The theme includes BLOCKBUSTER, DISAPPEARING ACT, and maybe DROP ME A LINE, since the BLOCKs are DROPped before they DISAPPEAR.Īnd yeah, lots of people aren’t keen on themes invading their Friday puzzle-it PERTURBS them. The black at the bottom would be space filled in successfully by dropping previous blocks there.) (The black squares are the various tetrominoes-four-square blocks in assorted shapes-that are Tetris game pieces.
With those four unchecked squares, woe to any solver who never heard of Tetris, because I don’t know that there’s any way to know what goes in those squares if that’s a gap in your knowledge. , TETRIS extending into the black blocks at the bottom. I figured the theme had to be Tetris by looking at the grid, and indeed, there’s 59d. (Also, somebody tell Dean she has a typo in her book title in her Instagram profile.)īrandon Koppy’s New York Times crossword-Amy’s write-up If he changed his name upon marriage, you might see the masculine né. Can you believe that the SNL “Weekend Update” catchphrase when Curtin coanchored with Dan Aykroyd in the 1970s was him saying “Jane, you ignorant slut”? (Her rejoinder of “Dan, you pompous ass” is neither crudely gendered nor so well remembered.)įave fill: “PUSH IT,” SMOLDERS, SHTICKS, COLD SHOWER.
I like the span of comedians in their 30s, 50s, and 70s. I was trying to figure out what SCHUMER would be a pun on. I do not believe she’s done an animal act! This doesn’t work great on the grammatical front. Puns on the surnames of four funny women are the theme this week: Inkubator crossword solution, 9/9/22 “It’s All in the Delivery”