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Keep it clean routine crossword clue how to#

For tips on how to get started, read our series, “ How to Make a Crossword Puzzle.” The Tipping PointĪlmost finished solving but need a bit more help? We’ve got you covered. The New York Times Crossword has an open submission system, and you can submit your puzzles online. Want to Submit Crosswords to The New York Times? Schlossberg for shepherding us safely back to our loved ones. We’ve gone from the STREET to the STEPS to the LANDING to the DOOR - the only thing that remains is to turn the knob and announce our arrival: HONEY, I’M HOME! Thank you to Mr. Soon, we STICK THE LANDING (“Finish a gymnastics routine perfectly”), and then we find ourselves at the DOOR - the BOY NEXT DOOR, to be exact (“Description of a wholesome, clean-cut guy”). Next along our travels we find ourselves at 23A: TWELVE STEPS (“Alcoholics Anonymous program”) - which takes us from STREET to STEPS. I admit that I am not familiar with Perry Mason or his colleagues, so I had to get this one from the crosses. We begin our journey at 17A with DELLA STREET (“Secretary of Perry Mason”). The revealer clue, at 63A, instructs you to identify a “Cry after navigating the last parts of the answers to this puzzle’s starred clues?” Let’s take a trip through the starred clues and see where we end up. Commit to memory that “Hawaii’s only native goose” is the NENE, because you are guaranteed to see it again - it has appeared in the New York Times Crossword over 300 times. And to wrap up, we have another bit of classic crossword glue. One who is unsuited to go swimming SKINNY-DIPS.Ħ1D. The “Is unsuited to go swimming, but does so anyway?” plays on the meaning of the word “unsuited,” which usually means “inappropriate” or “inapt,” but in this case means literally un-suited, or without a bathing suit. Most American solvers probably know that a “Busy month for accountants” is APRIL because that’s when the deadline to file taxes is, but this may not be common knowledge overseas.Ģ9D. I’m explaining this clue because sometimes non-American solvers ask for my help with things that are distinctly American. The “Element suggested phonetically by NOPQ STUV …” is ARGON because, in the clue’s alphabetical string, the R is gone. I didn’t understand this one until after completing my solve, and, when I figured it out, I groaned, though not necessarily in a bad way. I’m surprised to see such a tricky clue on a Monday. And so we meet again, classic crossword quirk of spelling out letters! The clue “Letter between oh and cue” is PEE, because “p” comes between “o” and “q” in the alphabet.ĥ7A. Let’s take a look at some of the tougher ones in this mostly breezy Monday puzzle.ĥ6A. They’re the real star of the show, in my view. However you approach this puzzle - at whatever speed, on whatever medium - I hope you take the time to admire the clever clues, either during or after the solve. This approach to puzzles is the norm for a lot of solvers, many of whom solve on paper (or by chiseling stone tablets, as some of our most old-fashioned solvers like to joke). I normally don’t solve a Monday puzzle so deliberately. Changing up the routine elevated my enjoyment of the puzzle - savoring the clues and entering the letters slowly, I was able to contemplate each entry as it went in. I solved this one at a leisurely pace while enjoying an evening cocktail, instead of at my normal morning time and at a pace fueled by coffee. MONDAY PUZZLE - Happy Monday, solvers! Today, we have a puzzle from the constructor Michael Schlossberg, who is making his fifth appearance in the New York Times Crossword.