Yes, I know Shortz et al don’t give a whit about such dupes, but I find them inelegant and largely avoidable. I love to see the REDBUD tree in the grid, but the BFFS clue,, had an unpleasing echo.
Sort of a crosswordese vibe to EPEE ACTA ARIOSO AVIA OLA ESTER. Now, the orientation of these PAINTs suggests Mondrian to me more than Pollock. TENNIS CAMP is the sort of phrase I have never once given any thought to. We’ve got PETUNIA PIG with PAINT going from right to left, PADDINGTON with left to right, UP TO A POINT going down, and TENNIS CAMP going up. Just me? There are four allied answers in which the circled letters in the word P-A-I-N-T are “dribbled” in dribs and drabs. ) used in reference to his primary painting style. I don’t think I’ve encountered the word DRIBBLE ( 39a. The name of the game is 53a/21a, JACKSON / POLLOCK. NY Times crossword solution, 7 28 21, no. 3.5 stars.Īlex Rosen & Brad Wilber’s New York Times crossword-Amy’s write-up I’m just not sure I agree with the choices made in the execution of the theme. Mixed feelings on this one, but it certainly is well-constructed. Doubly tricksy since Mars usually refers to the planet or god (or sometimes the candy company) and AVRIL is most often clued as. Turns out DELLA is an amputee with a robotic leg! I almost put DAISY, but…that would be weird. Elsewhere, the crosswordese crossing of ERSE and ERN stands out.īut I also like LOST SLEEP, ST PETE, and I MYSELF.
I mean, I own the song (somewhere on a CD), but it no longer has any crossword currency. And if you have to have ADIA (Sara McLachlan song) in your grid, that’s a red flag for me. Those are solid ( KENT STATE and ALPHA MALE), and the crossings aren’t terrible, but AKBAR (16th-century Mogul emperor) and APA (Actor KJ of Riverdale) were a challenge. The center section requires additional long fill entries stacked next to a theme answer. The left/right symmetry of the theme causes some challenges in the fill. Oh, and there’s an added thematic tidbit at 42d: = BELGIUM. There’s something humorous about MELLOW YELLOW paired up with sinister SOYLENT GREEN. And the lack of symmetry-including with the revealer-isn’t in keeping with the symbol being represented.īut I do like the fun theme entries. Trying to represent rings with a vertical word seems like an odd choice. I might have liked it better if all the colors were toward the center of the grid where they might at least have some overlap (as in my hastily doctored-up image, below-left).įurther, the differing word lengths of the colors makes any attempt to draw the rings look distorted. (Not that I know what that would mean.) A better clue might have been or some such. I was expecting the colors to interlock in the grid, but they don’t. SOYLENT GREENĪgain, I was thrown off by that revealer clue which I feel is confusing.
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