Hannah Slovut-Einertson wants us to change.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — This is Hannah Slovut-Einertson’s second crossword in The New York Times, and it’s nice to see her back in the rotation. There has been a sizable gap between her debut in 2018 and today’s puzzle, and in that time, she appears to have married, which also extended her byline by nine letters.
Today’s Theme
When you were solving this puzzle, did you suspect that the theme contained rebuses because there were entries you were sure you knew, but they turned out to be wrong?
Me, too.
No rebus theme today. Instead, Ms. Slovut-Einertson asks us to remove parts of the theme answers as they are written and replace them with other letters to get the “real” answer. These answers are clued fairly simply, but they won’t make sense until you follow the instructions in the grid.
Wait, what? The hints are in the grid and not in the clues? Yes, although the theme clues point us to those instructions.
Here’s how it works. Each of the four theme entries has two parts: The instructions on the left and, in the same row, the answers on the right. The instruction entry is a word that happens to contain the letters “TO.” The entries need to be read as X TO Y.
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