answer crossword quiz pop culture level 7

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Answer crossword quiz pop culture level 7 tv#

However, Sam did a nice job working in OIL GLUT under EMIRATI, PG FILMS, PORK RIB, ALL STAR, UV LIGHT. I imagine that few people will be tweeting #CARTAGE or #TAURINE. It's even more challenging when you have two stacks of 7s intersecting each other in all four corners. I'm always apprehensive about solving themelesses heavy on 7s because it's so hard to squeeze every last drop out of those mid-length slots.

Answer crossword quiz pop culture level 7 full#

It's a full freakin' pie jammed into a ginormous cake. It's not simply kind of a pie, kind of a cake. Where else but in America would you see at least one pie stuffed into a cake? Calling the PIECAKEN a 'hybrid,' though, doesn't do American gluttony justice.

Answer crossword quiz pop culture level 7 tv#

EMOTICON is a bit dated but still fun, MAILCHIMP is a funny brand name, TV ANTENNA as 'rabbit ears' was a nice throwback for us older generations.Īnd the PIECAKEN always makes me laugh. Well done in juicing out of the long slots. 'Questions of surprise' isn't as in-the-language as I'd like, and the telltale question mark puts you on alert, but it's still a fun misdirection toward things like 'but why?' or 'oh really?' Great start at 1-Across, POP QUIZ featuring the rare Q and Z, and such a great wordplay clue for it. I know many constructors are interested in highlighting flashy names and elements of modern pop culture - myself included - but this I highly recommend as well! They allowed me to kick back and have a blast with tricky, evocative and/or wordplay-inspired cluing. Or, if I needed to use something vowel-heavy, I'd resort to a new, cool-to-learn word like ÉCORCHÉ.įinally, I've brought this up before, but it was delightful to bake in common words like ETHICS, TAXING, ENERGY, PIGTAIL, PRICES, DATING / PETUNIA / INEXACT, etc.

So I hunched that if I, for instance, stacked the Scrabble-icious™ GROUCHY under POP QUIZ, it'd lead to fresher results with rarer letter combos. Answers like A LA MODE and ENTENTE traditionally appear in slots like 15-Across, to hold together zippier 7s on either side. To aspiring constructors taking notes: My strategy mostly revolved around using answers in the middle of the stacks that, well, you'd be surprised to find in the middle while solving. I'm not saying every last one of these is so sparkly (looking at you, GATEMAN and CARTAGE … and, believe me, it hurts to use DERE!), but hopefully nothing here makes you deep sigh and say, 'I'm so damn tired of seeing this in puzzles.'

A challenge to pack so much juice into each corner without relying on overfamiliar, pedestrian answers like ESTATES or TSETSES, or short gluey bits to hold the longer pizazz together. A challenge to make every last 6-, 7-, 8- and 9-letter answer fresh, peculiar and/or fun to clue. Whew, was this grid a challenge, all right. Give me a challenge! Force me to use my imagination to pull off a technical marvel! My solvers deserve a formidable-looking Saturday, which would then be extra satisfying to solve! I'd always been so interested in the 'How low can you go?' word count quests or asking myself, 'How wide open can I possibly make this corner while still retaining good fill?' This pattern of so many shorter interlocking 7s, a classic grid skeleton, never appealed much to me as a constructor. This puzzle today feels different, though. According to XWord Info, more than 60% of my standard, non-variety crossword publications have appeared on a Friday or Saturday. This isn't news to the real ones who've solved my stuff for years.