Trying to practice constructing more full-sized puzzles in the hope that quantity will lead to quality. Grid shape copied from this puzzle by Robyn Weintraub. Fill definitely NOT copied from Robyn Weintraub, so solver beware. As usual, warm and cool feedback all gratefully accepted! Cover photo by Rumeysa Akbaş.
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Very enjoyable solve - love the clue on 24D! One thing to fix: 46A is clued in a way that should produce EBAN, but the answer is EBAY. I'm sure it's a relic from an earlier draft. Thanks, Sendhil!
Kent 🤓12:07 · 2025-05-06T16:18:04.749Z
Same for me… 46A seems to have an error. Otherwise, enjoyed solving!
Thank you so much for the catch (and you are exactly right about how it happened). I seem to (a) only catch some rough spots after I start cluing and (b) always miss at least one clue. Fixing it now!
mateo 🤓9:38 · 2025-05-06T14:42:02.931Z
Very good. Some inventive cluing (22a, 35a). Not such a fan of (looking this up...) agent noun suffixes, esp more than one (something that hops is a hopper, etc). Thanks for the puzzle!
Thanks so much for solving and for your feedback! (I agree; I tried to redo the grid but got tired, so just settled for trying to redeem those entries with funny or novel clues… which I think I only partly accomplished.)
I like Rex Parker's name for that kind of entries - "Odd Jobs". Usually they appear in ultra-low word count grids with huge corners full of 6s and 7s crossing other 6s and 7s.
In the clues, it's a different story. [Ovine butter] - RAM. [African flower] - NILE. And so on.