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Take down a notch / SUN 8-3-2025 / Looks inside? / Warp-driven device / Florida beach town, informally / Tough spot / Hands-on professional? / Sneakily exploits / Something clicked to add an attachment / Brother of DIsney's Louie and Dewey Duck
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Constructor: Jeremy Newton
Relative difficulty: Hard
THEME: Star Trek — There's a lot going on here! It's a Star Trek tribute puzzle. There's THE ENTERPRISE up top and MISTER SCOTT right below up. And a bunch of different characters are being beamed up ("BEAM ME UP!"), as they are featured backwards in circled letters in phrases they might say. We also have USS as a little bonus.
Word of the Day: SITH (10D: Enemy of the Jedi) —
The Sith are the main antagonists in the fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise.[2] They are the antithesis and ancient enemies of the Jedi. The Sith Order is depicted as an ancient cult of warriors who draw strength from the dark side of the Force and use it to seize power by any means necessary, including terrorism and mass murder with the goal to destroy the Jedi and rule the galaxy.
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Theme answers:
- THE ENTERPRISE (4A: Iconic sci-fi setting spelled out in this puzzle's shaded squares)
- MISTER SCOTT (22A: Member of this puzzle's shaded squares who might say "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!")
- STAR TREK (83D: This puzzle's theme)
- BEAM ME UP (84D: "I want to go back to the ship," as everyone circled in this puzzle seems to have said to 22-Across)
- WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS QUICK (CHEKOV) (3D: "Our window is closing for escape velocity!," as [circled letters] might say)
- KEEP COMPOSURE (SPOCK) (36D: "Logic dictates that you control your emotions," as [circled letters] might say)
- I TOOK A RISK (KIRK) (45D: "To protect my crew, the gamble was necessary," as [circled letters] might say)
- ARE YOU HURT (UHURA) (48D: "We received a distress signal. Any injuries?," as [circled letters] might say)
- FULL THRUSTERS (SULU) (40D: "Stepping on the gas, Captain!," as [circled letters] might say)
- YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON ME (MCCOY) (12D: "Any time! I'm a doctor, not a do-nothing!," as [circled letters] might say)
- USS (90A: Inits. for this puzzle's shaded squares)
There is a lot going on in this puzzle! There's THE ENTERPRISE and the name of the franchise and a bunch of characters (backwards) in a bunch of things they might plausibly say. It's a very intricate construction and it's a puzzle that I'm sure someone else really really enjoyed. Unfortunately, that someone is not me because I'm not at all a Star Trek fan. Nothing against Star Trek ... just ... never been my thing! My level of Star Trek knowledge is knowing UHURA since he (she? they? it? no idea!) always comes up in crosswords. And, I guess SPOCK is iconic. But ... CHEKOV? Never met him. MISTER SCOTT? Totally new to me! (Since the post was late this morning, you all get a pass to go in the comments and make fun of me for not knowing anything about Star Trek)
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| Torii in KYOTO |
It felt like a really slow solve, and I wanted to blame it on the fact that I not a Star Trek guy, but a lot of the theme material isn't really related to Star Trek. So I think it was just a slightly harder-than-usual puzzle. One thing I admired is that it still was a very theme-dense tribute puzzle, but the exclamations all exist outside of Star Trek, so it make the puzzle enjoyable (or, doable, really) by non-fans.
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| It's RIO |
It's really an incredible construction, IMO. I'm kind of amazed there exist things each character could plausibly say with the characters name in it backwards ... while also fulfilling the length symmetry requirement. And the fill didn't really suffer too much in spite of everything going on! You get stuff like A NET, sure, but overall I felt slow because the clues were kinda hard and not because of any iffy fill.
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| It's AMSTERDAM |
I wish I had more to say about this puzzle! These kinds of tribute puzzles are always a bit hit-or-miss, depending on how much the solver knows / cares about the thing being tributed. Oh, this puzzle is also a pangram, which means that every letter is in it at least once. It feels less noticeable in a Sunday-size grid, but that's another cool thing. Usually, the scrabbly letters feel forced, but here I didn't feel like they led to any big compromises.
Alright, apologies again if this is being posted after you usually consume your morning blog! I hope you are all well and staying cool (unless you live in the Bay Area, in which case I hope you are staying warm) and having a lovely weekend.
Bullets:
- CRYPTOS (31A: Digital investment choice, informally) — I don't know if "cryptos" are a thing
- GAB (114D: Chinwag) — Sometimes when solving a crossword, I'll see a clue like this which is a word I've definitely ... seen ... before but absolutely cannot say what it means. And that does make it quite hard to get to the answer!
