tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post7903684963330877946..comments2024-03-29T01:22:33.864-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Tom who played TV's Luke Duke / THU 4-2-15 / Latino Walk of Fame locale informally / Titular rock band whose film's IMDb rating goes up to 11 rather than 10 / Tiananmen Square demonstration suppressor / Order at rathskeller / Classic late-night comedy bitRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31504925187747186362017-08-07T22:07:37.102-04:002017-08-07T22:07:37.102-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.james russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15557477276238333855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91019429407227522112015-07-23T11:13:08.820-04:002015-07-23T11:13:08.820-04:00Well, I would have never been able to solve this p...Well, I would have never been able to solve this puzzle without this blog. ERGO means "therefore", not thus. While they may be synonyms, in Latin SIC is "thus". The state motto of Virginia is "thus ever to tyrants" not "therefore ever to tyrants". So I put "as is"for thus. Sorry - I was just so mad I had to get this off my chest.Vinnygretnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30434307299055095762015-05-08T11:10:35.473-04:002015-05-08T11:10:35.473-04:00Terribly hard puzzle for me. Once again, reading t...Terribly hard puzzle for me. Once again, reading the comments, to the stronger puzzlers, this was medium to easy. I am a Wed-Thu-Fri type solver. I typically solve about 75% of the Wed, 50% of the Thur, and 25% if the Fri. To me, this was a hard Saturday puzzle. The easy "foothold" clues were few and far between. Also, did not come close to decoding the theme. <br /><br />It seems as though some time back, the Thursday puzzles became much harder than they had been historically. The legendary NYT hardness progression with day of the week is shattered, and I can't figure out why.<br /><br />No matter, Thursday has become a day to do other things, and to look forward to Friday!dmasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16432868990877614442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89289825800683949192015-05-07T20:23:57.707-04:002015-05-07T20:23:57.707-04:00@rain forest: I'm still,out here, but I'm ...@rain forest: I'm still,out here, but I'm kind of worn down by all the picky-picky posts that have cropped up lately. Maybe I just need to do more skipping. I do start my day with Rex, Lewis' Factoid, M&A and one or two others before skipping down to Syndieville. but, by the time I get here it seems absolutely everything has been said! ven how to fix my marriage which I didn't know was broken.<br /><br />@Ginger: Glad to hear from you. <br /><br />No comments on today's puzzle which sort of fell into place once you worked out the shut/ huts....thing.<br /><br />275DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82653837041873308752015-05-07T16:21:19.212-04:002015-05-07T16:21:19.212-04:00Amazing how wrong answers and right answers in wro...Amazing how wrong answers and right answers in wrong spaces can mess up a perfectly good puzzle. RaiSinetteS (yeah, I know it doesn't fit) and REINEDIN at 30D almost did me in. Eventually corrected. Also slow to suss huts. <br /><br />However, this perfectly good puzzle, was perfectly fun to do. Thanks Joe and Tim!Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156872089175084024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28456491429850519782015-05-07T14:39:33.940-04:002015-05-07T14:39:33.940-04:00IME ATO INS office,
TIA SAT long AGO at the compa...IME ATO INS office,<br /><br />TIA SAT long AGO at the company office.<br />RUDI SAT as well, but had other OPERETTA.<br />It’s PARR for his course, for women seemed to be ALLTHOSEAGAINST him.<br />RUDI worked to ERASE those UNCAlled for memories.<br />While TIA could SEAL the deal, as she was the KREME dela KREME,<br />RUDI was just told – ITELL available ELSEwhere paints the PORTRAITS of unworthiness.<br /><br />Back to EAST LA for Rudi, I guess. ALE for all.<br /><br />---MEOW ALEE<br />Pantlessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76887165577320342322015-05-07T13:30:32.451-04:002015-05-07T13:30:32.451-04:00When I first saw the grid, I wanted to find "...When I first saw the grid, I wanted to find "Zarathustra" somewhere in there.<br /><br />1A alerted me to either different ways the letters were displayed (radial, clockwise, columnar, etc.) or to anagrams. Figured that out with REAR, and the rest went smoothly, with lots of oohs and aahs on my part.<br /><br />THUS I really enjoyed this one, even though I tried "say hey Willy Mays" and "splendid splinter" for 10D for awhile. <br /><br />Hey @Dirigonzo, isn't Natick near you? Maybe you know this guy.<br /><br />@DMG Come back! The syndi contingent is pretty thin these days.<br /><br />110 Why bother?<br /><br />rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80914721463899533732015-05-07T11:42:52.213-04:002015-05-07T11:42:52.213-04:00@BS: A particularly good one today: har! And it ha...@BS: A particularly good one today: har! And it has one other good feature.