Crossword: 27:33

This puzzle was somewhat like a long Beethoven joke I know, but what I'm really high on right now is the diagramless puzzle officially published Sunday but online now. It has an asymmetric grid, but the clues are relatively easy to fit together. They outline the shape of a pipe, and the theme is Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe). Magritte is one of my favorite painters, so naturally this is one of my favorite paintings. It's a rather crude approximation in grid form, but it's a perfect example of what a diagramless ought to be like. Figuring out the shape of the puzzle was itself another theme clue. Nice job.