tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post3661638562044493494..comments2024-03-28T16:50:50.953-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: NBC Football analyst/reporter longtime writer —SUNDAY, Oct. 25 2009— Bridge expert Culbertson / Famous deerstalker wearer / Freud disciple AlfredRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89900706730454887652011-05-30T15:13:10.389-04:002011-05-30T15:13:10.389-04:00Weird anger at this puzzle. Jealousy, what?
After...Weird anger at this puzzle. Jealousy, what?<br /><br />After Gary Gygax, the co-creator of D&D, died, a eulogist writing of Gygax' cultural influence said, "We live in a Dungeons & Dragons world." Anyone who lives within that sphere of influence -- any of the countless millions who have played role-playing video games, for instance -- knows the word "sigil."<br /><br />For decades, the NYT puzzle assumed its readers were all opera fans. Those of us who weren't had to put up with endless opera-based clues. BEQ puzzles mine different trivia troves. Deal with it, like I had to deal with opera trivia for far too long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5417314676262623732010-11-08T06:18:16.540-05:002010-11-08T06:18:16.540-05:00Interesting to read about the Catholic patron sain...Interesting to read about the Catholic patron saint of farmers and of Madrid and of La Ceiba, Honduras, the facts and the points given in this blog is really good.<br /><br />__________________ <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.dissertationswriting.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">dissertation Writing</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417060437461267984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31756927092699241932010-06-01T23:23:19.831-04:002010-06-01T23:23:19.831-04:00This puzzle seemed hard, if only because there was...This puzzle seemed hard, if only because there was so much material that was only clued "wish." I Googled for PUNKERS, SDAK, and CEDRIC.<br />keeppp bloking...sigithttp://entrepreneur.gunadarma.ac.id/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88961591857790799692009-11-11T14:39:34.435-05:002009-11-11T14:39:34.435-05:00@Jenny said - I loved this puzzle for the fill, th...@Jenny said - I loved this puzzle for the fill, the clever cluing, AND the fact that I'm part of that same "near Zero" set, devotee of both Rex and MMQB. It felt like some measure of revenge for puzzling over opera titles.<br /><br />@GeorgeNYC - Unfair criticism. King is more likely to be self-deprecating than anything else. 50% devoted to non-football comments? Really?<br /><br />Love the write-up, Rex. Loved the roiled blog waters even more!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05883385857150999485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74697298424662625212009-11-01T13:24:36.522-05:002009-11-01T13:24:36.522-05:00Late to the party again (syndicated) - but xwordin...Late to the party again (syndicated) - but xwordinfo lists 52 uses of "Naomi" - so there, Peter King! Did like the puzzle though.Naominoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60550807646080876742009-10-31T09:15:40.732-04:002009-10-31T09:15:40.732-04:00I do follow pro football, but an entire puzzle dev...I do follow pro football, but an entire puzzle devoted to a silly quote by some sports writer/announcer that i don't care about crossed with clues such as "nickname of the spice girls"...GongPIXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85365127430433527922009-10-28T14:22:28.094-04:002009-10-28T14:22:28.094-04:00Fredo: Hey, Mike, are you sure about that? I mean,...Fredo: Hey, Mike, are you sure about that? I mean, Moe, loves the business. He never said anything to me about sellin'. <br /><br /><br />THIS IS THE STATEMENT BY FREDO THAT GOT HIM KILLED ! ! !<br /><br /><br />frankDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18781773204380683022009-10-27T19:08:15.473-04:002009-10-27T19:08:15.473-04:00Seems to me like it was just meant to be a pretty ...Seems to me like it was just meant to be a pretty awesome mind-fuck for Peter King. The extent BEQ went just to blow one guy's mind deserves a lot of credit. It seems oddball, but it's really in the same vein as those crosswords commissioned to propose to girlfriends. I think it goes to solidifying a new theme: crosswords with special significance to individuals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20536927392132856142009-10-27T13:36:41.780-04:002009-10-27T13:36:41.780-04:00Being a foreigner and one who doesn't read muc...Being a foreigner and one who doesn't read much of her own paper other than the crossword I'm quite used to not knowing who the people in the puzzle are, so even though I never got the name at all (I had PETERWING, PUNWARS and ADELIA) I wasn't bothered.<br /><br />Enough of the quote to understand what was going on emerged rapidly, with no googling. I assumed the guy was just some sports writer who had happened to make this comment, and I was just trying to imagine how blown away he would be to find a whole crossword puzzle about him. I enjoyed the puzzle because it filled me with vicarious excitement for Peter.<br /><br />ghIj, by the way, is Klingon for "to scare."Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49390285975193787052009-10-26T21:05:24.451-04:002009-10-26T21:05:24.451-04:00The crossover between the D&D and crossword co...The crossover between the D&D and crossword communities must be a heck of a lot lower than I thought if SIGIL was a stumbling block. :-) They're one of the more powerful things a cleric can create in the game.Andrew Breitenbachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35981039770837269372009-10-26T20:36:02.462-04:002009-10-26T20:36:02.462-04:00There were simply too many obscure proper names cr...There were simply too many obscure proper names crossing each other, up there with the 'wish,' so word-recognition play or wit could solve nothing. I don't like when a solver leaves me no recourse but to google. In fact, I rarely do it. I'll try again tomorrow, or I'll give up, but googling for crossword clues is no fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48095772816290350122009-10-26T19:26:40.574-04:002009-10-26T19:26:40.574-04:00Being in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle is a ...Being in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle is a sweet and harmless goal. Minor celebrities and has-beens aspire to it and I empathized with King. You see all kinds of silly celebs appear in a puzzle they can't ever do so it's really cool to se the tribute to Peter which many of us enjoyed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41513801538781549202009-10-26T12:32:59.214-04:002009-10-26T12:32:59.214-04:00This puzzle proved to be the hardest one I have fa...This puzzle proved to be the hardest one I have faced in a while - ended up unable to complete the quote. But I do think it is kind of cool.