{"id":5420,"date":"2026-06-07T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/you-can-work-it-out\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:49:19","slug":"you-can-work-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/you-can-work-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Work It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-611278\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Your Mother Should Know the answers to this week\u2019s puzzle!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/games.michigandaily.com\/crosswords\/2026\/05\/24\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SUNDAY<\/span> <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/games.michigandaily.com\/crosswords\/2026\/06\/07\">PUZZLE<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/games.michigandaily.com\/crosswords\/2026\/05\/24\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2014<\/strong>Hey everyone! I\u2019m happy to share my first Sunday crossword of the summer with you all. I\u2019ve been home in Ann Arbor all summer, meaning I\u2019ve had too much time on my hands to write puzzles. I\u2019m super proud of this one, and I\u2019m really appreciating how writing crosswords gets easier as you go. I\u2019d love to hear any specific feedback on this puzzle at johanll@umich.edu, and more general concerns or questions can be sent to crosswords@umich.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tricky Clues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">27A: I like to think outside the box when cluing short answers whenever possible, so PEA being a \u201csource of royal discomfort in a fairy tale\u201d is consistent with my philosophy.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8D: LEST is a word that I feel deserves a comeback in the English language, and it\u2019s a shame how it\u2019s been relegated to the phrase \u201clest we forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9D: \u201cMemento\u201d is one of my favorite movies of all time, and the way it incorporates AMNESIA as a key storytelling device in its non-chronological narrative is peak cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">45D: \u201cChamping at the bit\u201d is just an elite expression in my opinion, and it\u2019s definitely my favorite phrase that means KEEN.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Today\u2019s Theme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Beatles have been my favorite band since before grade school, so this puzzle is an homage to my favorite member, revealed in 54-Across as PAUL MCCARTNEY. The themed answers are all songs written by Paul (though they\u2019re officially credited to Lennon-McCartney), with YESTERDAY and BLACKBIRD being two of his most recognizable melodies and BACK IN THE USSR being a personal favorite of mine. Additionally, I was able to work \u201cLet It Be\u201d into 17-Across and the album <em>RUBBER SOUL<\/em> for 3-Down, though I decided to use two of John\u2019s songs in the latter clue because of their recognizability. This puzzle continues my streak of music-related themes, but I doubt I\u2019ll be able to one-up myself after this one, since I went straight from a song I love to my favorite songwriter of all time. I\u2019m looking forward to what I come up with next time, though, and I\u2019ll see you all then!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Answer Key:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Mother Should Know the answers to this week\u2019s puzzle! SUNDAY PUZZLE \u2014Hey everyone! I\u2019m happy to share my first Sunday crossword of the summer with you all. I\u2019ve been home in Ann Arbor all summer, meaning I\u2019ve had too much time on my hands to write puzzles. I\u2019m super proud of this one, and [&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":[1525],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","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=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5421"}],"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=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}