tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post684358285454562938..comments2024-03-28T17:39:41.086-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Number cruncher in Wall Street lingo / SUN 11-1-20 / Bolshoi debut of 1877 / Little auk by another name / Boat sometimes built around whalebone frame / Original site of Elgin Marbles / Coarse-grained igneous rock / Org that publishes journal Emotion / Amenity in GM vehiclesRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61739834278238826322020-12-05T23:08:38.061-05:002020-12-05T23:08:38.061-05:00This puzzle should have been round-filed for "...This puzzle should have been round-filed for "KEBOB" alone. I thought some of the theme answers like SPARKLINGSWINE and SWEPTFORJOY were amusing enough but the rest are boring and the fill is not good enough to make up for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19104860959904240012020-11-16T11:07:41.332-05:002020-11-16T11:07:41.332-05:00This took forever and a day - thus, I post a day l...This took forever and a day - thus, I post a day late.<br /><br />All I can say is that never, ever, in the history of the English-speaking world, did anyone ever describe a bubble's joyous bubbleness by saying that it did IRIDESCE. (That was not my problem area, but what rot.)<br /><br />Diana, No Longer Waiting for Monday, It's HereDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72693284665574709032020-11-15T20:23:07.977-05:002020-11-15T20:23:07.977-05:00SHORTU. Hate it, hate it HATE IT!!! Throw that GAR...SHORTU. Hate it, hate it HATE IT!!! Throw that GARBAGE out of your puzzles! You put one in, you can't get better than a bogey. And the rest wasn't that spectacular: double bogey.<br /><br />Didn't even watch the Masters; it's DJ's world, and the rest of them are just living in it. I heard his lead shrank to 2 at one point; ho-hum. Just put the coat on him and forget it.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37320527220929860192020-11-15T18:45:53.355-05:002020-11-15T18:45:53.355-05:00POI - Traditional poi is produced by mashing the c...POI - Traditional poi is produced by mashing the cooked corm ***(taro root, either baked or steamed)*** on a papa ku‘i ‘ai, a wooden pounding board, with a pōhaku ku‘i ‘ai, a carved basalt pestle. <br />fakt chekkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83469706119138498932020-11-15T17:13:27.023-05:002020-11-15T17:13:27.023-05:00This xword ran in our local paper today, so my com...This xword ran in our local paper today, so my comment may be missed by all. The clue for 34A is completely WRONG! Poi is never cooked, in an underground oven, or anywhere. It is pounded raw taro root! Very surprised our chef in Hawa’i did not comment on it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81159462952503635182020-11-15T11:44:43.177-05:002020-11-15T11:44:43.177-05:00Didn't we just recently have a letter-change p...Didn't we just recently have a letter-change puz? It's tiresome and today I agree with OFL. Between that and numerous obscurities (including PPP) where there should be help, I did not find this fun. Not MEAN just true.<br /><br />For some self-encouragement the 4 corners say GO ME!<br /><br />LILI and TERI can split any honors there might be today.<br /><br />My XWISHLIST is to trade this stuff FORWANTOFABETTERXWORD.<br /><br />(DJ can't throw away this tournament, can he?)rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66591773442823439002020-11-15T11:18:38.212-05:002020-11-15T11:18:38.212-05:00ARTY SORT
OH, FOSSE liked them to SWAYUPHIGH,
EXQ...ARTY SORT<br /><br />OH, FOSSE liked them to SWAYUPHIGH,<br />EXQUISITE dance moves FOR to make,<br />SO from SWISHLISTS he'd pick ANY guy<br />whose GENRE's jazz OR SPITES SWANLAKE.<br /><br />--- HOSEA "HAL" ORSERBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18330836442703534852020-11-14T12:32:53.356-05:002020-11-14T12:32:53.356-05:00Looking forward to the elegant, amazing crossword ...Looking forward to the elegant, amazing crossword puzzles you design, Rex. <br /><br />If already in existance, let me know where they are, as I'd really like to see your idea of a perfect crossword. novamazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239268242526041178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20082416363854815472020-11-09T23:13:20.140-05:002020-11-09T23:13:20.140-05:00Come on, man! SPARKLING SWINE? That was worth it r...Come on, man! SPARKLING SWINE? That was worth it right there. Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05964501472593587070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59103129995348345932020-11-03T17:11:24.682-05:002020-11-03T17:11:24.682-05:00puzzle after puzzle, Mr. Parker lambasts the quali...puzzle after puzzle, Mr. Parker lambasts the quality and relevance of these constructions. he constantly bemoans the fact that he has to slog his way through all of the antiquated, irrelevant and shoddy puzzles that appear in the Times. Mr. Parker, why do you do this? perhaps you should just devote your energies to your daytime gig and anoint a more enthusiastic successor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75870153417143323602020-11-03T12:51:23.937-05:002020-11-03T12:51:23.937-05:00No troll, just my opinion. Though it does strike m...No troll, just my opinion. Though it does strike me as odd to see "grok" misused in a forum dedicated (more or less) to word usage. Maybe akin to seeing "enormity" used to mean something great, rather than greatly awful. To also quote Wikipedia: <br /><br />Grok is a word coined by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, to indicate a concept of self transcendent experience and emergent identification beyond those of many "subject-object" assumptions. It has since become a widely used word to indicate intense or profound understanding.<br /><br />Why misuse "grok" when you simply mean "I got it"?<br /><br />I know this is pedantic, but isn't that what we do here? ��Gizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08066280728247489228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88067545111902591572020-11-02T22:18:53.776-05:002020-11-02T22:18:53.776-05:00Just got to the Sunday NYT crossword (more than 39...Just got to the Sunday NYT crossword (more than 39 hours after picking the Sunday paper off the front step) so I'm late here. I agree with everything Rex said. This puzzle was tedious, laborious, dated, trite, no fun, and unfunny, with no payoff.<br /><br />Don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but 58D: "KEBOB"? Really? Uh uh, no , no way, wrong, wrong, wrong. An acceptable spelling is either "kabob" or "kebab" but never "kebob." This puzzle was an abomination.ghostoflectricityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353943236869084993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70511064826229473522020-11-02T12:53:26.905-05:002020-11-02T12:53:26.905-05:00Anonymous at 9:52. Get a life. Anonymous at 9:52. Get a life. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597163329723351339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60990606847064479572020-11-02T10:54:52.389-05:002020-11-02T10:54:52.389-05:00How about, the W(ant) is for West and the SW(ord) ...How about, the W(ant) is for West and the SW(ord) is for Southwest. The title in one word. Thought that was the cleverest thing in this puzzle.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06472865852168847575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42712487033296565482020-11-01T22:46:46.358-05:002020-11-01T22:46:46.358-05:00@Anoa Bob - Schrödinger’s POC - 👍🏽👍🏽
@Nancy -...@Anoa Bob - <i>Schrödinger’s POC</i> - 👍🏽👍🏽<br /><br />@Nancy - We steal lots of words from foreign languages, especially when the concept doesn’t have an exact analogue in our native tongue. Why should we discriminate against Martian?Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81433191922357762332020-11-01T22:13:54.088-05:002020-11-01T22:13:54.088-05:00Hi @LMS! I know exactly how you feel about the st...Hi @LMS! I know exactly how you feel about the students’ attitudes. Although a different group, I deal with three counties’ elected officials and citizens who all hate the masks, want to “go back to business as usual” and who “can’t wait until Wednesday when this will all be over.” <br /><br />Since I am in Oklahoma, I just bite my tongue because I have spent a lifetime (well 45 years) trying to enter into discourse with folks here about common goals without applying labels or taking sides. And in the last four years as the nation became more and more divided, it has become nearly impossible to create an atmosphere that encourages discourse. <br /><br />All I can say to @LMS and all teachers everywhere is please keep teaching!!! We need for our young folks to learn to think and question and be ready to assume the mantle of leadership as adults. Good teachers in a free public education system are the keys to an educated electorate and the building blocks for our children’s futures. <br /><br />Speaking of building blocks, count me among those who enjoyed this traditional Sunday NYT puzzle. Took a while for the theme to warm up but by the time it got to SPARKLING SWINE, SWEPT FOR JOY, and SWISH LIST, it was a silly, Sunday theme that I enjoyed. The fill wasn’t anything too challenging and I wish there had been a bit more deception and cleverness, but this was for sure a Sunday NYT puzzle. Lots of other puzzles out there that offer many, many alternatives - something for everyone. And rather than try to force this one to change or berate it for what is isn’t, perhaps our reviewer would simply prefer to do another Sunday puzzle that tickles his fancy. This one tickled mine. CDilly52https://www.blogger.com/profile/07727001753847073030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15226445041992494822020-11-01T22:08:16.334-05:002020-11-01T22:08:16.334-05:00Maybe blame Covid?Maybe blame Covid?live healthy or die tryinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09184792244045744366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57069927353455204802020-11-01T21:52:48.831-05:002020-11-01T21:52:48.831-05:00Is that last line really necessary? Adds nothing. ...Is that last line really necessary? Adds nothing. Seems inappropriate. Not clever. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63491487401291002272020-11-01T21:49:03.623-05:002020-11-01T21:49:03.623-05:00done at -3