<br /><br />On 103A - great clue because Pacino had the exact quote; Brando had a similar quote; and DeNiro (all six letters ending in O) had another similar version in Godfather II.Michael A. Sheahttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm3232421/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19050852738428278682009-10-26T11:51:14.886-04:002009-10-26T11:51:14.886-04:00HATED this puzzle. Peter King? Give me a breakHATED this puzzle. Peter King? Give me a breakMikeMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80307059013638564662009-10-26T11:41:14.064-04:002009-10-26T11:41:14.064-04:00I'm so confused. Why do people dislike BEQ'...I'm so confused. Why do people dislike BEQ's puzzle for being meta-wish fulfillment, but *LOVE* that sappy Simpsons-crossover from a few months back? I get that BEQ's puzzle was harder, but they were both worthy of being NYT Sunday puzzles...Aaron Ricciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05003634532469211190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52598304794602683722009-10-26T00:25:47.609-04:002009-10-26T00:25:47.609-04:00I'm with you, Calmad: I had Holden in there fo...I'm with you, Calmad: I had Holden in there for quite some time.<br /><br />NENA is both the band and the lead singer, by the way.Kristen Kittscherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18443224922309438672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41718416161315237132009-10-25T23:47:17.646-04:002009-10-25T23:47:17.646-04:00Though it was easy, I loved it. Approved!Though it was easy, I loved it. Approved!Campesitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01852123189179333049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39490193983565137762009-10-25T23:36:38.970-04:002009-10-25T23:36:38.970-04:00I think Brendan should add today's
theme to hi...I think Brendan should add today's<br />theme to his Bullshit Themes List.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40861325156396695632009-10-25T23:27:53.621-04:002009-10-25T23:27:53.621-04:00All I know about Peter King is that his celebrity ...All I know about Peter King is that his celebrity beautiful wife (I can't remember) threw him out because he had serial affairs with interns. So how come adultery was not the theme for the day?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73590668142993494202009-10-25T23:04:56.152-04:002009-10-25T23:04:56.152-04:00On BEQ's page some people wrote in saying that...On BEQ's page some people wrote in saying that the puzzle was too hard. Sometimes his puzzles ARE too hard. He replied that puzzle constructors WANTED people to be able to solve them. Yeah, right. Saint-blank-the Laborer?!? Brendan, I'm Catholic and I can't seem to find my "Canon of the Saints" lying around here. <br />Bad Brendan, bad boy!TDavishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13182956341771879723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30520187796356588842009-10-25T21:23:07.795-04:002009-10-25T21:23:07.795-04:00I got "roid rage" quickly and wondered i...I got "roid rage" quickly and wondered immediately if this was a BEQ puzzle. I was pleased to see that I was right. Unlike many of you, I enjoyed this puzzle a lot. I subscribe to Sports Illustrated, but am not much of a football fan and never heard of the non-politician Peter King. But I thought that the quote was about crossword puzzles and not about Peter King or sports and am baffled by the antipathy of many commenters.michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65482343224200104512009-10-25T20:50:04.902-04:002009-10-25T20:50:04.902-04:00Wade is going to marry me, you know. Even though I...Wade is going to marry me, you know. Even though I have a soft spot for Favre (my husband's a cheesehead)—Wade is kind and generous and willing to overlook that.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48269143099361996302009-10-25T20:41:57.690-04:002009-10-25T20:41:57.690-04:00@Wade: I'm with you, basically. The difference...@Wade: I'm with you, basically. The difference between Winston Churchill and Peter King is that Churchill never claimed his goal in life was to be a clue in a NYT xword puzzle. Which is to say, if I was cranky, it's b/c I had a harder than usual time with this one--the quirkiness of the whole premise dawned on me only later, after I was done, sort of--too little, too late...Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87290668226519254242009-10-25T20:27:46.557-04:002009-10-25T20:27:46.557-04:00Got Peter King right away after I ruled out Bob Co...Got Peter King right away after I ruled out Bob Costas. Got the puzzle completed but I found the middle to be pretty tough and was married to a few wrong answers I filled in. <br /><br />Olbermann joined the show in 2007 and gave the answer to the clue as one of the first things he sais tonight.Altonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291867697202868416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28189083236882620042009-10-25T20:06:46.656-04:002009-10-25T20:06:46.656-04:00Did anyone besides me fill in Bob Costas? same # ...Did anyone besides me fill in Bob Costas? same # letters, far less obscure.capesunset105https://www.blogger.com/profile/13193047825830699562noreply@blogger.com