tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post5433852628241384365..comments2024-03-28T07:33:16.316-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Perpendicular to ship's midline / TUE 10-20-15 / Ambient musician Brian Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52094254967031183262016-09-26T05:56:16.464-04:002016-09-26T05:56:16.464-04:00Crazysoft trusted place to Download puzzle app. Ge...Crazysoft trusted place to Download puzzle app. Get Free puzzle app games with instant download. You can <a href="http://crazysoft.gr/" rel="nofollow">download puzzle app</a> for android and apple iphones. Download the best entertaining apps from store.Herry Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336899634205525690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43815476236277318242015-11-24T15:09:41.530-05:002015-11-24T15:09:41.530-05:00Way back in 1956, I learned the word TIPI from Mis...Way back in 1956, I learned the word TIPI from Miss Whisker (a yeah, baby, @Rondo), but if you want to get all bent out of shape over that spelling, well, BE MAD. I don't care.<br /><br />To tell the truth, this seemed to me a perfectly good Tuesday puzzle with a cutish theme, low dreck count, and some nice cluing/answer combos. I thought the clue for LCD was clever, and certainly preferable to a tech-based clue.<br /><br />"Brought to you by the letter B"--har, per M&A, @Spacey. I leave you with the advice to always try to not be a wigwam and a tipi (too tense).rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68745247732235487092015-11-24T12:23:08.670-05:002015-11-24T12:23:08.670-05:00No TIPI problem for me: that's the word. We An...No TIPI problem for me: that's the word. We Anglicized it with E's.<br /><br />Once again, the Sun editors elected to forgo printing the "note," though this time it wasn't needed. This was mostly fun, with a couple of "uh-oh!"s. BEMAD is...unfortunate. This is usually preceded by "Don't." But how would you clue it? And ANIN is about as awkward a partial as you can get. Other than OSH.<br /><br />But I won't go ONANDON about the TINIEST glitches; there's plenty of GOLD in them thar hills. Beverly, that is. I too noticed @lms's mini-theme TOURIST LOSES, NICETRY. Great stuff. And with house ODDs of +6.7/%, your TOURIST will LOSE faster than at most of the other games.<br /><br />This puzzle has been brought to you by the letter B (six of them, and we need still another for poor headless ETSY! Now there's a WOE that had to go in on crosses). I'll give it an overall B. spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29733684988356149332015-11-24T12:04:45.033-05:002015-11-24T12:04:45.033-05:00Never played ROULETTE, but isn’t there also a gree...Never played ROULETTE, but isn’t there also a green 0 on the wheel? Not complainin’ just sayin’. Actually kinda liked this for a Tues-puz. And saying that is usually a STRETCH.<br /><br />Had the O in the stereo speakers and would really have liked to put in pOlk, as I have $1500 worth of Polk Audio speakers on my home stereo. They put out excellent sound. Even from my old Technics direct drive turntable, by PANASONIC.<br /><br /> Once more, no yeah babies, not even TIP(p)I Hedron.<br /><br />LCD (lowest common denominator) seems like a STRETCH for that answer instead of being a techy clue. But mostly this puz was OK.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70854201453555270002015-11-24T10:22:48.091-05:002015-11-24T10:22:48.091-05:00POKER REDSNAPPER
THATS DAM ODDISNTIT,
that ONAND...POKER REDSNAPPER<br /><br />THATS DAM ODDISNTIT, <br />that ONANDON she SEXTS,<br />BRO, she’s not ABEL to quit, <br />so I ASTOR, “What comes NEXT?”<br /><br />--- SANA SNIPES<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78486225986422921682015-10-25T18:26:18.757-04:002015-10-25T18:26:18.757-04:00This is from "Indian America" which won ...This is from "Indian America" which won 1st Annual American Library Association Denali Press Award. Written by Indians for Indians, and for white man. . . Tipi. . .From the Siouan root ti "to dwell" and pi "used for" This is the spelling approved by the Souix Nation. andyn840@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17001613260435940433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28590190581052374572015-10-21T01:13:26.309-04:002015-10-21T01:13:26.309-04:00Cute. I also have never seen TIPI, but I got it ea...Cute. I also have never seen TIPI, but I got it easily. Nice Monday or Tuesday puzzle.Hartley70https://www.blogger.com/profile/00557118655188472450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18668311459284877922015-10-21T00:32:05.755-04:002015-10-21T00:32:05.755-04:00Still don't get LCD. It filled in auto but wh...Still don't get LCD. It filled in auto but what is it.