![]() ![]() They bring us a gymnastics-based puzzle with a lovely title. Naomi Klarreich & Daniel Shapiro’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Mental Gymnastics”-Jim P’s review For women, we have the biblical EVE and MOM clued via tattoo.įavorite clues today: 65a for NO DUH, for ALARM, and 69a for YMCA! This puzzle is also pretty male-dominant: besides that all four theme answers are male, there’s also DANA Carvey, SEAN Connery, MARC Anthony, ERIC Holder, TRU Capote, Joseph EDY, John DONNE, and Willy MAYS. I didn’t feel like I was moving through the puzzle particularly quickly, but I ended with a below average time, so what do I know? Highlights were WELCOME MAT, IT ME and BOUGIE (even with its oddly worded clue), lowlights were LAMS, COATI, and KAL Kan (my crossword dog food brain can only accommodate Iams and Alpo, sorry). Could there have been more wordplay with the theme, I wonder? I went to a corn maze this weekend – that’s technically “all ears” as well, right? Anyway, it was a satisfying reveal, if a little one-note and pop-culture heavy. ![]() I eventually got to the revealer and, yep, these guys all do have big ears – I think? Are MISTER SPOCK’s ears particularly big or just pointy? I haven’t seen Star Trek. (Side note, it was lucky for me that we had a NYT puzzle last month that featured ALFRED E NEUMAN, because his name would have been much more tricky for me to come up with without it). BUGS BUNNY and MICKEY MOUSE… maybe something cartoon related? But then I got ALFRED E NEUMAN and was totally lost. ![]() While solving this puzzle, I wasn’t sure what the connecting thread was going to be. 61a – I’M ALL EARSįirst and foremost, congrats to Caryn on her New York Times debut!. ![]()
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