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CROSSWORD #1382: Themeless Monday

Posted on by Brendan Quigley

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First day of camp of tennis camp for Tabitha and (looks out window for a moment), yup. It’s monsoon season again in Brookline. When did we move into a rainforest? Anyway, scratch that bit about getting back into the swing of things and sign me up for more daddy camp. Tabitha’s gotten into chess lately, and stepped up her game, so, looks like we’ll be doing that for the foreseeable hours. Anyway, enough about me, enjoy today’s Themeless.

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10 thoughts on “CROSSWORD #1382: Themeless Monday”

  1. A GOOD challenging crossword DOES NOT comprise lots of entries that people have never heard of. RATHER it comprises mostly entries that people HAVE heard of, which are clued challengingly.

  2. Your GRID is beautiful. Your ENTRIES are gorgeous. Your CLUES are…very, very hard. That 35A 29D crossing Just For One Example!
    However, you are wonderful, in spite of it all. Thank you, Brendan.

  3. Poor sportsmanship with the crossing of GARN and GARO. Both of these are somewhat dated and obscure.

  4. Nearly got burned on 40D. Hope this means more tennis clues. I think I saw BARTY the other day, but don’t recall ever seeing DJOKOVIC.

  5. Sorry Charlie, they were 2 of the easiest for me. But I remember when Garo played, so there’s that.

  7. Totting up the number of BEQ puzzles i’ve done in the past…..might be around 3500 by now. Also it’s my birthday in 5 days. My wish is to have ALAN ALDA go on righteous TIRADE on how crossword puzzle constructors and the solvers are treated like excrement by the rest of society. And if not Mr. Alda, then Brian Eno, YOko Ono, Dr.Dre, someone from ELO, etc.

  8. As I’ve always said, one only needs to know about half the answers to solve a crossword puzzle.

  9. I could not disagree more. A GOOD crossword puzzle teaches you at least two new words or facts. A GREAT puzzle teaches you a lot more. When you’ve been doing puzzles as long as I have been you dislike puzzles where everything is too familiar.

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