“For the Times to actually embrace coal is a mortal sin - and I’m Catholic.” “They got pounded by their base,” former coal lobbyist Fred Palmer said in an interview. “It’s trying to make these different elements work well together, and I’m glad I was able to pull it all together for my New York Times puzzle.It’s also a minor humiliation for Will Shortz, the legendary New York Times puzzle editor who, according to the puzzle constructor, changed her original clue and inserted the error over her objection. “In some ways, they are very similar tasks because there are lots of aspects to keep in mind simultaneously,” he said. Kind of like composing crossword puzzles. You don’t want to break the boundaries of what it can do.”
It’s all about familiarizing yourself with the instrument and speaking with people who play the instrument to get an idea of its limits. “I’m writing a piece for harp, which is a very difficult instrument to write for because the mechanics are different than any other instrument you can find in an orchestra. “Composing music for some instruments is more challenging than for others,” he said. Most recently, he composed for a woodwind quartet and a string trio. Hay, who plays piano, has found success in composing music for other instruments and ensembles. Hay chose Temple for its urban setting, access to the music and arts scenes, and the strength of the music composition program at the Boyer College of Music and Dance. He joins Evan Birnholz, who in 2013 as a second-year history PhD student also accomplished the feat. Hay is not the first Temple student to publish a crossword puzzle in the New York Times. “It was well done for a constructor of any age and experience, but especially so for someone who is both young and making his debut.” “We liked Ellis’s puzzle because of the simplicity and cleverness of the theme and the cleanness and liveliness of the construction,” said Will Shortz, the New York Times’ crossword editor since 1993. The New York Times receives, on average, 75 to 100 crossword submissions per week. The competition for earning publication is fierce. The New York Times’ crossword puzzles increase in their degree of difficulty as the week progresses. It was meant to be a Monday puzzle, and I’ve been hearing that it actually turned out more difficult than a typical Monday puzzle.” “I set out to design a puzzle that wasn’t too challenging. “The entire experience-from constructing the puzzle to seeing the reactions it has gotten-has been very rewarding,” Hay said. A few examples: Benadryl might treat them (bee stings) Betty White co-star on The Golden Girls (Bea Arthur) and Hay’s personal favorite, given his academic major-Bach masterpiece, informally (B Minor Mass). Hay included a fun wrinkle in his New York Times crossword: each answer is a homophone of B. The 20-year-old native of Lansing, Michigan, submitted the puzzle to the New York Times in April 2018, heard three months later it had been accepted, and learned of the puzzle’s publication date only days before it appeared in the Maedition.ĭeveloping crossword puzzles, as opposed to simply solving them, became a hobby of Hay’s only two years ago. Hay made his New York Times debut this month when the newspaper published a crossword puzzle he constructed. With the same attention to detail that his music requires, Hay has also found success in his other passion: crossword puzzles. It’s a piece of music that has required patience, focus and careful consideration from Hay, a junior music composition major. Ellis Hay is currently working on a composition that, as he puts it, “is a bit of a challenge.”
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