Guardian Cryptic 28451 Puck

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Thank you to Puck. Definitions are underlined in the clues.

Across

1. Drawer once containing office PC? (4,9)

JOHN CONSTABLE : JOHN(slang for a toilet, euphemistically called the “office”, as in “the usual offices”) + CONSTABLE(“Police Constable”, abbreviated to PC).

10. Removing contents of new Audi with long name (9)

UNLOADING : Anagram of(new) [AUDI plus(with) LONG + N(abbrev. for “name”)].

11. Reddish-brown start to autumn, in two different ways (5)

SEPIA : [SEP I](abbrev. for “September 1”, with the Roman numeral substitution, regarded as the start to the autumn season) plus(…, in two different ways) 1st letter of(start to) “autumn“.

12. Last to use vehicle’s a Welshman (5)

EVANS : Last letter of(Last to) “use” + VAN(a motor vehicle)‘S.

Defn: A Welsh surname.

13. Get gripes regularly: content’s missing from supermarket with most small branches (9)

TWIGGIEST : TWIG(get/to understand or realise something) + 1st, 3rd and 5th letters of(… regularly) “gripes” + all middle letters deleted from(content’s missing from) “supermarket“.

14. Type of spirit, sort served alongside wine (7)

KINDRED : KIND(sort/type) plus(served alongside) RED(red wine made from dark grapes and coloured by their skins).

Answer: …, as in “kindred spirit”.

16. All but first of fires put out leading to charge, if put out again (7)

REISSUE : Anagram of(… put out) last 4 letters of(All but first of) “fires” plus(leading to) SUE(to charge/to institute legal proceedings against someone).

18. Longing for women, if lust unbridled (7)

WISTFUL : W(abbrev. for “women”) + anagram of(… unbridled) IF LUST.

20. Finery of sporting gear worn by boxer (7)

REGALIA : Anagram of(sporting) GEAR containing(worn by …) ALI(Muhammad, late champion boxer).

21. Bloomers in game against Premier League side (9)

LARKSPURS : LARK(a game/something done for fun) plus(against) SPURS(short for Tottenham Hotspurs, a team/side in the English football Premier League).

23. Two characters going after 1 (not Turner) in shop (3,2)

RAT ON : RA(two letters/characters, abbrev. for “Royal Academician”, going after Constable’s/solution to 1 across’s name) + reversal of(… Turner) “not“.

Defn: To inform on someone.

24. Bottled water that’s still the first drunk by 12 mostly (5)

EVIAN : I(Roman numeral for 1/first) contained in(drunk by) “Evans”(solution to 12 across) minus its last letter(mostly).

25. With eight sides in National League heading for administration, first month has past (9)

OCTAGONAL : [NL(abbrev. for “National League”) containing(in …) 1st letter of(heading for) “administration“] placed after(first) [OCT(abbrev. for the month of October) plus(has) AGO(past/before the present time)].

26. Cyclist of note about to sell his pants (4,9)

MARK CAVENDISH : MARK(to note/to draw attention to) + CA(abbrev. for “circa”/about, in reference to years or periods of time) + VEND(to sell) + anagram of(… pants) HIS.

Defn:  Professional road racing ….

Down

2. What 1 used get mixed in a pot still, periodically (3,6)

OIL PAINTS : Anagram of(mixed) [IN A POT + 1st, 3rd and 5th letters of(…, periodically) “still“].

3. Approaches Arsenal about wanting a midfielder (5)

NEARS : Anagram of(… about) “Arsenal” minus(wanting) [ “a” + middle letter of(mid) “fielder“].

4. Didn’t include synonym for ‘hand’ in dictionary (7)

OMITTED : MITT(synonym for a person’s hand) contained in(in) OED(abbrev. for the Oxford English Dictionary).

5. Horse, one sporting queer ears more inclined to droop (7)

SAGGIER : [GG(gee-gee, a word for “horse” used by children or colloquially) +I(Roman numeral for “one”)] contained in(sporting) anagram of(queer) EARS.

6. Carrying out transfer of a second new player? (9)

ASSIGNING : A + S(abbrev. for “second” in time notation) + SIGNING(a new player/one who has just signed on to join a sporting term).

7. Left part of church in decline (5)

LAPSE : L(abbrev. for “left”) + APSE(a part of a church building, specifically a semi-circular recess).

