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Meander watch online9/19/2023 This entry surprised me, yet the clue is perfect. I usually think of a tinkly piano as an accompaniment to one of these, but in their heyday, apparently, “ full orchestras were as common in the greatest movie palaces as in opera houses,” and an organ was often the keyboard component.Ģ2D. That entry survived for some time in this corner of the grid, and it slowed me down until I got enough letters to piece together the right answer: SILENT MOVIE. The instrument in this clue, “Art form accompanied by a theater organ,” made me think of “choral music” right away, which fits. This forms a bit of a Natick with 33D and its vague clue, “Certain zebras” “males” or MARES both work.ĤD. The “First coed and racially integrated college in the South” is BEREA, a school in Kentucky. Maddeningly, this is one of those odd entries that appears often but I never remember. This isn’t the first time I’ve come up empty with this bit of higher education trivia. The answer, FOOTPADS, comes from the 1680s, when it seems you could barely walk anywhere, or even ride your horse, without being assaulted from all sides (which makes me think of Adam Ant springing from a tree).Ĥ1A. I had a quick guess for this clue, “Thieves who targeted pedestrians, in historic parlance” - it was “dodgers,” after the Dickens character, but it didn’t fit, and I drew a blank after that. There’s enough here to make this a true Saturday - misdirects, but also a generous amount of obscurity that I had to uncover letter by letter. The puzzle feels sophisticated for someone’s first crack at a themeless in particular, there are many nice teases in the cluing that exhibit a roguish sense of humor. Gard, whose byline was featured on a couple of themed Wall Street Journal crosswords this summer. SATURDAY PUZZLE - This grid is the New York Times debut for Robert S.
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