tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8795732104617676509..comments2024-03-29T10:56:43.637-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Rows / SAT 6-17-17 / Uncut / Flow / Friends / BelieveRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73706724844390023532017-07-29T01:51:24.461-04:002017-07-29T01:51:24.461-04:00Really enjoyed this. 25:22 My final 5 minutes in t...Really enjoyed this. 25:22 My final 5 minutes in the NW. I know PASTIES but not PASTIS.<br />The SW is kinda dark...[MAD, RAT RACE, DEATHS, TORE AT]<br />21d. How about this....Letter opener to a follower? [DEAR STALKER] ....<br />Boo! Hiss! Tired, old "Vamoose!" clue for 7a.[BEAT IT.] Missed a chance for a Michael Jackson reference, or Eddie Van Halen. Anyone else read the Chuck Klosterman interview where Van Halen says he doesn't listen to music much at all. The last album Van Halen bought was Peter Gabriel's "So." That came out in 1986.Saturday puzzles should be hardernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31289812387926338782017-07-23T20:16:44.338-04:002017-07-23T20:16:44.338-04:00The lack of an apostrophe in the LIDS clue. Not wr...The lack of an apostrophe in the LIDS clue. Not wrong, but it takes a contrived example to show that usage.straylinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536180563789923012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12948378378597854262017-07-23T19:30:17.322-04:002017-07-23T19:30:17.322-04:00EDIT - I thank Loren Muse Smith (not Lena) for the...EDIT - I thank Loren Muse Smith (not Lena) for the definition of n00b.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67130480521970022742017-07-23T19:21:36.130-04:002017-07-23T19:21:36.130-04:00I am a day late and a dollar short after strugglin...I am a day late and a dollar short after struggling with this for the entire weekend. I found this puzzle to be among the toughest ones in a long time. I had most of the wrong answers Lena did (Osaka, Pernod, tans) and since I use a pen the grid ended up a smudge-filled inky mess.<br />After reading the helpful definition provided by posted above, I have concluded that The Donald is a n00b and his picture should appear in dictionaries beside this word from now on. thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81199868591261707262017-07-22T21:56:13.425-04:002017-07-22T21:56:13.425-04:00Dear @Strayling - I believe you are responding to ...Dear @Strayling - I believe you are responding to my post??? Could you explain further...<br /><br />DLIWDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62413989583389284782017-07-22T19:50:20.153-04:002017-07-22T19:50:20.153-04:00It's a bit of a reach, I agree, but it works i...It's a bit of a reach, I agree, but it works if you think if collections. A bottle might have a bottle cover. A crate of bottles could have a bottles cover.straylinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536180563789923012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27060033943027789232017-07-22T19:44:00.453-04:002017-07-22T19:44:00.453-04:00This puzzle exemplifies why I prefer cryptics. So ...This puzzle exemplifies why I prefer cryptics. So many proper nouns I didn't know gave me a big fat DNF in the NE.<br /><br />A cryptic would have given me an alternate way to solve. Figure out the instructions in the clue and they tell you how to construct the answer. The trade off is that you also have to figure out what the actual question is, hidden within the clue.<br /><br />straylinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536180563789923012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47864276009335465522017-07-22T18:47:26.425-04:002017-07-22T18:47:26.425-04:00I commiserate with @spacecraft, @Lady Di, and all ...I commiserate with @spacecraft, @Lady Di, and all others who were zapped by the PPPs. I feel badly burnt. leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86518197124059443042017-07-22T15:55:03.642-04:002017-07-22T15:55:03.642-04:00PS!!!
