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Quips have to be amazingly zingy and/or contain an element that helps make them memorable. It wasn't great to have so many add-a-preposition entries in COOL TO, STICK TO, AS TO, LIT OUT, but I sure appreciate mid-length bonuses like SURE DO. Bonuses like SAWHORSE and TAKE FLAK also added color while remaining accessible. Rob did solid work there, with no oddballs making the puzzle intractable. It's important for quote puzzles to have smooth fill since solvers can essentially only use Down clues. That's worse than Rob's solution, but you get the idea of where brainstorming might head. The best I could come up with - after an hour's worth of banging my head! - involved much different wording: Since this isn't an exact quote that must be duplicated letter by letter, perhaps a different wording could have worked. It's not ideal, though, since those tiny 3-letter words make it feel fragmented. It can be tricky to split out quips into symmetrical lengths, and the 15 / 3 / 15 / 3 / 15 does work. Ideally, I'd have replaced FRUTTI, KISSIN, and PENH but was glad to include Agatha Christie, teenaged-me's favorite author. It was hard to include exciting longer fill, though I like SAWHORSE, TAKE FLAK, LIT OUT, SURE DO, COOL TO. You might also be interested in 3 Letter Words. Word Finder by WordTips gives you a list of words ordered by their word game points of your choice. This list will help you to find the top scoring words to beat the opponent. Also to my awesome brother Simon, 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee/my favorite singer/songwriter: If you'd like to collaborate on a New York Times celebrity puzzle, JLMK! Twitter theme quip isn't original to me, though I feel I made it my own with the 15/3/15/3/15 layout and the intriguing solitary rebus. 3 Letter Words with A are often very useful for word games like Scrabble and Words with Friends. Both were alive when I submitted my first puzzle but have since passed away. I dedicate this puzzle to my parents who would have been very excited today. Having no knowledge of the puzzle, Marla intuitively guided me to the very thing I had to do to successfully revise! After receiving a conditional acceptance pending extensive revisions, I chatted with my friend, psychic Marla Frees, who helped me overcome severe "reviser's block".

This might also be the first puzzle completed with psychic help. Fourteen years and 30ish rejections later, on June 16, 2021, I opened an email from the Times including the glorious words "we are delighted to officially say YES!" Weeping may have ensued. I may be the Person Who Took the Longest to Get an NYT Puzzle Accepted. The list includes such unusual terms as dzo (a crossbreed of a cow and a yak), lu x (a unit of illumination), and saz(a kind of lute).Hello, Crossworld! I teach English at Barrington (IL) High School. Here are all forty-six three-letter words containing x or z, in alphabetical order.

If challenged to think of three-letter words containing x or z, common words like box, six, zip, and zoo would doubtless come to mind - but you probably wouldn’t be able to come up with forty-six answers.

This is a list that may come in handy when playing word games, or completing a crossword.