There’s a new indie crossword site on the loose! Solving and constructing wunderkind Paolo Pasco just started Grids These Days, with new puzzles set to appear on Sundays. He’s very talented, so check it out. And when I said wunderkind, I mean it; he’s still in high school.
Let’s eat! Ten compound words have each been split into two pieces and redefined as though they’re food items:
The idea started from RAP SCALLIONS, but for some reason it took me several days just to find a matching 12-letter compound word that has the food at the end and has nothing to do with food in its regular form (even though “crackers” was sitting right here in this handy list). One favorite entry that I had to nix was CAPRICORN. Although you can split it to make a legitimate punny clue, it’s a bit of an outlier in that the pronunciation of CAPRI changes from “cap-ruh” in the compound word to “cap-ree” in the two-word phrase. The others don’t have that issue.
Heads-up: Next week’s puzzle is going to be a tough one. You’ve been warned.
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