Choose your battles carefully while solving Grant Boroughs’s puzzle.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Grant Boroughs has had two very entertaining crosswords published in The New York Times, but today’s puzzle, his third, might just put him on the map of constructors to keep an eye on.
Not many constructors attempt this type of puzzle, which is sad, because I happen to enjoy them — and the whole New York Times Games enterprise is about entertaining me specifically, right?
Even if the creation of our games is not all about me (I maintain that it is), crosswords with this sort of theme are rare because of how difficult they are to put together. And if a constructor manages to tie this theme into a clever revealer, as Mr. Boroughs does, the result is even more elegant.
Today’s Theme
Have you ever solved a Schrödinger puzzle? If you are relatively new to solving, it’s possible that you may not have encountered one before.
A Schrödinger puzzle — named after Dr. Erwin Schrödinger and his famous thought experiment about a cat — is one where certain squares accept more than one letter, and using either letter is considered correct. That means a Schrödinger puzzle accepts both versions of a changeable entry, even though there is only a single clue.
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