We’ll see!Īnyway, I’m experimenting with the blog format again this week. I’m led to believe this will help me get faster at solving crosswords… on paper. I’m back from ACPT, and I’ve made it my crossword goal for the year to do more crosswords on paper. LAT Puzzle 4.5.15 – “Seeing Stars” by Kurt Krauss Kurt Krauss’s Los Angeles Times crossword, “Seeing Stars”-Andy’s review I will still say “Ooh!” when I see the McCoy byline because I bet his next puzzle will be more elegant. Mostly ordinary fill, though largely outmoded PDAS and RESEE were among the things I’d rather not resee.ģ.33 stars from me. I misread that as “Louise’s place.” Anyone else? Welcome fill in a crossword but not in my stomach. That’s lowercase claymation, as brand-name Claymation is not associated with Aardman Animation. Not a household object in recent decades. Also, these are not all ships that went down, so the tie-in with the puzzle’s title is unsatisfying. That last one feels off, and it’s a strange note to end the theme on since all the other ships were real or fictional rather than metaphorical. Does the poem say “USA”? It does not seem to. From the sugary cereal that can cut your hard palate. I didn’t particularly enjoy the theme (and McCoy has quickly become one of those constructors whose byline creates a frisson of anticipation, so I wonder if this is an earlier submission of his). The theme answers here are the surname of famous captains, real and fictional, and the name of each one’s ship, squeezed together in Down entries without a conjunction as a literal representation of the phrase in the puzzle’s title. NY Times crossword solution, 4 5 15, “The Captain Goes Down With The Ship”
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