tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post3543869195884896436..comments2024-03-29T07:47:07.663-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Mother of Helios / WED 2-29-12 / Siege site of AD 72 / Subj of space-to-earth experiment on Apollo 14 / Sesame Street supporter in brief / Tony-winning role for Mandy Patinkin / regime pre-1789 French government / Greek peak SE of Olympus / Walt Disney had 26 of themRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3664298356395126622012-04-05T02:38:15.989-04:002012-04-05T02:38:15.989-04:00"seepy" weird, well sort of but in a fun..."seepy" weird, well sort of but in a fun way. I got a big smile out of when I finally caught on. Had been trying to fitt two "ee" and "y" into a word for slwo running by an animal (human or otherwise).<br />Enjoyed this puzzle and Acme's praise of it.Sharon AKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55949093567843502602012-04-04T21:16:17.876-04:002012-04-04T21:16:17.876-04:00I don't usually bother with Wednesday puzzles,...I don't usually bother with Wednesday puzzles, but solved this one out of boredom. Did enjoy the Broadway theme in an otherwise easy, unremarkable puzzle.<br />Makes one wonder why I bothered to post at all.Lola505https://www.blogger.com/profile/09249427833942985450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42184542031772389782012-04-04T20:59:19.687-04:002012-04-04T20:59:19.687-04:00@RedV - You are right about the preview screen - a...@RedV - You are right about the preview screen - apparently blogger hasn't eliminated all of its glitches; and yes, the elation created by the return of email updates is a little troubling. Still, I am sure our friend @Gil I.P. will be as happy as we are (5 weeks from now). I had high hopes that "TWIlight Zone" would catch on as an alternative to syndi-land, but nothing came of it - but thanks for remembering, anyway.Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19233094143122762932012-04-04T20:43:25.747-04:002012-04-04T20:43:25.747-04:00Oh my god, it DOES look as though they are back! ...Oh my god, it DOES look as though they are back! Yippee!!! (I'm slightly worried at how happy this makes me.)<br /><br />Nothing much to add--really just checking the email feature. (Okay, I did have CHICAGOBullS for a while...)<br /><br />Welcome @Ginger. Oh, and @Dirigonzo: I believe you are responsible for both syndi-synchronicity and the TWIlight zone (Time-Warped insights)<br /><br />Hmmm--just tried preview, and the message looks weird, with text running outside the box. Ah, well, I will try anyhow.Red Valerianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04638265039015470938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68884160325938965842012-04-04T19:37:49.880-04:002012-04-04T19:37:49.880-04:00@Ginger and @Lurking - Now that email updates seem...@Ginger and @Lurking - Now that email updates seem to be back, some uf us who posted earlier will read your comments, too. So yes, welcome - the more, the merrier!Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45261512846028223032012-04-04T19:26:50.574-04:002012-04-04T19:26:50.574-04:00Welcome Ginger-
I, too, lurk from Syndi-land....J...Welcome Ginger-<br />I, too, lurk from Syndi-land....Just wanted to say hello to let you know that there are some of us out here that welcome you.Lurking, Just Behind Younoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39746837978336436892012-04-04T17:48:48.775-04:002012-04-04T17:48:48.775-04:00Been lurking for some time out here in syndi-land,...Been lurking for some time out here in syndi-land, and gonna take the first time plunge. Did not know ANCIEN, but guessed the N, so I got lucky and finished without help.<br /><br />DMGrandma - Mandy Patinkin is worth watching for. He was notably in the classic 'Princess Bride'. He was also in an obscure film 'Impromptu', a hilarious account of the romance between George Sand (Judy Davis) and Chopin (Hugh Grant), where he played an ex-lover of Sand.Gingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5760611439972858732012-04-04T17:14:32.645-04:002012-04-04T17:14:32.645-04:00DABOMB is awesome in a good way; "The Bomb&qu...DABOMB is awesome in a good way; "The Bomb" is awesome in a horrific way. No way they can be used interchangeably.<br /><br />I remember Walt Disney's TV show from the late '50s - early '60s (I think) so at first I thought he had 26 Emmies which made the NW corner difficult.<br /><br />@SiS - I've noticed before how comments sometimes predict or coincide with the events of 5 weeks later. I think I once labelled the phenomenom "Syndication Synchronicity". Spooky, indeed.