"You'll love my art restoration service or your Monet back!" (I'll make a good Impression.)
@Mike You might forge yourself a new line of work. Like finding a needle in a haystack.
@Mike If you get sued, you've got a Cassatt law! You always make a painting look just like new, only Morisot .
@Mike If my Dalí is baroque, can you fix her? She belonged to Magritte grandmother, but Dada threw her in the fountain. Que Seurat, Seurat.
@Mike The only difference between Manet and Monet is a Miro.
@Mike I figured I'd throw this one into the hopper. 'Tis the Cezanne, after all.
Oh, that’s an elegant theme. Sure, it seems like an obvious conceit in retrospect, but consider that it's never been done before -- luscious low-hanging fruit just waiting over the decades to be noticed. Heck, neither the gorgeous STARVING ARTISTS nor its singular has appeared in a puzzle in any of the major outlets ever. Enter Killian, and high props to him for seeing it and giving its puzzle the quality it deserves: • Finding not only well-known artists with mealtime-titled works, but whose names are of lengths that fit grid symmetry. • Including a pair of lovely vertical longs, I’M CONFUSED and SLOW DANCED (both NYT debuts), as well as a pair of lovely shorts in MYRIAD and VESTRY. • Nailing the Tuesday cluing difficulty level, where the brain has to jump in rather than nap through. Yet well short of late-week opacity. Plus, an answer that made my mouth water (MOCHI) and made it smile at seeing EDGY on the bottom border. Primo, Killian. Thank you for a splendid outing!
For all them who confuse Manet and Monet--you're in good company: an insomniac Ogden Nash did as well: "Oft in the stilly night, When the mind is fumbling fuzzily, I brood about how little I know, And know that little so muzzily. Ere slumber’s chains have bound me, I think it would suit me nicely If I knew one-tenth of the little I know But knew that tenth precisely. O Delius, Sibelius, And What’s-his-name Aurelius, O Manet, 0 Monet, Mrs. Siddons, and the Cid. I know each name Has an oriflamme of fame. I’m sure they all did something, But I can’t think what they did. . . . . . . Gently my eyelids close; I’d rather be good than clever; And I’d rather have my facts all wrong Than have no facts whatever." (1947--Full poem: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1947/06/21/who-did-which-or-who-indeed" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1947/06/21/who-did-which-or-who-indeed</a>)
@Bill My rule of thumb is, if a painting has a MAN (or a woman) in it, it's a MANet. If it doesn't, it's a MONET. "Luncheon on the Grass" breaks my rule, because it has people in it. TIL it was painted as a response to a work by the same name by Manet.
Once, that song about liking pina coladas did so permeate the airwaves that I do remember brainstorming making a short video adventure thriller entitled "Escape from the Pina Colada Song." In fact I still can't listen to it without inwardly grimacing. Starving artists! It's not really punny (as DJ also said) but it's kind of funny applied to those three. Too bad there wasn't room for Manet's "Dejeuner sur L'herbe" -- now that's a repast! Other things to like: INK SAC/TAT; MEH/YUCCA (both sound like verbal reactions to something), the competitive quad of DUEL/ANGER/TKO/DRAW and of course all the food related words that actually do make me a little peckish: MOCHI, SHAKE, FISH (with a little lemon ZEST). And very pleased to see VESTRY rides again. It's been a while, and what a beauty of a word.
I see they've changed the comments format since I've been here last. Given me a blue J. Bluejay! Yasss. What font is that anyway? Courier bold? It's like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy gave Comments a makeover. But I see they were not able to remove the gibbous face of Mike the Punster from Munster (and I mean gibbous in the nicest way), so there's hope yet. Not a fan. Seems the font is a scoche smaller. I don't mind how they've somewhat muffled the number of reccos. But the whole thing seems like change for change's sake. Starting with nesting the comments. Meh. Yucca.
Delightful easy Tuesday puzzle. Fun theme with STARVING ARTISTS. And a lot of clues that are slightly misleading at first but make you smile when you get it. Like "ESPY" when based on the clue you wanted it to be TONY.
