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Look, the single best thing about this puzzle is the clue for the answer at 63-Across. The rest is simply just window dressing. If you happened to enjoy all of it, even better.
Looking for more puzzles? The Hub Crossword (Sunday puzzles by me and Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon) and Marching Bands year seven have begun. So if that To Do list needs even more puzzles, you know what to do.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
Has anyone else, over the years, kinda felt like maybe Glinda, a prolific BEQ site commenter, is BEQ’s pseudonym? Regardless, Glinda strongly disagreed with my comment to last Monday’s puzzle in which I attacked BEQ’s habit of using lots of entries nobody has ever heard of. Glinda “could not disagree more” because all the obscurity teaches her new things. Yeah, right Glinda: like now you know the nickname of the second cousin of a certain NHL player. Oh, and isn’t it so good to now know the word “scurf” from last Thursday’s puzzle.
So attacking people who disagree with you is something you feel completely justified in doing? You must have many friends.
Sadly, I am not BEQ. I just like his puzzles. Some of us who do puzzles love words and learning new ones and some only like to get through puzzles fast.
“Scurf” was a great new one for me.
But I must be saying this because I’m BEQ. 😉
The clue for “tinhorn” in today’s puzzle is incorrect. A tinhorn is a person, not a quality. Otherwise, a good puzzle
Glinda, total agreement with you. I would rather have a clue for the name of some obscure person and solve from crosses, instead of a softball clue. If I get naticked, so be it. Far better than old NYT clues, such as obsolete Asian weight (var.).
Tinhorn can be used as an adjective meaning cheap or shoddy, such as “A tinhorn effort was made to spell blanket”.
I remember the days of Maleska. Talk about obscure words that were too often obsolete! There was no joy in solving Maleska’s puzzles. But I did. Every day. All that was required was to memorize his obscure words which, over time, I did.
When Shortz took over it was revolutionary! So many new words, such clever clueing and **every day**! I don’t get the people who do a puzzle like they are eternally at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
For that matter I’m not even sure if BEQ is one person or a network of people. Who is really doing the BEQ-drops?
I had been listening to a lot of Front Line Assembly lately and they have a song called Big Money, but i prefer Rush’s Big Money with the indefinite article attached. Very arduous pondering involved but rewarded with a puzzle completely solved at least 98% of the way. Hey, that’s cool. I will Google this term and look into it (answer to 14 Down).
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