#Nytimes beehive movie#

Even though those corners are hardly constrained, see: DROITS, OISE. The hugeness of the NW / SE corners is something to be avoided in grid design.

A better usage of black squares, further separating these three themers, would have helped. Part of the issue is that the seven WONDERS do still interact somewhat - note how ONE HIT, BRA, and STEVIE start forcing things like AGIN, ITAN, and ABLARE. It ended up not smooth enough for my taste, what with AGIN (oof!), AMO, IT AN, KOR, OISE, DROITS, ABLARE. It'd have been great to place one set in the NW / SE corners, but I have a feeling that SEVEN WONDERS in the SE might not make that possible.Įven with good spacing, it's still a tough job to fill the grid. Good spacing of the seven themers + revealer. The clues felt a tiny bit off, but not enough to make me pause.

#Nytimes beehive movie#

That was the case for WOMAN, since there was no movie titled as such, but I breezed through BREAD, BRA, and DRUG. Speaking of wrong, I'd have liked for all the clues to feel jarringly incorrect. I worry that I'm going to get a lot of 'THIS CLUE IS WRONG WRONG WRONG YOU MORON' emails.

Not sure why the theme clues weren't starred this go-around. Some great choices, too - STEVIE (WONDER) with a quote about vision, (WONDER) WOMAN one of my favorite superheroes, (WONDER) PARENT (my wife) … Enough theme density to feel solid, but not enough to cause migraine-inducing constraints.

I liked today's execution better than the FOURTEEN / POINTS one.