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Katie Hoody author page
3 puzzles by Katie Hoody
with Jim Horne comments
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This is the NYT debut for Ms. Hoody, but she has been published elsewhere.
Two triple-stacks are tough even for seasoned constructors, and the spanners here are good, but there's a cost. This grid has eleven words Jeff Chen has scored at 25, a rating he calls "hard to defend as fine": AGS, BYO, CEES, DESE, DET, ENDO, IMED, IRL, RUS, SYN, and UGHS. Most puzzles have one or two. Whether a high number of iffy words balances out the fun of the stacks is a matter of considerable debate amongst the crossword cognoscenti.
None of those words are puzzle-killers by themselves. If you click the links above, you'll see that each has been used many times.