I solved on my laptop, so the thick lines in the theme entries are red, but little birds tell me they may look different if you’re solving in the app or in print. I thought this theme was clever, and once it clicked for me I was able to rapidly fill in the remainder of the puzzle. Seigel offers us four theme answers and a revealer. Typically I try not to go for the sports angle first, and in this case, I should have gone right for it. I misdirected myself by filling in TONY here, which crosses with EASY at 71A. A time signature in music is BEATS per measure.Ħ1D. In my head, I forgot to include Snow White in the OCTET.Ĥ6D. Another one I had to get off crossers that felt straightforward in hindsight. I was right, but not in the way I was thinking, and the answer is SUN BATH.ħD. I’ll admit that I did not think that the “baked” in this clue referred to cooking in anyway. The “Unsafe car seat?” in this clue is a LAP.Ħ8A. I was able to get this only off the crossers, but it felt obvious once I filled it in. Though I love eclectic film trivia, the answer here, DUMBO, is a bit more straightforward.ĥ0A. By my read, this is comfortably a Thursday puzzle, with some cheeky misdirects and slightly oblique trivia, which are both things I deeply enjoy. This puzzle features another smart theme and an excellent, smooth fill that made it a very quick solve for me. I went back and solved it again while working on this column, and you can see echoes of his style in that grid and an evolution of it in this one. Of course, knowing how long it takes puzzles to go from acceptance to publication (usually a few months), I’m sure he had moved onto his next grid well before I had solved the first. 17, 2020, and I remember solving it when I was preparing to interview for my job here, which I started a few weeks later. His publishing timeline and my own time in this job line up very closely. ![]() This is his fifth puzzle published in The New York Times, and his fourth to run on a Thursday. ![]() THURSDAY PUZZLE - I’m not sure exactly how many crossword puzzles someone needs to construct to become a master, but Simeon Seigel is certainly well on his way.
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