tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4198491509371899108..comments2024-03-28T04:40:27.172-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Automaker Ferrari / THU 6-7-12 / Chem assay / Twins sharing star on Hollywood walk of Fame / Bygone record label / Rocker Stefani / Some Rijksmuseum holdings / Brewer CoorsRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65687674401242135812012-07-12T23:05:36.000-04:002012-07-12T23:05:36.000-04:00@Waxy: ... as does the bottle of Griffon Extra Blo...@Waxy: ... as does the bottle of Griffon Extra Blonde in my hand! I hope yours is cooling you off well in this heat.SmacDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59691131060754851342012-07-12T22:59:34.261-04:002012-07-12T22:59:34.261-04:00@SmacD, the bottle of Griffon Rousse I'm holdi...@SmacD, the bottle of Griffon Rousse I'm holding right now comes from la brasserie McAuslan...Waxy in Montrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04395751487137805245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64699173977494802482012-07-12T22:15:53.601-04:002012-07-12T22:15:53.601-04:00As a longtime reader yet new poster, I think that ...As a longtime reader yet new poster, I think that some of you have your PanTees in a wad. It is a puzzle. Figure it out without worrying about proper usage. I got it, and I was too stupid to graduate from college.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5499998148571969932012-07-12T21:57:33.950-04:002012-07-12T21:57:33.950-04:00@SiS - Nice of you to weigh in with your eight cen...@SiS - Nice of you to weigh in with your eight cents worth. Yours was probably the timeliest comment of all (and now I'm going to bed).Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16005812515551741002012-07-12T21:55:26.935-04:002012-07-12T21:55:26.935-04:00@Anonymous (9:25 PM): Though neither “ie” nor “ei”...@Anonymous (9:25 PM): Though neither “ie” nor “ei” appears in its name, don’t forget another great Montreal brewery: McAuslan, brewer of St-Ambroise and Griffon, among others.<br /><br />SmacD (a lifelong Montrealer)SmacDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85944691091501863472012-07-12T21:27:51.242-04:002012-07-12T21:27:51.242-04:00Waxy and Dire, would you two ciese and desist.Waxy and Dire, would you two ciese and desist.Solving in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04249420848844874936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10131219406977941542012-07-12T21:25:21.246-04:002012-07-12T21:25:21.246-04:00I saw the clue for 13/14/64 across and instantly t...I saw the clue for 13/14/64 across and instantly thought "I before E". It fit the clue, so as soon as I got one random cross I wrote it in. Breezed through the rest, but got Big Timed in the end.<br /><br />Would you believe me if I told you I solved this one while listening to some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGI5wGp2tXA" rel="nofollow">Neil</a> Young and drinking a Péché Mortel from Brasserie Dieu Du <a href="http://www.crisse.ca/blog/wp-content/2009/12/Peche-Mortel.jpg" rel="nofollow">Ciel</a>)? (I'm surprised Waxy didn't reference this outstading <a href="http://images.lpcdn.ca/435x290/201109/28/381959-microbrasserie-dieu-ciel-ete-cible.jpg" rel="nofollow">Montreal brewery</a> above)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70089726710531883662012-07-12T20:57:16.564-04:002012-07-12T20:57:16.564-04:00@Waxy - well that's a relief - I thought maybe...@Waxy - well that's a relief - I thought maybe he had succumbed to his grief and ODed on Lo Mein. I hope he has some friends who can weigh in with ways to relieve his distress? It's almost eight pm (your time) so I have to stop now (clearly I am not in your league when it comes to i before e puns. either).Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11285841394442929332012-07-12T20:40:47.416-04:002012-07-12T20:40:47.416-04:00@Diri - Keith had a seizure when he heard. Now liv...@Diri - Keith had a seizure when he heard. Now lives with his neice Deirdre and her husband Neil in Leicester.Waxy in Montrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04395751487137805245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9587609921947873162012-07-12T20:38:10.221-04:002012-07-12T20:38:10.221-04:00@Anonymous (7:24 PM): “Hut” is what a QB says so t...