was a lawyer? No-no-this is not the American Bar Association but the American Basketball Association. When folks are debating it’s hard for them to AGREE. This one’s particularly strong, since the clue can be read as an adjective (meaning “exhausted”) or a verb. Lotta good fill and/or clue/fill combos today that demonstrate Ray’s personal ÉLAN where constructing is concerned. May be of use in bread basket prevention… On the topic of training, the grid also gives us DELT. You know-like those (in)famous bridges to nowhere. Here’s a 4-speed rust bucket yet-start yer engines! I like how all four begin with “B,” and I especially like the lively phrases that “contain” ’em: So we get a basket, a bucket, a barrel and a bag. Updated Friday morning: Raymond Hamel’s CrosSynergy/Washington Post puzzle, “Contain Yourself”-Janie’s reviewīuilding on where we left off yesterday, we have a “like-type” theme again today, in which the second word of all four theme phrases is a kind of “contain”er. Knowing people with the last name Covey was throwing me off track, I think. I knew a was a COVEY and put the answer in…then took it out…then put it back in. Remember when his gambling habit became known? Needed nearly all the crossings for BENNETT, the. I thought that was strictly a place name. There were a few tough nuts to crack, too: Some dictionaries list ENURED as the dreaded variant spelling, with inure being the preferred version. Now, 29d: RESTRING looks like another roll-your-own, but musical instruments and sports rackets are routinely restrung. This is one of those roll-your-own words that’s technically fair game for crosswords, but subpar. The clue is accurate, but the answer is ungainly: is a PILER, but who’s gonna say “Oh, I’m a piler”? Nobody. And when I finally got the answer via crossings, I cursed actor Devon Sawa for not being more famous. I couldn’t get “I never met a Moor I didn’t like” out of my head. More importantly, if you have a pantry in your abode, how’s the legroom? Two answers include the word ROOM: 38a: is a STOREROOM and 40a: is LEGROOM.There’s no beer in the puzzle, just that candy bar at 20a.) There are a few problematic spots, as you must expect in a low-word-count creation: It’s not all beer and chocolate here, though. The clues for FOIL, WAGERS, PLIERS, and SNIP all classed up the neighborhood around CHRISSIE HYNDE-demonstrating that ordinary answer words can be made more interesting with challenging clues. There are other clues and answers I admired, but those ones were my favorites. Outcome of a coin flip for example crossword free#You know where it’s at? Free on-demand programming. didn’t help me get to the answer, but I do love the phrase AS IT WERE. Johnny’s daughter Rosanne Cash has an interesting Twitter feed. I read my husband the clue for RING OF FIRE and he began singing the song in his Johnny Cash voice. BEQ is fond of the answers that talk to you. How awesome is she? And how terrific a crossword answer is that? (“So very” is the answer to both.) And look at how this answer anchors the entire puzzle: Every single crossing answer is 6 to 10 letters long. CHRISSIE HYNDE! was the lead singer and guitarist for the Pretenders. Boy, that answer was looking implausible when I had **FFJ** in place and thought COIN TOSS was COIN FLIP. Who doesn’t love those nutty city/state abbreviation answers? AKRON, OH is the. It’s a beaut, Brendan-and you know I don’t say that about many low-word-count puzzles. Brendan’s achieved some lovely flow through the grid, and the number of entries that really sparkle is surprisingly high for a puzzle with such severe construction constraints. I looked at the thumbnail images for the ≤58-word puzzles, and most of the grids are rather strikingly split into discrete quadrants. The word count is 58, and only a dozen NYT crosswords in the Shortz era have had a lower word count, says XWord Info. So, the highest number appearing in the grid is 49. Brendan Quigley’s New York Times crossword
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