![]() After two years of not seeing this puzzle, solving it felt like doing a puzzle I’d never seen before - and I liked it! Wishing everyone the same reaction! And they put in a great one of their own: “Something well-placed?” for OIL RIG. Many of our clues remained intact, but sometimes the editors kept a clue’s intent but reworded it, and every time they made the clue better. They are unseen heroes whose good work often goes unrecognized. The editors who refine the clues are true artists. I recently solved this puzzle, as the editors wanted our approval of their clue changes. Though that idea fizzled, it had a germ that eventually morphed into this puzzle.įor today’s puzzle, additional theme answers we considered were C□ARDBO□XES, PR□IMET□V, MATCHE□SWIT□H, and I□STHI□NGON. ![]() The brainstorming took two-thirds of our time, as we started with a completely different theme idea. It was a very rewarding back and forth, as we brainstormed, constructed and polished this puzzle. He is an overseer of, writes a review there of every single New York Times puzzle, writes novels that are published and has two young kids - enough to keep anyone more than jammed for time - yet somehow he fit in exchanging 130 emails with me over the final two months of 2019. Lewis Rothlein: I don’t know how Jeff does it. I have not worked with sheet music for a long time, and at first I wasn’t sure what the lines and dots meant. In all seriousness, this is a tight and mind-blowing theme that is tough if you don’t know what the repeat signs mean. I’ll wait here while you all send the strongly worded letters. If you read the phrase up to the third W - which starts the word WE - and then repeat the letters inside the repeat signs (EREW) after that W, you get the correct phrase, NOW WHERE WERE WE. Let’s place the repeat signs where they belong and see what happens. In sheet music, the signs □ and □ are used to indicate that the notes inside them should be repeated. ![]() It’s in there, if you know where to look. Whoops, looks as if we forgot the word “were” in order to make the phrase NOW WHERE WERE WE. The entry at 17A, for example, has to be written as NOW WHERE WE, in answer to the clue “Question after a digression.” Next, you have probably realized by now that the theme entries don’t look right in their slots.
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