{"id":118544,"date":"2024-10-26T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118544"},"modified":"2024-10-26T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T03:20:12","slug":"masters-of-bad-impersonations-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118544","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Bad Impersonations? &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/game\/daily\/2024\/10\/26\" title=\"\">SATURDAY PUZZLE<\/a> \u2014 Peter A. Collins is a familiar byline on New York Times crosswords: This is his 120th, and his eighth Saturday, but only his second grid in 2024. I was happily struck by the triple stack of entries in this puzzle\u2019s center, two of which make for an intriguing story line. (Mr. Collins has done this before in past themeless grids like <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/game\/daily\/2021\/04\/03\" title=\"\">this one from 2021<\/a>, which was more romantic and less creepy.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As far as difficulty, today\u2019s grid is tough enough and full of twists, but its trivia is mostly accessible and placed in helpful spots. Every time I thought I was getting sucked under, it seemed as if an actress whose name I knew came along and got me out!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4acaa460\">Tricky Clues<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">6A. [\u201cHound Dog\u201d singer Big ____ Thornton] is Big MAMA Thornton, who got into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame this year. \u201cHound Dog\u201d was written in 1952 by Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/static\/programs\/national-recording-preservation-board\/documents\/HoundDog.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">for Thornton<\/a>, although the song more famously helped make Elvis, well, Elvis, four years later. I love how this version ends: \u201cAnd bowwow to you too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">22A. If you were sure that the [Fish whose egg casings are called \u201cmermaid\u2019s purses\u201d] would be a shark, you weren\u2019t wrong \u2014 these leathery capsules that wash up on shorelines can be produced by a shark as well as a SKATE. Some sharks, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/mermaids-purses\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">and all rays<\/a>, hold their eggs internally until they hatch, but skate eggs develop in the open sea, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/dep\/fgw\/pdf\/marine\/skateegg_hccrab.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">encased in a keratin pouch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">34A.\/35A. Yes, the entry at 34A is innocent as clued \u2014 uplifting, even. The [Medical breakthrough of 1954 that yielded a Nobel Prize] is an ORGAN TRANSPLANT, the first of which was a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/transplantliving.org\/living-donation\/history\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">kidney moved from one twin to another in Boston<\/a>. I wouldn\u2019t have given this span entry much thought, but its downstairs neighbor at 35A made me do a double take. It has a cute pun clue and would also be innocuous on its own: [Masters of bad impersonations?] are IDENTITY THIEVES. 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