Recently, the city of Ottawa has been subjected to a prolonged demonstration that has been extremely disruptive to the people who live here, particularly those in vulnerable circumstances. Sorry for the partial at 29-Down - if you have a better suggestion to fill A_U_F, you can let me know on Twitter. This limited the options for the rest of the puzzle, but I eventually found that opening the NE/SW corners for some long bonus fill actually gave a little more flexibility. After a few weeks of brainstorming with friends, I hit upon MICRO SECONDS as the kicker.Īs for the layout, having the first marquee answer be 12 letters long meant that I had to smush a lot of theme material into the middle of the grid. I decided early on that the courses should be "served" in a logical order to build a sense of mounting frustration among the guests, but was left without a fun resolution. I noticed a lot of them involved food, which led to the party theme. Some early candidates included COMPACT DISC (Frisbee) and TINY DANCER (Santa's reindeer). I'm pleased as difficult-to-serve punch to be making my debut in the NYT! This puzzle began with me writing down all the examples of "synonym for 'small' + noun" I could think of.
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