Colin Adams opens our solving weekend.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — This is not a scientific theory by any means, but once in a while I become convinced that solving a puzzle allows me to tap into a constructor’s mind-set at the time the grid was made. The fill is usually what gives it away.
Reading the constructor’s emotions via crossword puzzle is a lot like reading tea leaves in the sense that I am making this up as I go along. But since Colin Adams, the mastermind of today’s puzzle, said in his Constructor Notes that he had a worrisome time filling the southwest corner and 38D somehow wound up in that section, I’m willing to bet that it wasn’t an accident. That was Mr. Adams’s call for divine intervention.
He needn’t have worried. Mr. Adams’s second puzzle in The New York Times (his debut was in February) is a fun and accessible grid with lively cluing. I’m looking forward to more from him.
Tricky Clues
22A. This clue, [Ones used to working from home?], is not talking about people with home offices, but about UMPS who work behind home plates.
24A. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that Mittens in [Mittens might fiddle with this one] didn’t refer to hand coverings, but to a cat by that name. Mittens likes to play with a CAT TOY.
I think there’s something wrong with your duck…
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