8. Heroic twin brother of princess tormenting us with We Three Kings! Really? (4,9)

LUKE SKYWALKER : Anagram of(tormenting) [US plus(with) WE + K,K,K(three x abbrev. for “king”) + REALLY].

Defn: … in the Star Wars space opera.

9. Poet that’s written book on composer (7,6)

MATTHEW ARNOLD : MATTHEW(the first book of the New Testament in the Bible) placed above(on, in a down clue) ARNOLD(Malcolm, English composer).

15. Rubbish prison, said dissenting voice (9)

REFUSENIK : REFUSE(rubbish/garbage) + homophone of(…, said) “nick”(slang for “prison”).

17. Pils drunk by nurses? Shock horror, for some (5,4)

SPLIT ENDS : Anagram of(… drunk) PILS plus(by) TENDS(nurses/takes care of, say, patients).

Defn: …, problem with a shock of hair that is.

19. One searching smallest room, say, for complaint in the Observer (7)

LEUCOMA : Homophone of(…, say) [“loo-“(the toilet/euphemistically, the smallest room) “-comber”(one searching carefully and systematically) – cf. “beachcomber”, say].

Defn: A complaint/medical problem with the eye/one’s observer, viz. a white opacity in the cornea.

20. Prize crossword compiler needing oxygen intake after cycling (7)

ROSETTE : SETTER(a crossword compiler/one who puts together a crossword) with its last letter put first(… after cycling) containing(needing … intake) O(symbol for the chemical element, oxygen).

22. Educated girl eating a yoghurt-based side dish (5)

RAITA : RITA(the girl in the stage play and movie, “Educating Rita”) containing(eating) A.

23. Stiff, cold and unfeeling? Not at first (5)

RIGID : “frigid”(cold and unfeeling/unemotional) minus its 1st letter(Not at first).

74 comments on “Guardian Cryptic 28451 Puck”

  2. Great puzzle! Couldn’t parse SEPIA or RAT ON; loved REGALIA, MARK CAVENDISH, SPLIT ENDS (COD) and managed to get LUKE SKYWALKER from the anagram fodder although I know nothing about Star Wars. Many thanks to Puck and scchua.

  3. I enjoyed this, thanks Puck and scchua. It was neatly arranged with the names around the edge. I get the feeling that I’ve missed a theme but I’m sure others will put me right. Also had the feeling that 13ac was LOI for Puck!

  5. My problem with 9 down is that, when asked to name a composer, the first name to spring to mind is highly unlikely to be Arnold. And how can you be so sure it’s not Samuel Arnold, David Arnold or even Arnold Schoenberg?

  7. Great stuff. Same likes as drofle. TWIGGIEST seemed a strange word but all good fun.

    Ta Puck & scchua

  8. Hard start but loved it! Could not parse 23a so thank you scchua, and of course Puck. As for the gospels, thanks to fellow bloggers, clearly much cleverer than me,

  9. Yesssss!!!! I am so proud of myself. Not only did I see the gospel theme but also I saw it in time to use it!!!

    Great crossword.

    Thanks Puck and scchua.

  10. This is another one of those where I managed to fill in the grid (correctly!) then had to work backwards to parse a fair few of the clues. Three in particular I had trouble with…
    1a – NHO “office” for toilet, but got it easily enough from the rest of the clue
    20a – was trying to work out why LIA=”boxer”. Doh!
    23a – the misdirection was too clever for me

    I wonder how American solvers got on with 19d, since they have an alternative spelling that fits equally well with both the grid and the wordplay. Does it even matter? I’m not sure.

    SAGGIER was my COTD. Made me laugh.

    essexboy @1 – Of course! I did think it was funny to have four apparently random famous names round the outside. Completely failed to TWIG that they were linked.

  11. Playful Puck. Enjoyed 14a KINDRED, 18a WISTFUL, 17d SPLIT ENDS (as drofle mentioned @2) and 22d RAITA. I liked the symmetry of the gospel writers too.
    Thanks to Puck and scchua.

  12. Felt quite pleased with myself for finishing this in about 45 minutes but never noticed Matthew, Mark etc round the outside.

  13. Nice one. I only spotted the evangelical theme after finishing the puzzle, but hey ho.

    Some splendid clues and surfaces. Favourites were SEPIA, RAT ON and SPLIT ENDS.