- ESTE (11D: By Juan's early light?) — Never been a fan of these clues using names to indicate another language. Surely not everyone in the world named Juan speaks Spanish?
- REAL ID (44A: D.M.V.-issued card authenticated by airport security) — I feel like they've been about to start enforcing Real IDs for so many years. Are they doing it now? Every time it's getting close it seems like they just push it back another year. I'm flying next week so I guess I'll find out.
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99 comments:
I think this was a really great puzzle. Bring it on, Mr. Newton!
Easy pz if you’re a Trekkie
Wow, no comments? Anyhoo, I love Star Trek so this was fun for me. I was confused as to why all the circled names went up but then realized the whole "beam me up" part of the theme. Nice. Live long and prosper.
I work in an industry where my coworkers discuss crypto with some regularity, and I am quite sure I have never once heard them utter CRYPTOS.
My platform didn't have shaded squares so I had a DNF at 90A. Couldn't parse the clue and the cross was obvi OBVi, not OBVS. I revealed the USS and went back to the NYTimes platform and hit reveal so I could see the gray squares. Of course, the USS ENTERPRISE.
I've seen a lot of Star Trek episodes but that didn't make this a cakewalk of a solve. It was about average, I guess.
My favorite clue/answer was 106A, Warp-driven device = LOOM, not the USS ENTERPRISE, har.
Thanks, Jeremy Newton!
Once I figured out names went up, it was a simple exercise of filling in all the names first, because the clues easily gave them away, including the Enterprise and Star Trek and Mr.Scott, and then solving the puzzle around them. So zero challenge there. Figuring out the sayings was kinda fun. The fill was fine without a lot of abbreviations and junk. Overall a pleasant experience.
Not a Star Trek fan either. This was a slog.
Amsterdam is not even the capital of the Netherlands, let alone a world capital. This puzzle was just overwhelmed by its gimmickry.
I really liked it and thought it was easy peasy, but I’m a Gen X who grew up on Star Trek. Only complaint was there was SOOOOOO much crosswordese due to the heavy amount of theme. OBVS? XMAS? Rex would have been appalled.
I am 66 years old. Never saw one episode of Star Trek and ignored the circles in this puzzle. Thought it was on the easy side of Medium
I just wanted to point out what a cool character Lt. Uhura is in The Original Series. She was the Communications Officer, and in being so was stationed on the bridge, got a lot of respect, and had real input. She was portrayed by Nichelle Nichols, who passed away a few years ago, and was a significant part of the inclusion and diversity that the Star Trek franchise asserted as a normal part of the future for their 1960s audience.
Knew enough Trek to get by, but boy was there a lot of compromise on the fill to get this theme to work. Text-speak, awkward stuff like ONKEY, DYER, CRYPTOS, etc. Cluing certainly didn't make things easier most of the time - could've had an easier clue than a Kris Kross lyric for JUMP!
The THE in THEGYM is pretty bad in and of itself but it’s also a duplicate since we have THEENTERPRISE as well.
On the positive side, I love how the reveal THEENTERPRISE is shaped like the iconic spacecraft.
I hate Star Trek, therefore I hated this puzzle.
Wikpedia: In the Netherlands, the Constitution refers to Amsterdam as the capital city. However, since 1588, the States General and the Executive Branch, along with the Supreme Court and the Council of State, have been situated in The Hague as the seat of government.
On the easy side for me. The theme was OBVS so the little bit of resistance I encountered involved parsing the long downs.
Another impressive feat of construction, liked it.
Actually, the Netherlands' official capital is Amsterdam, although The Hague is the seat of government.
I know I'm a giant nerd because this was easy peasy for me lol
Yes!
In the Netherlands, the Constitution refers to Amsterdam as the capital city. However, since 1588, the States General and the Executive Branch, along with the Supreme Court and the Council of State, have been situated in The Hague as the seat of government.
This what I call a vanity puzzle. Very impressive in it execution. But for a solver [ especially a non-Treker] just another slog.
This was an absolute joy for us oldsters who enjoyed every episode of Star Trek as kids.
Misterspock before misterscott. I can’t be the only person who did that.
Agree with Rafa 100%. Never actually watched Star Trek, so although the construction was impressive (except for the clunky 4-Across, unless the answer’s shape was meant to depict something about the show that I’m unfamiliar with), I really disliked this puzzle and solving it was a real slog.
