tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post5475843732093297988..comments2024-03-28T15:13:08.509-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Popular Japanese manga series with schoolgirl heroine / SUN 2-24-19 / Scarecrow portrayer Ray / Nettie's sister in Color Purple / Sports rival of Union College / Baby beavers / Fashion model Marcille / HuffPo purchaser in 2011 / Crazy Rich Asians actress whose stage name puns on bottled water brandRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23383166514089259942019-03-12T17:00:51.965-04:002019-03-12T17:00:51.965-04:00I’m going to buy me a bullfrog
Watch my old lady w...I’m going to buy me a bullfrog<br />Watch my old lady whilst she sleeps<br /><br />Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05964501472593587070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4044675539968212782019-03-12T16:57:06.952-04:002019-03-12T16:57:06.952-04:00I gave up on this puzzle...first time in years. I ...I gave up on this puzzle...first time in years. I don’t think it could be classified as easy. Rechewed? I thought of that, and said to myself WTF? Misspelled Woolf. What a flusterchuck.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05964501472593587070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17479613845531976392019-03-03T22:14:37.022-05:002019-03-03T22:14:37.022-05:00I'm quite surprised to see that someone was su...I'm quite surprised to see that someone was surprised to see that Rex liked this puzzle. Has he ever not liked an EA puzzle ? <br /><br />Slogged through this puzzle without ever bothering to use the theme since my lame newspaper didn't italicize any of the clues. And when I did finally figure out the theme my reaction was "So what...". Like a few others I wasn't too into it, the theme, that is. But other than that it was challenging for me and worthy of praise IMO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21954485419614473522019-03-03T19:24:36.408-05:002019-03-03T19:24:36.408-05:00"Everything Evens Out in the End" and WH..."Everything Evens Out in the End" and WHAT ARE THE ODDS make for a double revealer without making the even-odd feature of the themers too easy to see. In fact, needed to come here to make sense of them.<br /><br />A big Sunday puzzle needs a lot of fill, easy and tough. Today on the tougher side were SAILOR MOON, AWKWAFINA, SONG (dynasty), ILLUMINATI (as clued), and a few others. Oh, and PRECHEW was also a bit tough to swallow.<br /><br />Because of their size, Sunday puzzles IMO are inherently slogs, or DRAGGY, no matter how good or clever they may otherwise be. Been doing them out of habit, and am working on cutting down but probably not breaking it altogether.<br /><br />Very clever and doable puzzle by Erik Agard.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13726335449242651212019-03-03T18:20:35.481-05:002019-03-03T18:20:35.481-05:00WHILST I often speak thusly, I must say:
Ha! Ha!...WHILST I often speak thusly, I must say:<br /><br />Ha! Ha! Got the theme early, and used it to finish the solve. Clever. Had fun.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41124786452034743122019-03-03T16:31:27.980-05:002019-03-03T16:31:27.980-05:00My appreciation of this puzzle went up considerabl...My appreciation of this puzzle went up considerably when I got the revealer and dutifully went to the themers and verified the odd-letter thing. Yes, I realize this is mostly a constructor gratification effort, but I'm impressed anyway.<br /><br />The clever word/letter play in the themers was fun to suss out, even if I didn't get the trick at first. <br /><br />Love the word "WHILST", a word I used in my BSc thesis just for the effect.<br /><br />Really, not a bad Sunday.<br /><br />rainforestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91281333722691748902019-03-03T13:20:56.161-05:002019-03-03T13:20:56.161-05:00Disliked.Disliked.Uke Xensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14925310033193507314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91334537968761607542019-03-03T13:08:44.334-05:002019-03-03T13:08:44.334-05:00I guess I expected more teeth from an Agard puzzle...I guess I expected more teeth from an Agard puzzle, but after WHAPping down ol' CHEWy I was off to the races. Seldom is a 1-a such a gimme. Thee were little pockets of resistance caused by toughish clues, but nothing to get bogged down by.<br /><br />RAN into the DOD early, too. EVA Marceille wins it; numerous other EVAs get honorable mention.<br /><br />I never heard of 132-across either, but luckily I read the whole clue: WHATARETHEODDS?<br /><br />Theme was so-so, examples strained to fit; revealer was cute, but not to OFL's level. I was just NOTTOOINTO it. Fill OK. Par.<br /><br />What's with the captcha police lately?spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13728828345420574202019-03-03T11:21:35.760-05:002019-03-03T11:21:35.760-05:00OOLALA CLUB LIES