<br /><br />E-mail Follow-ups are back! At least the box is there to check - let's see if it works.Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38959909390774158622012-04-04T15:42:16.615-04:002012-04-04T15:42:16.615-04:00Naticks to the left of me, Naticks to the right! W...Naticks to the left of me, Naticks to the right! What -PTEST; what -AHS? I guessed A. Right! Next one: what -HEA? What -ITUS? Well, I've heard of RHEA, so I put that in. Wrong! Next: -ASAD-, -NCIE-, ISB-. Guessed A @67, right! Guessed R in the corner, wrong!. 2 for 4, .500. Wish I was a baseballer!<br /><br />So in short, too much obscurity. I liked the basic idea, a decent theme--but oh that fill! Maybe, as @ACME says, it's undoable any other way, but too many tough nooks and crannies to suit me. I await Thursday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4568942384625153892012-04-04T14:34:56.313-04:002012-04-04T14:34:56.313-04:00Got thrown a few times by this one. Unlike @Ulr...Got thrown a few times by this one. Unlike @Ulrich, I did go to school in the US, but in the long ago days before SATs existed, so didn't know either of the tests. Ended up putting in "P " because I've seen it used in puzzles, where I've also learned LSAT for law. Are there others? <br />Thinking Mandy was a girl's name made me pause when Che was the obvious answer. As for weird seepy, it sounds like one of my non-robot words: vicus.DMGrandmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73507599675153293282012-04-04T13:40:22.255-04:002012-04-04T13:40:22.255-04:00A little spooky that the first commenter 5 weeks a...A little spooky that the first commenter 5 weeks ago, @Glimmerglass, asked where everyone was, tornado alley? This after yesterdays amazing tornadoes in Dallas. Cue the Twilight Zone music.<br /><br />Thought the puzzle easy - fun theme.Solving in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04249420848844874936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18049749064212724992012-04-04T11:44:10.504-04:002012-04-04T11:44:10.504-04:00Testing, Testing, Testing.Testing, Testing, Testing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88052159668613681972012-03-02T08:44:23.132-05:002012-03-02T08:44:23.132-05:00@ksquare That explains it. I studied physics befor...@ksquare That explains it. I studied physics before Tom Edison! Thanks for the detail.orangeblossomspecialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14293081555258087882012-02-29T22:37:30.684-05:002012-02-29T22:37:30.684-05:00No need to find the archive, you can just click on...No need to find the archive, you can just click on the title of the entry. It's...right at the top. Today, that's <a href="http://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/2012/02/mother-of-helios-wed-2-29-12-siege-site.html" rel="nofollow">Mother of Helios / WED 2-29-12 / Siege site of AD 72 / Subj of space-to-earth experiment on Apollo 14 / Sesame Street supporter in brief / Tony-winning role for Mandy Patinkin / regime pre-1789 French government / Greek peak SE of Olympus / Walt Disney had 26 of them</a>.<br /><br />Blogger is aware of the issues...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-71829074815119718702012-02-29T22:10:09.643-05:002012-02-29T22:10:09.643-05:00This week's relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week's relative difficulty ratings. See my 8/1/2009 post for an explanation. In a nutshell, the higher the ratio, the higher this week's median solve time is relative to the average for the corresponding day of the week.<br /><br />All solvers (this week's median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 6:32, 6:49, 0.96, 32%, Easy-Medium<br />Tue 8:00, 8:51, 0.90, 23%, Easy-Medium<br />Wed 12:11, 11:50, 1.03, 61%, Medium-Challenging<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:30, 3:40, 0.96, 31%, Easy-Medium<br />Tue 4:01, 4:35, 0.88, 11%, Easy<br />Wed 6:12, 5:52, 1.06, 70%, Medium-Challengingsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51673995706363026232012-02-29T21:35:37.676-05:002012-02-29T21:35:37.676-05:00For Rex,
Masada is a pretty amazing place in Isra...For Rex,<br /><br />Masada is a pretty amazing place in Israel in the middle of the desert. Worth going if you have even a minor archeological bent. It was a siege on top of a mountain and as I recall they were surrounded by the roman army at the base. You can either walk all the way up or take a form of conveyance.Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34217860321232030282012-02-29T20:05:21.400-05:002012-02-29T20:05:21.400-05:00@Bird...
