Quips have to be amazingly zingy and/or contain an element that helps make them memorable. It wasn't great to have so many add-a-preposition entries in COOL TO, STICK TO, AS TO, LIT OUT, but I sure appreciate mid-length bonuses like SURE DO. Bonuses like SAWHORSE and TAKE FLAK also added color while remaining accessible. Rob did solid work there, with no oddballs making the puzzle intractable. It's important for quote puzzles to have smooth fill since solvers can essentially only use Down clues. That's worse than Rob's solution, but you get the idea of where brainstorming might head. The best I could come up with - after an hour's worth of banging my head! - involved much different wording: Since this isn't an exact quote that must be duplicated letter by letter, perhaps a different wording could have worked. It's not ideal, though, since those tiny 3-letter words make it feel fragmented. It can be tricky to split out quips into symmetrical lengths, and the 15 / 3 / 15 / 3 / 15 does work. Ideally, I'd have replaced FRUTTI, KISSIN, and PENH but was glad to include Agatha Christie, teenaged-me's favorite author. It was hard to include exciting longer fill, though I like SAWHORSE, TAKE FLAK, LIT OUT, SURE DO, COOL TO. Also to my awesome brother Simon, 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee/my favorite singer/songwriter: If you'd like to collaborate on a New York Times celebrity puzzle, JLMK! Twitter theme quip isn't original to me, though I feel I made it my own with the 15/3/15/3/15 layout and the intriguing solitary rebus. Both were alive when I submitted my first puzzle but have since passed away. I dedicate this puzzle to my parents who would have been very excited today. Having no knowledge of the puzzle, Marla intuitively guided me to the very thing I had to do to successfully revise! After receiving a conditional acceptance pending extensive revisions, I chatted with my friend, psychic Marla Frees, who helped me overcome severe "reviser's block". This might also be the first puzzle completed with psychic help. Fourteen years and 30ish rejections later, on June 16, 2021, I opened an email from the Times including the glorious words "we are delighted to officially say YES!" Weeping may have ensued. I may be the Person Who Took the Longest to Get an NYT Puzzle Accepted. If you already know some letters of the crossword puzzle solution, you can easily search for the remaining letters.Hello, Crossworld! I teach English at Barrington (IL) High School. Simply enter your crossword clue to search the crossword dictionary and instantly find the right word. Search thousands of crossword puzzle answers on Crossword.Page Struggling to get that one last answer to a perplexing clue? We can help you solve those tricky clues in your crossword puzzle. Solve crossword clues quickly and easily with our free crossword puzzle solver. Whether you need crossword puzzle answers for today or are on the hunt for past solutions, Crossword Solver helps you crack those tricky clues when you’re stumped. Enter the answer length or the answer pattern to get better results. The Crossword Solver answers clues found in popular puzzles such as the New York Times Crossword, USA Today Crossword, LA Times Crossword, Daily Celebrity Crossword, The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, Coffee Break puzzles, Telegraph crosswords and many other popular crossword puzzles. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
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