They were all meals and they were all paintings. I knew that this was going to be one of those early week puzzles I enjoy the most: both halves of the answer would be relevant to the revealer. And I was consumed by curiosity as to what the revealer would be. I set the puzzle down on the floor where there was no chance I'd see the revealer clue ahead of time. I toyed with both halves of a possible answer: PAINTING, OIL, CANVAS, ART, or PICTURE had to be paired with MEAL, FOOD or DINING. I thought and thought. And the only thing I could come up with was (wait for it!)... THE ART OF THE MEAL Nope. That's not it. And while I don't think you have to be STARVING to enjoy a supper or luncheon or buffet, I do think that the theme of this puzzle is absolutely ADORBS. It created the kind of curiosity in me that I always hope for -- and I really, really enjoyed it for that reason.
@Nancy I like your revealer better.
Could we call this a "picture perfect" puzzle? It was nice to explore a little of the art world this evening, and I appreciated the sassy revealer, more so because I'm currently on a liquid/soft diet while going through the process of getting dentures. There were some very slight delays in my solve, but never very long, as it ended up being one of my faster Tuesdays. I'd heard of all the artists, and seen original works or representations thereof by all three of them. Thanks, Killian!
@JayTee you took the words right out of my mouth! I came here to say this puzzle was picture perfect and the first comment I see is yours ☺️ great minds and all that…
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@JohnWM there's apparently a reply, which I cannot access. :\
@JohnWM, And have it by Monday.
@JohnWM God Bless NB, Canada ... and whatever you-all are putting in the water.
I’ve kind of got an issue with “idea” being the solution for “brainstorm.” Brainstorm as a verb is to come up with many ideas. Brainstorm as a noun is a session to come up with many ideas. There’s no way the answer can be the singular “idea.” This had to be “ideas” or “ideate” in order to fit the clue.
Sorry, but as I use it as a noun, and as M-W defines it #1 as a noun, it is one (great) idea. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brainstorm" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brainstorm</a>
Disagree. One typically brainstorms at a brainstorming session or meeting. Inelegant perhaps, but I've never heard of scheduling a brainstorm.
Wonderful theme and cluing, and easy solve.
Way-hay - I did all of this without any look-ups or reveals - a very rare gold star. The crossers were kind regarding the sport and the US term 'ATTA' although I'm used to Grammy/NANA now. How pleasant for me!
I knew as soon as I started that this was going to be a fun puzzle, and it was! Not too easy and not too hard. I still had a couple of lookups (mostly for spelling0, but considering I've only been doing the Tuesday puzzles for a couple of months, I thought that was pretty good. And I love the theme! I'm an art buff, and so this was really enjoyable. Thanks for a great Tuesday puzzle!
Too fruity? I was tired of my crosswords We'd AMALGAMATED too long Like more MEH than rewarding, my favorite FILL had gone wrong So while my hubby was sleepin' I did the puzzle in bed And in the Times Wordplay forums, these were the comments I left... If you like MEPHITIC OLEO, and know SAARINEN's first name, If you're not into YOKO, if you're more ETTAJAMES If you know who rode John Larkin's mare at midnight, you might change this LANDSCAPE You're the constructor I'd SKIRR for, for a CHEWY escape I didn't think about my GOLDSTAR, I know that sounds kind of mean But me and The Grey Lady had fallen into the same old dull routine So I wrote to the paper: Is this some BABYTALK fad? And though I'm not Shortz' pony, I thought it wasn't half bad:, Yes, I like GASSTATIONSUSHI and have a SKINCAREROUTINE I'm not much in NUNAVUT, I'm into OHARE champagne Solvers DECRY a rebus and all NATICK clues- for G Slovacek they WENTAPE! HOLDMYBEER at The Sports BRA, we'll YAW these grids into shape!
@Whoa Nellie, As Lewis would stay, standing ovation!
We went to Paris when my son was 12. Husband, daughter(17), and I all reveling in a week-long art lovers orgy. He was very well behaved. But on the last day, he stood in the middle of the Louvre and looked us all in the eye and said "I hate art!!! ALL ART!"
David Connell (we miss you DC) had a hilarious story about someone in his church mangling the word MYRIAD by reading it as “mermaid”. I think it caused DC to laugh out loud during a service. Meanwhile I was all set to put GOOGOL there, everyone’s favorite large number.
