tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post104337572507322114..comments2024-03-29T03:22:09.826-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: 1996 Foo Fighters hit / TUE 5-2-17 / Capital city with only about 1000 residents / Geraint's wife in Arthurian legend / Noted colonial silversmithRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40628787466973366822017-10-24T06:03:47.743-04:002017-10-24T06:03:47.743-04:00Open up more interesting online betting moments.
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Didn't k...Tuesday tough, and interesting, too.<br /><br />Didn't know the musicals NINE or ONCE, or the Foo Fighters and their hit, BIGME. Helpful crosses in those cases.<br /><br />NALDI came late to the show.<br /><br />Remembered the amusing but sadistically abused MRBILL after being nudged again by crosses.<br /><br />Nice work.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5323003351402195002017-06-06T12:12:32.185-04:002017-06-06T12:12:32.185-04:00Pretty good stuff in there for a Tuesday, lotsa th...Pretty good stuff in there for a Tuesday, lotsa theme. But also lotsa threes, at least 27 by my count, which takes away a little. But still better than what shows up many Tuesdays. And again, some 3 to 5 times the solve time of OFL and the other PROS.<br /><br />If we get any more ACNE we’ll all be teens again.<br /><br />LET’s go back about a hundred years to a vamp that was a pioneer in the yeah baby movement and before censors BLOCKED some film content – Nita NALDI! Seems she was always RIDOF her BRAS.<br /><br />If you USE that much theme do you get a lotta 3s? I do REVERE the quantity of themers.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40468353380792843822017-06-06T11:05:13.417-04:002017-06-06T11:05:13.417-04:00Challenging for me too, but "4 flat?" Ye...Challenging for me too, but "4 flat?" Yeah okay, 4 ten-minute chunks. Blithely sailed through--of all places--the NW. Then, screech! ATEON crossing RIDOF? NAH! One awkward partial ATA time, please. So the north central is a disaster area. Then the NE. Not, ONCE again, being a New Yorker, I'm somewhat behind in my stage musicals. Never heard of either ONCE nor NINE (COMPANY, either). So the NE, with its Saturday clue for OHM, was tough to crack. I have heard of RENT the musical, but "RENTROLL?" Baffling. I had no idea what might go into those four squares. I tried -BOOK, but no. This thing almost shoved me off the tracks several times...and it's only TUESDAY! And what is a LAPROBE, an investigation in Los Angeles?<br /><br />Clues were off center. Buffoon does not equal IDIOT. Our current president is certainly the former, but not the latter. Close, but no. A deadbeat is a LOSER, sure enough, but the clue doesn't lead me there. @anon. 10:28: right on! The Venn diagram of hunters and the NRA has a small common area.<br /><br />One grid-spanning gimme helped tremendously. Yes, the population of the whole island is tightly controlled; you CAN'T build a house there. In fact, if you're not SUPREMELY connected, you can't even BUY one! And even then you're on a waiting list.<br /><br />If I start talking about the fill, I'm afraid I'll degenerate into a rant. Suffice to say, there are constructors who care--and those who obviously don't. Guess which group today's falls into.<br /><br />I love me some Diane WIEST; she's one of my favorite actresses, but not exactly DOD material. Why not the original ANNIEOAKLEY?<br /><br />Because the old gray cells got an early-week workout for a change, I'm inclined to score this one not too harshly. Bogey will do.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35416526381369636432017-06-06T10:39:14.676-04:002017-06-06T10:39:14.676-04:00EGO LEI STAT
That IDIOT COMPANYMAN found his GRIT...EGO LEI STAT<br /><br />That IDIOT COMPANYMAN found his GRITTY ROMANCE<br />with ANNIEOAKLEY wouldn’t GROW by leaps NOR bounds.<br />Our DEAR WESTERN gal BLOCKED that LOSER’s second advance,<br />she’d LET him USE her, and get RIDOF him after ONCEAROUND.<br /><br />--- MR.BILL REVERE<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88509717371929637452017-05-05T02:20:54.881-04:002017-05-05T02:20:54.881-04:00All of the musicals listed in this puzzle won both...All of the musicals listed in this puzzle won both the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award -- the two biggest prizes for Broadway theatre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76520738717592597212017-05-03T19:06:31.968-04:002017-05-03T19:06:31.968-04:00OHM's Law named after mr OhmOHM's Law named after mr OhmPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07988007506745985696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6593683181098147992017-05-03T17:11:22.663-04:002017-05-03T17:11:22.663-04:00Can someone please explain {Law man} = OHM?Can someone please explain {Law man} = OHM?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87683820299875132802017-05-03T12:12:14.542-04:002017-05-03T12:12:14.542-04:00What? No mention of MR BILL?
