…Criminy. Look, I don’t mind stuff I don’t know (I see it every day), and I don’t really mind stuff I don’t know crossing other stuff I don’t know, but only if there’s some way for me to make a reasonable guess…Come on. That NW corner is just dickish.I have to agree with the sentiment.
Town at the eighth mile of Boston Marathon? Treasure Island illustrator?
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: SUNDAY, Jul. 6, 2008 – Brendan Emmett Quigley (“TREASURE ISLAND” ILLUSTRATOR, 1911 / TOWN AT THE EIGHTH MILE OF THE BOSTON MARATHON)
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Yeah, even as someone who grew up in the Boston area and had a hunch it was Natick, that seemed like an wildly arcane clue.
I was thinking an ERROR?! and it was supposed to be Newton, a town at the 18th mile? Time will tell.
A town called Newton is 8 miles from the finish of the race.