THE SWINGINGSIGN at THE SMALLTOW...OOLALA CLUB LIES<br /><br />THE SWINGINGSIGN at THE SMALLTOWNSALON<br />read, “EVA ISNOTTOOINTO your bods”, <br />so NATIONALTV put some GENTS’ DEVIATIONs on<br />and GASPed, “Oh, just WHATARETHEODDS?”<br /><br />--- TERESA MASON<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8321292437164815052019-03-03T10:52:43.427-05:002019-03-03T10:52:43.427-05:00Exactly what the first commenter @Joe Dipinto said...Exactly what the first commenter @Joe Dipinto said. Didn’t need to read past his comment to feel justified in not liking it. 35 agonizing minutes of green paint like SWINGINGSIGN and THEFARMTEAM. I figured out the theme at the first one – SMALLTOWNSALON – I was in one yesterday and it was not *inexpensive*. OFL must have his favorite peeps to have liked this one.<br /><br />I’ve actually seen AWKWAFINA somewhere, so yeah baby to her, sorry EVA Marcille, whoever you are.<br /><br />Shoulda stayed in bed to not LOSESLEEP over this puz. But no, I got up to DOIT.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-702925477716328542019-02-25T16:09:46.329-05:002019-02-25T16:09:46.329-05:00Me four on Ilya Kuryakin. I miss his style and tur...Me four on Ilya Kuryakin. I miss his style and turtlenecks.<br />Cyrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05940040795009839761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15322978028685704942019-02-25T06:01:21.484-05:002019-02-25T06:01:21.484-05:00@John Hnedak - I looked to see if your profile ha...@John Hnedak - I looked to see if your profile had an email, but alas no. But since you grammar-shamed Rex…just curious – do you say <br /><br /><i>The media *were* unrelenting in their digging? <br />The agenda *were* set in stone?</i> <br /><br />Heck. I guess if you wanna branch out and malign other words whose plurals have become English’s daily walking-around singulars, you could insist that <i>Aida</i> is an <b>opus</b> but <i>Aida</i> and <i>Tosca</i> are <b>opera</b>. I still use <i>criteria</i> as a plural, but that’s only the hypocritical part of me that doesn’t want to be judged. I imagine pretty soon, I’ll ditch <i>criterion</i> and get on board with the ever-changing, gloriously malleable nature of English. As it stands now, I use <i>data</i> as a singular and never look back. I guess for some it’s still a gray areum. <br /><br />Email me if you want to take me to task on this, not because I’m afraid of being fussed at here but rather to spare the commentariat a foreign plural dust-up. (FWIW, I almost always try to take these discussions “out back” and look for an email first.)Loren Muse Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05308030011870397977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35513069487586050172019-02-24T22:06:28.543-05:002019-02-24T22:06:28.543-05:00@Josh 5:00PM
Take a Midol, you'll feel better...@Josh 5:00PM<br /><br />Take a Midol, you'll feel betterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14268656178297698082019-02-24T21:12:46.516-05:002019-02-24T21:12:46.516-05:00There was one clever and possibly unintentional cr...There was one clever and possibly unintentional cross reference that I liked. The answer to 52A Get to the bottom of (PLUMB) comes from "plumb line", which historically is a string with a lead weight at the end. It's called a plumb line because "plumbum" is Latin for the element lead, which also is the source for the chemical symbol Pb. So it was fun to see 108A Pb (LEAD) show up later. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17045917579531560765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57959658913277544572019-02-24T20:38:08.570-05:002019-02-24T20:38:08.570-05:00Like many, I didn't get the theme until I read...Like many, I didn't get the theme until I read it here. Interesting but not AHA for me. As a sometimes math teacher, DEVIATION is my favorite answer.<br /><br />I've skimmed the posts, but haven't seen mention of RPI happening twice in the week. Lotsa press for a small (relatively) school.Monty Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924320449868956299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57783974711652255912019-02-24T20:29:14.248-05:002019-02-24T20:29:14.248-05:00This was my immediate flashback (to the '70s) ...This was my immediate flashback (to the '70s) when I solved the "prechew" clue. Funny but almost unwatchable if you have a delicate stomach, like the "Mr. Creosote" sequence in "Monty Python's Meaning of LIfe" (1983):<br /><br />https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3tthe2ghostoflectricityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353943236869084993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17673722036516261412019-02-24T19:42:56.025-05:002019-02-24T19:42:56.025-05:00I got the theme before any of the theme answers, a...I got the theme before any of the theme answers, and it helped.<br />It was a pleasant surprise to find that Rex liked the puzzle!Sandy McCroskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06693184153262496849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10977502566001398902019-02-24T19:27:58.612-05:002019-02-24T19:27:58.612-05:00So the first four or five sequential odd numbered ...So the first four or five sequential odd numbered letters of the phrase become the last four or five letters of the phrase.