Frankly, the puzzle ...What? No mention of MR BILL?<br />Frankly, the puzzle had me at MR BILL. He could've dumped all the crosswordese he wanted in there after that and I'd still have loved it. Yes, there was some wonky fill but overall it was very enjoyable. The themers were all on target and a nice revealer in the end. FWIW, I saw "Once." It's completely forgettable.<br />But, because Mr. (I mean, Dr.) Smarty Pants doesn't like musicals, it gets a thumbs down.Doc Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12540112168511893896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52324379460789115282017-05-03T03:37:14.028-04:002017-05-03T03:37:14.028-04:00Anonymous got it right re woody....his thing for t...Anonymous got it right re woody....his thing for the teenager in Manhattan ruined that movie....it was not believable from his angle or hers....and yes i felt that way from the outset, years before the Mia Farrow Soon Yi era...and yes the rest of the movie was terrific.Notformetosaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46567052733310396012017-05-02T23:27:54.363-04:002017-05-02T23:27:54.363-04:00Hate ATE ON and it's ilk. How is that not gree...Hate ATE ON and it's ilk. How is that not green paint and deserving of a bit of wrath from Rex. Its not even an oft used clause. <br /><br />Hey let's use plates tonight. We ATE ON the floor for lunch.<br /><br />The ride through central park was too long so we just ATE ON our LAP ROBES.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07988007506745985696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62622945224608734772017-05-02T22:02:07.000-04:002017-05-02T22:02:07.000-04:00Bravo to you for living your life to the fullest a...Bravo to you for living your life to the fullest and ignoring anything in your way. Bless you.Andrew Heinegghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18101651673327984167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6267309540002049252017-05-02T19:07:55.294-04:002017-05-02T19:07:55.294-04:00I know musicals, so got the theme right away, very...I know musicals, so got the theme right away, very enjoyable,<br /><br />Loved that Caine and Wiest both won oscars for Hannah and her Sisters. Great film. Annie Hall was his best in my opinion (Manhattan is too creepy with the whole Mariel Hemingway love affair) but my favorite Woody Allen/Diane Wiest collaboration is in Radio Days when she wins the contest because living with a man who owns a fish store makes them all amateur ichthyologists. That might be my favorite Woody Allen moment except when he plays the cello in the marching band.<br /><br />Company is the best of all of those best musicals...IMO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39753244768983560762017-05-02T18:53:03.452-04:002017-05-02T18:53:03.452-04:00I've said it before and I'm about say it a...I've said it before and I'm about say it again. It never ceases to amaze me how Rex rates difficulty. This time I found it easy (and I've never seen a single one of these musicals). Other difficult ones for me, Rex races through, while I DNF. There are things I didn't know, but the crosses were easy. No Nantiks. Space Is Deephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03799838582935195126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-69025833688745549902017-05-02T17:18:55.272-04:002017-05-02T17:18:55.272-04:00I like when that dude from Hamilton got up and lec...I like when that dude from Hamilton got up and lectured VP Pence, and then all of his misogynistic tweets came out. Hypocritical alt-left exactly according to script.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29509813921024412452017-05-02T16:59:09.559-04:002017-05-02T16:59:09.559-04:00The Next To Last Word
I love on-stage musicals an...The Next To Last Word<br /><br />I love on-stage musicals and so this puzzle was challenging but fun. I have never heard of Nine or Once but this would be due to my extensive time overseas. My first remembrance of a theater musical production was when my mother and I traveled to Chicago on the Wabash train with its observation car and club car (where I had my first club sandwich). We saw "No Time for Sergeants" and "Mame". And then many more musicals than I can recount. Saw any musical with Tommy Tune (six foot eight inches tall) who could sing and dance like no one else.