CROSSWORD #1396: Themeless Monday

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Brendan Quigley

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I’ve gone back to this themeless grid a lot. Here’s one of the more recent examples. Except there’s just one minor change. Instead of the fourth and 11th rows having 12-letter entries, they’re 13-letter entries. So it’s slightly more wide open. Just a titch. Still, I had fun with this one, hopefully you do too.

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.

2 thoughts on “CROSSWORD #1396: Themeless Monday”

Sean Cooper says:

August 30, 2021 at 2:25 pm

one, two, three, go.
Kelly Clark says:

August 30, 2021 at 3:34 pm

This was fun! 48A I never heard of, but after (inexplicably) getting the MILKSHAKE part, got the rest from the crossers. Thanks, Brendan!

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Brendan Emmett Quigley has been a professional puzzlemaker since 1996. In fact, he's the sixth-most published constructor in The New York Times under Will Shortz's editorship. Brendan's puzzles have also appeared in every major market including Creators Syndicate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Crosswords Club, Dell Champion, Games Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Sun, Tribune Media Services, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

He regularly contributes work to The AV Crossword Club, Bawdy Crosswords, Spirit Magazine, Visual Thesaurus, and The Weekly Dig. At one point in time, Blender, Electronic Business, Paste Magazine, Quarterly Review of Wines, The Stranger, Time Out New York, and Wired.com ran his work. His puzzles have been mentioned on episodes of "The Colbert Report," "Jeopardy!," and "Sunday Night Football."

He is the author of over thirty different books. In his spare time he can be seen banging on typewriters in the Boston Typewriter Orchestra. He will be posting two puzzles a week — on Monday and Thursday.

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