Saturday, May 22, 2021

Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword

Today's crossword was a bit of a slog, although we were happy to see the return of AMONRA - the god of tricky spelling -- and several Star Wars references (21A, Hoth, in "Star Wars", ICEPLANET, and 27A, Sci-fi enemy collective, perhaps, EVILEMPIRE). Jean struggled in the northwest corner, and both Jean & Mike had to grit their teeth in the southeast, where the dubious 49D, Hit on the head, in slang, DONK, and the clever but obscure 32D, "100 Years ... 100 Stars" and others, in brief, AFILISTS, caused difficulty. Still, any crossword that includes 47A, Portmanteau coinage for the uneducated and uncultured, BOOBOISIE, can't be all bad -- we give this a 4 squares on the JAMCR scale.

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