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Hal Moore’s Wall Road Journal Crossword “Agape” — Eric’s Evaluate
Hal Moore’s Wall Stree Journal Crossword — 11/12/25
I’m not a fan of themes that use the Down solutions, however I can ignore that if that’s how a theme has to work. And this theme actually must be within the Down solutions:
- 3D [Shuriken, e.g.] NINJA WEAPON I feel I’ve seen “shuriken” in a crossword earlier than, however I didn’t keep in mind it in the present day. They’re also called throwing stars.
- 7D [India’s first prime minister] JAWAHARLAL NEHRU I knew the title, I can image the person, and I knew I might misspell it if I attempted to do it from reminiscence — so I crammed within the first few letters and the NEHRU half.
- 9D [WNBA great and author of 2024’s “Dear Black Girls”] A’JA WILSON I don’t comply with basketball and whereas Ms Wilson’s e-book (which seems to be a memoir) sounds attention-grabbing, I hadn’t heard of it earlier than.
- 26D [Spectacular, or a feature of four long Down answers] JAW-DROPPING
- 33D [Dry Spanish export] RIOJA WINE
With the JAW-DROPPING revealer, I count on the JAWs to maneuver progressively decrease within the grid as you progress from left to proper. This has a down, up, down sample, however that’s a minor quibble. J and W usually are not frequent letters in English, so there in all probability aren’t that many potential theme solutions.
Some solvers may be unfamiliar with the right names within the theme solutions, so getting the revealer may assist them work out these names.
Different stuff:
- 18A [Dotty character?] LOWER CASE I Cute clue; the EI ending didn’t look promising.
- 23A [Night vision?] STARLIGHT One other cute clue that doesn’t actually work for me.
- 25A [Singh in the World Golf Hall of Fame] VIJAY One of many few golfers I form of know the title of, although I needed to spell it just like the MTV hosts again when MTV was about music movies.
- 31A [Piazza treat] GELATO That appeared fairly apparent.
- 43A [Tears of Joy and Flexed Biceps, e.g.] EMOJIS Although, technically talking, the plural of “emoji” is “emoji.”
- 51A [In a difficult position] ON THE SPOT
- 12D [Go for a run, perhaps] SKI I’m impatiently ready for the 2 ski areas nearest to the place I dwell to open. It’s not wanting promising.
- 31D [Fastball, in baseball lingo] GAS That’s not a time period I’d heard earlier than, however with the G from GELATO, I made a logical guess.
- 35D [Camp David Accords figure] Anwar SADAT, president of Egypt from 1970–1981. The peace cope with Israel in all probability led to Sadat’s assassination. Menachem BEGIN would even have match right here, however the S from 34A URSA dominated that out.
Priyanka Sethy & Ravij Sethy’s AV Membership Crossword, “Concluding Actions”—Amy’s recap
AV Membership Traditional crossword solutiob, 11/12/25 – “Concluding Actions”
As soon as once more, I didn’t keep in mind to begin the timer as a result of I’m so used to having the timer routinely on. Felt fairly simple, although, even though the theme’s cultural references have been totally out of attain for me!
The revealer is 50a. [End with a flourish … or in another sense, what three answers in this puzzle do], FINISH IN STYLE. Take a phrase and add an -IST to show it right into a motion adherent, the place the -IST phrases are identified actions. The individuals within the clue account for the primary half of every themer, I suppose?
- 20a. [Provocateur and filmmaker Guy Debord, up for anything?], OPEN LETTERIST. He was a Marxist theorist? Each a Letterist and a Situationist? No thought what both of these issues may be. So the “up for something” within the clues indicators that OPENness.
- 25a. [Antiquity-loving poet Alexander Pope, researching spiritual sects?], CULT CLASSICIST. Poet Pope was a Classicist? Certain. I didn’t affix a label once I learn him in any faculty English lit lessons. The clue provides him CULT pursuits.
- 43a. [Forward-looking sculptor Umberto Boccioni, scoring high on his SATs?], BRIGHT FUTURIST. Solely a bit aware of Boccioni, couldn’t have instructed you he was in Futurism.
And naturally, open letter, cult basic, and vibrant future are all acquainted phrases. I’m glad the general fill and clues have been simple, as a result of the notable names within the clues certain weren’t pointing me in direction of the solutions. Your scholarliness might differ.
Not a lot else is leaping out at me as in want of debate, am busy feeling undereducated! 3.5 stars from me.
Brad Wiegmann & Nicole Wiegmann’s New York Instances crossword–Amy’s recap
NY Instances crossword answer, 11/12/25 – no. 1112
Wow, two family-duo bylines in a row for me tonight! Brad and Nicole convey us a cruciverbal riff on the basic OPTICAL ILLUSION, a drawing that might be a duck (with a very odd invoice) or a rabbit (with its ears pointing straight again). There’s a rebus sq. for the duck or rabbit’s EYE in Seth M{EYE}RS / {EYE} MASK. The DUCK is at 38d and the RABBIT, 66a. The circled squares aren’t simply there randomly to make the drawing; you join the dots A via N to attract your rabbit. (It’s a rabbit. Duck payments don’t seem like that!) Actually a neat idea for a visible crossword gambit.
Fave fill: COBAIN, FIRE UP, SRIRACHA, DORITOS, ROADSTER, SCOFF. I may do with out a number of the fill ( you, AN I, MAA, and such), however the fill is mostly clean given the pains of planting the A-through-N dots of their exact spots whereas retaining correct grid symmetry.
4.5 stars from me. I’d paid no thoughts to the circled letters whereas fixing however discovered the DUCK and RABBIT after which once I completed fixing on-line, growth, the grid artwork appeared! I do know a number of you can’t abide the concept of doing a crossword on the pc with something apart from Throughout Lite, however the NYT actually does craft some neat shows for artistic puzzle concepts in case you resolve on their web site. It gained’t chunk, I promise. (I discover it extra rewarding to have the grid artwork drawn for me than to spend time enjoying connect-the-dots on a paper puzzle.)
