Once I got the revealer and figured out what it meant, I enjoyed seeing the countries come into view. I guess you can kind of read "IR" across the top and "AN" across the bottom, kinda, sorta, but the puzzle just felt like it fizzled out. why? Why this country? Am I even supposed to be rearranging these letters? Because they aren't in any clear grid order (top to bottom or left to right).
These are unclued letters, so what do I do with them? OK, I see a country there. The whole mystery/extra-letter thing just isn't well-explained or coherent enough. I really like the underlying idea of this puzzle, but it is really lacking in follow-through. Launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, Cassini was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004. The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens. Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The Cassini–Huygens space-research mission ( / k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z/ kə- SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, involved a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites. Word of the Day: CASSINI ( 1D: First space probe to enter Saturn's orbit). PANAM A / TONG A (72A: First airline to complete a round-the-world flight / 57D: Grab by pinching, as an ice cube).NIGER / BE NIN (68A: Media exec Robert / 58D: Hippie happening).NO RWAY / RWANDA (9A: "Not a chance!" / 11D: Title character in a classic John Cleese comedy).SUR INAME / MAL I (21A: It comes first in China, but second in the U.S.Theme answers (the red letters are the extra letters, where the theme answers cross to form countries): I have no idea if or why I'm supposed to be anagramming at the end, so maybe I'm just seeing things, or trying to make the puzzle do more than it's doing. The mystery letters are R, I, N, and A, which can be anagrammed to make IRAN, but. when the answers cross, each one turns into a country. or a hint to four geographical intersections found in this grid) - four pairs of regularly-clued answers cross at a mystery letter that belongs to neither answer that letter, when entered, forms the names of countries in both directions. THEME: CROSS-COUNTRY (40A: One way to run.
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