David’s theme was not exactly like today’s, more a cousin, but if you’ve never done his puzzle (a Thursday), I highly recommend that you do – 6/8/17.īut back to this puzzle. I knew Jeff Chen would bring it up in his review (and he did). The theme reminded me of a David Steinberg puzzle that had “plus sign blocks” and was brilliant and memorable. There was so much crackle in this grid that the theme simply fit in, rather than drive the puzzle, for me. A debut? This? Interlocking theme answers, six excellent NYT answer debuts, junk-free grid, first-rate cluing? What great promise is evident here, for crossword entertainment ahead. But even that is usually "bruh." Your guy friends are not your BRAHS, and if they are, what are you even doing? Get help. At best (very best), "brah" is something you'd use as a form of "bro" when speaking to some guy. Except BRAHS, wow, no ( 33D: Guy friends, in slang). But there's nothing particularly groan-y about the fill. Only someone Dagwood's age says " YESSIREE" unironically. They all restocked their CD STANDs long ago, and then threw out their CD STANDs because they either stream their music or have gotten really into vinyl. I was born the year of APOLLO XI, which I think is normally written with Arabic numerals, not Roman. Like, I'm 50 and have never heard THRIFT used this way ( 1A: Savings bank, informally). So I'm more warm than cold on the overall theme. Still, the concept is cute, even if the "black squares-represent-letters" thing isn't particularly original. This looks like an architectural feat-finding words with "AND" strings that line up at just the write places to make the little "+" signs, but honestly there's probably some pretty easy computer hack that lets you search all the 15s in some database and for answers with "AND" strings, and then you can just pick and choose from there. The theme concept was MEH (easy to ferret out, repetitive) but the actual theme answers are all really colorful and interesting, so the monotony of all the AND AND AND business was made up in large part by the AND answers themselves. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours, 36 minutes on the lunar surface at a site they named Tranquility Base before lifting off to rejoin Columbia in lunar orbit. Command module pilot Michael Collins flew the Command Module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours and 39 minutes later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Word of the Day: APOLLO XI ( 15A: About 600 million viewers watched its pilot in 1969) -Īpollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. DAGWOOD S ANDWICH (41A: Food item whose name is derived from a comic strip).SHEN ANDOAH RIVER (34A: Tributary of the Potomac).GOLDEN H ANDCUFFS (9D: Financial incentive for an executive to stay at a company).THE GR AND OLE OPRY (6D: Major Nashville landmark).with a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle) - the black-square formations that look like "+" stand for the letter string "AND" in the answers that run directly into and out of them.
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