The Play's the Thing

by George Barany

This "mid-week level" sports-themed tribute puzzle was released on a day relevant to its theme. After completing the puzzle (spoiler), learn more about the theme by clicking here and here; and click here, here, and here to learn more about the puzzle's sub-theme and title.

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. We thank Tim Croce, Brent Hartzell, Kurtis Scaletta, and Alex Vratsanos for beta testing on extraordinarily short notice.

If you want to tell others about this particular page, refer them to
http://tinyurl.com/playpuz

More puzzles here (all), here (sports), and here (tributes).

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