Thursday, August 5, 2010

Rex in effect

I will once again be sitting in for the noted crossword blogger Rex Parker this Sunday.

Rex is traveling this week (to a distant planet in superheroic style, judging from his avatar) so a rotating panel of brilliant guest writers is handling things in his absence.

It all builds to a underwhelming conclusion as yours truly grabs the steering wheel to guide you through the big puzzle in the Sunday New York Times.

Until then, crossword fans, keep your pencils sharp.

3 comments:

Elaine said...

Pencils? We don't need no stinking pencils! Ink.

Don't go to RexWorld these days but will make an exception since it's you! I enjoy the WordPlay blog, since I have to get my NYT puzzles via online subscription. (I quit taking a newspaper. Modern Times.)

Elaine said...

It's early on Sunday, and I just finished the puzzle, checked out the WordPlay blog (with a cool interview featuring DR. Klawitter), and read your run-down. Great job! Left an anony-ment because I just fell in love with the wee TAPIR. I always thought this was a singularly unattractive mammal. Who knew?

Ben said...

Thanks, Elaine.

I found a bunch of photos of ugly adult tapirs and cute baby tapirs. Apparently as they grow up the cuteness tapirs off.

I went with cute.