I hope you have a swell time solving this puzzle!
SUNDAY PUZZLE –Hey everyone! I’m Kiran and this is my second ever themed puzzle for the Games section! During this past semester I’ve been in the role of Sunday editor, so while I’ve had a hand in all of the amazing puzzles you’ve seen in the past months, I haven’t had the chance to make one of my own in a while. Big shoutout to Tobin, the summer managing editor and one of my dear friends, for stepping up this summer and for all the hard work he’s put into the section. If you have any complaints about this puzzle, email him at tobinsax@umich.edu! And if you have nice things to say, email me at kvparekh@umich.edu or the general crosswords email at crosswords@umich.edu. Have fun solving and enjoy your summer!
Tricky Clues
23A: Word play is my favorite aspect of cluing crosswords, although I’ve been told at points to tone it down a bit to make my puzzles solvable. Here, you can always find a SILENT B in the word “doubt.”
38A and 40A: An often difficult part of creating the fill of a crossword is the three letter words, as their quality often gets sacrificed for the cohesion of the puzzle at large. ACR and SLA are two abbreviations (for “across” and “service-level agreement”) that are tough and not fun, but allow for better entries elsewhere in the puzzle.
58A: My apologies to any non-basketball fans, as RUI Hachimura is not a household name by any means. The NBA is currently in the first round of the playoffs where Rui’s Los Angeles Lakers are doing well and my Detroit Pistons are … not.
2D and 3D: Some other terms you may not be familiar with are PATOIS and POPULI, which are basically a fancy term for “lingo” and the Latin word for “of the people,” respectively.
5D: Canadian police officers are known as “Mounties” because they are often (you guessed it) MOUNTED on horseback. I have vivid memories from my childhood of watching “Scooby-Doo,” where they seemed to go to Canada and encounter these horseback policemen more often than you would expect (and monsters just as much as you would expect).
35D: A HÁČEK (also known as a caron) is a diacritic found in many Eastern European languages, such as Czech, where the term originates from. This is probably the hardest entry in this puzzle by far, so my apologies, but everyone needs to start learning Czech right now!
Today’s Theme
One of my favorite categories of crossword theme is hiding words inside other words. In this puzzle, the revealer at 50-Across, BREAKING WAVES, provides a literal description of portions of the three other theme entries — SOUVENIR STAND, SINCE U BEEN GONE, and SHERLOCK HOLMES — which all have types of waves hidden in two pieces within them: “sound,” “sine” and “shock,” respectively.
Answer Key:
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