzle throughout the construction. Let’s hear from our constructors: Constructors’s Notes: She’s a big deal in the media, even if she’s young. She was named one of “The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014″ by Time magazine. Of New York Times crossword solvers, but she has been in the news as a 12-year-old who started a very successful fashion blog, and in both 20, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media. I might have clued the entry TAVI to TAVI Gevinson, the founder and editor in chief of Rookie Magazine, which admittedly might not be well known to the demographic I am grateful that the clue for D CUP is a factual one. call soda “pop,” but do they also say DIET POP? I’ve only heard people refer to it as DIET SODA. Not sure that’s even a regional thing I know that some people in other areas of the U.S. And, as a New Yorker, I’m putting my foot down about DIET POP. HAVE A GAS is fun, but sounds dated to my ear. I did like the theme entries, I GET IT, MIC DROP (which makes its New York Times debut today), WARHEADS (which are delicious and lemony when theyĪre the candy and not the weapon), NANOBOT, HIT A WALL and WHATSIT. Chen stuck to the 140-word maximum in Sunday-sized puzzles. The left and right sides of the grid seem particularly cramped, although Mr. In nontheme news, there’s some less-than-desirable fill, which is a result of the constraints placed on the grid by the theme. I actually thought that SENS at 63 Across and SEIS at 64 Down might be a theme entry as the word SENSEIS, but that makes no sense, because Got that? There are five more such entries, and I will leave you to find them. The clue for 41 Down is “Exact,” and the answer would be RIGHT To not only make a sharp turn downward (to the right?) at certain points in each theme clue, but once that is done, the subsequent down entry is only complete if you insert the words RIGHT ON before it.įor example, we have the phrase SHOW ME THE MONEY at 39 Across, but it’s broken up as SHOWMET at 39 Across and THEMONEY at 41 Down. You read the title of the puzzle by Samuel “Not the Newscaster” Donaldson and Jeff Chen, right? There’s a reason why the phrase “Right On!” is doubled. There’s something more in store for you today. You thought this was going to be another one of those themes where the entry drops off and makes a sharp turn somewhere and that would be it, right? That’s
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