Sunday, January 10, 2021
Jean & Mike Do The New York Times Crossword
English - January 11, 2021 02:00 - 12 minutes - 8.47 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsHobbies Leisure Education Language Learning crosswords word play fun Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Yesterday we ran into ANUBIS, and today we have 40A, Supreme Egyptian deity, AMONRA -- so tomorrow's forecast is for OSIRIS, with a chance of ISIS later in the week. Speaking of AMONRA, apparently there are multiple spellings -- AMONRA, AMENRA and AMUNRA are all acceptable variants. That caused Mike no end of grief, as it naticked with 36D, Base of an arch, which he took to be an arcane architectural term, SELE, rather than, as Jean readily discovered, SOLE.
There were some interesting names in the grid today -- 77, _________ Schomburg, Harlem Renaissance figure, ARTURO, 87A, First ruler of a united Hawaii, KINGKAMEHAMEHA, and 17D, Guy who hosts "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives", FIERI.
We give today's crossword a 4 squares on the JAMCR scale.
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