But mainly the puzzle was overly easy and predominantly bland. The grid is very competently put together - hardly anything feels forced, and only MNEME ( 104A: Memory principle) made me screw up my face even a little. There's nothing clever about the theme further, there's very little of interest in the non-theme fill. DEVELOP BEST ENTRIES? It's not photography, and you don't send them to training camp. Another problem with puzzles of this type is that the theme answers have to be symmetrical, so you get phrasing issues as constructors try to make the "steps" come out to a certain length. I just don't understand how this puzzle got past the "cute idea" stage. If the step-by-step instructions had been a soup recipe, at least I'd be left with something vaguely useful. The imagined quote / recipe goes nowhere. Was "SEE BYLINE IN NEWSPAPER" supposed to be funny? I don't get it. Where is TRY TO JUSTIFY OBVIOUSLY HORRIBLE FILL? Or, RUN IFFY ENTRIES BY YOUR CONSTRUCTOR FRIENDS? Or, BANG HEAD ON KEYBOARD (all of which I've done)? My final thought, however, was so what? The theme entries are a bland description with no payoff. Word of the Day: MNEME - the persistent or recurrent effect of past experience of the individual or of the race (m-w online) also, one of the three original muses also, a retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter.Īfter finishing this puzzle, my first thought was: you left out some steps - i.e. THEME: "The Cruciverbalist" - theme answers are 6 steps in the construction / publication of a crossword puzzle
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