<br /><br />I could understand not liking musicals if your experience has been via the TV or a movie but to see a troupe in person, in a hall, with the sweat and dust and clamor as the performers are clumping about and the sound is reverberating is absolutely exhilarating, no wonder Mozart loved doing songs for the music hall crowd. Mozart's Magic Flute is a wonderful musical just filled with double entendres.<br /><br />I took my granddaughter to the Lion King in SF which she loved it but declined the opportunity to get tickets for Hamilton at the same venue because of price and mob appeal. In ten years will we be singing tunes from Hamilton like we do for Annie or Evita or Les Miz?<br /><br />The only problem I had with the puzzle was its disjointedness. But still fun<br /><br />JTHurstnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-71326767880130122662017-05-02T16:47:21.472-04:002017-05-02T16:47:21.472-04:00This took me more than my average time to solve. E...This took me more than my average time to solve. English is not my native language, and I started doing some crossword puzzles about 7 years ago and have been doing them regularly for 4 months now, so sometimes very easy answers are hard to get for me. The NE corner today, man. I guess I spend 1/3rd of my time there. HOOPLA was what I got initially, but from there to OHM took an eternity. The good news is now I know what a male swan is called as well as the neither fish nor fowl idiom.<br /><br />Once I got the reveal at the bottom I misread it and thought the whole theme answers were gonna be musicals. RENTROLL woke me up. I guess I need stronger coffee.semioticus (shelbyl)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16204028248874222567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60603495830279637292017-05-02T15:53:19.942-04:002017-05-02T15:53:19.942-04:002 hannah and her sisters references? really? borin...2 hannah and her sisters references? really? boring puzzle. law man = ohm??? doesn't that require a question mark? I don't know, felt it was a crappy puzzle.Uncle Milfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961558292952569882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67882181908596999722017-05-02T15:44:28.031-04:002017-05-02T15:44:28.031-04:00The NRA is not a hunters' organization. It rep...The NRA is not a hunters' organization. It represents the firearms industry.Harvey Briggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01509290141801264985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41337464344374762532017-05-02T15:00:08.961-04:002017-05-02T15:00:08.961-04:00I'm not a big fan of musicals, but I thought t...I'm not a big fan of musicals, but I thought these were very fair. The only one I hadn't heard of was Nine. I saw the movie "Once" - it's a very sweet story. Didn't need to see it turned into a musical though! <br /><br />Seeing SMEW made me smile - such a classic crosswordese word - and of course I couldn't quite remember it. Oh well. tea73https://www.blogger.com/profile/04949792626860120963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85519554219177074652017-05-02T14:55:51.877-04:002017-05-02T14:55:51.877-04:00What is it with this week's puzzles? Not fun, ...What is it with this week's puzzles? Not fun, clever, solvable. Still sore over Sunday's flop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-659070974465573672017-05-02T14:37:15.843-04:002017-05-02T14:37:15.843-04:00I've been to Bermuda many a time. One of my c...<br /><br />I've been to Bermuda many a time. One of my companies, sited in the US, was an international for tax reasons, so our Board meetings had to be out of the country, and Bermuda is fairly close and very pleasant, even in winter.<br /><br />One of my "life accomplishments" is having played on all 6 of Bermuda's lovely golf courses several times, including the top-ranked Mid-Ocean club.<br /><br />Hamilton's resident population is low because the downtown area is small, and taken up with tourist shops. The ocean liners park just outside the bay and their boats stream the tourists in and out continually.<br /><br />One of the "odd-isms" of Bermuda is that non-residents are not allowed to operate automobiles. So it's either a taxi, or rent a motor scooter (which is lots of fun, btw).<br /><br />Wm. C.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84546222805894654082017-05-02T14:30:00.341-04:002017-05-02T14:30:00.341-04:00I like Colbert because he spews hate, and I like t...I like Colbert because he spews hate, and I like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com