Yes, an absolute joy!
Not a huge Star Trek fan but saw and knew enough of the original series to finish the puzzle. This was fun! Hard if you never saw the show, medium if you’re aware of it, easy if you’re a Trekkie.
Agree—I live in tech/crypto central and have never heard anyone say CRYPTOS.
Had a major malfunction right on the launch pad, so to speak. "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!" (22A) sounded like something MISTER SPOCK would say. And he fit that slot. Took a while to fix that.
I did a frowny face when LOOM showed up for "Warp-driven device" (106A). I see how it's a play on the Warp Drive that allowed the USS Enterprise to exceed the speed of light but for me a LOOM is treadle-driven, you know, foot powered. The warp is a part of a LOOM, sure, but it does not drive it. I'd say this is case of going for a clever misdirect at the expense of accuracy.
I judge Sunday puzzles by how far I get through the grid before I throw in the towel. I completely filled this one in so, ipso facto, I liked it.
Funnily enough, the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" was never uttered in the original series nor in any of the movies based on it.
Puzzle resonated for me in a couple of odd places. I have an appointment on Tuesday to get my REAL ID, which seems like a waste of time and money, but there you go. And our next planned trip is to ST PETE to visit, among other things, the Dali Museum, the Imagine Museum, and the Sunken Gardens. To anyone with local experience: recommendations - sights and food - are welcome.
You really didn't need to know anything about Star Trek for this puzzle to be the easiest Sunday ever. Easier even than last week. I think I've seen two Star Trek movies lol
Doesn’t a “typo” require “typing”? A slip of the pen is just a mistake.
I also couldn't see the shaded squares, and I was confused by the clue on 4A (THEE is a valid entry, why not clue it as just THEE and then reference the shaded squares elsewhere?) and ENTER at 7D, which looked like it was going to be the start of ENTERPRISE but actually only ENT- is part of the shaded ENTERPRISE.
I had MISTER SPOCK... with 36D and the SPOCK letters already filled in. I should've caught that sooner than I did.
I knew about the "beam me up, Scotty" misquote but I didn't know that there's an actual character named SCOTT.
Well, I guess it’s time for me to raise my hand as an old Star Trek nerd whether Kirk is William Shatner or Chris Pine. Maybe I’m in the sweet spot for age, because the original Star Trek aired when I was 11, and it was just so…I dunno…fantastic given I had had to put up with the shlocky premise and horribly done space monsters that Lost in Space had. But…even though I had a “leg up” with my nerdiness, I still think the puzzle had a lot of great fill and clever wordplay. In short, I had more fun with this Sunday than I have in a long time! Thanks Jeremy Newton!
Where was this level of playfulness in the clues yesterday? The clues on BOW, STAPLER, KILO, ANTE, SQUIRES etc. are all Saturday-worthy. I'm not complaining about a tougher-than-usual Sunday, I just wish yesterday's puzzle had come with more of this kind of clues.
I got the theme almost instantly being that I remember the original Star Trek television show. Yes I’m old. I thought it was pretty fun. Took a bit for me to realize the names were spelled from the bottom up. Once I got that , it was easy to put the correct names to the phrases they might utter.
I’m not a fan of tribute puzzles or Star Trek, so this was a bit painful for me. I know a bit about the franchise because I did make a point of tuning in the first TV series so I recognized most of the names. But I had no time or enthusiasm for the subsequent series and I’ve only seen two early movies.
Pretty impressive construction, though, but I have to ask, was the Enterprise an asymmetrical vessel? Because it sure looks that way in the grid art. And is Scotty isolated up there because he’s controlling the “beaming”? If so, that’s clever. And how did that SITH sneak in there at 10D?
Is 28A HEROCOP a thing people really say? And shouldn’t 62D KOS be clued “Some big hits, in brief”? You might take a lot of big hits in combat sports and never get knocked out.
Kitshef, wow…an appointment? I don’t remember it being a pain in the neck to get the Real ID but I got it a few years ago and just went into the local BMV, unannounced. Seems like the fact that I had a valid passport factored into the “easiness” plus, the cost was maybe $15.
Have to agree about LOOM, Teedmn. Good clueing there.
Big fan of Star Trek TOS (The Original Series) so this was fairly easy. However, if you are going to put together a Star TREK puzzle, you should NOT have any Star WARS clues (10D Enemy of the Jedi).
Other than that, really enjoyed the puzzle.
