With five longish themers, it's great that Tracy managed to work in some long fill. The slow process of increasing my pop music knowledge base chugs along. AGAINST THE WIND took me most of the crossings to get, but after Googling it, I realized I ought to have known it. Song title masquerading as WEATHER FORECASTs, fun! Even being an idiot when it comes to pop music, I easily recognized three of the four songs by title, a good mark for a Tuesday puzzle. Now, it's time to go outside, weed my garden, and enjoy "1966 Beatles hit". However, like many other new constructors have stated in their notes, I am now focusing on improving the fill and striving for less crosswordese in my future puzzles.
For me as a constructor and a solver, it is all about the theme. Also, Will kept almost 60% of my clues as submitted, which is also very pleasing. I was a bit surprised to see that my original cluing concept of weather related to a city/state was dropped in the final edited version, but I am still happy with the theme entries clued as song hits from various years. The song title version was accepted in August 2012.
#1987 buster poindexter hit crossword movie#
So, I went back to my notes and eventually submitted two different theme concepts to Will - one with movie titles and the other with song titles, clued as the Weather Forecast (revealer) for a specific city/state. 2012, Will responded that he liked the concept in principle but did not think that the movie "A MIGHTY WIND" was well enough known (but worked for Chicago, IL) and "MERCURY RISING" (for Miami, FL) could apply to any place that got really hot and therefore, not as good a candidate for a theme entry. "THE BIG CHILL" was clued as "TROPIC THUNDER" and so on. I initially submitted this puzzle back in November 2011 with 4 movie titles that each described the weather for a particular U.S. For someone like me who watches "The Weather Channel" every single day and follows three other forecasters on Facebook, it was on my "radar" to construct a weather-related puzzle. and thankfully, a lot of gorgeous, sunny days as well. In 25 years of business, we have worked through every imaginable type of weather condition including Nor'easters, tropical storms, blizzards, ice, freezing rain, hail, droughts, wind, thunderstorms, etc. My husband and I own a lawn/landscaping company and monitoring the weather is an obsession with us as our livelihood revolves around working in the great outdoors.
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