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I am not sure what caused me to have such issues, because there isn’t anything too hard in here. This puzzle took me longer than the Stumper did to complete! That doesn’t happen that often. Jamey Smith’s LA Times crossword – Derek’s write-up I clicked around a bit and nothing jumped out.
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Anyone have a link to that? Please feel free to share any other details. You can read about how you could’ve signed up here. That doesn’t quite make sense… but, ya’ know what I mean. I’m sure it was advertised and I simply missed it. I hadn’t known that this tournament existed before completing this puzzle. Lots of fun fill with scrabbly letters to uncover (yet it never felt forced). Really, everything in this themeless was spot on. Same number of letters! Quickly erased when I saw the clue and ?X led to nothing.
55A ESP TEST. I had E?EST and got it somewhat quickly by my standards. 
11D GLADYS. If that Capital P weren’t there, I’d’ve struggled with that one. 
33A PAST TENSE. Simple enough clue, yet it hurts my head because it’s written in the present tense. If those clues seem oddly geographically specific, it’s because KCUR- the host of the tournament for which this puzzle was constructed- is out of Kansas City. Let’s start off with the semi-quasi-not-really-mini-theme: THEME: None (with a little wink to Kansas City in the middle) “KCUR 89.3 Crossword Tournament Themeless”. So a big surprise to see one today from Erik Agard- A Tournament Puzzle from the KCUR 89.3 competition. We saw themelesses throughout June (every week!), but when one didn’t appear last Saturday, I thought they had come to a permanent end. Was not expecting it to be a literal clue!Įrik Agard’s Universal crossword, “KCUR 89.3 Crossword Tournament Themeless”- Jim Q’s write-up Am now wondering if Parkay has a flag, and if it says “Butter”. I’m okay with this superficial duplication, as the terms are obviously unrelated etymologically. It looked as if it should be ERASTUS with the crossing 56a being the questionable PALMIST, but I nevertheless switched it to PALMISM and ERASMUS, whom I had heard of, even though I was rather sure he was a Dutch philosopher. I am contractually obligated to highlight and praise clues that don’t couch ODOR in a pejorative way. 46a RACE, but I tried MEET first turns out it appears immediately below at 77d MEET. Crosswords have conditioned me to try OIL(ED) UP first. Whereas 113a ROSE UP merely insinuates the alternate form AROSE. The obvious criticism of the crossword is that a couple of non-theme entries intrude: 45a ASHORE, 107d ASKEW. The clue makes much more sense in retrospect, after the answer is attained. It strikes me that this first themer could be describing the theme mechanism itself. #Kept afloat crossword how to
I’m not accomplished enough of a grammarian (and a cursory search of the web achieved no insight) to know how to describe the non-negating a- adjectival prefix (or is a combining form?).Īs is so often the case, it’s easier shown than described. Phrases involving adjectives beginning with a- are reparsed by divorcing it from the word and reading the body as a noun.
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