Sarah Sinclair author page
2 puzzles by Sarah Sinclair
with Jeff Chen comments
See the 10 answer words debuted by Sarah Sinclair.
Sarah Sinclair is a Product Manager at Microsoft living in Seattle, WA. She loves puzzles and crafts of all kinds and has published a variety of NYT-themed knitting patterns on Ravelry!
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Things have changed since I was single. I thought being on half a dozen dating sites was extensive, but that would only cover a fraction of what's available today. I was on MATCH, and I get why TINDER is an appropriate name.
HINGE is … for swingers?
BUMBLE ... for those who don't know their way around the bedroom?
I'd be such a disaster as a single person today.
Even with the explosion of DATING APPs, it's amazing that there's a set of four that can be disguised at the start of phrases. I wouldn't have guessed this, what with so many titles like Plenty of Fish and Coffee Meets Bagel, along with intentional misspellings — what happened to the Es of Grindr and Happn?
Not only that but what others would work? I didn't dive in extensively for fear of what the Goog would serve me up, but only Clover would have worked, and that's not nearly as popular as the other four. A beautifully tight theme quartet.
MATCH POINT and BUMBLEBEES are great entries. TINDER DRY wasn't as fun as TINDER BOX, especially given today's accelerating wildfire issues. Although, there might have been a crossworld furor about the latter in a dating theme ... don't look it up on Urban Dictionary. Ahem.
I'm digging the recent trend of spicier Monday clues. EIEIO missing from TH_ L_TTL_ K_DS' S_NG! GHOST used in a modern sense — and relevant to the dating world. A great piece of trivia in scallops having up to 200 EYEs. This is not a puzzle from way back in my days of being single.
Such a solid debut puzzle. It's hard to dream up a fresh-feeling theme, and it's well-executed, especially considering the gridding difficulties imposed by the central nine-letter entry.