The toughest of all to deal with, I found, was actually CACTUS, whose clue required 'parry darts' as a Spoonerism for 'arid parts'.
GENERAL MOTORS It's the automotive equivalent of cellphone pocket dialing: in a wide variety of G.M. models, the OnStar telematics system is activating without any input from the driver, whose clue is an unexpected response from an OnStar operator.
I'm sorry for that, and I also apologize to Mr P. Coles, who was listed as VHC last month but whose clue was unaccountably omitted from the September slip.
I've come a long way from when Will used to change 75 percent of my clues, but I want to be mentioned in the same breath as Mike Shenk (editor of The Wall Street Journal puzzle), who Will gives as an example of someone whose cluing he barely has to touch.
And to complete this catalogue of embarrassing admissions, I must apologize to Mr R. J. Whale and Dr E. Young, whose VHC clues were unaccountably omitted from the last slip.
But when he needed a personal work space, Mr. Branagh retreated to a closetlike office he described as his "little hole of cubbyness," whose only clue to its occupant was a temporary sign on the door bearing the initials "K.
Jennings David Thewliss), the paparazzi snoop whose pictures offer clues to the supernatural shenanigans, is appropriately disheveled.
Five constructors will take turns crafting the puzzles; they are crossword experts whose answers and clues exhibit the same qualities we aim for in all of our writing: wit, intelligence, a wide-ranging interest in the world, and a love of language.
They examined not just rocks and fossils but also living plants, whose genomes hold clues to when and where Amazonian flora diversified.
She used three types of English vocabulary tests in context: matching format whose context cannot be clues, matching format whose context can be clues, and supplying format (similar to Mori's kanji-only, kanji-and-context, and context conditions, respectively).
