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John Martin, The Last Judgment
I recommend solving crossword puzzles as a pleasant alternative to thinking about the ultimate fate of self, earth, and universe.
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George William Joy, A Dinner of Herbs
Six spices may not make for much of a rack, but at least you can find the one you’re looking for, assuming it’s one of those six.
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Henry Courtney Selous, The Love Letter
Today’s painting illustrates the predicament described in the puzzle’s entry for 49 Across—if you interpret the girl’s expression as conveying a kind of numb incredulity.
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John Collier, Eve
Who says mortal terror is not an appropriate theme for a light-hearted crossword puzzle?
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Frederick Goodall, Puritan and Cavalier
I admit it—I consulted a thesaurus.
If, like me, you dislike cross-referenced crossword clues, I will assume your gratitude for my resolutely unrelated clues to 12 Down and 56 Across.
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John Collier, The Minx
Last week’s humility didn’t last. But as crossword favorite Lao-Tse says somewhere (or was it Lao-Tzu?), true humility is proven by nothing so clearly as unmerited and unshakable self-regard.
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John Collier, Lady Godiva
After last week’s self-indulgence I try here to show a little humility.
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John Collier, A Glass of Wine with Caesar Borgia
A common crossword genre is the hidden-word puzzle: some word or set of related words is enclosed in common phrases, “stale,” for example, in “first alert” (clue: “Smoke alarm brand”). Fun stuff. But I prefer to enclose words in startling new phrases created not to hide those words, but to tax my ingenuity for clues that make sense of them, “amusing,” for example, in “hippopotamus in-group” (clue: “Semi-aquatic jungle clique”). It’s a matter of taste. In this puzzle I may have gone too far, however.
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Talbot Hughes, A Nun Embroidering Fabric
Repetition is comforting.
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William Holyoake, In the Front Row at the Opera
The rule-bound, rigidly symmetrical crossword form cries out, I think, for utter nonsense. This is a modest tribute to the nonsense poems of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll.
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Jerry Barrett, Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers
Only corporal punishment could improve this puzzle.
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Alfons Mucha, Dance (1898)
This puzzle, though admittedly half-witted in its way, is also semi-autobiographical: it's the second I ever made. The picture illustrates 9 Down.
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Bacchante (see 67 Across)
I post this puzzle, “It’s an Upset,” to celebrate the fact that my website is now “up.” Fitting, isn’t it? If you persevere in visiting my website, you will find that I am distinguished by nothing so much as my acute sense of the fitting—my command of nuance—my exquisite tact. Tell your friends!
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