About the theme

Winter Olympics is the snow-and-ice register — skiing, skating, hockey, curling, biathlon, bobsled, luge, slalom, snowboard. The longer entries (snowboard, biathlon, slopestyle, crosscountry, halfpipe) anchor every grid; the four-letter luge and puck hide in the filler. Heavy on S, L, K, and the cold-sounding consonants of winter-sport vocabulary. A theme that pairs well with cold weather and a mug of something hot.