Lots of really good fill outside the theme, too. And the phrases were all lively and clean. Very appropriate to leave the theme answers unclued. Thanks for the review, PuzzleGirl, and everyone’s comments thus far.įun theme, done very well. I too wished that both of them hadn't been in the grid, but oh well. * OTO – I originally had this as the native group, but then the letter changes produced OTOE. * OUTGO – before the letter changes, this was originally LET GO * AS IN – not a spectacular answer no matter what one does, though I tried to spice it up a little by making it A SIN and cluing it as
My five favorite revised clues from the NYT are for the following: My five favorite original clues which they did not change (or didn't change much) are for the following answers:
* STONE AGE = Era before heavy metal became popular? (It goes without saying that I've never heard of a "gimel" either) * ALL = "Gotta catch 'em _!" (10-Down slogan) * DEAD = Like the parrot in a famous Monty Python sketch My five favorite original clues which the NYT changed:
Maybe she just got the credit because her dad was a big shot! And the moral of the story is that Nancy Drew is awesome and if you have daughters, you should get her the old books not the new ones (because, no, in fact she cannot still tap-dance in Morse Code). Harriet Adams didn't even write the first Nancy Drew title, "The Secret of the Old Clock"! It was written by Edward Stratemeyer's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith! I’ll be honest with you, I'm not entirely convinced Harriet Adams wrote ANY of the Nancy Drew books. In fact, there were many, MANY Carolyn Keenes. Turns out Harriet Adams wasn't the only Carolyn Keene. But then the Internet came along and all hell broke loose. And we all just went along our merry way believing that. My undergrad honors thesis was called "The New Nancy Drew: But Can She Still Tap-Dance in Morse Code?" At the time (this was, like, a hundred years ago), it was widely believed that Carolyn Keene was the pseudonym of Harriet Adams, whose father, Edward Stratemeyer, founded the "Stratemeyer Syndicate," which produced the books. Now Nancy Drew creator Carolyn KEENE, on the other hand, I know a lot about. I mean, I know Pikachu, of course, and I know Pokemon evolve into other Pokemon and there's a show with a kid named Ash who has a really annoying voice, and I guess it's a game? Maybe with cards? Kids collect them and then they. POKEMON always makes me laugh because I know what it is … kind of. There's some nice fill here and there: SUNSPOTS symmetrical with STONE AGE, MIDTERM right smack in the middle, and JET SET is nice.
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