    I have never seen Star Wars but I have enough familiarity with the names of the main characters to get 8dn from a few unusual crossing letters!

    Thanks to scchua and the púca.

  15. JerryG @3 – yes, I think you could be right about TWIGGIEST. It is a strange word, one of those you’ll probably never see outside a crossword. I got it back to front at first, thinking “most small branches” was part of the wordplay rather than the definition.

    Also forgot to say thanks to scchua and, of course, Puck.

  17. Lovely puzzle!

    I saw the JOHN, MARK MATTHEW combination just in time to supply LUKE for 8dn – I know nothing about Star Wars, either, but I recognised the name.

    I had ticks for SEPIA, TWIGGIEST, REGALIA, RAT ON, NEARS, OMITTED, SPLIT ENDS and ROSETTE.

    Many thanks to Puck for the fun and scchua for the blog.

    And there’s more fun to be had from Buccaneer in the FT. 😉

  19. Yes. My views chime with almost all those expressed above. Lovely puzzle. Saw the evangelists, but only after I’d entered them. Some great surfaces. Chewy trickiness in fair measure (e.g. TWIGGIEST).

    Andy@5. I don’t think it’s fair to complain that Arnold isn’t a name exclusively linked to ‘composer’. If crossword setters were constrained in such a way then no cryptic clueing would be possible.

    My thanks to Puck and sschua.

  20. Re: widdersbel@10’s question about Americans: yes, I had a K rather than a C in 19d, but the real problem for me was that “smallest room” was an unknown term (we don’t say “loo” either but at least that one is more familiar), and it’s always an extra effort to think of the homophone when it requires a non-rhotic accent. So that one was British on many levels!

  21. Filled the grid but with dim brain and scant appreciation of the subtleties. Office for John, no; the cyclist, bung and shrug; Luke S, ditto; nho leucoma but it’s on the tin, and M,M,L andJ, no aha. Enjoyed anyway, ta both.

  22. Enjoyable solve, although I didn’t spot the apostles.

    When I saw ‘heroic twin brother’ I thought “Oh no, not another obscure reference to some classic twins” … and I thought about Romulus and Remus, doh! Luckily, I’m very familiar with Star Wars and even knew the poet for once.

    I particularly enjoyed the cyclist, light sabre wielder, REFUSENIK and SPLIT ENDS – shock horror, very nice.

    Thanks to Puck for the fun, and to scchua for a good pictorial blog (and for explaining ‘the usual offices’, which I have never heard of – an office is a strange place to have a pee, methinks.)

  24. Thanks scchua, i didn’t realise office = toilet, couldn’t see how the start of SEPIA worked (and still don’t like it!) and somehow got very confused about why OCT was the first month, thanks for sorting all those out. I spotted the Gospels immediately upon entering my final one (MATTHEW) having earlier wondered why Puck hadn’t managed to find another famous (4,9) to complete the set – doh – and well done to those who got it in time to be helpful! RAT ON was my favourite of many witty clues, thanks Puck.

  25. JinA @11 and Eileen @17 have captured all my favourites today though I’d add SAGGIEST to the list for the lovely, if rather sad, surface. It took me ages to parse RAT ON but very satisfying when I did. And similarly chuffed at getting ROSETTE as I rarely ‘get’ a solution that requires ‘cycling’ a word. Perhaps this was an easier example of the genre. And, talking of cycling, I have a vague recollection of MARK CAVENDISH getting into a spat about shorts which would add a layer of meaning to the surface of the clue But I can’t recall or easily find reference to it.

    MB @14: thanks for the link. Not exactly an earworm, though. Which is a shame as it would be nice to have something other than the Star Wars theme resounding in my head.

    Thanks Puck and scchua

  27. Having just followed up on scchua’s helpful ‘usual offices’ link, I’m surprised to discover it and would be interested to understand a derivation. I confess to having always assumed the office euphemism to indicate somewhere indoors where someone might spend a lot of time. However, research has thrown up one amusing snippet: there is, of all things, an American marketing and brand design agency based in Georgia who go by the name The Usual Offices. An unfortunate choice for a brand specialist – one wonders how thoroughly they did their homework!

  28. [PostMark @25: I know what you mean. Not a favourite composer of mine by any stretch – much of the popular ‘classical’ music of that era has not stood the test of time.]

