Forget backyard gardens; I had your grid of fire escapes, my own urban picket fence.
It's one thing to have multiple 15-letter entries striping your grid.
What you see on your grid is a set of PENTOMINOES.
Brian Robinson Daingean, County Offaly Further north of Nottingham twitchell morphed into ginnell where you kept your grid (bicycle).
The British position, one officer explained, was "We should tell the Taliban, 'We're now part of your grid square' " — that is, in the Taliban's territory.
Note to would-be constructors: If you are going to have a suffix like ING in your grid, a very clever clue for it is Mr. Madison's "End for end?" Same for "Item of interest?" for the entry LOAN.
SUNDAY'S PUZZLE — Now, this is how you make a debut: Enlist the aid of a veteran constructor (Doug Peterson), cram your grid to the gills with lively, crunchy entries, and throw in a rebus to boot.
I'll tell you, the moment you feel like your grid is turning into gibberish, that's when you need to see if the constructor is asking you to change direction.
Race mods act like perk cards and attempt to add even more variation into individual events, which can be single-use boosts to your grid position or to car performance, or event-based parameters such as being locked to cockpit view.
I know what you're thinking; you're thinking that anyone with access to the Internet can find this stuff out, but you really have to be involved in the world at large to be able to put these things in as entries, as opposed to filling your grid with dull entries and then just looking them up to clue them.
I'm certainly not in a bad mood — I'm far too full of tryptophan-rich turkey for that — but here comes the cranky: I'm not sure why, when Roman numerals are not really a good thing to have in your grid unless you're absolutely stuck in mid-fill, Mr. Krozel felt it necessary to not only have a longish one (LXIII), but made us calculate one that takes place in the future.
