Neat bit of trivia: the Shortz era began with a great tribute to ROY G. Was in awe that Michael could get eight theme entries into a Monday! (I warned him that regardless of the difficulty WE thought this was, it would be slotted for a Monday!) That necessitated many iterations, to get the fill "simple." How nice at the end of all this to see a rainbow! For ?APPY, we went back and forth with HAPPY, NAPPY, SAPPY, YAPPY, and settled on HAPPY as the best word for early week.įWIW, we think the final version contains a minimum of difficult entries. We considered ROYGBIV as the reveal ("Mnemonic for remembering a list of seven of which the starred entries all contain elements") but went back to RAINBOW. In a lengthy exchange (70) of emails, we honed the puzzle till we got something we felt worth submitting. I contacted Andrea Carla Michaels because I felt I needed help with devising an early-week puzzle from someone who has a lot of experience with them. My efforts were an inconsistent mix of easy and difficult entries and clues. I had had four unthemed puzzles published in the NYT by this time, but, although I've had many themed puzzles published, none in the NYT. I revisited the idea and came up with something I could make work by making two of the entries vertical.
I concluded it couldn't be done, but then I was trying to fit all entries horizontally. I looked at the puzzle from time to time, but couldn't manage to get eight entries into one puzzle.
#COWPOKES SWEETIE CROSSWORD CLUE PLUS#
I tried unsuccessfully to fit seven entries that had all the colors of the rainbow, plus RAINBOW as the reveal. The idea for the puzzle first came to me in 2007.
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