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Baked Scottish snack / THU 8-11-2022 / Like some church matters / 6 + 6
Constructor: David TuffsRelative difficulty: Medium, with an oversized grid (31:23)
THEME: TRANSLATED — Two word phrases, where the first word's translation is the second word
Theme answers:
Word of the Day: CABIN (The Ingalls' family's little house on the prairie, e.g.) —
Hey beautiful commenters, I'm back for Malaika MWednesday Part 2. (Known to fans as "Thursday.") People seemed to like my "zings" and "dings" yesterday and I liked them too!! So I'll keep that jargon. If you'd like to read this while listening to what I listened to as I wrote it, here is Renee Rapp singing with the voice of an absolute angel.
- [Faultless, biblically]-- WITHOUT SIN ("Sin" means "without" in Spanish)
- [Substitute on TV]-- GUEST HOST ("Host" means "guest" in Czech)
- [What's fatefully "cast" in a quote attributed to Julius Caesar]-- THE DIE ("Die" means "the" in German)
- [Bakery container]-- BREAD PAN ("Pan" means "bread" in Spanish)
- [Outspoken agitator]-- FIRE BRAND ("Brand" means "fire" in Dutch)
Word of the Day: CABIN (The Ingalls' family's little house on the prairie, e.g.) —
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, political theorist and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane is noted as one of the most influential advocates of the American libertarian movement.
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| Renee, I would die for you |
My first ding is ARTOO. Upon filling this in, I audibly screeched. I know it was audible because my younger sister was hanging out with me and she said "Is everything okay?" I hate this fill. I hate this fill so much that I feel the need to put in capital letters that I HATE THIS FILL. It is worse than APSE and OLIO which are at least words. It might even be worse than NFLERS. Are you there, Will Shortz? It's me, Malaika. Please stop using this entry.
Zing time: This theme!! Wow!!!!! I once played around with a theme where one word of an all-English phrase could be translated to a different (e.g. PAINSTAKING --> Stabbing someone with a baguette) but I quickly gave up. This is soooo much more impressive than that, because there's no randomness. Is this a well-known phenomenon, like Kangaroo Words? Does a list of these exist that everyone except me has heard of? Or did the constructor have to just.... think of them? I don't even know where I'd start.
Did y'all mind that there were several across answers (ENLISTEE, MATHLETE, WET NOSES, ADORABLE) that seemed long enough to be theme material? That didn't bother me at all because of how the NYT site will highlight the theme answers. (In fact, it was a zing.) But I know some people solve on paper or with other programs, and it can be hard to keep track of them.
My last ding was the sheer amount of things I don't know. But that's not a ding on whether the puzzle was good, that's just about whether the puzzle was a fun solve for me personally. Things like LAIC [[*steels self for the four commenters that will say "If you are going to solve crosswords, young lady, then you had better get used to the word LAIC!!!!"*]] and REDD and THEO and ODOWD and even BUGBEAR were totally new to me. Plus a tonnnn of words that I learned from puzzles, like ATARI and SOLI and MOT and ADES and ALITO. (And the aforementioned ARTOO.) It would have felt like a slog had I not been having so much fun with the theme.
Bullets:
- [High ball?] for ORB — Does "orb" mean space? Isn't orb just any sphere?
- [The Congressional Black Caucus, for one] for BLOC — I am not a podcast person, but I did really enjoy this podcast that was about (among many things) how the politician Mia Love initially joined the CBC to "infiltrate" it, but ultimately found friends and allies there.
- A TAWA is a cast iron skillet used to cook flatbreads like roti or paratha. I'd never heard this word-- even though my family is Indian, we call this a comal, which is the Spanish word for a similar type of pan.
- I would have loved for a block to be added at square 69 so we could get a BOXCAR Children clue. I must have read fifty of these books when I was younger.
P.S. Here is more free constructing rambling from me: When I lay out a grid, I try really, really hard to never have a patch of white that's 5x5 because it's surprisingly difficult to fill elegantly. Ryan McCarty makes grids with wide-open centers that he calls "chasms"-- I don't know that he has any type of quantitative criteria for what counts, but for me, when the center 5x5 section of a grid is all white, that's A Chasm™. It was so wild to see those sections in the corners of today's puzzle-- that means you have to fill that chunky space twice! (Those corners were the last two sections that I solved.)
P.P.S. [[ DON'T read this if you are going to be mean!! ]] This puzzle named seventeen males and three women. That's 15% women, which is on par with the percentage of NYT Thursday puzzles that have been published by women. These are numbers, please do not be mean to me for typing out some numbers.
Males: MATT Damon, MATT Bomer, Frankenstein, Threepio, ARTOO D2, Julius Caesar, BERT, Chris REDD, OTTO, H.P. Lovecraft, ALITO, Romeo, THEO Huxtable, Chris ODOWD, OPIE, Bernie Sanders, ROBIN
Women: Frida Kahlo, Juliet, Elizabeth Warren
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