Rajeswari Rajamani makes her New York Times Crossword debut.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — I’m always happy to welcome new constructors into the fold. I’m even more happy when they make their debuts on a Thursday — that beautiful, infuriating day of the week when any sort of wordplay or trickery can happen in the puzzles — because I get to witness a new voice emerging. So do you.
This is Rajeswari Rajamani’s debut in The New York Times, and if this is any indication of her talent, I hope to see more from her. The theme set in her puzzle is particularly tight, and her clues make her mid-to-late-week puzzle very accessible. There’s even a neat trick that I will explain in the theme section. That’s enough to keep me happy on a Thursday.
Ms. Rajamani finished the Diverse Crossword Constructors Fellowship under the tutelage of Sam Ezersky, one of our puzzle editors, and I think that he guided her well.
“Raji was such a pleasure to work with!” Mr. Ezersky said. “An innate talent alongside an eagerness to learn really set her apart, and both of these attributes are nicely reflected in today’s puzzle.”
Today’s Theme
I’d like to drop a pearl of experience (I wouldn’t call it wisdom, necessarily) that not everyone thinks about while solving: Sometimes, in order to solve a puzzle, you will have to go back and alter the clues themselves.
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