<br />Found this easy and roulette superfluousGrantynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18640268770110398992015-10-20T23:30:51.562-04:002015-10-20T23:30:51.562-04:00John Child 12:21 if you change the language to Fre...John Child 12:21 if you change the language to French you see that it is almost exclusively tipi. They encountered the Lakota about 75 years or so before the English speakers. The French pronunciation of tipi is the same as the English pronunciation of tepee. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46882909882869634752015-10-20T21:54:51.273-04:002015-10-20T21:54:51.273-04:00@Nikthefin - Thanks for the tip. I'll try it ...@Nikthefin - Thanks for the tip. I'll try it the next time I can't solve on paper.jaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385568014046336373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47616137701326628352015-10-20T19:57:23.281-04:002015-10-20T19:57:23.281-04:00@Z - Yeah, salad bowl is far more accurate - there...@Z - Yeah, salad bowl is far more accurate - there never really was a melting pot. I actually love the salad bowl concept, it makes life fun.Mohair Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16502840715719161565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54535375085521936832015-10-20T18:47:53.011-04:002015-10-20T18:47:53.011-04:00Thank you all for Tepee explanations. Is BRO in a ...Thank you all for Tepee explanations. Is BRO in a TIPI a Homie on the Range?aging sopranohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01085649464857246925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90804553919747222672015-10-20T18:15:31.436-04:002015-10-20T18:15:31.436-04:00Late to the party: only got around to the puzzle o...Late to the party: only got around to the puzzle on a train back from Geneva.<br /><br />Unlike most, I didn't get the ROULETTE clue right off the bat. I had ROmp for 33A at first, and TRopE for 20D (Merriam-Webster's second definition is "a common or <b>overused</b> theme or device : cliché"), so I had the circled letters reading "LETTER Om", and wondered what THAT was all about. Also had the Lady as "ASTeR", which further got me off track. <br /><br />Speaking of overused: AIL, ENO, SKA, SNL, TEE. On the other (EVEN)HAND, LCD wasn't bad.<br /><br />Thought about "TePee" or "TeePee" as an answer to 30A, but obviously that didn't fit. (Interesting to learn that "TIPI" is now the preferred spelling in English; it's long been the spelling in French. Not to be confused with <i>Typee</i>, Herman Melville's first book, of course.<br /><br />Eventually got sorted out, but all that confusion in the center added an extra 10 minutes to my time.<br /><br />Have also never, ever seen ACERB in print, so I agree with others who don't like it as an answer in a Tuesday puzzle. I dispute "SANA": the accepted English spelling for the Arabic name of the Yemeni capital (which has been much in the news recently) is, and has been for many years, SANA'A. And MIX TAPE? Am I missing something, or should I not take this term literally?<br /><br />Otherwise, I liked ANTHRAX (bute weird clueing), DARKHORSE, and DOME.'mericans in Parisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48981073882021588762015-10-20T17:38:17.949-04:002015-10-20T17:38:17.949-04:0027 years old white male here. I use "bro"...27 years old white male here. I use "bro" and "homie" all the time, with people of all types, who use the words with me as well, and we go happily about our day and nobody gets particularly upset. <br /><br />Oversensitivity to language is bad enough, but invented oversensitivity on behalf of imaginary people who MIGHT be offended by something is simply ridiculous. You don't have to protect people from scary, evil words like HOMIE. They can take of themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33579935770108816072015-10-20T16:54:33.634-04:002015-10-20T16:54:33.634-04:00Found today's puzzle kinda humdrum, more like ...Found today's puzzle kinda humdrum, more like a Monday. My interest was piqued by George Barany's mention of a puzzle he created to celebrate John Child's 60th birthday. So I thought I'd give it a whirl and enjoyed the solve. (My family also makes personalized crosswords to celebrate major events.) But wait! I went to Williams College, and I too just turned 60. So Happy Birthday, John, my long lost classmate! Gracie Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13959855967910938132015-10-20T16:30:06.626-04:002015-10-20T16:30:06.626-04:00Bah. Shame on Rex (and the others) DAMning this p...Bah. Shame on Rex (and the others) DAMning this perfectly good puzzle over TIPI.