(I completely forgot to read comments on clues from yesterday’s puzzle! That was not intentional—I even had the comments prepared. Like I said, I was not feeling 100% today. Apologies!) Today’s Sunday crossword featured a very clever and well-explored linguistic theme that helped me shortcut my way to a few answers—always appreciated! Join me for the solve. – If you’d like to directly support this channel, consider signing up to my Patreon to receive exclusive bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/dailysolve
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Constructor Derrick Niederman’s NYTimes crossword oeuvre consists of a total of 13 Sunday puzzles over a period of 39 years. So I guess we’ll have to wait three years for his next one.
Great solve! You didn't go back to 70S, "One who gave us all a lift?", to which the answer was OTIS, Otis being a well-known elevator company which was founded in 1853. I'm surprised you didn't get this one, as I'm fairly sure it's come up a few times before and you usually get it straight away!
Taos, New Mexico is very famous as an art colony. Pronounced tah-ōse, not to rhyme with "douse."
It is the Baltimore Orioles!
FIFA is a French/English acronym for Fédération Internationale de Football Association
62D AFC stands for American Football Conference; the other NFL conference is the NFC or National Football Conference
105D Jim McKay was the longtime host of ABC’s Wide World of Sports (“The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat”) that was broadcast for many years on Saturday afternoons. It gave exposure to many different sports not usually seen on TV. Two examples I remember are cliff diving from Mexico and Demolition Derby from Islip NY. The latter featured a collection of junk cars going around a figure 8 track with goal being to demolish the other cars and be the last car running. McKay also hosted ABC’s Olympics coverage when ABC had the US rights. Most notably, McKay covered the hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.
Disappointingly, Al Roker’s record setting 34 hour broadcast was not to cover a certain weather event. He did it because he wanted to set a Guinness record. He now holds several trivial works records such as “fastest time to report a weather forecast from all 50 US states” and “most people in a virtual sandwich-making relay”, whatever that means.
Norman Lear is still alive at 100!
I'm pretty sure this puzzle has a mistake: 49D "Northernmost N.B.A. city, on scoreboards" should be POR for Portland, as it's around 2 degrees more north than Toronto
So many Greek mythos related ones in this, i love it
I think Minecraft is a friendly crossword clue reference because, if the clue relates to something that people associate with mines like ORE or TNT, people will get it with a cross or two even if they haven't played the game.
I don't know if this was intentional or if I am just seeing things, but today's grid resembles some magnetic field lines. These are the lines where magnetic fields, for example, in a magnet, attract or repel charged particles. It seems appropriate for today's theme!
Taos is a city in New Mexico that has an artsy reputation.