You may not know which way you’re going when you solve Ella Dershowitz’s puzzle.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Saying anything about today’s puzzle, constructed by Ella Dershowitz, would give away the theme, so the only thing I will urge you all to do is to keep the idiom “robbing Peter to pay Paul” in mind as you solve.
Also, I would like to congratulate Ms. Dershowitz in her starring role in New York City in a play called “Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library.”
Today’s Theme
ANY TAKERS is the answer to the revealer clue at 35A, [“Who’s interested?” … or, phonetically, what four answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the answers next to them].
That’s all well and good, I hear you saying, but why are some of the clues and their answers not making sense? We’re all pretty sure that [Selecting for a jury] has little to do with IMPALING someone, Deb, or no one would show up for the voir dire.
That’s a great question, and the answer has to do with interpreting the revealer correctly.
When a clue says that an entry should be read phonetically, solvers need to look for a word in the entry that can be converted into letters. In Ms. Dershowitz’s revealer, for example, the word ANY should be read as N-E.
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