TV cluing old?? As I contyemplated that ...@Bird...<br />TV cluing old?? As I contyemplated that answer, I realized that Youtube has ensured that "tube" meaning "TV" will live on forever.<br />It may elicit a "wow" 10 years from now, just as the term "Hang up the phone" does for us when we find out that it comes from early phone days when the separate mouthpiece "hung" from the on/off switch.<br /><br />@Bird again...I worked in the Bronx during college days...the company had a warehouse in Chesire, Connecticut. Shipments sent from there to us were marked "DABRONX". I wondered about the significance, until I answered my own question...<br />Silly Westchesterite that I was - I had always called it "The Bronx". My Connecticut neighbors knew the regional dialect...Titahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368251255494687496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-92202462194334062522012-02-29T19:55:48.085-05:002012-02-29T19:55:48.085-05:00@Badir and email comment lovers - Reading comments...@Badir and email comment lovers - Reading comments in the Archive (on the right side of the main page) also allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed. Since my email program is my RSS reader comments appear in my mail program. The problem is that each day apparently creates a separate feed so I will have to delete the feeds at some point. This is way more complicated than the old method.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53453673589077984252012-02-29T19:49:03.231-05:002012-02-29T19:49:03.231-05:00@ACME - I'll pick up the gauntlet.
North East ...@ACME - I'll pick up the gauntlet.<br />North East Corner. Simply clue RAE as ___ Dawn Chong rather than Charlotte ___. How does this make the puzzle better? It leaves me with a mental image of RAE Dawn Chong rather than Charlotte RAE. Big Difference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53185916172127024822012-02-29T18:57:13.126-05:002012-02-29T18:57:13.126-05:00Not much trouble with this one. At a conference to...Not much trouble with this one. At a conference today so could only glance at a few comments...<br />Like TRICKKNEES espectially when I kept trying to put in trickynets which didn't really make too much sense.Mighty Nisdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604834076817509735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10548459484713468872012-02-29T18:05:53.981-05:002012-02-29T18:05:53.981-05:00@Ulrich you old poop I do the same. Dag nab it.
...@Ulrich you old poop I do the same. Dag nab it. <br /><br />Having a bit of fun with the little pictures, makes me feel so.... technical.<br /><br />☃dkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317008233459295376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15631666860635790082012-02-29T17:36:02.353-05:002012-02-29T17:36:02.353-05:00@Lewis - I have an observation and story along tho...@Lewis - I have an observation and story along those lines. If you're interested, you can email me.Loren Muse Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05308030011870397977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17826281111207391602012-02-29T17:24:33.321-05:002012-02-29T17:24:33.321-05:00@acme: I lost to the whims of Blogger many convinc...@acme: I lost to the whims of Blogger many convincingly argued, totally original, and beautifully written, but longish comments that I could never reconstruct, given my painfully slow way of typing, not to speak of advanced memory loss. So, nowadays, if I feel the urge to compose another one of these epic masterpieces (which I actually haven't lately, but may gain), I draft them in TextEdit or other convenient app, then copy-and-paste them into the Blogger field, and if it swallows it, I can thumb my nose at it and shove it down its throat again.Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14197144732250397202012-02-29T17:21:51.317-05:002012-02-29T17:21:51.317-05:00RIP Davy Jones
Another one gone way too early
T...RIP Davy Jones<br /><br />Another one gone way too early<br /><br />Their TV show was horrible, but they had alot of catchy tunes -- tell me that running "Daydream Believer" through your head doesn't put a smile on your face<br /><br />EVERYBODY -- "Cheer up sleepy Jean, oh what can it be -- a daydream believer or a homecoming quee e e eeeen !<br /><br /><br />Oh yeah, puzzle was eh with some very ugly fill thats already been hashedlong suffering mets fannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49194927079834597152012-02-29T17:07:29.862-05:002012-02-29T17:07:29.862-05:00Finished with an error: RHEA/Emperor RITUS [sic]. ...Finished with an error: RHEA/Emperor RITUS [sic]. Oh well...<br /><br />But a much nicer puzzle than yesterday. Fun theme, I liked the fill better than Rex did. Which isn't saying a lot....<br /><br />DA BOMB means nothing to this geezer but the crosses were definitive. And, I now see, Urban Dictionary knows it, which makes it AOK I guess. <br /><br />APU for MOE @ 62A - Simpsons fans may now snicker at my ignorance.<br /><br />MILLAN for PAVLOV - was Pavlov a handler? Not in my book - he was a scientist who studied the gastric function of dogs. But I use "handler" in a professional sense.<br /><br />Thanks,Mr. Choset.retired_chemisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13181126754941899228noreply@blogger.com