The mere thought of what a BROKEN RIB might have punctured in the left side of my chest is a very unpleasant thought on this Mother's Day. If thought you needed it, I could draw you a DIAGRAM to illustrate how that might happen. If it were not for the bendability of cartilage, which allowed one rib to slip under another and then pop back out again, mine would be BROKEN instead of merely having some torn cartilage. It would be the most likely break if your chest slammed into the steering wheel. Your wit is so often a joy to behold.Ĩ:21 Lewis, BROKEN RIB in the middle of the grid doesn't feel the least bit green paintish to me. And I liked that it was different from the typical puzzle.īROKENRIB feels green paintish to me. I enjoyed unlocking the puzzle - if it gives me a tussle fairly, I'm happy, and it did. I like all types except the last, and I like the first best. The best puzzles to me feel like work and fun. I liked the clues for VAC, WIN, VAULT, IRONER, and among answers that appealed to me were CUCAMONGA, SALIENCES, and BUTCHERED. Like Rex, I looked the poem up and copied the first version and was going to present it here because I, too, liked it better. I'm guessing Will's thought was that this would make an apt spring poem. Locust blossoms are sometimes used in making pancakes (Wikipedia), and on Mothers Day, aren't all mothers supposed to make pancakes for the family? ANGELOS is utterly arbitrary, but not much else strikes me as awful. In this case, pace Rex, The fill is decent. Unfortunately, the payoff is diminished.Ģ) the feat almost always comes at the expense of the solver, because the feat comes first in the mind of the constructor. This is a second and much more abstract version of a more accessible poem.
It helps if the poem is not completely esoteric, and here the gimmick fails. WCW mostly works here, although he is pretty much second-tier in name recognition even though beloved of many. Ideally, the poet should be well-enough known to a literate audience to be pleasing when solved. Most glaringly in this puzzle,find a poem that will fit without being a gimme. Of course, most feat crosswords have two basic problems:ġ) the "feat" is often conditioned or circumscribed arbitrarily so as to make it possible at all. It's a feat to get in the poem's title, the author's full name, and the entire poem. This is the sort of crossword I call a "Feat" crossword. I appreciate the desire to bring some poetry into the grid. I've literally never been to an ANGELO'S pizzeria, despite their alleged "common"-ness. This thing is hyper-black-squared, and yet I'm still left to deal with a mess of ANAT GST AAA MSN etc etc etc. ANGERERERERERERER? SALIENCES? IRONERS? EIDERS? ELLIOTTOTTOTTS? So many ugh-some plurals-and soooo many cheater squares, you'd think filling the grid well would've been possible.
I probably would've forgiven all the artsy poetry in-joke baloney because, hey, one word per line, that's a neat novelty, and how can you turn away from the pure serendipitous coincidence that not only do WCW and the poem's title have the same number of letters in them, but that number is also the exact width of a standard Sunday puzzle! Fine, leeway granted. But, BUT: here's the thing (another thing, the last thing). Infinitely superior, IMHO, but I am a troglodyte when it comes to chic poetic tastes, so who knows? Anyway, the nonsense second version is a SECOND VERSION so say "second version," else wrong (or at least inaccurate / misleading).
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