[Ads-l] Ben's debut!

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 3 17:49:07 UTC 2020


Thanks, Larry! After people have solved the puzzle, they can head on over
to the New York Times Wordplay blog to read my constructor's notes (where I
slip in some IPA!).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/crosswords/daily-puzzle-2020-05-03.html

--bgz

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:33 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> This weekend's big Sunday puzzle, "Shifting Sounds", was constructed "By
> Ben Zimmer and Brendan Emmett Quigley".  Yes, our Ben Zimmer!  At a glance,
> it looks very linguistically relevant (of all things). For example (no
> spoiler solutions):
>
> 110 Down: It distinguishes meaning in many East Asian languages [4 letters]
>
> Others are trickier...
>
> LH
>

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