I’ll be upfront and share that this quote is from a recent piece in “The Atlantic”, the author of which won’t be widely known to most solvers. I don’t think that will interfere with the solve though. And I hope the quote resonates for some of you as it did for me.
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Loved the quote and the puzzle! (I made ample use of checks as usual.)
This one felt quite a bit bigger. Is there a way to make the puzzle render full-screen? (I tried just zooming in Safari and it was only partly helpful.)
FYI, I think the clue for DD should have a “(2 wds)” tag.
Thank you!
Thanks so much for solving, Sendhil! I’ve made a correction to the clue for DD. I’ll investigate my options for presenting a full screen version of the puzzle.
I love the quote! As you thought, I’d never heard of the author. He looks like an interesting guy. I liked the two “spiral” clues and thought the clue in V was excellent. A couple of questions: did you clue S that way to throw solvers off? (I spent a bit of time trying to see how “Paul” could fit.) And should the clue for JJ indicate an abbreviation? I don’t know if the cluing rules for Acrostics are more like crosswords or cryptic puzzles. (In cryptics, there’s usually no indicator that a short form of a word is being used.)
Thanks, Jeff! The article from which the quote is taken is excellent (as is pretty much everything in The Atlantic). I clued S that way because I learned, in my clueing research, that that particular spelling is British; the American spelling has another letter. I’ve added a clarifier to the clue for JJ.
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