Peace Shlama Paix 平和 Paz Maluhia ...<br /><br /><br />done at -3 <br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace</a> Shlama Paix 平和 Paz Maluhia 和平 Mir Pace Friðr Frieden Salam Síocháin ειρήνη <a href="https://www.qtcommission.ca/en/resources/glossary-inuktitut-words" rel="nofollow">Saimaqatigiiniq</a> שָׁלוֹם 🕊bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91045515758528910422020-11-01T21:34:24.312-05:002020-11-01T21:34:24.312-05:00@Sami – JC didn't point it out but I did. We ...@Sami – JC didn't point it out but I did. We are a tag team. We fight actor name misspellings throughout the universe.Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51709760113811991732020-11-01T20:47:17.011-05:002020-11-01T20:47:17.011-05:00Sunday sized, 21X21 puzzles are very, very hard to...Sunday sized, 21X21 puzzles are very, very hard to make. You're going to need probably seven or eight theme entries minimum and that's a tall order. Getting just four for a weekday puzzle that really stick the landing is tough enough. There's also that vast white space to fill and that just magnifies the chances for less-than-optimum-fill. I think these are some reasons why Sunday puzzles often are not as well received or rated as are weekday puzzles. <br /><br />Maybe we should change our evaluations of Sunday puzzles to reflect he greater degree of difficulty in constructing them. Maybe that's why as of August 2019 the average inventory of puzzles accepted for publication in the NYT for weekday puzzles was 41 while there were only 15 for Sunday puzzles (cruciverb.com).<br /><br />I work a lot with wood and have been wearing breathing protection type masks for many years. Fogging of the glasses has had me saying bad words on many occasions. In my experience the best best way to prevent this is to have ample air flow across your face. Electric fans work well so maybe that could be of some help to LMS and her class or to anyone wearing a mask and sharing a closed space with others. <br /><br />Kathy @1:48, I balked at the clue for XAXES, but I was also thinking x y plots and then I recalled that bar graphs have X AXES where they are truly "bottom lines". Negative values don't don't make sense there. I would prefer a clue along the lines of "Fabled Babylonian garden keeper". Then it could join Nancy @4:33's list! <br /><br />It is a weird plural and since the base, go-to phrase is X AXIS, changing that I to an E solely to fit in the grid is certainly convenient so therefore it is a <a href="https://anoabob.blogspot.com/2013/05/poc-doc.html" rel="nofollow">POC</a>. But it doesn't increase the letter-count, so it really isn't a POC, as Z @8:22 suspects. I think it's both at the same time. It's a Schrödinger's POC!Anoa Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185183023273883700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4488168117468169232020-11-01T20:41:36.510-05:002020-11-01T20:41:36.510-05:00Joie Lee was one of the only ones I knew off the b...Joie Lee was one of the only ones I knew off the bat. And Teri Polo who I know from the show "The Fosters" not whatever the clue saidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56592420141282565952020-11-01T20:20:21.681-05:002020-11-01T20:20:21.681-05:00Honor is flashed off exploit, so they say.
Oh rig...Honor is flashed off exploit, so they say. <br />Oh right, no one here knows Hopkins. More’s the pity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39050598444269516082020-11-01T20:06:57.915-05:002020-11-01T20:06:57.915-05:00@JC66 but it is by the fact that it should also be...@JC66 but it is by the fact that it should also be UZO ADUBA and you kinda failed to point that out. Samihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990382964643776894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36966640293712254932020-11-01T18:51:34.282-05:002020-11-01T18:51:34.282-05:00Slogged through this. Didn’t hate it as much as Re...Slogged through this. Didn’t hate it as much as Rex and some others, but I will say (agree?) that Upfront?/SHORTU may be the single most unsatisfying and obtuse clue and answer I’ve experienced in ten years of crosswords.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com