Hey everyone, and welcome to Week 54! Happy Thanksgiving!
This is now the second puzzle on Chris Words dedicated to Thanksgiving foods, so I look forward to maybe one day publishing a collection of Thanksgiving food-related puzzles.
In other news:
–THIS AMAZING ANNOUNCEMENTÂ – I am blown away by Matt Gaffney’s selection of my Back to the Future meta as October’s Crossword of the Month. For someone who has never published a crossword in a major newspaper (yes, still), it is beyond crazy how exciting this is. I strive to make all the puzzles on here of a high caliber, and I hope you’ll continue to follow this blog for many months to come.
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-Dark meat is better than white meat.
Thanks everyone, and enjoy Thursday and the wonderful sleep you get from eating too much!
Chris
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Hey Chris — tried to get the pdf and I see the grid but not the clues. Is it my phone or is there something up w the file? Happy turkey day and good luck with your wonderful puzzles.
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Fixed. I must have click the wrong selection when creating the PDF. Thanks for catching it, and happy turkey day to you!
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where are the clues?
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 17:02:07 +0000 To: janelhin@hotmail.com
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Fixed. Somehow there was a wrong click of the mouse during the “export to PDF” process. All is well now.
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Although I don’t have anything close to Matt’s breadth of perspective (I don’t even subscribe to Fireball), I’ll go right out and say that the October CotM honors were richly deserved. That was a thoroughly delightful solving experience, and I think it may be the only crossword link I ever posted on facebook.
Congratulations!
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What a creative and beautifully executed theme! It was a joy to solve.
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Elegant construction and great aha moment as I figured out the theme before getting to the revealer. Excellent and well-deserved recognition from Matt!
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Ok that was wonderful. Just two little nits. First, 63A is URN, right? The solution says ERN and that works for 39D but not the clue to 63A. Second thing – the revealer (which I did need!) said there were starred clues but I don’t see any stars.
Otherwise, really it’s a terrific idea and so well constructed.
Thanks!!
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For (1), reread the clue word-by-word, and you’ll see that it’s a really horrible literature pun on a bit of crosswordese. And for (2), you are right about this too. Believe it or not, I had this problem fixed sometime between you downloading it and you commenting, so the problem has been resolved, with “long” replacing “starred”.
Glad you liked it! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Congrats… to win against that competition (the October puzzles were all really clever) is pretty impressive.
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Especially when one puzzle was a Patrick Berry one with a Weird Al theme? It’s kind of a miracle I won.
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Congratulations Chris! Your puzzles are really entertaining and imaginative. This is my new Sunday go to. Why hasn’t Amy Reynaldo put you on her Crossword Fiend site yet?!?!
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Thanks, and good question. Be sure to write your congressman about that.
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Be sure to write to Amy Reynaldo and her web guy Dave Sullivan about that. They put up a link to mine when I asked them. I’m sure they’d be happy to accommodate.
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