


PERFECTLY CLEAR CROSSWORD PATCH
*Upon a moment’s reflection, it is hilarious that the clue on that original Saturday is really quite straightforward, and the clue on today’s crystal-clear unobscured Tuesday is literally “ See blurb.”ĩA: “Sore spot” is usually used in my world to refer to a patch of psyche that’s raw from neuroses rubbing one another and chafing, but there’s also such a thing as physical damage and inflammation. Well, in your face, brother-in-law! T.G.I.T.! Jacobs’s debut in a Tuesday puzzle, the quotation was true, and he was, according to family (although not blood): So that’s your 1A.Īnd until today, which marks Mr. JACOBS, who is known for a ton of this type of human guinea pig “self-experimental” writing (getting in shape, living by the Bible, that kind of stuff). _, author of the best seller “The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World.” I will tell you the clue The Times originally used for this writer, at 1D on a Saturday*, the one that started this whole process: “A. If you really don’t want spoilers, obviously, move along at this point. Gordon’s noodle while he was out with his labradoodle. The podcast is “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know,” a sort of reverse reboot of “What’s My Line?” where a panel debunks or learns new things from guest contestants, and the writer in question isn’t even a regular, it was just a unique cosmic moment in time. Gordon in his note, the only way (I think) that any of this would add up is if you’d heard this writer relay this story on one podcast episode. And did I mention that this quotation isn’t specifically even from one of his or her books? Why, with that information as well as a monocle, we shall solve this in the time it takes to boil an egg, eh, what? And he has a hypercritical brother-in-law. This tells you we’re looking for a quotation from a best-selling writer whose name, at some point in our history, has appeared in a Times puzzle. There is an explainer paragraph at the top of the puzzle in print (and, I’m told, in the notepad online). If you knew all the answers to all the clues every time, where would the fun be? Today’s Theme The other 99 percent of you, come sit over here by me and we will work it out. TUESDAY PUZZLE - Today Peter Gordon presents a very specific sort of puzzle - if your knowledge of a couple of extremely particular topics matches his, you’re going to roll right through it.
