tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4221644768241997664..comments2024-03-28T22:04:17.970-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Store on TV that sells KrustyO's cereal / MON 2-1-10 / Sensational 1990s-2000s talk show host / It must be him singer 1967Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75778642521456247722010-03-09T08:54:38.242-05:002010-03-09T08:54:38.242-05:00I liked KWIK-E-MART! Although I would think that S...I liked KWIK-E-MART! Although I would think that SPRAWL MART and TRY-N-SAVE sell Krusty-Os too. Maybe even GULP-N-BLOW does!MikeinSTLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19255716079275592010-02-05T16:45:50.881-05:002010-02-05T16:45:50.881-05:00I was on vacation, late to the party, catching up ...I was on vacation, late to the party, catching up puzzle wise. Good little one here, struggled most in SW with a few answers I didn't know so had to experiment, agree with parshutr (BTW, I shot 2 under on Weds!) mediums are really about the most satisfying, but 2 under is even better.xyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287781952915413013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62322736840538526392010-02-04T11:11:21.104-05:002010-02-04T11:11:21.104-05:0027A: Dr. with several Grammys (Phil)
You meant to...27A: Dr. with several Grammys (Phil)<br /><br />You meant to say: (Dre)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66014345577445607482010-02-04T07:32:41.693-05:002010-02-04T07:32:41.693-05:00Did anyone else reflexively want OBAMA for a five-...Did anyone else reflexively want OBAMA for a five-letter "Certain Indonesian". Yeah, I don't feel good about that.dlsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80575700144278492782010-02-01T22:51:43.634-05:002010-02-01T22:51:43.634-05:00This week's relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week's relative difficulty ratings. See my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&postID=3588389571383499624&isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation. In a nutshell, the higher the ratio, the higher this week's median solve time is relative to the average for the corresponding day of the week.<br /><br />All solvers (this week's median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 7:39, 6:56, 1.10, 76%, Medium-Challenging<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:54, 3:41, 1.06, 74%, Medium-Challengingsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28840990569124455632010-02-01T22:20:15.788-05:002010-02-01T22:20:15.788-05:00@Andrea: those e-friends are friends, believe me!
...@Andrea: those e-friends are friends, believe me!<br /><br />@Sfingi: if there is a NDak there is a NCar.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25726855793713517312010-02-01T20:39:18.926-05:002010-02-01T20:39:18.926-05:00@sfingi thanks for the smock-ing@sfingi thanks for the smock-ingchefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11147072132730716462010-02-01T20:35:41.711-05:002010-02-01T20:35:41.711-05:00@archeoprof
Glad you are back safely! Some of the...@archeoprof<br />Glad you are back safely! Some of these puzzles lately have been exciting. Today's --not so much. That can be good on the day one lands, eh?<br />TTFN<br />ElaineElainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195458656221202202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17881150666410676882010-02-01T20:29:35.529-05:002010-02-01T20:29:35.529-05:00@Rex - didn't notice the theme until I came to...@Rex - didn't notice the theme until I came to your blog.<br /><br />After I asked my son's friend, who was here fixing things, whether KWIKEMART was correct and what MRE was (not a term used in Hubster's day) the puzzle was EZ. Of course, it's Monday.<br /><br />SMOCKED, ACRED, JAVAN - 3 words not really spoken and, frankly, clumsy. Does anyone write NCAR?<br /><br />For a shirt to be SMOCKED it must have SMOCKING, not just once gathering. This is the type of work my mother used to do.<br /><a href="http://www.classschedule.net/lavenderlime/images/smocking.jpg" rel="nofollow"><br />SMOCK</a><br /><br />I wanted to say icky ickier ickiest, but I liked the icky parts.<br /><br />@Archeoprof - I think English lends itself to crosswords because of it's history, in particular 1066. The combining of a 1 and 2 syllable language (Anglo-Saxon, a Germanic) with a multi-syllabic (French, from Latin) saving virtually all the words in some form, created a language twice the size and with more variability than others.