Free Association 57
Welcome back puzzle friends! I’d like to give a shout out to Matt Gritzmacher and Shannon Rapp (aka Norah Sharpe) for test-solving this puzzle and many many others on Grid Therapy. Matt runs the Daily Crossword Links service (now with Shannon’s assistance) which is an invaluable resource for you solvers out there who can’t get enough puzzles. Shannon is a puzzle maker with her own site and you can find her latest puzzle on Will Nedinger’s site, Bewilderingly.
This one features a few little vignettes from my life in the clues, and I hope you enjoy it! See you soon.
About The Author
Trent Evans
I'm a husband, father, psychologist, musician, and crossword constructor living in Catonsville, MD. My puzzles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and its syndicates, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrews McMeel Universal Syndicate, the American Values Club Crossword, Spyscape Crossword, The Crosswords Club, and crossword apps such as the Redstone Crossword Puzzle App on iOS and Google Play. All of that means I've been published in every newspaper in the United States and many others around the world. Here at Grid Therapy, I can show a bit more of myself than the major publishers can allow. I hope you enjoy your time here on the crossword couch! I'd love to hear from you if you have comments or suggestions. If you're interested in having a custom crossword puzzle created for your event or organization, email me at drtrent (at) gmail.com.
TIL that “86” can mean “to throw out.” I’d have thought “deep six,” but the Google machine tells me that 86 is OK too. When I was working summers as a diner waitress during college, we said “86” when some item ran out; it meant “take it off the menu.” As in “Eighty-six the meatloaf.” More proof that times change: TIL that #tbt means “Throwback Thursday,” which is apparently a holiday celebrated by Twitter users…?
Finally, Trent, did your grandma actually use the word “shits???” Far ahead of her time! My grandma would have sooner opened a vein.
She liberally sprinkled a variety of expletives into her daily conversation. Many of her phrases exceed the limits of even a Grid Therapy puzzle. If my other grandmother had even said ‘crap’ I would’ve fainted. These two women could not have been more different. 🙂
Hilarious! Family gatherings must have been…interesting!
Thanks. Nice puzzle. And once again you share some bits of yourself with your readers. It’s greatly appreciated; makes you more “human.” (And I think that you secretly DO refer to the ex as CHEETO! I know that I do!)