Tricky CluesġA: When you hear the word “place,” you’re thinking of an external locale, aren’t you? So, “Place where analysis is done?” doesn’t lead you immediately to LEFT BRAIN. Let’s take a look at some of the tricky clues so we can get through together. It’s a challenge, but you’ll just have to put one foot tentatively in front of the other until you are through to the other side. I knew that the neighbor of Twelve Oaks was TARA because I love the book and the film, “Gone With the Wind.” “Topics for Kaplan” refers to the SATS ( Kaplan Test Prep is one of the foremost preparatory courses students can take for a variety of entrance exams.). Maybe you’ve FLAKEd on someone and abandoned your plans with them. At 39A, the “question after an interruption,” along with 39D, turns out to be WHERE WAS I, which totally makes sense together but is fairly unnerving when you try to solve each on its own.īut there’s always a path or a way in, as I tried to say yesterday. Step carefully over the cross-referencing as well. And make no mistake, he takes great pleasure in putting entries like TRAP QUEEN in his puzzles, just to mess with people who have never heard of Fetty Wap. Ezersky on his way from the University of Virginia to his new job as an assistant editor working with Will Shortz and Joel Fagliano, but clearly he has an ax to grind with us. I’m not entirely sure what happened to Mr. But also because it’s now Saturday, and Sam Ezersky is back. Today, we are going to compare solving to tiptoeing delicately through a minefield, also because it’s the end of the week. SATURDAY PUZZLE - Yesterday, we compared solving crosswords to breaking into a house, because it’s the end of the week and my mind tends to drift.
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