It is a breezy Monday morning here in Toronto-land, which fits nicely with this fun little puzzle - easy as 1-2-3 (-4) and with a really fun little theme. Four Across clues are starred and their answers all start with numerals in increasing order:
- ONEUP
- TWOTIMING
- THREEMUSKETEERS
- FOURDIMENSIONAL
This in itself might have sufficed as a lukewarm Monday theme, but there's more to it, as the revealer clue tells us - "What the first word counts, with respect to the second word" - SYLLABLES - and so it is! Neat! A couple of things occur to me: First, I challenge the reader to come up with the next answer in the series! And also, it would have been a bonus if there'd been an extra theme clue, right at the top, whose answer was simply ZERO. Get it? How "meta" would that have been??
What else, what else .. As well as to toddlers, WAWA was also H20 to Helen Keller, if I'm remembering "The Miracle Worker" correctly. I liked the self-referential "Do a puzzle" (SOLVE) in the middle of the grid. Also we now know the factoid that the Inazawa Grand Bowl has 116 bowling LANEs.
I had my ANORAK out for the second and possibly final time of the year yesterday. Quite disturbing how winter's gone basically MIA this year...
Hope you are all enjoying the holi-day! "See" you tomorrow...
-philbo
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