I noticed yesterday that the comments looked different yet again, but it was late in the day, so I didn't say anything about it. I now see that a few people have mentioned it, but for a while, there was nothing, so I wondered at first if I unwittingly did something to my settings. Now it seems that the font is bigger, and might be a slightly different one, but it's still sans serif, and it's hard to tell if a commenter is Al as in Albert or Alfred, or AI as in artificial intelligence. This is significant because some people show wrong guesses in all caps except the incorrect letters. I also see that "Close Replies" was moved a bit away from "Reply" and "Recommend," and "Replies" (often with a number) was moved away from "Recommend" as well. This is a good change, because not just once did I recommend a post unintentionally when I was just trying to open the remaining comments. I still don't see the purpose for "Close Replies." I think that option should be ditched. Also, there should be a "Expand to Show All Posts" at the top, since many of us want to read all the comments straight through and not have to open threads one at a time. I've been spending so much time opening threads that half the time, I forget to read all the comments (particularly the ones that were already showing before the ones I had to open). Also, it's confusing when "Replies (number)" is sometimes followed by visible comments, and sometimes needs to be clicked on to reveal hidden comments.
@Steve L HELP ME. I cannot see all the replies on posts with more than 3 replies. I see that there are 5 replies to Mike's pun, but I can only see three. There is no option to expand the rest of the replies. Am I missing something? Am I insane? Or is the comments section getting worse by the week?
I enjoyed this, got a big smile when I got to the revealer. My first thought when LEONARDO DA VINCI was clued was, can’t they get a harder clue for him even on a Tuesday? But of course that was part of the theme. I thought this was a reasonable difficulty for a Tuesday otherwise and had to get the other artists with some crosses. And finding all of them with symmetrical lengths was very artful. I disagree with Steve L, I think this was more than so-so, and I don’t care whether there are more established constructors or newer ones, I just want good puzzles and good clueing. I’ve seen puzzles from established constructors which were so-so and dazzling ones from newer ones. It takes all kinds.
Lovely puzzle. Artfully constructed, ample wit. Just one NIT.
Linda Jo, No [High dudgeon] for you, I see.
Now, about the puzzle. I'm not sure why painting pictures of people eating makes you a STARVING ARTIST. I just don't think the connection is there. That is all. No, wait a minute. I gotta say more. This is Killian Olson's second puzzle. His first one, on 11/26/24, was also a Tuesday, in which the revealer was AUTO FILLED, and the four sets of shaded squares in the theme answers were car makes. That one was a much more solid theme, and one that showed that he has potential. Today, the revealer didn't quite match up with the theme answers, because, as I said, painting buffets and luncheons does not make one a STARVING ARTIST. Some commenter just lamented the fact that Liz Gorski hasn't appeared in the NYT lately (in fact, for a decade). She has had several puzzles in the New Yorker, in fact, as recently as last Monday. It was mentioned, with great fanfare, in an end-of-year column within the last few years, that something like 80 new constructors debuted that year, as if that was something fantastic. But at what price? I'd rather see Liz Gorski in the NYT than some guy who produces one good puzzle, and then one so-so one. Do you think this might have anything to do with the difficulty drop?
@Steve L - I used to enjoy reading these comments and love knowing there are so many new constructors. But I’m really tired of hearing all the Debby Downers who just can’t seem to enjoy a well-constructed puzzle with a solid theme and a revealer that puts a smile in my morning.
@Steve L I thought the same thing about Art Heist, where you had paintings being stolen and the punchline being "I was framed." That was an unsatisfying stretch IMO.
@Steve L Have people forgotten the origin of the expression of 'starving artist'? It began with the cliché of the artist living in his (it was always a man in the cliché) bare, chilly, tiny garret, saved into habitability only by its access to a north light. The gaunt tenant goes without food to buy paints and canvas, so overwhelming is his need to produce art. Fast forward and, with the stereotype firmly established, you get the Starving Artists cheap-o art company. I remember the cheesy commercials promoting their crummy 'art' produced by genuine Starving Artists (TM). So the theme here struck me as perfectly humorous.
Strangely, two people I have never been able to keep straight crossed in this puzzle. MONET/MaNET, and ONEIL/aNEIL. (Kidding, I don't know of a tall shortstop named Aneil, but then again I've never heard of Oneil Cruz, either.)
@Francis I mix up MONET and Manet too,but my ONEIL mixup us with Oneal! English spelling is so weird. Why should Neal, Neil and kneel all be pronounced the same?
@Francis This could be a breakout year if he stays healthy. The Pirates will probably trade him away. Baseball needs a new minor league structure that includes independent teams and relegation/promotion.