<br /><br />I'm jammied, so g'night.Sfingihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06903616949048940858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14751625413842521652010-02-01T18:59:08.280-05:002010-02-01T18:59:08.280-05:00What about Rikki Tickki Tembo no Sa Rembo. do you...What about Rikki Tickki Tembo no Sa Rembo. do you remember this Japanese Fold Tale? I would also like to offer the feedback that Peter gordon's puzzles of which I am a subscriber are very skewed to East coast knowledge and they all seem to be very hard compared to the NY Times. I will let him now my thought to, but thought you would want to know. Having recently been to Spain, I could not remember Avila and Omsk was beyond me. Almost everything else emerged in due time.<br />flowerbloggerFlowerbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08575636311952653056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3743397901125689372010-02-01T18:52:48.148-05:002010-02-01T18:52:48.148-05:00smock! smock!smock! smock!Steve Allennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65445811654452500662010-02-01T18:13:17.958-05:002010-02-01T18:13:17.958-05:00@andrea: Let me express (on behalf of many) feelin...@andrea: Let me express (on behalf of many) feelings of profound sentimentalitickiness toward both your blog contributions and puzzle contributions. There's something delightful about both that can't be pinned down.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02681342234536407419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16132545711974056022010-02-01T17:58:17.041-05:002010-02-01T17:58:17.041-05:00About an average Monday in style. The only proble...About an average Monday in style. The only problem I had was how ICKI(Y) was spelled and then there was the curveball MICKEY which had me scratching my head for a couple of minutes. Liked it, thoughedith bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53504712562174088632010-02-01T17:46:22.347-05:002010-02-01T17:46:22.347-05:00This was tons of fun!!!!!!
I thought quite hard fo...This was tons of fun!!!!!!<br />I thought quite hard for a Monday bec of all the variant spellings, but it was amazing Scott Atkinson got SIX different spellings for one sound!!!!!!!!<br /><br />This was the first puzzle in the Silicon Valley Day Crossword competition and unfortunately in trying to do the puzzle under five minutes I threw in AMEND for EMEND bec I didn't know MRE...I left MRA!<br />But MRE rang a dim bell AS I handed in the puzzle! DAMN!!!!!!!!<br /><br />True to the theme it was my own personal Nat-icky (?!) moment!<br /><br />I remained so upset that I had made a one letter mistake (on a MONDAY puzzle no less) knocking me out of the contest from the get-go that I almost needed an MRI!<br /><br />On a happier note, THANK YOU again for all the wonderful outpouring yesterday for Tony's and my puzzle!!!!!!!!!<br />I was once again reminded how truly grateful I am for the existence of Rex's <br />blog without which I would never have gotten to kvell in all the positive feedback... much less get to know how ANYONE (who was not related to me by blood) felt about the puzzle!!!<br />(Nevermind the friends I've made here, virtual and real)<br />ok, end of icky sentimentaliticky.andricky carlicky mickyelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8232609838494329402010-02-01T16:18:45.766-05:002010-02-01T16:18:45.766-05:00@lit.doc: Agreed on how movies are tracked. The fi...@lit.doc: Agreed on how movies are tracked. The financials make sense in terms of understanding if the movie was a success for the studio or not, but saying something is the top-grossing of all-time means next to nothing, because the value of a dollar is quite different today than it was even 35 years ago (let alone 70 years ago).<br /><br />If you base rankings on ticket sales - which is a far better gauge of popularity than the amount of non-inflation-adjusted dollars spent on the tickets - <a href="http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/01/avatar-ticket-sales-.html%22" rel="nofollow">"Gone with the Wind" is still the most-popular movie ever</a>. <br /><br />Avatar is (currently) 26th. There's not a single movie from the 2000s in the top 20. <br /><br />As far as the puzzle, "medium" definitely feels right. Actually had to think a couple times, which is a good thing for a Monday. And only one or two groaners in the clues (which is my new criteria for evaluating quality of fill, rather than amount of three-letter stuff, abbreviations, etc., unless those reach Ooxteplernon levels). More enjoyable than Mondays of late, at least for me.Steve Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185067739452052656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5640526721036423882010-02-01T15:33:41.652-05:002010-02-01T15:33:41.652-05:00Midday