Daniel Bodily shows himself to be a man of letters.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. These sentences, besides describing the kinds of images I hallucinate after taking Benadryl, achieve something delightful: They use every letter in the English alphabet.
Daniel Bodily accomplishes a similar feat in today’s crossword, which is his 10th for The New York Times. If any of you are inspired to come up with other phrases that feature the clue for 51A, a [Group whose members are represented completely (with no repeats)], I’d love to see them in the comments. Have at it — just don’t forget to pack my liquor jugs.
Today’s Theme
CONSONANTS, the entry for 51A, abound in this grid; there’s nothing remarkable about that. But in the clues at 21-, 26- and 43-Across, we get all of the CONSONANTS in the English alphabet, each appearing exactly once. They appear inside the circled squares (in bold here): HEMINGWAYESQUE (21A), EXECUTIVE BOARD (26A) and J.F.K. PLAZA (43A).
I suppose it wouldn’t be as impressive to pull the same thing off with vowels, since there are comparatively few. Still, I offer the following options free of charge to any enterprising constructors:
“Audio, yes?”
“Oily sauce.”
“Ugly asteroid!”
Tricky Clues
1A. The lesson of this entry is that not every adjective needs a corresponding noun. The [Cause of a Richter scale blip] is a SEISM, as in the noun form of seismic. I will be the first to say that this sounds terrible.
24A. On a computer, you can [Close the tab] with a simple click. But to do so at a bar, you have to PAY.
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