  30. Excellent puzzle. The theme was a clever idea, which I spotted after getting JOHN CONSTABLE (without parsing ‘John’) and MARK CAVENDISH which, in turn, helped with the other two. I appreciate Puck’s willingness to apply setters’ ‘rules’ liberally to increase the entertainment factor. LEUCOMA indeed!

    Thanks, Puck and scchua.

  31. A fun puzzle with several un or partly parsed – JOHN, SEPIA, RAT ON, OCTAGONAL and NEARS and I see I’m in good company with most of these. I didn’t make the gospel connection either so whilst I filled the grid I don’t feel I completed the puzzle. My favourite was also the same as others – SPLIT ENDS. Many thanks to Puck and scchua for shedding light in everything. And as Eileen points out there’s a Buccaneer to come.

  33. scchua @32: thanks and yes, of course. But it’s “The Usual Offices” that intrigues me. The Urinal Offices, I would understand!

  34. PM/scchua: before this morning I’d always associated “the usual offices” with Parliamentary language, a bit like “the usual channels”. Here’s an extract from Hansard:

    Lord McCarthy
    moved Amendment No. 104:

    Page 26. line 1, leave out subsection (4)

    The noble Lord said: I am not sure what one keeps plums in. One does not keep them in barrels, one does not keep them in tins, and one does not keep them in jars—and when one eats plums, they do not usually come off trees. But whatever the Minister keeps his plums in, I can only hope that he has one or two left. These two amendments are in a sense probing amendments that do slightly different things. However, we agreed through the usual offices that they should be taken together.

  35. I was not not on the setter’s wavelength so this was a really hard slog.
    Did not get why EVANS = a Welshman.
    Did not parse RAT ON, SEPIA.
    Guessed LARKSPURS, did not parse.

    New GK for me: composer Malcolm Arnold, cyclist MARK CAVENDISH (only parsed the MARK + ISH bits)

    I did not pick up on the theme.

    Thanks, B+S

  37. Only trouble with LEUCOMA is that as a homophone it could perfectly well have been LOUCOMA, which I put in before checking it with Mr Google.

  42. [SPazna @29: Oh THANK YOU! Heard that at at a magnificent 2015/16/17 (can’t quite rememeber when…) Prom with Rattle and the LSO – I must go and search that out this evening. Much better than Arnold IM{always}vHO. There is of course another Arnold – Bax – who I think is under-rated.]

    [PostMark @33: Given the current shower in power, I think the phrase ‘The Usual Orifices’ is probably more appropriate… ]

  43. [Self @27: I just went to close down the website for the aforementioned brand/marketing firm – and noticed at the last moment that the tiny emblem on the open tab in my browser does look suspiciously like a loo roll! From which, I have to assume they are, indeed, aware of the connection. Can’t decided whether that’s a good or a bad thing but will can further enquiry]

  45. Like Gazzh@24, I wondered why there wasn’t a fourth 4,9 and never noticed the hot gospellers until later. Thanks to Puck for lots of fun, and to scchua for sorting out LUKE SKYWALKER who I couldn’t parse, along with exactly how SEPIA worked. REFUSENIK, sadly, doesn’t quite work as a homophone for me because the different meanings of REFUSE are differently stressed, but it’s a nice idea. Favourites KINDRED and (shock, horror!) SPLIT ENDS. Not sure that charge=sue, but it was near enough to work.

  47. Took a while but enjoyed it.

    Liked LUKE SKYWALKER (was looking for a LUKE after getting the three other long clues), KINDRED, SAGGIEST, SPLIT ENDS,

    Didn’t get RAT ON – but like it and didn’t parse SEPIA or the cyclist.

    Thanks to Puck and Scchua

  48. [MB @42 again. Much underrated, after the Second World War began, Bax moved to Sussex, taking up residence at the White Horse Hotel, Storrington, I can see the attraction in that, He wrote this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQWRPyeDFgk late on in life!! Now that is quite enough; sorry to Gaufrid and others who want to comment on a very fine puzzle]

  49. [Spanza @46: Some of the easier songs have been set as Diploma level (ATCL currently has some on the list) but most of it is beyond that so into the serious professional world. I had an ATCL exam booked for October last year which went the way of the Dodo so one or two may be ‘doable’ but you’d probably need ear-plugs 🙂 ]

  50. Never heard of Arnold the composer, but Wikipedia lists 5 of them to choose from!
    Missed the theme, which would have got me to my last clue quicker.

