In a game towards the Los Angeles Angels, Hiroki Kuroda pitched within the second at Yankee Stadium on M.L.B. Opening Day 2012. TUESDAY PUZZLE — Another fun one from Zhouqin Burnikel, and while we’ve visible this sort of theme before, I don’t take into account if we’ve seen it the manner she offers it. In nontheme information, while there is a chunk of glue keeping the grid collectively, I determined it to be an easy and fun solution.

Tricky Clues The clues are all very trustworthy. The most effective component that can provide some younger solvers a run for their cash is if they do now not bear in mind the ebook or TV series, “ROOTS,” and the imperative man or woman, Kunta KINTE. Also, congratulations to actress Uma THURMAN for placing the THURMAN returned within the puzzle. Before this puzzle,

THURMAN had not been seen in The New York Times Crossword for extra than forty years, and it had best been clued to baseball participant THURMAN Munson (Hi, kids!) One day, perhaps in a late-week puzzle, I hope to peer the actress’s father within the maze, Robert THURMAN, the linguist and Buddhist writer. Today’s Theme Thurs., March 28, is formally baseball’s OPENING DAY. However, we are celebrating early and succinctly, inside the feeling that Ms. Burnikel’s subject matter is ready abbreviations for the times of the week, which might be so as while examining from pinnacle to bottom.

The first components of the starred theme entries are the abbreviations, starting with SUN. For Sunday in 1A’s SUNG, they are observed by MON. For Monday in 16A’s MONTE CARLO. That is followed by way of my favored subject matter access, TUES. For TU ES BELLE (why thanks very a great deal!), and so on. As I cited, the revealer, at 62A, is OPENING DAY because that is what the days do: They open the subject entries. Constructor Notes I struggled with the Tuesday answer. I could not locate any solid English phrase or word for this theme access. I did strive my best to make the encircling fill as friendly as possible.

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