@Anonymous (7:24 PM): “Hut” is what a QB says so that the centre snaps the ball. Coincidentally, when the QB says this, his hands are usually close to the centre’s ANAL area.<br /><br />Speaking of ANAL—and there’s a segue I’ve never used before—here is a favourite exchange from “Annie Hall,” just before the Marshall McLuhan scene:<br /><br />ALVY (after refusing to go into a film that has already started): I’ve gotta see a picture exactly from the start to the finish, ’cause—’cause I’m anal.<br /><br />ANNIE: H’h, that’s a polite word for what you are.<br /><br />SmacD from the syndicate (if I may borrow @Waxy’s terminology)SmacDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76580493125667740092012-07-12T19:58:32.540-04:002012-07-12T19:58:32.540-04:00Came back to check the box for email updates, but ...Came back to check the box for email updates, but while I am here, @anony 7:24 PM, QB's call the "hike" signal "HUT 1, HUT 2..."Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80521082694448026092012-07-12T19:55:17.461-04:002012-07-12T19:55:17.461-04:00@Waxy - From The Irish Times.Com: "Thge meet...@Waxy - From The Irish Times.Com: "Thge meeting between Queen Elizabeth II and Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, is an important symbolic addition to the iconography of reconciliation on this island and between Ireland and Britain. Their handshake, at a private meeting in Belfast organised by Co-operation North and to be attended by President Higgins, deserves the publicity it has attracted, however upsetting Sinn Féin’s political opponents find that to be." I wonder how your neighbor, Keith, feels about that? (But that was a really cool "I before E" rant.)<br /><br />I was totally stuck in the SW corner until I changed "lag" 49a, Be behind, to OWE and the whole corner fell in to place. I love it when that happens.<br /><br />IRS enforcement rules require them to file a notice of LIEN before they can SEIZE your property. I'm sure this is of no concern to any one here, but since the words appear side by side in the grid I thought I'd mention it.Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84062978619241542142012-07-12T19:24:48.020-04:002012-07-12T19:24:48.020-04:00I know what QB is short for, but what is hut short...I know what QB is short for, but what is hut short for?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72247482659692236172012-07-12T16:24:25.723-04:002012-07-12T16:24:25.723-04:00Felt so smug. When I dropped in ROMAN EMPIRE, whic...Felt so smug. When I dropped in ROMAN EMPIRE, which combined with RENTERS made my SE a snarl. Eventually got most of it, but didn't think DURRA looked like a real word, and still don't understand MERC. A car, A team???<br /><br />@SIS beat me to it, but my compliments to @Waxy for dexterity with words!<br /><br />Captcha: etgarde. Looks like I'll have to fight for the right to post.DMGrandmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14693488455860740522012-07-12T15:24:16.730-04:002012-07-12T15:24:16.730-04:00@SiS: a surfeit of praise indeed but I'll not ...@SiS: a surfeit of praise indeed but I'll not feign false modesty. Thanks!Waxy in Montrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04395751487137805245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90380365676439454952012-07-12T14:40:59.308-04:002012-07-12T14:40:59.308-04:00This puzzle made my brain hurt. For one thing, I k...This puzzle made my brain hurt. For one thing, I kept looking for a rebus or something even more sinister. I had romanempirE AT 23D to start and built off that. (Yeah, you should see my newspaper - I do them in ink.) Like others, I wouldn't let go of RentERS. Had Masc for 56D ("Bobcat or Cougar, for short."). BIGtiME at 61A and DatE at 2D. <br /><br />I think the clueing of 23D is misleading, and, as others, didn't like EXMATE or KNT. IGN is legit to me. Cleeeever cluing with "Touchdown stat" and "Move to the right, say." <br /><br />Finally slogged through it. Tough one for me, Joe.<br /><br />@SiS lol award of the day to @Waxy.