  51. [SPanza @48: I’ve a hankering to live in an hotel; I’m a slob by nature so the thought of tea and scones always been on-tap and someone making the bed and picking the towels up from the floor appeals. I keep looking in the ‘Sits Vac’ for ‘Landed Gentry – no qualifications needed’ but….]

    Indeed – a fabulous crossword today and to Gaufrid et al, apologies. I see we’re in for a Paul tomorrow from the Zoom invite – I’ll start taking the tablets now and going through all the rude words in my dictionary.

  52. Very enjoyable offering from Puck today, don’t know how I guessed Matthew Arnold without having heard of either poet or writer. Arnold just seemed to fit the crossers.
    LoI was 19d, Leucoma, which I parsed and then found it was indeed a word. Love it when that happens! But only after finding that there was no such word as Loucoma
    Many thanks to Scchua for several parsings that eluded me, and to Puck for the puzzle

  53. In spite of having spent several years as a child (more than most, some might say), I never encountered the term gee-gee for horse.

    scchua: The football club in 21 is Tottenham Hotspur. Only the abbreviated form Spurs has the final ‘s’. (Adding a letter to a short form would appear diminish the purpose of the short form, but that’s the logic of the football world for you. Have you seen their offside rule?)

  54. Gladys @ 45 – it’s only NIK = NICK that’s the homophone, so no objection needed.

  55. Last night I biffed in JOHN CONSTABLE as the drawer, but couldn’t think what he had to do with a personal computer in an office. This morning — duhhhhh……

    I would never have parsed SEPIA. To me autumn starts on the equinox, which is the twenty-first day of September, which I abbreviate with a T at the end.

    I think “finery” is too dismissive a word for REGALIA, which its wearer (and often others) takes seriously.

    Enjoyed this, got all last night except the loo-comber, got that this am. Thanks to Puck and schhue.

  56. Shocked–shocked!–at how many people say they’re unfamiliar with LUKE SKYWALKER. On U.S. cable TV, you only have to wait a few months for the movies to come around again (maybe on a different channel), and I’d sort of assumed that that phenomenon was global. We had The Empire Strikes Back on just last night, in fact (on DVD as it happens).

    But no, the one I hadn’t heard of was MARK CAVENDISH, which I got thanks to the evangelist theme–spotted just in time to be useful (it certainly helped that the MATTHEW ARNOLD clue referenced the Bible)–and a little staring at the clue and the crossers to make a name that fit.

    My last one in was LEUCOMA, which was (a) an ailment I was unfamiliar with, (b) one of those annoying non-rhotic homophones (though this time I thought of it before giving up), and (c) then when I Googled, I learned that there were two spellings that fit. Went with a C because that’s what I Googled at first.

    I did enjoy this quite a bit, and it all went in at a steady pace. Thanks to all.

  57. And I concur with Valentine @55 that in no way is Sept. 1 the start of autumn. In this climate (and increasingly so as our climate changes), if you’re defining autumn meteorologically early September is still squarely summer weather; if you’re going with astronomical autumn, that doesn’t begin until the equinox. But hey–it’s not a trivia contest but a cryptic clue, and I thought it was a fun one, so no need to quibble.

  58. mrpenny @57. I’m inclined to agree with you, but it does seem to be a convention that spring begins on MAR1 and autumn on SEP1. I can remember going for a walk with my daughters on 1 March many years ago and reminding them to take their gloves; which they ignored, of course. It was horrendous weather. And of course the opposite applies, with very pleasant, warm weather after schools have gone back after the end of August. But, like GG for horse, it’s a convention that will always attract nay-sayers (or in the case of the latter, neigh-sayers?).

    I agree with you also about the unfamiliar eye ailment, although I recognised loo comber (as non-salubrious an occupation as ever there was one) as the homophone but contented myself with LOUCOMA and a shrug. Congrats to those who spent the time to make the link to leucocytes etc and got the correct spelling.

    Thanks to Puck (sorry for missing the theme) and to scchua (especially for the parsing of RAT ON, which fell victim to another shrug from me)

  59. The Met office officially class Sep1st, Dec1st, Mar1st & Jun1st as the first days of the four seasons for statistical purposes.

  60. Add me to the list of those who chose the wrong first vowel in ‘leucoma’; a condition with which I am, thankfully, unfamiliar’.

