![]() Love the audacity of a debut grid packed with six themers. ![]() I especially appreciated the multi-syllabic names, "Is there" punned upon as "Esther." "I want" as "Yvonne" was more of a stretch, but good puns are supposed to bad. My favorite was Sadie MAGIC WORD - "say the MAGIC WORD" - but the rest of them worked pretty well for me, too. I enjoyed the puns, a surprise given that I'm sick of knock knock jokes (my two-year old constantly says "Interrupting cow MOO!"). One theme answer that didn't work for Will that I thought was funny was the classic, "Hutch who?" with the response being "gesundheit." He wanted the responses to be complete sentences, which is the better idea, but I shed a few tears letting "gesundheit" go.ĭebut! And such a fun idea, a take on knock knock jokes. I thought combining knock-knock jokes with a crossword would make an interesting hybrid. We would spend time before bed making different ones up. This particular theme came to me as I recalled days when my son was very young, and he went through a period when he was delighted with "Knock Knock" jokes. This was the sixth puzzle I had submitted for Will's consideration so you can see I'm a slow learner. Will was incredibly patient with me as I worked through refining the theme answers and the fill. My puzzle went through three revisions over the course of a year. Ann Arbor constructors James Tuttle and Peter Collins are local celebrities in my mind. I recently had my first play, "Clutter," produced at Theatre Nova in Ann Arbor, and I am the artistic director of a small theatre company called Pencilpoint Theatreworks here in Ypsilanti. I have had some mystery short stories published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, where I was once the managing editor many, many years ago. Some bio: I am a newspaper editor in Detroit.
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