With a stronger revealer explaining why the trees were pushing through black squares, it could have grown into a redwood.
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In Paul Vidich’s elegant new spy novel, The Matchmaker, an American translator living in Berlin grapples with some. That triplet almost feels theme-related, with each of today's trees looking art deco-obelisk-esque … and most of them being cut?Īlthough there's a ton of gluey sap dripping around the trees, I appreciated Kathryn's effort to spread it all around, so that no one region fossilized. Anne Simpson Thought She Knew Her Husband. Great work to thread in strong bonuses like OBELISK, ART DECO, CREW CUT. Nine themers, yikes! Every region of the puzzle has to work with at least two themers, and most subsections are saddled with three. From a bear attack in Siberia (Nastassja Martin’s In the Eye of the Wild) to a coup in Guatemala (Mario Vargas Llosa’s Harsh Times.
That's not a perfect revealer, but brainstorming would have been so much fun. There are some wonderful finds, notably SYCAM / ORE in AERO / MACYS, and including something like "chopping wood" would have given it raison d'etre. I enjoyed the kookiness of UP A TREE = trees running upward through columns, but I would have loved some sort of revealer to help explain that.
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