Juliet Corless author page
1 puzzle by Juliet Corless
with Jim Horne comments
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Jim here, sitting in for Jeff Chen, who chooses to go to the moon, not because it's easy, but because it's hard.
Does today's grid look weird to you? Editors can and do, flip rows and columns on submitted crosswords. Which grid looks better?
The one on the right probably looks more normal. We're used to seeing long answers going Across. Sometimes they go Down for thematic reasons. Today's themeless seems to have long answers on the left and right edges purely for aesthetics. It looks a little like DNA strands, right? (Both those previous links go to Elizabeth C. Gorski puzzles.)
This is the NYT debut for Juliet Corless, but you can tell this is not the work of a crossword novice. Several of her other puzzles are at The Daily Princetonian.
I'm always happy to see Phillipa SOO in a puzzle, although that will be tough if you're not a Hamilnerd. HOREB was the mountain where Moses got the tablets with the Ten Commandments written by the hand of God. Too bad he broke them. The tablets, I mean. Maybe the commandments, too, I'm not sure. NCAA v Alston was a fight about the National Collegiate Athletic Association profiting from the namesakes and likenesses of college athletes. That's an antitrust violation, according to The Supremes.
Auntie Em and Uncle Henry are bit roles from a 1939 MGM movie musical. I wonder what films made today will be seen as iconic 83 years from now.
Congratulations, Ms. Corless. It's an Amazeballs crossword.