I wouldn’t call this very clever theme buried, exactly, but it’s a series of seven two-word entries that made me suspect a few other compound words that are scattered around.
What is LATERAL thinking? Something something box. I got misdirected by “10 to 10, say,” which I figured had to be “time” not TIED, and “Zoom” - I had “call,” not TEAR, and for a moment thought the constructors had intuited my frequent inner sobs during the sixth online meeting of the day.ġA: Talk about setting a tone, guys! Dust off your “Odyssey,” or maybe your “Ulysses” (in which CIRCE ran a brothel).ġ3D: Hey, welcome to the Times puzzle, JABOUKIE Young-White! As young as he is, I’m surprised that it took this long, and I imagine his style of social commentary (ordering “ boycott Amazon” signs from Amazon) has no chance of becoming irrelevant any time soon.Ĥ2D: I really liked “bleats” here, a much cuter option for a different meaning of “little sounds.” This is probably an intentional misdirect for the geographical meaning of “sounds,” which apparently comes from the Proto-Germanic for “swim,” as we may do in INLETS.Ĥ8D: Independent of the theme, there is a smattering of corporate lingo in this puzzle, which sometimes befuddles me. There’s a lot of sparkle in this grid, some of it pretty goofy (who didn’t love RELAY RACE?). All in all, a good challenge that deals with the acquisitive and rewards the inquisitive (as always, forgive me). Nediger is to blame for the cascade of interesting fill, some of which I incorrectly attributed to the theme.
Shlakman is somewhat the senior of the two (by five decades, give or take) and came up with the business-y theme, probably from all those years of watching every company in our frenetic capitalist society try to beat or join every other company. SUNDAY PUZZLE - This is a really neat, busy grid by a couple of wags: Will Nediger, a familiar name, constructs professionally, and Dick Shlakman, who had a couple of puzzles some years ago (including a Sunday), is a retired lawyer and corporate executive.
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