SUNS can definitely be a verb. My cat know...PS!!!<br /><br />SUNS can definitely be a verb. My cat knows where the sun goes every day, and SUNS himself in the appropriate window. He does not tan. <br /><br />However, I must say that the clue for LIDS should have had an "'" as it is possessive. (Should read "preserves' covers. Otherwise you insinuate that you are preserving some kind of cover.) Yes? No? Anyone else see that? I didn't see anything in the comments. <br /><br />Lady DiDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88529831415568496482017-07-22T15:19:41.137-04:002017-07-22T15:19:41.137-04:00I used to work with some professors who like to ki...I used to work with some professors who like to kinda "brag" about how "tough" they were. I'd always say that anyone can make a course "tough" if they put in too much (reading, writing, exercises, etc). But it takes a truly good teacher to make a course intellectually challenging and thus, stimulating. You can guess which road this puzzle took.<br /><br />I was surprised at how much I did get, but basically this was a trivia-fest - not the kind of entertaining and thoughtful challenge I enjoy. The constructor had some really good clue/answers you could suss out - wish he had done more of that. Too many places where I had to shrug and say, "I don't know." <br /><br />Smiles for a quintessential BERRA quote. It ain't over till it's over. It's over.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10440584318460965772017-07-22T15:01:16.459-04:002017-07-22T15:01:16.459-04:00From Syndication Land
This was a "know it or...From Syndication Land<br /><br />This was a "know it or you don't" puzzle. Unfortunately for me, I didn't! I look forward to Saturday puzzles all week. This one just made me sad. : ( Never heard of Ellie Kemper. At one time I tried Ellen Pompeo!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62290227685799144822017-07-22T14:32:29.168-04:002017-07-22T14:32:29.168-04:00Refreshing, truthful comment by Nancy - this was a...Refreshing, truthful comment by Nancy - this was a pisser infestation of a puzzle.<br />Rejected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37220188905122796912017-07-22T14:22:13.498-04:002017-07-22T14:22:13.498-04:00I loved "buy" for "believe". E...I loved "buy" for "believe". Even with the B, it took forever to solve.5wksltrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30533499317050025312017-07-22T14:07:35.770-04:002017-07-22T14:07:35.770-04:00DNF. Way too many obscure PPPs for me. Oh, look ov...DNF. Way too many obscure PPPs for me. Oh, look over there: a single actual word: BERATE! Sorry, this one was CLEAROUT of my wheelhouse. ELLIEKEMPER? OTARA?? RAGNAROK??? Be serious.<br /><br />ILIE INTERROR of these partials. Get back to me when "words" return to crosswords.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79804673824170193162017-07-22T13:40:34.201-04:002017-07-22T13:40:34.201-04:00Nice one, @BS.
The old brain wasn't totally e...Nice one, @BS.<br /><br />The old brain wasn't totally engaged today, and, something that rarely happens, I lost the drive to see this to the end. So, DNF.<br /><br />Netflix actress, MB racer, Scandinavian thingy... I DID somehow get SCHUYLER SISTERS without knowing anything about Hamilton, and DEERSTALKER was almost a gimme, but most of the rest of the centre section remained white. It also didn't help that I had OsAka and taNS and wouldn't change it. LIDA ROSE? I now realize that is a song from The Music Man sung by a barbershop quartet, but impossible during the solve.<br /><br />I think that had I been a tad sharper this morning I might have liked it.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9927208046826464512017-07-22T13:08:49.428-04:002017-07-22T13:08:49.428-04:00This took about an hour fifteen, mostly because I&...This took about an hour fifteen, mostly because I'm watching The Open, but also because of the popular OsAka/taNS cross, QUINcE and WerehEre. So several inky areas. And the SCHUYLERSISTERS only showed up due to crosses as I, like most people, have not seen Hamilton.<br /><br />You've gotta be familiar with your edda to know RAGNAROK. Not unheard of for this former Scandinavian Studies minor.<br /><br />Don't know how many more years of the RATRACE for me. Closing on a second property soon is not PRAGMATIC in that regard.<br /><br />Only hint of a yeah baby candidate is ELLIEKEMPER. My only knowledge of some of these celebs comes from Parade magazine in the Sunday paper.<br /><br />Can't BERATE a puz like this.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20717486027927731492017-07-22T11:57:41.504-04:002017-07-22T11:57:41.504-04:00BEATIT
