WSJ Contest — Friday, March 14, 2025

 

Mike Shenk’s’s Wall Street Journal contest crossword, “Watch It!” — Conrad’s writeup.

This week we’re looking for an outmoded device. There were two long across entries, each containing “TV”. I looked for other TVs in across entries and found five total:

• TRANSI(TV)AN: Light commercial vehicle from Ford
• PAR(TV): Friday episode of a miniseries, perhaps
• LA(TV)IA: NATO member since 2004
• OU(TV)OTE: Defeat in a race
• ASSEENON(TV): Label for a product hawked on infomercials

ASSEENONTV served as both a themer and a clue to the meta: look “on” the TV’s, here are those entries/letters:

• [RA]GE
• STA[BB]ED
• [IT]A
• [EA]GER
• RADA[RS]

The letters on the TVs spell our contest solution RABBITEARS. Lovely meta; I throughly enjoyed it. Solvers: please share your thoughts.