Letterplay – The New York Occasions

You will in all probability come throughout and remedy matter entries in random order, I definitely did. The primary I knew for certain was at 42-Throughout, “Beer Named For A Founding Father” which is SAM ADAMS and which I assumed was regular, innocuous filler. This clue is sort of near its paired entry, which is 52-Throughout: “DST begin time… or a clue for 42-Throughout.” Nothing caught my eye there. I got here to 90-Throughout, “Farm Boys Membership… or a 97-Throughout monitor,” and thought it needed to be “4-H.” If the enter hadn’t been 5 letters lengthy, I in all probability would have tried HHHH; as an alternative I sat down for some time and tried 97-Throughout, “Secretive”. Resulting from some letter crossings, I hit this entry: HUSH-HUSH. Oh, I spotted SILENCE — these 4 H’s should imply one thing.

As a result of location of OAHU, QUIT and JACUZZI, I found 27-Throughout under. “Customer of an internet site, in analytical jargon”, is SINGLE USER. His companion trace is at 71-Throughout, “23 in a collection…or a touch for 27-Throughout”. We’re coping with “Letterplay”, so the collection that involves thoughts is of course alphabetic, however what does “W” (the letter 23) has to do with the entry in 27-Throughout? Aha: SINGLE USER accommodates two U or one DOUBLE U.

DOUBLE U had me tuned in on learn how to reply 68-Throughout: “Most credit standing… or a touch for 25-Throughout.” That credit standing (for company bonds) is AAA, or TRIPLE A. What might that should do with 25-Throughout, “Not true”? Thanks crosses! This one made sense solely once I reversed it; a line that’s “not true” or straight, could possibly be AT Anorth AANGLE. There are your TRIPLE A’s.

So what about 90-Throughout? “Quadruple” doesn’t match; the doorway is FOUR H. And what about 52-Throughout, that “daylight saving time begin time…”? That is TWO AM, referring to the TWO “AM” in SAM ADAMs.

There are two extra examples, a wonderful pair of puns at 89 and 115 large and a variation at 54 and 118 large, which mark the bounds of the quantity sequence. (Their virtually a sequence, anyway. It’s lacking “one” or “single” and as an alternative says ZERO — TWO — DOUBLE — TRIPLE — FOUR — FIVE.) That ZERO entry is a knockout. 54-Throughout, “Weightlessness… or a touch of 118-Throughout”, is ZERO G. 118-Throughout is “The decision of the baseball announcer on a house run.” What’s that they are saying? “Is he out of right here?” On this case, it is a extra suspenseful assertion that, with ZERO G, says OIN OIN ONE.

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