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Puzzle #85: Animal Crackers (with Norah Sharpe!)

Posted on March 17, 2023March 14, 2023 By Alex 1 Comment on Puzzle #85: Animal Crackers (with Norah Sharpe!)

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Marx Brothers puzzle #6, once again featuring one of my absolute favorite collaborators, Shannon Rapp, who you may know as Norah Sharpe. The theme here is all Shannon’s, as is the theme density she was able to wrangle into this one. Too many good clues of hers to point out, but I really enjoyed 5D, 27D, and 39D. She has this to say:

When Alex put out the call for Marx Brothers collabs way back in December, I immediately jumped on this one because it screamed theme potential to me. We talked over a few iterations and ultimately landed on one that put Alex’s coding skills to work. He made it super easy to cram in a ton of theme content as you’ll see. It’s always a blast making puzzles with Alex – please appreciate his clues at 42A, 31D, and 55D. Thanks for solving!

I also have a cryptic (gasp) with Will Eisenberg in today’s Lemonade Disco suite – please go check that out too!

I would also note that Norah and Will collaborated on a puzzle to These Puzzl3s Fund Abortion, which is now available for presale. Preorder puzzles will be sent March 28. Get on board!

Thanks go out to Gritz to testing this one for us. Hey, have you heard of Daily Crossword Links? You should check it out.

Enjoy the solve!

Collabs, Crosswords, Marx Brothers, Puzzles Tags:Norah Sharpe, Shannon Rapp

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  1. norah says:
    March 19, 2023 at 1:10 am

    ALEX! No, YOU! 😍

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