Yes! Thanks for making that point.
FUN TO SOLVE!~ Best puzzles the year, AFAIC
Great puzzle, but not hard at all.
I’m not always a fan of those little animations after a solve (ok- I loved the Zamboni, but who didn’t?) but I was so sure this puzzle was working toward one- my biggest disappointment was that when I finished I went back and chose “Beam me Up” to see if the names would light up and beam up.
It would have been cool- especially for all future-tech nerds that loved the show.
If you don’t like the puzzle you didn’t watch the show. A classic.
I hear what you’re saying about the “By Juan's early light?” clue at 11D, but it’s meant to be a play on the 112A clue “By dawn’s early light?”
I dislike the little circles and shaded squares that W.S. has introduced to the NYTXW. The only way I can enjoy a solve is to ignore them. Having ignored them and the clues that refer to them, I found the puzzle quite easy and rather fun.
Not many PEEPs today to spoil the otherwise excellent fill. But:
I agree with Rafa about CRYPTOS.
Perhaps the constructor's mobile games have UNDO BUTTONs, but where else? Ctr-Z is not a button. The undo selection on an Edit menu is not a button.
I’d really like someone to clue DYER as “Led Zeppelin song. ‘ _____ Maker’”. It’d be a lot less awkward.
so the only way to enjoy a puzzle like this is if you're a fan of Star Trek? Thy doth protest too much get thee to a Movie Theatre
DNF because of the YUP/PEEP/UNDO/HEROCOP mess in the northeast (este?) corner. Kept trying for a variation of YES for "Reckon so," somehow YUP eluded me. And what the %$*& does PEEP have to do with griping? I mean, I guess if you think about "not a peep" of complaint, it kinda/sorta makes sense.
Plus, there's no "undo" button on my computer, Grrrrrrr. If I'd'a found the YUP, I mighta figured those out.
Except for that, not all that difficult, even though my Star Trek knowledge is pretty thin.
Star Trek: The Crossword. Had to happen, eventually. Only logical.
M&A was a big fan of the original Star Trek TV show, and of its flicks with the same TV cast. Less so, progressively, for the rebootery stuff.
Neat touch, how Scotty & Jeremy beams up the circled crew members. Also, they helped m&e fill in some extra letters, in advance.
staff weeject pick: OOO. Hard to pick one out of 27, but I admired OOO's uniformity.
fave stuff included: LWORD. STAPLER clue. AMSTERDAM. TUMTUM [debut entry].
Thanx, Mr. Newton dude. U sorta gone where no man has gone before!
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... too politically polluted? ... nah! ...
"Legal Tinder" - 7x7 themed runt puzzle:
**gruntz**
M&A
Totally fair that you didn’t enjoy this one, but as a Star Trek fan I absolutely loved it. Might be my favorite Sunday this year. As you note, the constructing feats involved (plausible statements from each character that contain their names backward and fit the grid) are truly awe-inspiring. Getting THEENTERPRISE to roughly evoke the shape of the actual starship was another brilliant touch. Bravo!
thoroughly loved this one! very good puzzle; one of the best this year. i could see the theme but it wasn't just a gimme.
as for the weather in the san francisco bay area we don't need to keep warm. though it's been the "coldest" summer in 60 years, it's still nearly 80 degrees F in the afternoon. weather wise, it's been a very nice summer.
@Beezer - we live in a fairly densely populated suburban area where waits at the DMV routinely run to a couple of hours ... unless you have an appointment.
nope, you are not.
Well, I love Star Trek. There, that's it.
It took me a while to figure out why all the names were upgoing, and then I finally connected BEAMMEUP and MISTERSCOTT and all that. It's pretty impressive to come up with (familiar) phrases that contain all the names of the core crew!
Now, no one ever said, "Beam me up, Scotty!" The clue for 84D suggests that everyone in the puzzle at least asked to be beamed up... But did everyone actually make this request? Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, and I think Sulu, yes... but Chekov and Uhura too? Trekkers out there, advise as to episodes!
Strictly speaking Mr Scott would say ‘I Canna change the laws of physics Captain.’ My biggest problem was that McCoy and Bones have the same number of letters, so I had to wait for crosses. I’m a Star Trek fan from way back, but if this was an equally densely themed Marvel Universe or Star Wars puzzle I would have found it a bit annoying. Crossworders and Star Trek nerds don’t seem perfectly aligned.