<br />Just because xword DOGMA teaches TEPEE doesn't make it right. Do the TINIEST bit of research and look at Google's Ngram tool, which shown frequency of occurrence in a huge corpus of printed matter over the last 200+ years: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tipi%2C+tepee%2C+teepee&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctipi%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctepee%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cteepee%3B%2Cc0<br /><br />(Spoiler: TIPI has been more common since the early 1960s)<br /><br />Kudos to the constructor for helping me learn something today.<br />DarrenFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31967316202907555162015-10-20T15:34:23.352-04:002015-10-20T15:34:23.352-04:00LCD means Lowest Common Denominator.LCD means Lowest Common Denominator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373497811486389544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31146367102166654872015-10-20T15:28:48.962-04:002015-10-20T15:28:48.962-04:00LCD as used here is Lowest Common Denominator.LCD as used here is Lowest Common Denominator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373497811486389544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16302797737902506372015-10-20T15:23:45.305-04:002015-10-20T15:23:45.305-04:00To chefbea: LCD as used here is Lowest Common Den...To chefbea: LCD as used here is Lowest Common Denominator.Bill D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24078838959593856652015-10-20T14:47:46.557-04:002015-10-20T14:47:46.557-04:00Herbie Bookbinder in "The City Boy", the...Herbie Bookbinder in "The City Boy", the first Herman Wouk I read, even before "Marjorie Morningstar".<br /><br />Am becoming progressively more interested in sprinter chickens, and wonder whether the ones with more stamina run little fowl marathons, something to crow about. Also worry about whether Adidas makes tiny corrective running shoes for those whose little feets suffer from chicken supination. (That would take some consommé'd skill.)<br /><br />Happy Birthday to @John, no longer a Child.Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3525211980452658202015-10-20T14:46:49.713-04:002015-10-20T14:46:49.713-04:00Herbie Bookbinder in "The City Boy", the...Herbie Bookbinder in "The City Boy", the first Herman Wouk I read, even before "Marjorie Morningstar".<br /><br />Am becoming progressively more interested in sprinter chickens, and wonder whether the ones with more stamina run little fowl marathons, something to crow about. Also worry about whether Adidas makes tiny corrective running shoes for those whose little feets suffer from chicken supination. (That would take some consommé'd skill.)<br /><br />Happy Birthday to @John, no longer a Child.Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14520542019151011962015-10-20T14:10:29.293-04:002015-10-20T14:10:29.293-04:00If TIPI was legit, it would have been used a lot m...If TIPI was legit, it would have been used a lot more than 24 times in the last twenty years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35723763339857540892015-10-20T13:54:10.042-04:002015-10-20T13:54:10.042-04:00Very easy puzzle for me - record timeVery easy puzzle for me - record timeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36014844404806813302015-10-20T13:49:20.307-04:002015-10-20T13:49:20.307-04:00No idea about the glitch, I waited for the newspap...No idea about the glitch, I waited for the newspaper delivery. Easy Tuesday, slim theme, with some very nice words. My favorite term: oddisntit.<br /><br />Never saw teepee as tipi before. machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9609214523975467402015-10-20T13:38:58.824-04:002015-10-20T13:38:58.824-04:00@Wreck..seems I threw out my crossword puzzle dict...@Wreck..seems I threw out my crossword puzzle dictionary so looked up tipi in my 1977 Mirriam-Webster dictionary. It's there as a variation of tepeechefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.com