Brian: Monday, 3-31-08
New York Times 3:52
New York Times
by Jeff Armstrong; edited by Will Shortz
No time for much of a post, as I’m editing our first podcast. It clocked in at just over an hour, and I’m trying to cut to about half that. Will you listen? Please? It’s funny. We think.
Monday’s puzzle was fine. Easy. I thought it was BASEBALL-themed, since that was the answer to 4D. *Diamond game (supporting Ryan’s theory that any crossword clue about diamonds is automatically about baseball… or golf, perhaps?); also 18A. *Sci-fi barrier (FORCEFIELD) contained “field” and 20A. *Newspaper article lead-in (DATELINE) had “line” in it… Baseball season begins this week, so it seemed to make sense.
Of course, it wasn’t baseball. 36A. Word that can precede each half of the answers to each of the eight starred clues was AIR, which while it exists at every baseball stadium I’ve visited, is not exclusively a baseball commodity.
Back to editing. No time for more posting. See you later.