report of relative difficulty (see my 7/30/...Midday report of relative difficulty (see my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&postID=3588389571383499624&isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation of my method):<br /><br />All solvers (median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 7:25, 6:56, 1.07, 71%, Medium-Challenging<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 4:00, 3:41, 1.09, 78%, Medium-Challengingsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57252324868735412902010-02-01T14:51:56.208-05:002010-02-01T14:51:56.208-05:00for a minute i had "YADA rock" (until i ...for a minute i had "YADA rock" (until i realized how stupid i had been).Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724123173450107615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89996251466275170822010-02-01T14:46:04.580-05:002010-02-01T14:46:04.580-05:00Need to watch more Simpsons, had kwiky mart before...Need to watch more Simpsons, had kwiky mart before KWIK E. Only other write over was IN A YEAR over new year.<br /><br />A very nice Monday romp, thank you Mr. Atkinsonchefwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999206352243329280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30309539342536332362010-02-01T14:40:32.216-05:002010-02-01T14:40:32.216-05:00@mac and chefbea: Smocked dresses and Polly Flind...@mac and chefbea: Smocked dresses and Polly Flinders. Such wonderful memories of when my D was so little.PlantieBeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960277851368508036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87954814723615541572010-02-01T14:31:22.710-05:002010-02-01T14:31:22.710-05:00@Mac - I had forgotten about all those smocked dre...@Mac - I had forgotten about all those smocked dresses my children and I wore. Use to get them at Best & Co. ..... many years agochefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57737932681432278972010-02-01T14:20:06.458-05:002010-02-01T14:20:06.458-05:00Unaware of the Senate ever having REMET as opposed...Unaware of the Senate ever having REMET as opposed to re-convening but agree that and SMOCKED and ACRED don't materially detract from a nice, full theme and (for me) challenging Monday...SALIENT, SNARE and WHINING my favorite non-fill answers!Charles Boglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667976595355657752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62685995765806360162010-02-01T14:20:00.825-05:002010-02-01T14:20:00.825-05:00Medium-Hard for me and involving a bit of googling...Medium-Hard for me and involving a bit of googling for some stuff I just flat out didn't know. I did have to get OMSK on the downs and what annoys me is that it is in a favourite Tom Lehrer song of mine!<br /><br />Also, who the heck calls it ETAIL anyway? I have never met a single person who has called it that. I've only ever seen it in crosswords.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91482733696206549842010-02-01T13:42:39.095-05:002010-02-01T13:42:39.095-05:00Working for a living is so inconvenient. Lunchtim...Working for a living is so inconvenient. Lunchtime before I get to the puzzle. 8:32 = Good Monday Puzzle, so no real complaints. But I can’t resist.<br /><br />SAKE reminded me yet again that I can’t freaking spell, and held up SALIENT momentarily. I agree with @Elaine re 4D. Really, shouldn’t that have been the theme-reveal clue? (Am I using that term correctly?)<br /><br />And when I see claims re “Largest grossing yadda yadda yadda…!” (this is a general grouse, not Scott Atkinson’s fault at all), I wish that they would go to the trouble of adjusting dollar figures for inflation and adjust attendance to reflect total current ticket sales SO THAT THEIR STAT’S WOULD MEAN SOMETHING. There were lots more people going to movies when Jaws came out than when GWTW came out, and the tickets were much less expensive for GWTW.lit.dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729199575329286046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85315054284403172602010-02-01T13:20:07.698-05:002010-02-01T13:20:07.698-05:00Would a surprised, dyslexic Brit be gab SMOCKED?
...Would a surprised, dyslexic Brit be gab SMOCKED?<br /><br />Just asking . . .<br /><br />------> Joe in NYCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51184681596535898672010-02-01T13:17:42.404-05:002010-02-01T13:17:42.404-05:00Good start to the week. Learned a new word, today,...Good start to the week. Learned a new word, today, emend. Can't say I ever heard of it, or used it, but its always nice to build one's vocabulary.<br /><br />No ikebana?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com