tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post3341037965664166368..comments2024-03-19T00:21:49.519-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2006 - Sarah KellerRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57363234014980830652006-12-25T17:25:00.000-05:002006-12-25T17:25:00.000-05:00I can't believe I've been doing the NYT crossword ...I can't believe I've been doing the NYT crossword for many years and have never come across your site--today I got stuck on 32A (key-signature preceder), searched it, and not only did I get the answer, but I found the entire puzzle already solved! I live in Southern CA, PST, and this was @ 9:00 a.m.--you guys are fast! I bookmarked you, but consider you extremely dangerous and will only use in dire emergency. Good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57293680510028478012006-12-20T09:18:00.000-05:002006-12-20T09:18:00.000-05:00Uh ... bigger than Elmira, that's for sure.
I hav...Uh ... bigger than Elmira, that's for sure.<br /><br />I have done puzzles in my head before when I had no writing implement and was too lazy to go seek one out. I also used to make early-week puzzles a little harder by forcing myself to solve the entire puzzle by building off of whatever word I initially wrote in - thus if I got stuck, I couldn't skip to another part of the puzzle and start anew.Rex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55365532364872718482006-12-20T03:03:00.000-05:002006-12-20T03:03:00.000-05:00You moved to the Big City?You moved to the Big City?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74847483563222966062006-12-20T01:54:00.000-05:002006-12-20T01:54:00.000-05:00Rex,
Greetings from flyover country. Apparently...Rex,<br /> Greetings from flyover country. Apparently my local papers are a month or two behind in the NYT crossword dept, so when I found your blog it took awhile to figure out how to get to your blog entry for my particular puzzle. One of the papers is kind enough to publish the creator of said puzzle....insert name into search at top of blog....wa-lah!<br /> Let's hope the rest of the papers are not quite so dated.<br /> The reason I'm writing is in response to one of your comments in the solution to the Monday, Nov 6, 2006 puzzle. That puzzle was reprinted in my paper yesterday 12/19, so it's new to me.<br /> You commented that it was a joyless experience filling in a blank crossword thats already been completed. I beg to differ and offer you a challenge.<br /> It's extremely gratifying to fill in the empty spaces when you've completed the puzzle in your head before picking up any writing utensil.<br /> I submit that early week puzzles might be more interesting if you tried them this way. Your "06:36" times may suffer a little but you may enjoy it more.<br /> I furthermore challenge you to someday do the Saturday puzzle in this method, You would truly be the King of Crosswords if you accomplished this.<br /> Thanks for the blog and Merry..... oh,whatever you heathens celebrate there in the Big City.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87182006316486412942006-12-19T21:56:00.000-05:002006-12-19T21:56:00.000-05:00What amused me about today's puzzle is that I'd go...What amused me about today's puzzle is that I'd gone out to get lunch, sat down to a bowl of chicken gumbo containing the obligatory okra and the puzzle, and there was okra as one of the answers. It's not even that much in the mainstream for there to be such a harmonic convergence of it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53268192111798546792006-12-19T21:35:00.000-05:002006-12-19T21:35:00.000-05:00The fact that "Cool & Lam" are being kept alive in...The fact that "Cool & Lam" are being kept alive in public memory, anywhere, gives me Great comfort and joy, comfort and joy.<br /><br />Thanks for that very specific and detailed info, Karen.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74544331883192527422006-12-19T21:28:00.000-05:002006-12-19T21:28:00.000-05:00I've seen AAFAIR in three puzzles, most recently t...I've seen AAFAIR in three puzzles, most recently the Oct. 24th, 2006 CrosSynergy puzzle by Mel Rosen, clued "E. S. Gardner pseudonym". The other two I have are from the LAT, in 2003 and 2004, once on Saturday, once on Sunday. The Saturday clue was "Cool & Lam detective series author". Normally the Saturday LAT is themeless, but this one had a theme (ran on the theme subject's birthday), but from that clue I'd say the difficulty was kept up at a Saturday level.mellocathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10637828760951248690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26278828847131400872006-12-19T19:15:00.000-05:002006-12-19T19:15:00.000-05:00Did Chaucer's peeps steal the KN pronunciation fro...Did Chaucer's peeps steal the KN pronunciation from the Germans or the Norse? (My favorite English class in college was Medieval English Lit, complete with the professor's reading of Old and Middle English verse.)<br /><br />I don't know if constructors know about A.A. Fair, but I'll bet very few solvers do. Maybe the name could find its way into a Saturday puzzle's clues—ERLE being such a regular denizen of the grid.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.com