

While there is no need to clue any of the theme entries wackily (they’re mostly straightforward), there’s plenty to like in this puzzle. This is one of those puzzles that, once the solver determines the theme, it is helpful in figuring out the rest of the grid. THEME: Varieties of beer are literally placed over different types of houses. Here’s a puzzle that’s after my heart! Beer on the house! Schmuck!Įvan Birnholz’s Washington Post crossword, “Home Brewing” – Jim Q’s writeup Gotta laugh at the lower right corner, with that IMBECILE who’s TAUTENED and ENGORGED.The problem isn’t that the thing is just too pleasing. Something that cloys isn’t pleasing you too much, it goes well past the point where it stops being pleasing and starts being annoying. Ugliest crossing, square 92: AGRO clued as, crossing awkward partial AN ART, , with another indefinite article already in the clue.One of those words that most of us need to work the crossings to piece together, am I right?
#Eggy desserts crossword clue crack#
initials: SAME OLD STORY, “SAIL ON, SAILOR” (which I’ve never heard of-whadaya know, it didn’t even crack the Top 40 in 1973, there’s no reason you should know it unless you’re a hardcore Beach Boys fan), START OUT SLOWLY, STRUTTED OUR STUFF (with that OUR stuck in there arbitrarily, just to make it fit the theme), SNAKE OIL SALESMAN, and “SULTANS OF SWING.” That’s two Sundays in a row of NYT themes that aren’t funny or particularly clever, just sort of … there.

The theme revealer is a little one: 109a. NY Times crossword solution, 4 7 19, “Help!”
