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Before I record each episode of “Book-ish,” the script is fact-checked by The Daily Princetonian’s intrepid copy editors. While editing the last episode on Sarah Bakewell’s “How to Live,” they marked two of the passages from the book I quoted to be checked. I was confused because, well, I quoted them! Why would they need to check those?
Science classes can be tough. But have they ever been so hard they made you sick? Or put you in a sling? Or even gave you a parasite? Allie Zhao asks those very questions in today’s puzzle. Read on for hints on tricky clues, thoughts on the theme, and comments from the constructor.
In June 1918, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote “First Fig,” a poem about doing too much.
We at the Puzzles team believe that Princeton’s two-day spring break was far too small, so we went ahead and took the whole week off last week. We’re back this Tuesday with another new constructor of the puzzle — Ava Milberg gives us an excellent theme for Women’s History Month that’ll have you singing three cheers for Old Nassau. Keep reading for hints on tricky clues, comments on the theme, and thoughts from the constructor.
Few inventions can truly be attributed to one person. We say Edison made the lightbulb, and we say Bell made the telephone, but in reality both of them were just at the end of a long line of cumulative innovations.
Happy Tuesday – it’s a new day to be publishing a crossword in the ‘Prince’ puzzles section, and we’ve got a new name in the byline. Ana Pranger is the first of our new crew of staffers to publish a puzzle, and we couldn’t be more excited to see what our section does going forward. From here forward, we’ll be publishing puzzles on Tuesdays and Fridays by our contributing constructors.
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It’s the beginning of March in Princeton, New Jersey. Packed snow from a succession of February storms remains sturdy and tired on the ground. It doesn’t seem to want to leave, although the snowmen have long since collapsed into heaps of mush.
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Have you ever thought, in a math class, “Why on Earth do I need to know this? I have a calculator in my pocket!” Or maybe, “There is no way I will ever need to know the derivative of the natural logarithm of x-squared. Math is useless.” (The derivative is two over x, by the way.)
The latest Friday crossword comes to us courtesy of Gabe Robare and features a quote from MLK, many clever clues, and a wide selection of trivia.
In the summer before my senior year of high school, I read my first Jane Austen novel, Emma. And I hated it. But this past winter, I read it again, wanting to give it another chance. And I loved it. In this episode, I’ll tell you why.
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The first puzzle in the new ‘Prince’ Puzzles section is a brisk and fun solve from Owen Travis. There are long stacks in all four corners and a smooth center. And the theme is more relevant every day. See below for help on some of the more difficult clues, more on the theme of the puzzle, and a link to the answer key.
It is a wet and windy evening in Atlanta, Ga., on April 8, 1974, a few minutes after 8 p.m. At Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium, there are no outs in the fourth inning of a 3–1 game, with the Los Angeles Dodgers leading the hometown Braves. Hank Aaron steps up to the plate, nonchalantly swinging his bat like a fly swatter in front of him.
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In his first season in 2019, Nadir Lewis ’23 started every game in center field for the Tigers, batting .266 and leading the team in runs, walks, and stolen bases. He started every game again in 2020 — but there were only seven to be played before the season was cancelled.