Enjoyed this one. The theme was minimal but solid, and the grid included some interesting entries: YUCCA, MYRIAD, IMPROV, DARKWEB, MUDRUN, VESTRY. Seemed just about right for a Tuesday, at least to me.
Unrelated to today's puzzle (which I enjoyed, BTW) but flashing back a bit, I just learned that Space Force are launching a GPS satellite christened Hedy Lamarr, which is a pretty cool tribute. I also learned that she co-invented frequency-hopping transmission. That tech was originally for guiding torpedoes, but later used in military comms, with which I am intimately familiar. Thank you, ma'am.
@Grant it's sort of mind-boggling. "Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during WWII to prevent radio-controlled torpedoes from being jammed. Patented in 1942 with composer George Antheil, this technique of switching frequencies forms the foundation of modern wireless communication, including cellular phones (CDMA/GSM), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS."
@Grant et alii Never underestimate the intelligence of a beautiful Hungarian. (Wikipedia describes her as "Austrian" but her mother was Hungarian, and Hungarianism is matrilineal)
Nyt dev team, I need you to remove the column from the in-app “browser.” I don’t think you realize how often I’m going between the puzzle and the column. Please let me open the column in a separate app so that I can move between the two without losing my place in either spot.
@Tom if you have the puzzle app and the news app, the column will open in the news app and you can flip between them easily.
Many thanks to A.O. Scott for a truly wonderful introduction to today's puzzle. A real gem!
Today's poem made from words found in today's puzzle <br> <br> o sun o sun <br> <br> a/ instrument of diamond might just painter of the flower in the field <br> <br> d/ you permeate the mountains and… you found the hidden hedgehogs hurray! <br> <br> you drink of the fountain <br> but never never found you love <br> never swayed to the music like the boy and the girl in the church storage room <br> <br> as you race in again to fix the a/ dark <br> <br>
"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" actor - LEONARDODICAPRIO
Perfectly charming. FISH also the last to fall. Been away for a bit and see we are still tweaking the comments format. Not too shabby. Had to dial up the magnification. Now, please add the "Open all replies" button.
Deliciously fun Tuesday. I Lworded the revealer, starving artists. The artist/ art pairing's were clever.
This was clever and quick. Coincidentally or not, if you're left wanting more, there's a reference in a recent Gameplay article to an inspired art-inspired puzzle from 10/18/09, and the grid is it's own brilliant bit of meta-art.
So, is DRAW an Easter egg theme echo?
Another crossword, another time I have to remember whether it's Manet or Monet
Cute theme, some of the cluing felt a bit clunky but altogether fairly breezy. The main thing I want to say is that Rupert Holmes, the guy who wrote “Escape (The PINA Colada Song)” is actually worth a deep dive. He has written some pretty interesting stuff. I mainly know his music. Some of it is a little cheesy but it’s definitely unique. Check out Lunch Hour: <a href="https://youtu.be/CMyeEQHOzgE" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/CMyeEQHOzgE</a> And he’s also a successful novelist and playwright, although I don’t know much about his work in those disciplines.
@Charles Nelson Reilly The Mystery Of Edwin Drood is a lot of fun, and he won two Tonys for it (not ESPYs). I wish I had seen it at the Delacorte.
I think BRAINSTORM Is a great concept. To me, one of its meanings is a bunch of people sitting around and trying to come up with a solution, invention, concept, etc. One person says something, which is a snippet of an idea, and another person is inspired by that and adds to it. Ideas fly around and provoke new creativity. It's a good thing to do, maybe and similar to what goes on here in the comments. Here's what Wikipedia says: [Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically placed on the volume and variety of ideas, including ideas that may seem outlandish or "off-the-wall". Ideas are noted down during the activity, but not assessed or critiqued until later. The absence of criticism and assessment is intended to avoid inhibiting participants in their idea production.[1] The term was popularized by advertising executive Alex Faickney Osborn in the classic work Applied Imagination (1953).]
I posted a few times a couple weeks ago about changes to the comments section and nobody seemed to know what I was talking about. Looks like many of you finally joined my party of one. ☺️ Glad to have the company and glad to know I've not gone completely stark raving mad! Miss the briefly known search button and being able to change my avatar thingy. Enjoyed the puzzle!
@HeathieJ pretty sure you can still change your avatar. Click on "Share your thoughts". Above the top right corner of the text box is an "Edit" link. That takes you to the options to edit your name, location and avatar. (There is a teeny little "Edit" link under your avatar.)
