12/19/2023 0 Comments Leave slack jawed crossword clue![]() ![]() Luckily for me, the first letter of the alphabet is "A." Clue, solved. I had BE-CO- and decided to run the alphabet for the first missing letter. I was thinking much higher, like up in the sky. I flew through this pretty quickly except for in the west, where I couldn't get the circular phrase to meet up until I (finally) figured out BEACON (25D: High light?). CUBANO is nice and timely, given the recent presidential visit to Cuba ( 29D: Castro, por ejemplo). Fill is not very interesting, but it's not terrible either. The theme is self-explanatory and you liked it or you didn't. So spectacular technical incompetence overshadows the damn puzzle. just seconds to minutes of bewilderment wondering where the damned error was (answer: nowhere). So no one got a Happy Pencil or congratulatory message or anything. the clues said DAZE / ZIP ( 21D: Flabbergast / 33A: Nada), but the "correct" grid said DALE / LIP ( see grid, above). ![]() There appears to have been a late change to the grid, but not a commensurate change to the *clues*, so. But apparently in the app and on the NYT site, as well as in the Across Lite (.puz, downloaded) version, the puzzle simply has a flat-out, no-doubt-about-it error. In the latter, an important element of the puzzle (the "AROUND" clue) simply wasn't there. But the concept is cute, and clever, in its way, and deserved better treatment than it got in the online and downloadable versions. This was joyless, largely for technical reasons, but also for circular reasoning being represented in a. ![]()
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