![]() What other Ks are there? This mechanical engineer would have loved STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR but would have settled for KELVIN SCALE. ![]() Its reaction with water is tough to beat! THOUSAND and POTASSIUM aren't nearly as evocative as STRIKE-OUT, although chemists could make a case for POTASSIUM being more interesting than BLACK INK. Will Shortz doesn't often accept themes depending on single-word entries. I enjoyed learning why that is - I didn't realize how few colors begin with K, and there's a neat bit of trivia in that other colors were historically " keyed" to black. Have fun, K?Ĭurious that BLACK INK is marked with a K. I had a working crossword in a few hours and later reworked the grid to make it livelier. The theme entries aren't particularly long, so there was lots of room for flexibility in the rest of the grid. The last one to occur to me, thousand (especially in a dollar amount), is probably the most common.īy extending BLACK out to BLACK INK, I had two nine-letter and two eight-letter entries, which is just serendipity. I turned it over in my mind and quickly thought of black in a printer cartridge as another example. One day I thought of the fact that strikeout and potassium are both abbreviated with K, despite neither starting with K. On the other hand, today's puzzle came together quickly and easily. My recent Sunday puzzle took a long time in both conception and construction. Some I might work on for a long time, some almost write themselves, and the amount of time spent doesn't guarantee how good the eventual result is. With my debut puzzles appearing in the New York Times this year, some friends asked me, "How long does it take you to make a crossword?" In my limited experience, it's a normal question with an inexact answer, like how long it takes to write a song or draw a picture.
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