Alina Abidi opens our solving weekend with a very chatty puzzle.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — Today’s puzzle is Alina Abidi’s fourth in The New York Times, and it’s a good one as long as you don’t mind all the noise.
In it, there are more than a few answers that are verbalizations, or entries that you would most likely say out loud. Examples include the answers to 17A and 55A.
If there were such a thing as crossword librarians, they could ask one to “Shush!” these entries, but I like verbalizations. They make puzzles more lively and bring out the humanity behind the grid.
Enjoy this one. It doesn’t really matter whether you found it too hard or too easy. That’s a fairly limited way to judge a crossword. What matters is that you had fun, if just for a little while.
Tricky Clues
6A. I had “yay” and “yea” for [Shout of jubilation] before I corrected it to YES because I am a very informal person.
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Source: Elections - nytimes.com
