{"id":3152,"date":"2025-10-13T23:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/whos-there\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:49:18","slug":"whos-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/whos-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s start with a joke<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cKnock-Knock\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWho\u2019s There?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cInterrupting Cow\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cInterrupting Cow wh-\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MOOOOO\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/games.michigandaily.com\/crosswords\/2025\/10\/12\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">SUNDAY PUZZLE- <\/span><\/strong><\/a>I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve all heard that one before (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">groan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). I hope solving today\u2019s crossword at least got a chuckle out of you. I definitely had a good time putting it together. If you have any questions or comments about the puzzle, feel free to email me at nayman@umich.edu. If you have general concerns, you can reach the entire games team at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:crosswords@umich.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">crosswords@umich.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Tricky Clues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>20A. Something we have in common with our rivals in East Lansing and Columbus is that we\u2019re all COLLEGESTUDENTS.<\/p>\n<p>65A. The Calla lily is a member of the colorful ARUM family, which can be found all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>26D. RENT-A-Car is somewhere you might go while on a trip to take care of your transportation needs.<\/p>\n<p>37D. A department head is a manager. Shortened to match dept. head in the clue, the solution is MGR.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Today&#8217;s Theme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Going back to the joke from earlier, INTERRUPTINGCOW was today\u2019s theme. Each themed entry featured one word spread across two clues, \u201cinterrupted\u201d by a cow-derived product.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example, OPPO-BEEF-SITES was formed by OPPOSITES (1-Across and 9-Across) interrupted by BEEF. That same rule applied to TRADED spread across 25-Across and 31-Across, with Leather in the middle. LAB-CHEDDAR-LED (LABLED, as clued in 45-Across), and STORY-MILK-TIME (STORYTIME, as clued in 66-Across) were the other clued entries.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Answer Key:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"780\" height=\"771\" data-attachment-id=\"563759\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/crosswords\/constructor-notes-2025-10-12\/attachment\/image-144\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?fit=906%2C896&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"906,896\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?fit=906%2C896&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?fit=780%2C771&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-9.png?resize=780%2C771&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-563759\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/crosswords\/constructor-notes-2025-10-12\/\">Who&#8217;s There?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\">The Michigan Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s start with a joke. \u201cKnock-Knock\u201d \u00a0 \u201cWho\u2019s There?\u201d \u00a0 \u201cInterrupting Cow\u201d \u00a0 \u201cInterrupting Cow wh-\u201d \u00a0 \u201cMOOOOO\u201d \u00a0 SUNDAY PUZZLE- I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve all heard that one before (groan). I hope solving today\u2019s crossword at least got a chuckle out of you. I definitely had a good time putting it together. If you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2370],"class_list":{"0":"post-3152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-whos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}