TUESDAY PUZZLE — Oh, come on! What the heck, Jacob Stulberg?
For real?
Well, I have never. You know?
Tricky Clues
1A. The Resident South African has made our old, but new-to-us, house his home improvement hobby. (I’m wearing a hard hat as I write this, to protect myself from the falling plaster.) So I have seen many JOISTs. I look forward to the day when I don’t have to see them anymore.
11A. Whenever I see the “Popular sandwich, for short” clue, I toss a coin to determine whether it is going to be a BLT or a PBJ. In this puzzle, it’s a PBJ.
20A. Wordplay would like to congratulate the musician and producer Brian ENO on his 291st appearance in the New York Times Crossword. And yes, I see Yoko ONO up there at 9D. I’m getting to that.
41A. The abbreviation NGO stands for “nongovernmental organization,” which is typically a nonprofit, citizen-run group that addresses a social or political issue. Greenpeace is one such organization.
9D. There she is, the artist Yoko ONO. Mr. Stulberg, I want to give you a rousing round of applause for getting both crossword regulars into the same puzzle. According to the good folks at XWordInfo.com, this is the ninth time that has happened in what many call “the Shortz era” — the 26 years since Will Shortz became the New York Times Crossword editor in 1993.
11D. You might imagine that “Suitable for framing?” would refer to the quality or composition of a photo, but in this puzzle, a subject in a photo who is apparently very PHOTOGENIC is the answer.
28D. Remember the rule about clue words like “beginning,” “end,” “leader,” “follower,” “start” and “finish”? We are talking about the placement of a word or a letter in the clue. In this case, the “Big finish?” is a HARD G, because that is the end (finish) of the word “big.”
48D. I need to commit SEAHAG to memory. I always want the answer to “Enemy of Popeye” to be BRUTUS.
Today’s Theme
Mr. Stulberg offers us a puzzle that will make you want to FORSAKE all others. The revealer at 37A is clued “Abandon … or two words often seen next to the starts of 17-, 27-, 47- and 60-Across,” which tells us that we are not really looking to abandon, or FORSAKE anyone. We are to parse the revealer as FOR SAKE, or some version of that.
I say “some version” because crossword themes like this usually place the missing word at the beginning or the end of the phrase. In Mr. Stulberg’s puzzle, however, the first word in each theme entry goes in between FOR and SAKE.
For example, at 17A, the answer to the clue “2016 live-action Disney film with an animated title character” is PETE’S DRAGON, and so the complete theme phrase for that entry is FOR PETE’S SAKE.
Constructor Notes
Today’s theme came together fairly quickly once I confirmed that there were no common phrases starting with GOODNESS’, PITY’S, or OLD TIMES’. (Or with a certain “spicier” option.)
Favorite clue: 56-Down, which also could have been “Like Erskine Caldwell, as I learned while making this puzzle.”
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