<br /><br />Capcha: supplyce. What's yelled at at an immigrant's birthday.Solving in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04249420848844874936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76407048816770454922012-07-12T13:16:19.289-04:002012-07-12T13:16:19.289-04:00I for one enjoyed this puzzle and thank you Mr. Kr...I for one enjoyed this puzzle and thank you Mr. Krozel. I have a hard time understanding the complainers and the nitpickers. Ask yourselves, could you do better? I'm an old man of 75yrs & have done crosswords for over 50. Even the silly/easy puzzles are fun and satisfying to someone out there. In my opinion Mr. Krozel is one of the best, along with Gorski, Berry, Reagle, etal.Ron Diegonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4641043361062207852012-07-12T12:46:53.824-04:002012-07-12T12:46:53.824-04:00Another possibility for a 16d clue would be: "...Another possibility for a 16d clue would be: "Like CCR's Bad Moon." For a NON-giveaway clue...I don't have much.<br /><br />Man, I bet @Tobias so loved this puzzle (NOT!) that he was rendered speechless. PROAMS, GOLFTOURNAMENTS, NHLTEAMS, RAMS, HUTS (as clued): a veritable plethora (thanks, Howard Cosell!) of sports stuff.<br /><br />Pretty dense theme; clever multi- I-E crossings besides the rule spelled out. Makes for some dreadful fill (KNT, ENS, and 3 abbrs. in a row (AMER, MERC, SRS). A fair tradeoff for the theme and the cool long downs. Too bad the 15's couldn't contain some kind of I-E thing.<br /><br />I liked the mini-theme of ORBS crossing RADIOASTRONOMER.Spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27206488311398184412012-07-12T09:45:34.552-04:002012-07-12T09:45:34.552-04:00From the syndicate: My feisty foreign neighbor Kei...From the syndicate: My feisty foreign neighbor Keith who weirdly wears beige consumes caffeine and codeine having forfeited his fortune (which came neither from a heist or selling an heirloom) trying to rein in the reign of the Sinn Fein in Eire.Waxy in Montrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04395751487137805245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78955518879162757022012-06-10T10:17:21.028-04:002012-06-10T10:17:21.028-04:00Iciest and icier both comply with the I berfore E...Iciest and icier both comply with the I berfore E rule, but violate the "except after C" exception. I know why, but it really is a rule often broken. Hmmm.JaxInL.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13792405579998093081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72992770801034184642012-06-08T23:36:46.289-04:002012-06-08T23:36:46.289-04:00"Neither the ancient financier nor the weird ..."Neither the ancient financier nor the weird scientific foreigner<br />sufficiently seizes the reins of leisured society at its height."<br /><br />(A nice round dozen exceptions to the basic `rule.') <br /><br />Enjoyed the puzzle --- I didn't know exceptions are quite so common.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35681227611099216622012-06-07T23:32:33.991-04:002012-06-07T23:32:33.991-04:00@Z - Thx. Oh, that whimsical Rex!@Z - Thx. Oh, that whimsical Rex!pknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53919788280001707072012-06-07T22:02:54.514-04:002012-06-07T22:02:54.514-04:00This 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 6:39, 6:49, 0.97, 45%, Medium<br />Tue 10:00, 8:54, 1.12, 82%, Challenging<br />Wed 10:44, 11:47, 0.91, 30%, Easy-Medium<br />Thu 17:12, 18:57, 0.91, 35%, Easy-Medium<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:46, 3:40, 1.03, 66%, Medium-Challenging<br />Tue 5:05, 4:36, 1.10, 81%, Challenging<br />Wed 5:48, 5:53, 0.99, 50%, Medium<br />Thu 8:31, 9:21, 0.91, 38%, Easy-Mediumsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38428956667768635482012-06-07T21:32:21.067-04:002012-06-07T21:32:21.067-04:00@Robert of San Francisco: we had a Dalmation calle...@Robert of San Francisco: we had a Dalmation called Major (Millstones) once.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43532028464043749202012-06-07T20:13:18.107-04:002012-06-07T20:13:18.107-04:00For anyone interested Joe Krozel has several posts...For anyone interested Joe Krozel has several posts on Wordplay, his latest giving an insight as to how he came up with the concept for this puzzle....<br /><br />JFCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com