@HeathieJ There's no search option if you're opening Wordplay in the app, but it's still there in the browser. What I've been doing is leaving the finished puzzle in the app, then googling NYT Wordplay and opening it in the browser. That way, I can toggle between both *and* continue having the search box.
@HeathieJ, You’re a party of one no more! The Comments are acting pretty unpredictably. I solve on an iPhone 14. Yesterday, the Comments were opening in the Safari browser, with a tweak to the circled first letter of everyone’s name that precedes their comment. (This only applies to us simple non-avatar-using folk 😄). It had a more distinctive font and a splash of color! Looked kinda spiffy. And it still had the long-prayed-for search window. Today, it’s opening in the app itself, sans the search window, sans the “Share your thoughts here” window, sans the spiffy colored circles, sans the ability to toggle between comments in the browser and the puzzle in the app. My vote is for the browser option. Workers of the World, unite! 😊
Good puzzle! Thank you Killian. Enjoyed it from beginning to end.
Maybe I'm missing something, but is calling STARVING ARTISTS a pun the best description? "STARVING" in STARVING ARTISTS means that the artist isn't eating well (because their income is poor). I guess the puzzle is saying the painters are STARVING because they are painting pictures of food? I'm not seeing the pun here, but maybe I'm just being clueless.
@DJ Not a pun, but irony. Those artists never were starving due to penury, and had good income… so what is said is not what is meant, in the sense of poverty. But they painted food, and were starving for real food.
Re: 61D - IPS is technically, logically, and linguistically wrong. I know we've been through this before, but Internet Protocols are absolutely, 100% *not* addresses! There's FTP, HTTP, POP, IMAP, and dozens of other protocols that make the internet work. There's even an addressing protocol for the internet, which leads to the term "Internet Protocol Address". But your - or your computer's - address on the internet isn't an IP, it's an IP Address. So the correct answer to the clue could only be (despite the likely confusion with beers of a particular style) IPAS. I spent decades in IT, and while we usually shortened the term Internet Protocol Address to "IP Address", I never heard anyone refer to a numeric network identifier as an IP. (You will not get me to agree to any other interpretation, so don't bother trying).
@Grumpy FWIW, I've never heard IP Addresses abbreviated as anything but "IP" or "IPs", been in IT either as an hobby or professionally since the early-mid 1990s. At any rate, if I'm going to be pedantic, technically your computer's address is the network card's MAC (my first guess here), the IP is assigned to a given MAC address on the network when it announces itself and asks for an address.
@Grumpy Then why is/was there a popular website called whatismyip. Or a command called ipconfig.
@Grumpy I hear people refer to Internet Protocol Addresses as IPs all the time. Probably more commonly than someone would bother to say IP address. Maybe it's a Gen X thing.
Very nice! Loved the theme. And one clue that really tripped me up was the clue for 'fish'! Well done
For those of you who are thinking of today's puzzle as a bit of an appetizer, here's another one that will really fill you up. Sunday, October 18, 2009 “Ahead Of The Curve” By Elizabeth C. Gorski Edited by Will Shortz Someone recommended this puzzle in the last few days in these pages and it's loaded with sumptuous works of art. It also has lots of spanners or almost-spanners and an unusual grid. Take a bite and bon appétit!!
@lucky13 I filled it in today and it is gorgeous. Thanks to Ms Gorski, Mr Shortz and all who toil for my amusement.
@lucky13 anything by ms Liz is usually great. Sorry we don't see her work herein any longer
@lucky13 PS Here's the link to the Wordplay for the beautiful Gorski puzzle from October 2009. <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/curve" target="_blank">https://archive.nytimes.com/wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/curve</a>/ Very interesting.
Monet, Manet, Tippy Tippy Day Day...have a great day all.
