I hope you can get to the bottom of this puzzle!
SUNDAY PUZZLE —Hi all! My name is Kiran and I’m excited to be back for my second Sunday puzzle of the summer! It’s somehow almost Memorial Day, which many would consider the official start of summer, and it seems like the weather in Ann Arbor is finally getting the memo! I can be reached at kvparekh@umich.edu (praise only please) and crosswords@umich.edu is our general email for any complaints, concerns or questions! Shout out to my editor Tobin and the wonderful people at the copy desk for all their hardwork. I hope you enjoy solving!
Tricky Clues
26A – “Many a farm-to-table org.” refers to CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture. These programs try to develop closer connections between communities and the places they get their food. Ann Arbor actually has one of these programs through its farm-share initiative, where people can effectively buy a “subscription” to a local farm. I highly recommend it to anyone interested!
49A – A “Characteristic shared by the protagonists of ‘Invisible Man’ and ‘The Turn of the Screw’” is NONAME, with both characters only ever referred to by descriptors. I read and loved both of these books in my high school English class so felt this would be a fun way to reference them!
4D – The “Holiday in Pitbull’s ‘Hotel Room Service’” is INN, as seen in his powerful and evocative lyric “We at the hotel, motel, Holiday Inn.” This line is a reference to The Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 “Rapper’s Delight,” the first commercially successful hip-hop single.
29D – “With ‘hen,’ a Toledo sports mascot” is a MUD hen. The Toledo Mud Hens are the Detroit Tigers’s minor league affiliate. My earliest sports memory is at one of their games in the summer of 2011. I don’t remember anything about the players or the score but I do remember getting a stuffed animal of the mascot “Muddy” the mud hen, which is somewhere in my parent’s basement.
30D – Here “Late start?” doesn’t refer to one of my pet peeves, but instead to the prefix ISO, as in the start of the word “isolate.”
45D – While this one may be difficult for those, like me, who were born half a century after the event, the “Suez Crisis leader” in this puzzle is Gamal Abdel NASSER, the second president of Egypt.
Today’s Theme
You can find the revealer DOUBLEDOWN at 41-Across, providing a literal description of the modification to the three other theme entries: DOWNDOWNWARDDOG, DOWNDOWNUNDER, and HANDMEDOWNDOWNS (located at 17-, 34-, and 54-Across respectively). All three of these terms are changed from their ordinary state to have the word “down” doubled.
Answer Key:
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