  61. Thanks to Puck and Scchua. And I’m sure Puck meant 8d (first part) and 12a answers to refer to the actor I first saw in the Alienist – though I think he came to prominence before that …

  62. [mrpenney @56: There is (was) a Radio 4 programme called ‘I’ve Never Seen Star Wars’ (host Marcus Brigstocke) – a comedy chat-show expressing consternation that the invitee had possibly never seen Star Wars and then talking about other things they hadn’t done that are assumed to be de-rigueur and inviting the guest to do something they hadn’t done before…

    Now I have sort-of seen Star Wars and as it’s late in the blog, at the risk of annoying everyone, here goes. During the school summer holidays, my grandmother used to take myself and my younger brother out to the cinema. In 1977, my little brother was obsessed with all things spacey and Star Warsy, so off we popped. Early-on in the film, younger bro needs the loo but Baboushka can’t take him to the gents so big brother does. We headed to the glass doors at the front of the cinema, pushed them open, walked through, let them close behind off to find the loo. Only it wasn’t the door to the loo and it had a one-way latch – we couldn’t get back in, only out, down three flights of stairs and dumped through a fire-exit into the middle of the road at the back of the cinema. With little bro in hand, we wandered around for ages trying to find the way back into the cinema, finally reuniting as the closing credits rolled.

    So, I’ve never actually seen Star Wars. At least, not all the way through on an empty bladder.]

  64. I do not usually comment on these but a really thought this one was the worst I have ever had experience of. Lots of very obscure and tenuous clues with a link to the solution that were quite frankly silly.

  65. I had my usual experience with Puck: a lot of biffs, moments of inertia, spiraling self-doubt and an incredulous finish; then swift recourse to, in this case, sschua for parsings which I should have seen. Tea-trays all round.

    Great fun – thanks to all for an enjoyable week. Now to introduce SAGGIER into a conversation….

  66. Alphalpha @65. “My old tracksuit bottoms were getting SAGGIER so I bought some new ones but haven’t had a chance to wear them yet.” No need to thank me.

  67. A great puzzle. Getting JOHN, MATTHEW and MARK (in that order, as it happens) enabled me to get LUKE going down the left, which otherwise I would have had to wait for as I am not a follower of Star Wars.
    I didn’t parse SEPIA (a good clue) but otherwise had no difficulty.
    Thanks to Puck and scchua.

  68. sh@66: If you could somehow erase the image (blush, faint) my gratitude would be unrestrained.

  69. Bowls match rained off, so Puck saved the day with this lovely puzzle, a perfect antidote to a rainy afternoon.
    Challenging, fair and clever. Favourites were SEPIA, RAT ON and REFUSENIK. Thanks Puck.

  70. Many here have noted the theme, but no one has pointed out the theme’s CENTRAL connection, i.e. what is CENTRAL to the peripheral theme. Perhaps we ?????WORD solvers become so entrenched in the intricacies of the cluing that we sometimes fail to see the WOOD for the trees.

    Enjoyed this one, and the comments, thanks all.

  71. Missed the mini theme but not a thing really. Also leukoma would fit.
    Thanks both

  72. Beautifully spotted, Yehudi@70.

    As Eileen noted, this was a red-letter day, with Puck and Buccaneer to entertain us.

    Thanks P & s for the fun.

  73. Belated as usual but this is too important not to mention: Spurs is the shortened version of Tottenham Hotspur, NOT Hotspurs.
    They are my team, as should be clear from my username, and we are currently suffering enough without having to read the name incorrectly.
    Apart from that, great blog for a fine puzzle (all the better for LARKSPURS. Thanks both. COYS

  74. I too wondered about Sep 1 as the beginning of autumn, but the clue is so clever that I had to cheerfully allow it.

    Like many other things that show up in these puzzles, I suspect that I didn’t understand this because I’m a lifelong US resident. If you ask people in the US to identify the start of autumn (or fall, as we’re more likely to call it), those who don’t go for the astronomical date would almost certainly choose our Labor Day holiday. (That holiday is celebrated on the first Monday in September, so it coincides with Sept. 1 only one-seventh of the time.)

    I’m right in the middle of the original Star Wars demographic — the first movie came out when I was a lad of 10, and I remember it vividly — but I didn’t figure out LUKE SKYWALKER until very near the end, and I didn’t spot the evangelists around the sides of the grid at all.

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