I hate to go against the grain (who am I kidding; I love to go against the grain), but my review of this puzzle is: MEH, with a bunch of NITs. Starting with the positives: a MYRIAD of good fill, a couple of nice misdirects in the cluing, the longer non-theme answers are fresh, without being too difficult. This has already been discussed by the columnist and earlier commenters. But the theme/revealer??? Paint me unimpressed. Are we really supposed to think of an artist who doesn't have enough money for food, but does have enough money for paint, making pictures of food as a way of satisfying his cravings? And the Manet painting is not called "Luncheon", but "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe" or "Luncheon on the Grass". It was originally titled "The Bath"; not a whole lot of food or eating going on, although there is that oddly nude woman in the foreground. And Cezanne's "Buffet" is referring to a piece of furniture, not an all-you-can-eat array of dishes. There are a few pieces of fruit and a stack of (unappetizing cookies), but I don't think that will satisfy anyone's hunger. Am I taking the theme too seriously? Perhaps. Is this just a lot of NITs? Yes, but that is the stuff that reduces a good puzzle to the mediocre, for me at least.
@The X-Phile Steve L had the same reaction, but personally I think you both are taking it too seriously. I think it’s funny that a “starving artist” may think about and paint a food scene—maybe even set up a food scene deliberately so he can eat it later. It’s just a bit of a fun image/association. Agreed it wouldn’t be the most witty theme for later in the week, but pair that with a solid Tuesday grid and fair clueing and I think this at least a better than average early week entry.
@The X-Phile But it's a CLAUDE MONET painting. There are two with the same name, and confusingly, the other is by Edouard Manet. The MONET one has a lot of food in clear sight, and is plainly a painting of a picnic: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%27herbe_(Monet,_Paris" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%27herbe_(Monet,_Paris</a>) The Manet one is, uh, a little less so: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%27herbe" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%27herbe</a> Since Wikipedia titles the article on Manet's painting without qualification, but adds MONET's name to the title of the other article, I assume the Manet is the more famous one. Manet's painting came first, and MONET's was a response to Manet's. But for this puzzle, it's the other one.
@The X-Phile The painting is The Luncheon by CLAUDE MONET, not Manet.
@The X-Phile We certainly had different reactions today! But I was simply happy to correctly fill in the full names of the artists. I even needed to think: MANET or MONET? Was almost certain that MONET was CLAUDE, and ONEIL made more sense than ANEIL. And, as I noted in my post, I found some of the non-thematic entries interesting.
@The X-Phile - What didn’t rock your boat gave me a completely different reaction. I laughed out loud when the revealer entry emerged. This is a lighthearted sport for me, and a morning chuckle is a big bonus. Kudos to the constructor.
@The X-Phile 1) it's Monet's Luncheon, not Manet's l'herbe 2) "STARVING ARTIST(S)" is very much in the language, and the clue says "punnily"; none of those three artists seemed to want for food. Anyway I got a kick out of it but as they say YMMV. Mañana será otro día.
Bit of a tangy Tuesday. Nice little surprise.
What a fun and pleasantly crunchy Tuesday puzzle! For a moment, I thought I'd need to resort to lookups, which I haven't done for an early week puzzle in a couple of years. I have heard of The Last Supper, and that answer was a gimme, but am unfamiliar with the other 2 paintings. I needed a lot of crossings to suss out the artists. Add to that some unique words (VESTRY, L-WORD, MUDRUN) and oblique clues (it may be found at the end of the line) and this is one of the better Tuesdays in recent memory. Thank you.
To AO Scott, The Canadian Grammys are called the Junos, so the singular Juno could have fit, but would certainly not have been as clever.
Nice Tuesday puzzle! LWORD stumped me, I was trying to make a word out of LW...etc
Very enjoyable Tuesday puzzle!
I will echo folks saying Brainstorm = Idea didn’t make sense. I do not argue that “brainstorm” is a noun, but rather that it does not fit the definition of “idea”. The noun of “brainstorm”, in my experience, has always been defined as a group trying to generate an idea, not the idea produced itself. I have never heard anyone say “I had a brainstorm” *in the same* way one would say “I had an idea”. If I said “I had a brainstorm” I would mean “I took time trying to generate an idea”. I ultimately understood the clue in its context and crossings, but that is my nit for the day. Regardless, a very fun Tuesday!
As I pointed out earlier, please see the first noun definition: <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brainstorm" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brainstorm</a>
When I was seventeen we went on a class trip to London and Paris and I saw the Louvre for the first time. I had read in a travel guide that the museum is massive and daunting and it’s impossible to see everything in a single visit, so I strapped myself in a supine position to a skateboard and hired a small team of locals to rocket me around the museum. After three fibula fractures we decided to stop but I’ll never forget looking up at the ceiling of the Louvre all day while being pushed around on my back. Couldn’t see any of the art on the walls in that position, but that ceiling was something else.