George Dunlop Leslie, Sweet Peas
Now and then, in the major crossword venues, one finds a puzzle in which the theme answers consist of common two-word phrases that start with the same one or two letters. POISONPILL PINGPONG PARCELPOST POLOPONY—voilà. That theme took me just sixty seconds to produce. No doubt a competent programmer with access to a phrase database could make a computer produce sixty such puzzles in sixty seconds. And they would be just as much fun to solve as they were to make.
Why is such a theme acceptable? Does anyone know? I don’t get it. Anyway, today’s puzzle represents my effort to improve on it.
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