Before that, no real struggles-just a steady Saturday stroll. After that, completely unknown ABRAM ( 6D: Norm of "This Old House") and barely known and somehow unforgotten NYALA ( 5D: Spiral-horned antelope) finally came into view, and the corner resolved itself. Then I saw ARIZONA (though I thought it was YUMA, at first, not MESA). In fact, that whole corner didn't even begin to open up until I got the "Z" from ZEALOUSLY.
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I know who SELENA GOMEZ is (I have a 12-year-old daughter), but that movie title could've been any movie title. NW was hardest because 1A: "Another Cinderella Story" co-star, 2008 meant *nothing* to me. Plus, I generally try to keep EGG SACS as far away from my MOON PIEs as possible.
URI RES OLAFI and EXE kind of deflated my love for the NE and while the SW is better, it's a little generic. Its symmetrical counterpart is solid, if not quite as stunning. The toughest place-the place where I started, flailed, and ended (flailing)-was also the prettiest: the NW corner. This puzzle has its strong places and its weak places. But back to David-all this crossword stardom and he's still just a teenager. It's a wide-ranging, occasionally ridiculous conversation about puzzles, then and now. In fact, earlier this evening, I was editing a conversation between me and Matt Gaffney (about a Sunday puzzle from 1989) that will appear on the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project's website some time in the near future. He's got a puzzle in "Twenty Under Thirty"-the collection of puzzles by young constructors, for which I was a judge, which just came out (get it here)-he's got a puzzle in "American Red Crosswords"-the Hurricane Sandy benefit collection that I put together (get it here)-and his work on the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project (digitizing NYT puzzles going back to 1942) continues apace. I saw him in Brooklyn earlier this month, and he seems busy.
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