Section Eight by Patrick Berry in WSJ Saturday May 28

[Richard B.]

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/docu ... 282022.pdf

Lots of letters flying around in this one. Enjoy!

[Meg]

Fun, as always! Doing a PB makes watching the Rays lose to the Yankees not quite so bad.

[Bird Lives]

PB is a master at seeing words forwards, backwards, and inside out.
Ring 4,3 bothered me for a while. It was short by a letter. I had to get it going outward from Ring 5.

[Barney]

Damn these directions are confusing.

[Barney]

I have almost got this completed. I seem to be stuck – – I think with a mistake – – on the placement of the fourth answer to Ring 3. I also have no idea what the fill is for the last answer to Ring 3. “Spiny ball of the deep.”

[Barney]

Just got spiny ball! Yay!

So my only trouble spot is placement of “room with fridge and TV”

FTR, my favorite puzzles by country miles are Patrick Berry varieties

The man is a genius and a gift.

[Wendy Walker]

Wonderful puzzle! Thank goodness most of the answers were pretty straightforward because then you KNEW you needed certain letters, which helped with the location and the backwards or forwards direction. I too love Patrick Berry puzzles.

[ChrisKochmanski]

Loved it!

Section Eights are not a strength for me, so I approached it hesitantly. But I soon found myself totally absorbed.