Thursday June 10, 2021 Michael Paleos
Twilight Zones Today's puzzle leads us into other dimensions of reality. Our captain for this journey will be Michael Paleos, an LA Times veteran who last published here on Thursday March 12th 2020 . He has also been published at least twice by the NY Times. This is what Will Shortz had to say about him for his Sunday puzzle debut on October 27, 2019: Michael Paleos, of Oyster Bay, N.Y., is chief of staff at a major investment bank. He started solving crosswords at a young age, but only got hooked on them after discovering the archive of puzzles in the New York Times app. "After doing enough of them, I started wondering what it would take to make one, and down the rabbit hole I went." [my emphasis] In this puzzle Michael leads us to close encounters with holes you don't go down , but go through, and come out the another side ! I'll start by highlighting a key piece of information by showing a blank gr...