Special thank you to my readers in your beautiful notes about closing week’s crossword. My spouse and I each very much preferred your sort phrases welcoming our son Elliot to the sector. (*29*) can say if he’ll turn out to be a solver or a constructor like his dad, however I’m already giddy with anticipation for the day that I will be able to display him that puzzle — my little reward to him.
Today’s Halloween puzzle is a rerun from nearly precisely 5 years in the past. I had began to construct a brand new Halloween puzzle a few weeks in the past … however as I used to be running at the grid, my spouse and I came upon our son can be arriving very quickly — a lot previous than our anticipated due date. So I had to shelve the brand new puzzle and produce again a Halloween puzzle from the previous.
If this used to be your first time fixing this puzzle, I am hoping you loved its methods; and if it used to be your 2nd time, I am hoping you loved the go back and forth down reminiscence lane. Next week’s puzzle would be the first of 9 visitor crosswords in The Washington Post. You’re in for a deal with.