tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post5256467808274705412..comments2024-03-28T09:58:17.214-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2007 - Lee Glickstein and Nancy SalomonRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42337329057967746112007-02-22T11:04:00.000-05:002007-02-22T11:04:00.000-05:00This one was a toughie for me, I couldn't finish i...This one was a toughie for me, I couldn't finish it. There was no way I was getting APERCU or PLAGUE, so I couldn't finish the far east.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57538169981360644932007-01-12T23:13:00.000-05:002007-01-12T23:13:00.000-05:00Oh, SET I. I see. Huh. Still meant nothing to me. ...Oh, SET I. I see. Huh. Still meant nothing to me. No Egyptian scholar, I. <br /><br />No scholar of anything at this moment - I am fresh off a total puzzle free fall (Saturday). God I hate those - just staring at blank space and listening to my internal clock tick very, very loudly.Rex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7855713631570338112007-01-12T22:54:00.000-05:002007-01-12T22:54:00.000-05:00so wasn't Set the First
son of Ramses the First?
...so wasn't Set the First<br />son of Ramses the First?<br /><br />LauraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34624491475609829432007-01-12T11:25:00.000-05:002007-01-12T11:25:00.000-05:00Did you do today's (Friday, 1/11/07) NY Sun puzzle...Did you do today's (Friday, 1/11/07) NY Sun puzzle? For the life of me, I can't figure out what the theme is.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02765333319589699316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8320471970342476982007-01-12T06:47:00.000-05:002007-01-12T06:47:00.000-05:00One of the fab things to me about the puzzle was t...One of the fab things to me about the puzzle was that the first answer I filled in, 2D, Mens REA, I got purely (not Simon Purely) because I have watched Legally Blonde 50 times. Ah, culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90088438357053876742007-01-11T21:33:00.000-05:002007-01-11T21:33:00.000-05:00Oh yeah, I say it all the time. At least I said it...Oh yeah, I say it all the time. At least I said it all the time on my late-70s Crime Show, "Mare's Nest in Key West," where every episode, just before the commercial break, I would turn to my less charismatic partner and say, "Looks like we got a real MARE'S NEST here, Smithy!"<br /><br />Actually, I blogged that very phrase early in my blogging career because I wanted to know what "mare" ever had a "nest." I'm sure you can find that entry ... somewhere in my back catalogue.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47559128732454900022007-01-11T19:24:00.001-05:002007-01-11T19:24:00.001-05:00Speaking of archaic terms...
Mare's Nest: my Mac ...Speaking of archaic terms... <br />Mare's Nest: my Mac dictionary tells me "origin late 16th cent." Have I not heard this because I'm under 50, a city boy, or missed a canon of English Lit? Rex tossed it off like he says it all time.<br /><br />- StuC zarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12893340048068815126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22239873104919104652007-01-11T14:28:00.000-05:002007-01-11T14:28:00.000-05:00Wow, Susannah Centlivre in a NYT crossword -- unti...Wow, Susannah Centlivre in a NYT crossword -- until recently she barely made it on to the reading lists of pre-exam grad students. This must be one of those expressions that long outlives it source, kind of like "Lothario," which was popularized in English in Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent, or Mrs. Malaprop from Sheridan's The Rivals -- I would have sworn it came from the much more famous School for Scandal. But Lothario and Mrs. Malaprop are familiar expressions, whereas Simon Pure is not something I've ever heard anyone say in the twenty-first century. A regional thing, maybe?<br /><br />Re: Goblin Market. I read long excerpts from this long poem at a Halloween-week "potluck of words" party. After playing up Rossetti's Christianity and piety (both well documented), it was kind of fun to read about the sister who sucked the sweet fruits sold by the goblin men "until her lips were sore." Repression, anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50711920651106038152007-01-11T12:08:00.000-05:002007-01-11T12:08:00.000-05:00Yes, one of the beautiful things about crosswords ...Yes, one of the beautiful things about crosswords is that youth is not Necessarily an asset. <br /><br />Although, tell that to the reigning puzzle champion (age: something very sickly young, i.e. way younger than me)<br /><br />I love the expression SIMON PURE and am going to use it whenever I can, if only to sound Olde-Timey.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79755823055458286662007-01-11T11:55:00.000-05:002007-01-11T11:55:00.000-05:00When I was a child in the 40s, my parents often us...When I was a child in the 40s, my parents often used the term "Simon pure" to indicate something truly authentic. I don't think I've heard it since, but the answer came quickly on this one. Sometimes it helps to be old.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com