Puzzled

My wife and I were able to complete last Sunday’s Puzzler without problems but were unable to find any connection with the theme, “House Foundations.” What are we missing?

GARY A. ROBB

Los Angeles

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Puzzler co-authors Barry Tunick and Sylvia Bursztyn explain: “This is a relatively new type of theme. The last word in each theme entry (‘fun,’ ‘hot,’ ‘open,’ ‘play,’ ‘opera,’ etc.) is a kind of house.”