I struggled with what letters were "correct," but once I thought through SHAKE A LEG -> PEG replaces LEG, making it a PEG LEG, I clapped my flush hand down on the table. It's possible, but such a stubby weapon might strike more amusement than fear into the hearts of your victims. That's a big stretch, but what would have been better? HAND is the obvious choice, but you try to make a hook shape out of four letters.
PIRATE CROSSWORD NYTIMES PATCH
Today, Grant interprets an eye patch as an "I patch," blacking out a single letter eye that goes through LONG JOHN S(I)LVER. The first adaptation of "Treasure Island" I saw as a kid was Disney's animated "Treasure Planet," in which Silver had a cyborg eye, hand, and leg, so I assumed those were all sci-fi versions of the original's prosthetics.Īs with most of Dali's works, I appreciate the visual dreamscape but rarely understand what's going on. Robert Newton's portrayal of the character in the 1950 "Treasure Island" created the pop-cultural archetype of the pirate we see today, but he (and his book counterpart) never wore an eye patch or hook hand, just a peg leg. A few snags arose, such as not being able to find enough that seemed ubiquitous enough to name-drop, as well as realizing that Long John Silver didn't have an eye patch. The original idea for this puzzle was to take eye-patchioed fictional characters and cover their "I" with a black square, such as NCKFURY, SNAKEPLSKEN, ELLEDRVER, and LONGJOHNSLVER. So I'm really glad to have come up with a puzzle where the gimmick is different on each theme answer but still follows a cohesive theme.
I love gimmick puzzles wherein you have to check out what's unusual with the layout or the theme clues, but sometimes once that gimmick is revealed, the remaining theme answers become easy because they follow the same pattern.
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