<br /><br />So what? There's nothing here. The revealer and the title make no sense.Anonymoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56181150043252926952019-02-24T19:03:46.447-05:002019-02-24T19:03:46.447-05:00I wanted to reclue One Across (though there would ...I wanted to reclue One Across (though there would have to be more squares, of course) as “Solo’s three partners” with the answer: ME MYSELF AND I. :)davidmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5468604083476541432019-02-24T18:49:22.150-05:002019-02-24T18:49:22.150-05:00How would you have constructed that section?How would you have constructed that section?Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79296638447971203352019-02-24T18:37:59.134-05:002019-02-24T18:37:59.134-05:00@roo monster -- I wouldn't have got it either ...@roo monster -- I wouldn't have got it either save for Oscar Wilde's <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ballad-reading-gaol" rel="nofollow">The Ballad of Reading Gaol.</a> Not that I've read it, only heard of it, but that was enough. As far as I know the Brits pronounce it the same way we do, despite the odd spelling.<br /><br />I've got a lithograph of Allen Ginsberg on my wall, looking at me as I write this. He was far more that a PROTEST POET, but I guess he was that, too. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts once had an exhibit of photo portraits by Elsa Dorfman using a Polaroid large-format camera, and one was of Ginsberg, standing, stark naked, with a happy smile on his face. It was incredible.<br /><br />OK, three times and out.jberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169065390875378077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14646968268097437052019-02-24T18:25:34.671-05:002019-02-24T18:25:34.671-05:00I would never have got SAILOR MOON either, except ...I would never have got SAILOR MOON either, except that when my son got married they had a wedding cake with plastic figures of Godzilla and Sailor Moon on top. She's a crossword regular, at least I've seen her twice in the last couple weeks.<br /><br />@Nancy -- nice thought, but of course birds don't PRECHEW on account of their lack of teeth. Sometimes they just pick up the food with their beaks and stick it in the infants' mouths, but some birds will swallow and partially digest it, then regurgitate it to the youngsters. If you've seen "March of the Penguins" this is explained in more depth -- in the case of penguins, it lets one travel to the distant ocean, catch and eat a lot of fish, and then transport them back to its mate and baby, using its stomach instead of a shopping cart. Inventive little guys, those penguins.<br /><br />jberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169065390875378077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90326996068983437272019-02-24T18:11:32.128-05:002019-02-24T18:11:32.128-05:00I loved this puzzle. It was so much fun to figure ...I loved this puzzle. It was so much fun to figure out the theme. At first, looking at FOOTNOTE FONT, I thought it was going to be a letter switch between the first and last bits, here )\O to N -- but no. I don't know how I thought of taking every other letter, but wow! I haven't read the comments yet, so maybe people have thought of many other examples, but to my mind it's quite an accomplishment.<br /><br />Not much more to say, and it's too late for anyone to read this, so I'll look back at the comments now.jberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169065390875378077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33606313854035568502019-02-24T17:48:16.267-05:002019-02-24T17:48:16.267-05:00@Actual Reader
Here's the "stop Counting...@Actual Reader<br /><br />Here's the "stop Counting Women" <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/women-directors-quotas.html" rel="nofollow">link</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43005038195806582942019-02-24T17:30:43.482-05:002019-02-24T17:30:43.482-05:00@Barbiebarbie, Bwahahaha. I think you are confusi...@Barbiebarbie, Bwahahaha. I think you are confusing with a pseudopaleophile. I am an omnivore. There really never was just one paleo diet, there were lots of them and meant that included food other than meat. The first time I remember the hypothesis that chewed up bits of meats might have been a source of iron and zinc for babies who didn’t have teeth yet was the evolutionary biologist Katie Hinde. “Bits of PRE CHEWED meat” is not “Huge quantities of nothing but meat”. Early introduction of cereal has been show to displace more nutrient rich milk and slow growth. I’m a big believer in introducing a wide variety of foods to infants and not just shoveling in the cereal that has been heavily marketed as a first food.Aketihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07059835429995060000noreply@blogger.com