Like Some Letters and Lines
Grab the Scrabble set! Trenton Charlson is here with a high-scoring Saturday puzzle.
Asiya Wadud, a poet, tasted a loquat in Oakland, Calif., in 2009.Credit...Noah Berger for The New York Times
Jan. 8, 2021
SATURDAY PUZZLE — I enjoy Trenton Charlson’s style so much. I feel like someone on “Wheel of Fortune” picking “J,” “Q” and “Z,” knowing that the strangest letters are the most certain to make an appearance; at the same time, I’m always delighted by how light and artifice-free his constructions are. He manages to lay on the zhuzh without resorting to words like zhuzh.