The SCHUYLERSISTERS were EVERSO MAD,
in TI...BEATIT<br /><br />The SCHUYLERSISTERS were EVERSO MAD,<br />in TIERS, not PRAGMATIC with how slow WEMADEIT.<br />IMRICH unlike the AMATEURs they've had,<br />"I BUY where ILIE, so let your master BATE it!"<br /><br />--- ANTOINE AVEENOBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46460265358993733902017-06-28T19:25:42.506-04:002017-06-28T19:25:42.506-04:00@Rob Thanks!@Rob Thanks!Curleegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556851926736060130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40033533932954290502017-06-28T19:21:36.606-04:002017-06-28T19:21:36.606-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Curleegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556851926736060130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78001949782844386222017-06-18T19:19:34.068-04:002017-06-18T19:19:34.068-04:00So many unknows. Kimmy Scmidt, Hamilton, LILA ROSE...So many unknows. Kimmy Scmidt, Hamilton, LILA ROSE, the British note thing, what TILERS do, the damn car. And of course, they all cross one another in a small area of the grid, making it basically impossible.<br /><br />Yet I still would have had a clean solve if I could just have come up with BUY from -U-. <br /><br />Anyway, calling this medium is an not merely wrong, it's a slap in the face.kitshefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10014225555838850414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86689333288795650042017-06-18T17:19:01.168-04:002017-06-18T17:19:01.168-04:00Never heard of either PASTIS or SEMIBREVE, so I wa...Never heard of either PASTIS or SEMIBREVE, so I was lucky to guess correctly on that S square. Could easily have been a Natick, with DEMIBREVE and PASTID seeming almost equally plausible.<br /><br />Otherwise a very easy solve thanks to SCHUYLER SISTERS, ELLIE KEMPER, and DEERSTALKER being gimmes that filled the center up instantly.<br /><br />Startled that SITZ bath passed Will's editing. Either you don't know it or, or you do know it and it fails the breakfast test.Matthew G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07957320012395569238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27462353887740821682017-06-18T14:14:06.559-04:002017-06-18T14:14:06.559-04:00I finished! Hooray for me!
- Nestle/ Nastid/ D...I finished! Hooray for me!<br /> - Nestle/ Nastid/ Demi breve - doesn't Nestle make frozen dinners? Yum, Nastid!<br /> - Eberle/ Banos/ Quinto - was so sure of EBerle - could have been Banes/ Quinte; at least I'd be closer.<br /> - Drt/ Tans/ Otara - since everything else was so obscure, if it hung on tans, it must be right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43963901237930356672017-06-18T10:45:07.356-04:002017-06-18T10:45:07.356-04:00I usually spend about an hour on a Saturday, I gav...I usually spend about an hour on a Saturday, I gave up on this one after 2.5 hours with 6 wrong squares (and quite a few more were mostly by luck). too many obscure stuff, and TANS/SUNS... ughsaltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17509059132881882002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5171401704388817902017-06-18T09:02:57.734-04:002017-06-18T09:02:57.734-04:00I guess in November we will know it: Thor: Ragnar...I guess in November we will know it: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501632/" rel="nofollow"> Thor: Ragnarök.</a>Lokinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78388241113016157582017-06-18T08:45:24.225-04:002017-06-18T08:45:24.225-04:00@Curleegirl: The Quakers are also called the Socie...@Curleegirl: The Quakers are also called the Society of Friends.<br /><br />Definitely some obscure stuff in this puzzle, or at least some stuff I didn't know -- I got QUINTE from crosses -- but RAGNAROK seemed eminently fair. I understand not everyone will have learned their Norse mythology, but RAGNAROK isn't a deep cut of the genre. No more unfair than, say, HADES or ARTEMIS. Crosswords' Greek mythology clues get <i>much</i> more obscure -- I never remember the Furies when they come up, for example -- and people don't bat an eye at those. I think in this case people are conflating what they don't happen to know with what's unacceptably obscure.<br /><br />As a person who had TANS instead of SUNS, SUNS is a legitimate verb at this point, albeit a nasty bit of cluing with that ? across. To sun oneself is a generally accepted turn of phrase in current usage.Robnoreply@blogger.com