I wouldn't call myself a full on Trekkie, but my late aunt was and this puzzle brought back fond memories of watching Star Trek with her. I was tripped up on the top (kept using USS Enterprise instead of "THE" Enterprise). but once I tried swapped it out (T for Tame), the rest became easier. I was impressed by the construction - having the enterprise (similar shape of the ship in grey) and the characters being beamed up was a very nice play. I was more embarrassed how long it took me to realize "L Word" was legitimately an answer.
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I agree. This puzzle was a masterpiece. When I realized the characters were being beamed up by Mister Scott who was on the Enterprise, I was amazed. And each of the answers with the circles was clued with something each character would say - but still form a reasonable answer containing the letters of the name in order! I can’t even write a good sentence describing the number of levels. Thank you Mr Newton.
As a Star Trek fan this puzzle was both easy and fun. The fill was mostly fine but the themers were excellent. Lately some of the cluing has been arcane or barely related to the answer but this puzzle was spot on. Sorry if the non-fans didn't enjoy it but this week was my turn!
I keep hoping for a tribute puzzle to "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"
Trump would insist on Capt. Kirk being fired because his crew was DEI -- different sexes and races AND different species!
When I renewed my passport a few years ago, I took advantage of the chance to also order a Passport Card for $10. It's the size of my (non-real ID) driver's license, and I keep the two of them together in my wallet. Passport cards are accepted everywhere Real IDs are, including airports..
Fun puzzle! Really impressive construction and fun to solve.
I did get stuck at the end with SWORD instead of LWORD (I guess I read too much fantasy, being someone's "sword" as a term of loyalty made perfect sense to me, haha). But STAPSER made no sense so I got it eventually.
Attempting to solve this puzzle, I felt like a member of an alien race, unfamiliar with the theme material and unable to make sense of clue after clue after clue. I've been doing NYT Sunday crosswords since the late 1960s and don't remember ever throwing in the towel before today. I'm happy for those of you who had fun with it!
Wonder if it’s ever been used that way in a NYT puzzle
Scottie's line is " I canna change the laws of physics" , especially if you are going to have Chekov saying "welocity"!
My quibble is that there was a Star Wars clue in this Star Trek puzzle. Don't cross the streams!
Yes, indeed! For anyone who knows Star Trek this had to be very easy. Was stunned that for Rafa it was hard -- but then learned they are not a Trekkie.
Yeah, that bothered me, too.
@anon 1:49pm i wrote in BONES with confidence and then worked from the bottom up confirming the B with "robot" [tony stark's suit is a robot, imho]...let's just say that mucked things up for quite awhile. TOS the trek i've re-watched the least so i couldn't think of MCCOY for the longest time.
-stephanie.
@anon 12:04pm i also thought that clue/answer was really strange and resisted putting in TYPO for the longest time.
-stephanie.
Clearly, you’d need to have the CORPSE on the DINING TABLE.
I have what xwordinfo.com calls a "regular account" (20$ per year and well worth it) so I did the word finder---tells how many times a word has appeared in the NYTXW and lists all the clues ever used---and DYER has appeared 162 times over the years but it has never been clued as part of the Led Zeppelin song you mentioned. My favorite, by the way, is "Batik artisan".
Thank you, Anon @2:16.
Anon 2:46, Passport is not due for renewal for another five years, but that is definitely good information.
Hand waaaay up for LOOM clue!! Especially since my sister is a well known weaver in the Chicago area and I don’t know jack about Star Trek. I needed all the easy I could get today!
Of course I had MISTER SpOck. He’s one of two character names I know. Just about all of my contemporaries are Trekkies, and at 73, everything I know about the theme I learned from crosswords and listening to folks talk about “last night’s episode” growing up. Remember the days before streaming?
Im a Bitcoin purist. I stay away from all the other cryptos
Thanks @Anoa Bob. I gave the side-eye to the LOOM clue but was thankful it was there since just about everything I know about the theme comes from my 6 decades of crosswords. My sister is a well known weaver.
For a crossword NUT like me, I thoroughly enjoyed the artistry, skill, creativity and masterful clueing today. That the puzzle’s incredibly dense theme did not render it unsolvable for non-Trekkies astonished me.
When I started, I got THE ENTERPRISE immediately and said “Well f$!&; I’m doomed!” Not so. I was able easily to solve most of this, and was never stumped, but had to fight my way through several spots.
Thank you Jeremy Newton for one of the very best Sunday puzzles in what seems like AEONS. I always enjoy your work. This one, though blew me away, possibly all the way to MARS. My favorite solves inevitably include exhibitions of the very best in crossword construction art and craftspersonship.
