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Constructor: David Tuffs
Relative problem: Medium, with an outsized grid (31:23)
THEME: TRANSLATED — Two phrase phrases, the place the primary phrase’s translation is the second phrase
- [Faultless, biblically]– WITHOUT SIN (“Sin” means “with out” in Spanish)
- [Substitute on TV]– GUEST HOST (“Host” means “visitor” in Czech)
- [What’s fatefully “cast” in a quote attributed to Julius Caesar]– THE DIE (“Die” means “the” in German)
- [Bakery container]– BREAD PAN (“Pan” means “bread” in Spanish)
- [Outspoken agitator]– FIRE BRAND (“Brand” means “hearth” in Dutch)
Word of the Day: CABIN (The Ingalls’ household’s little home on the prairie, e.g.) —
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American journalist, journey author, novelist, political theorist and daughter of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two different feminine writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is famous as one of the crucial influential advocates of the American libertarian motion.
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Hey lovely commenters, I’m again for Malaika MWednesday Part 2. (Known to followers as “Thursday.”) People appeared to love my “zings” and “dings” yesterday and I preferred them too!! So I’ll maintain that jargon. If you’d wish to learn this whereas listening to what I listened to as I wrote it, right here is Renee Rapp singing with the voice of an absolute angel.
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| Renee, I’d die for you |
My first ding is ARTOO. Upon filling this in, I audibly screeched. I do know it was audible as a result of my youthful sister was hanging out with me and he or she stated “Is every part okay?” I hate this fill. I hate this fill a lot that I really feel the necessity to put in capital letters that I HATE THIS FILL. It is worse than APSE and OLIO that are no less than phrases. It may even be worse than NFLERS. Are you there, Will Shortz? It’s me, Malaika. Please cease utilizing this entry.
Zing time: This theme!! Wow!!!!! I as soon as performed round with a theme the place one phrase of an all-English phrase might be translated to a distinct (e.g. PAINSTAKING –> Stabbing somebody with a baguette) however I rapidly gave up. This is soooo way more spectacular than that, as a result of there isn’t any randomness. Is this a widely known phenomenon, like Kangaroo Words? Does a listing of those exist that everybody besides me has heard of? Or did the constructor have to simply…. consider them? I do not even know the place I’d begin.
Did y’all thoughts that there have been a number of throughout solutions (ENLISTEE, MATHLETE, WET NOSES, ADORABLE) that appeared lengthy sufficient to be theme materials? That did not hassle me in any respect due to how the NYT website will spotlight the theme solutions. (In reality, it was a zing.) But I do know some folks resolve on paper or with different packages, and it may be onerous to maintain monitor of them.
My final ding was the sheer quantity of issues I do not know. But that is not a ding on whether or not the puzzle was good, that is nearly whether or not the puzzle was a enjoyable resolve for me personally. Things like LAIC [[*steels self for the four commenters that will say “If you are going to solve crosswords, young lady, then you had better get used to the word LAIC!!!!”*]] and REDD and THEO and ODOWD and even BUGBEAR had been completely new to me. Plus a tonnnn of phrases that I discovered from puzzles, like ATARI and SOLI and MOT and ADES and ALITO. (And the aforementioned ARTOO.) It would have felt like a slog had I not been having a lot enjoyable with the theme.
- [High ball?] for ORB — Does “orb” imply house? Isn’t orb simply any sphere?
- [The Congressional Black Caucus, for one] for BLOC — I’m not a podcast individual, however I did actually get pleasure from this podcast that was about (amongst many issues) how the politician Mia Love initially joined the CBC to “infiltrate” it, however finally discovered associates and allies there.
- A TAWA is a forged iron skillet used to cook dinner flatbreads like roti or paratha. I’d by no means heard this word– despite the fact that my household is Indian, we name this a comal, which is the Spanish phrase for the same sort of pan.
- I’d have beloved for a block to be added at sq. 69 so we may get a BOXCAR Children clue. I will need to have learn fifty of those books after I was youthful.
xoxo Malaika
P.P.S. [[ DON’T read this if you are going to be mean!! ]] This puzzle named seventeen males and three girls. That’s 15% girls, which is on par with the share of NYT Thursday puzzles which were revealed by girls. These are numbers, please don’t be imply to me for typing out some numbers.
Males: MATT Damon, MATT Bomer, Frankenstein, Threepio, ARTOO D2, Julius Caesar, BERT, Chris REDD, OTTO, H.P. Lovecraft, ALITO, Romeo, THEO Huxtable, Chris ODOWD, OPIE, Bernie Sanders, ROBIN
Women: Frida Kahlo, Juliet, Elizabeth Warren
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