{"id":1699,"date":"2025-06-15T07:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/unfinished-business\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:10:48","slug":"unfinished-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/unfinished-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some things are better left hanging.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/span>SUNDAY PUZZLE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Hello all! We\u2019re excited to publish our first puzzle as a duo today and we had a lot of fun creating it together. If you have any corrections, comments or feedback for this specific puzzle, contact us at <\/span>albonwu@umich.edu<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>tiffzhou@umich.edu<\/span><\/a>. For general questions and concerns, reach out to <\/span>crosswords@umich.edu<\/span><\/a>. Happy solving!<\/span><\/p>\n

Tricky Clues:<\/strong><\/p>\n

51A. \u201cWelcomer of change?\u201d might appear to be someone open to new ideas, but it actually clues SLOT, the change being literal coins. Arcade games and slot machines will happily eat some coins, one play at a time.<\/p>\n

18D. \u201c\u2018Monopoly space used to intentionally skip on rent\u201d is about the highly criticized JAIL corner of the board. Since players in jail do not move, they are able to avoid landing on properties and paying rent. However, the jailed player is still able to collect rent when others land on their properties\u2013encouraging intentional late-game jail stays.<\/p>\n

36D. \u201cShorts competitor?\u201d takes advantage of the crossword rule that clues always start with a capital letter. Here, \u201cShorts\u201d refers to YouTube Shorts, a competitor to Instagram REELS and other short-form video platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

49D. \u201cUnusual partner?\u201d is not about odd teammates. Instead, it points to CRUEL in the phrase \u201ccruel and unusual punishment,\u201d something the Eighth Amendment expressly protects us from.<\/p>\n

59D. \u201cWhere surfers might run into traffic?\u201d is a (web) SITE. \u201cTraffic\u201d refers to web traffic\u2014the number of users who visit a website\u2014and \u201csurfers\u201d are, of course, people who surf the internet. And funnily enough, just like in real life, too much surfer traffic could can a crash.<\/p>\n

Today’s Theme:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The revealer, PUT A PIN IN IT at 62-Across, can be quite literally done to each of the themed entries with different kinds of pins. One can decorate a DENIM JACKET (17-Across) with an enamel pin (or twenty), secure documents on a CORKBOARD (35-Across) using a push pin, and use a bobby pin to hold up a HAIRSTYLE (42-Across). Other pins we considered were personal identification numbers for debit cards and phone passwords, straight pins for sewing, and safety pins.<\/p>\n

Answer Key:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Some things are better left hanging. SUNDAY PUZZLE \u2014 Hello all! We\u2019re excited to publish our first puzzle as a duo today and we had a lot of fun creating it together. If you have any corrections, comments or feedback for this specific puzzle, contact us at albonwu@umich.edu and tiffzhou@umich.edu. For general questions and concerns, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[245,1909],"class_list":{"0":"post-1699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-unfinished"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}