This one has it all. Dense theme, yet fair crosses and the long character quotes are nothing short of genius-level construction. I found myself looking forward to them because the long answers were relevant outside the Trekkiverse, making the circled squares irrelevant to a non-watcher. And yet . . . the (for me) after the fact surprise/bonus of discovering that all those names with which I had zero familiarity were safely “beamed up” on a phrase likely known to just about everyone, Trekkie or not, despite the fact (according to my after the fact reading of Caitlin Lovinger’s analysis for the Times) that apparently no character ever actually said “Beam me up, Scottie” on any episode or in any movie.
I enjoyed today even more because I am finally moved in (almost) to my new ADU. My cat and I need some time to get my gallery walls hung and need to adjust (again), but we spent so much time during summers past in our much smaller RV that this easily feels large enough and is certainly more luxurious even than our pretty luxurious RV.
From my daughter’s master plan in 2018 after my husband/her Dad’s passing to convince me to retire and move to California through a myriad of construction issues to final move-in has been quite the journey. I think I am actually retired now. I am so fortunate to be part of a very special clan. I think I’ll take a well earned Sunday afternoon nap.
Rafa's right...tribute puzzles are hit or miss...they're eitber in your wheelhouse or not...my sympathy to those for whom Star Trek wasn't , but it was close enough in mine to allow an enjoyable romp, with a mercifully low PPP quotient. Kudos to the constructor and the editor...
AEONS ???
this was my least favorite Sunday puzzle in years. Star Trek is popular, but damn — there are far more people who aren’t “Trekkies” than who are. A Sunday puzzle that can only potentially be enjoyed by a minority of the community is …
Same
Anonymous 10:57 AM
It’s an age thing but for this Boomer JUMP was NOT a gimme.
Kris’s Kris’s was vaguely familiar but no idea about the hit. If you read this blog long enough you will find one person’s gimme is another person’’s problem. I got it on crosses
Just wondering. What’s wrong with ON KEY?
Grrrr. Two of my last three comments never showed up in the blog. Am getting paranoid! But thought this a fun puzzle with some tough clues and some not so tough. Thought the only clunker in the clues was “cannot” in the Scott quote—definitely more Spocky than Scotty. Can you tell I’m a Trek fan?
There’s a great interview when she discusses being about to leave the show because her dream of acting in Broadway had opened up, and then she met MLK who told her her was her biggest fan and Star Trek was the only show he let his children watch and absolutely insisted that she could not leave. It’s really moving—worth looking up on YouTube.
A typo is a typographical error made on a typewriter. Def not a slip of a pen!
Agreed.
the frogman
The full phrase is hit THEGYM. So I see nothing wrong with the answer. They didn’t put a line in. I thought that was a plus. I liked it
FWIW Shortz has no rule against dupes. They happen often in the Times crossword.
Love the Original Series, so I join those who found this an absolute delight. Also, two years into my life as a crossword solver, it was my easiest Sunday experience ever—I suppose combining my own slow improvement with the theme resonating with me. Thanks, Jeremy!
Just want to note for those like Rex who care that Star Trek was the original inclusive progressive show, and has stayed that way in all its incarnations over the decades. When I was in college 30 years ago I had a history lecture on how Star Trek portrayed geopolitics in the most interesting and morally progressive way imaginable. It’s always kept me thinking when I watch. I encourage people who think they hate it to try again. It’s great stuff. (Another one like that is the 2000s version of Battlestar Galactica, which I resisted watching for years until my roommate forced me, only for me to be amazed at how intelligent it was. Feels more so in today’s AI world.)
Thanks for the shout out to Uhura and the open-mindedness of the show - totally agree about the meaningful inclusion of weird folks like me and most of the NYTXW crowd, even if they don't know it!
Thank you for this - and Dr Random. That is so wonderful. I hope she felt she made the right choice.
Movie number 4, where Chekhov and Uhuru are on the nuclear vessel.
Roo
Rafa: for many of us, Star Trek was a cultural touchstone, as you can see from the comments, especially the original series. I’ll add my bravos for this Sunday puzzle; loved it.
ONKEY just sounds weird and awkward to my ears, as a musician myself. I would say "in tune" if I'm talking about pitch accuracy of a vocal. "Out of key" or "in key" are a thing, but that would refer to knowing the right notes, rather than how close you are to the note you're trying to hit. It's not invalid, but not something I would ever say.
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