No more the easy, straightforward cluing of Monday and Tuesday; few are the fill-in-the-blank clues that we can recall immediately. Wednesday is a warm-up for the tricks of Thursday and the mind games of Friday and Saturday. Start with what you know — there will always be something that you know — and use those crossings. Mary Lou Guizzo and Erik Agard (the reigning American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion) have collaborated on a midweek puzzle that will definitely give you a workout and help you climb over that hump. Tricky Clues15A: Maybe Herman Melville’s “OMOO” wasn’t his best known novel, but it has been in the New York Times Crossword a total of 358 times and it has been clued as “‘Typee’ sequel” approximately 10 times, so it pays to familiarize yourself with it.

Source: New York Times March 06, 2019 03:00 UTC