PASTORATE isn’t superb, but it’s perfectly serviceable, and the short fill ranges from lovely to fine. ADIOS AMIGOS and OFF ONE’S GAME are both lovely long entries, and AP SPANISH is lovely coming down in the SW. Nearly half of the puzzle is made up of theme material, which means that every non-theme row is extremely constrained, and yet the fill is relatively solid (which is an enormous accomplishment!). This is a stunning accomplishment of construction. In order to get that rectangular flag shape, this grid is 17×13, with a roughly appropriate 80 words.
And finally, the purple row has 67a, PROSE (PURPLE PROSE), 68a, HEARTS (PURPLE HEARTS), and 69a, RAIN (PURPLE RAIN). The blue row has 53a, MEANIES (BLUE MEANIES), 57a, LAWS (BLUE LAWS), and 59a, HEN (BLUE HEN). The green row has 43a, BAY PACKER (GREEN BAY PACKER) and 46a, LANTERN (GREEN LANTERN). The yellow row has 30a, PEPPERS (YELLOW PEPPERS) and 34a, BRICK ROAD (YELLOW BRICK ROAD). The orange row has 21a, MEN (ORANGEMEN), 22a, TREE (ORANGE TREE), and 23a, BITTERS (ORANGE BITTERS). Similarly, 16a, CARPET and 17a, BARON have both had “red” removed (RED CARPET, RED BARON). Color the whole row red to make each answer correct!. To get the RED back, you have to color the row red! Those are (RED) EYES, but RED has been removed from the entry. That’s a complicated explanation - let’s just dive in: Except! The words along each colored stripe have had that color removed from the grid. In honor of LGBT Pride Month, we get a puzzle with a rainbow flag (which traditionally has just these six colors, lumping indigo and violet together into purple). I’m glad I solved this one online, because the image to the right is what displays after you solve the puzzle! A nice cherry on top of a great puzzle. NYT puzzle 6.21.18 by David Steinberg and Milo Beckman
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