![]() For every Mona Lisa, there is a Fountain (by Duchamp). For every Oscars ceremony, there is an MTV Movie & TV Awards. I feel it's important to represent all aspects of any culture/subculture/realm-good, bad, neutral, highbrow, lowbrow, etc. but why JANE SIX-PACK? What kind of inclusivity image are you promoting here? Well, voice that I've created for narrative convenience, I'll tell you: I want to promote a balanced sense of inclusivity. (However, that trend has been changing as of late.) Okay, Dave, so you want to be gender inclusive. Solvers would likely have trouble solving the clue for JANE outright, but I reasoned that they could piece it together via her association with JOE.Īll of this practically begs the question: Why would you even include JANE in a puzzle if it's not that in-the-language? My main reason for starting with JANE was to promote inclusiveness, something that has historically been absent in most crosswords. JANE certainly isn’t used that frequently in our modern parlance, but I still think the entry is saved because of its similarity to the more common JOE SIX-PACK. Shortz at The New York Times, who responded with a polite "no, thanks," saying that JANE was a "puzzle killer." He added that it wasn't common enough for such a marquee entry and mentioned that the term, in quotes, only got 10,000 Google hits. I originally submitted this puzzle to Mr. Looking back at this puzzle, I can think of two particularly noteworthy mentionables, both of which revolve around the entry JANE SIX-PACK, the starting entry for this puzzle.įirst, the puzzle's history. . . . David saw the theme for what I think it is: not at all offensive but, rather, funny-in effect, an exercise in crossword sensory slapstick. Therefore, it is with great pleasure and respect that I praise David Steinberg for his open-mindedness for accepting this puzzle without holding his nose. Indeed, as I feared, this puzzle was deemed too offensive for another not-to-be-named crossword outlet. Of course, there is a decidedly mixed editorial tolerance for such themes, and I knew this one was going to trigger the apocryphal "breakfast test" for crosswords-the limitation of what falls within the boundaries of acceptable taste (or, in this case, smell). As a constructor who enjoys devising themes involving the addition of letters to existing words, the letters PU offered a way to use a two-letter insert leading to an unusual, and hopefully humorous, twist within the revealer. _ You Take song by The Police that was featured on Stranger Things: 2 wds.To some individuals, the theme of this puzzle might seem a bit off-putting-or, to be even more blunt, rather malodorous._-Pah-Pah (song from the 1960 musical Oliver!) crossword clue.Rock You Like a _ song by the Scorpions that was featured on Stranger Things crossword clue.Last letter of the alphabet crossword clue.Unknown source for short crossword clue.Baseball Hall of Famer _ Gehrig crossword clue.Actor Flynn who played Robin Hood crossword clue._ Hathaway The Witches star crossword clue.Song by Toto that was featured on Stranger Things crossword clue.Soldier or Queen for one crossword clue._ Z (group after millennials) crossword clue.Role for Zendaya in Euphoria crossword clue. ![]()
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