<br /><br />It's short.<br /><br />On to today's. I knew I was in for some fun from the get-go, but was expecting OFL to rant about all the "cheater" squares (not sure how you count 'em, but I'd say at least 17), and I was all set to rag at him again. I never did mind them, and wondered what all the fuss was about. So, they're black squares on the edge. So what? I saw THUS, SHUT and HUTS right off; TUSH a bit later. Started in the belly of the "U" with RUDI, the awful but obvious EDIN, and my only writeover, taNk. C'mon, what does your mind's eye see when someone says "Tianamen?" That big ol' TANK, and that one gutsy hero. Hard to believe no one else did that.<br /><br />Soon, though, I had that ship righted, and the image caused by MUTILATES over SPINALTAP was not pretty. The right side gave the most resistance. Dredged my brain for that actor's name and it finally surfaced: WOPAT. Thank you, brain. I'll feed you some fish soon.<br /><br />7-down is a shout-out to Da-a-a-avid Letterman, who (here in Syndiland) is inside his two-week countdown. He'll be missed.<br /><br />Guys, you have got to watch WWTBAM tonight! The current contestant is from Natick, MA! And he's doing well so far.<br /><br />I did enjoy this, despite inevitable bad fill in spots for such a contorted grid. Surprising theyt did as well as they did. Like OFL, I can't quite give them a 2-down, but let's just change the sign.<br /><br />P.S. In case someone hasn't figured out the acronym, it's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26254609361081515452015-05-07T10:30:51.384-04:002015-05-07T10:30:51.384-04:00REINEDIN
While I SAT RELAXING at the beach I OGLE...REINEDIN<br /><br />While I SAT RELAXING at the beach I OGLED some women,<br />[(but I GETEXERCISE, too, like a SEAL I go swimmin’)].<br />ITELL you it’s my NATIONALPASTIME, nothing ELSE is in doubt,<br />But when I peek in the CABANAS, they say, “Get the BLEEPOUT!”<br /><br />--- RUDI COB PARR, RET.<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17884361634008531612015-05-07T09:55:17.804-04:002015-05-07T09:55:17.804-04:00HOW TO GET YOUR GOOD PUZZLE BACK
For two days in ...HOW TO GET YOUR GOOD PUZZLE BACK<br /><br />For two days in a row the puzzles were really bad – either bursting with drecky fill or laden with 3 letter answers on top of a lame theme. Even poor @Burma Shave was deprived of fill worthy to use for his verse! It was becoming unbearable. So I decided to focus all of my energy and karma like a laser beam to the East on a heading to just north of Madison Square Garden. Perhaps directing all that force to the Gray Lady and the Shortzmeister will result in getting good puzzles back into the fold and they nevermore shall stray. Maybe if it also came from on high, like from a @spacecraft!? <br /><br />Certainly if we all focus THUS, our wishes will come true and our puzzling experiences will be happier without delay. This will certainly become evident at the end of 5 weeks, or in the case of Sundays a mere 7 days. Won’t you all join me?<br /><br />Thanks for reading,<br />rondo<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38512811624299709722015-04-02T22:16:09.078-04:002015-04-02T22:16:09.078-04:00@Leapfinger, of course to air is human :-).@Leapfinger, of course to air is human :-).Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61506434560855525042015-04-02T21:48:53.714-04:002015-04-02T21:48:53.714-04:00Anony 2:17
'Could you people be any more prete...Anony 2:17<br />'Could you people be any more pretentious?'<br /><br />lol. is that a request? I'm sure we could try to be, if it means so much to you. Don't know about names with Zee/Zeds, but I don't find 2 YYs in Anonyms...<br /><br />Good Friday from Leapfingrrz<br /><br />ps to Jess Wondrin:<br />Dear Jess, don't get between me and my Alias.;D<br />pps to @CascoK, I thought your French Toast-French Roast very clever, and I'm all for @FredRom no matter who he likes.<br /><br />Why have opinions if not to air-err-share them, mes chers?Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43094509982391752942015-04-02T21:14:26.858-04:002015-04-02T21:14:26.858-04:00PASTIME, from such as "It's PAST [the] TI...PASTIME, from such as "It's PAST [the] TIME that we should have glazed those donuts".<br /><br />I did like PAUPERED, prob on account of "Mr. PAUPERED Penguins."<br /><br />Wow, @Alias, you're welcome for the lead-in! Little did I know, or suspect such depth to a punny observation. I feel all, you know...vindicated.<br /><br />Speaking of pet rocks, I have two of my own: one is a 14-pound chunk of granite of a curiously meaningful shape, that was backpacked over a glacier out of the Canadian Rockies. The other is a stone etched with "Nobody knows the trouble I've been".<br /><br />Thanks to @JohnChild and @GeorgeBaranyi for a whole other plethora of fun puzzles.<br /><br />Now I need to look up Maundy Thursday; I bet it has nothing to do with matzoth.Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19537652485947164502015-04-02T20:54:46.540-04:002015-04-02T20:54:46.540-04:00I actually am an ed-in-chief and found this answer...I actually am an ed-in-chief and found this answer odd. I also find editor-in-chief a bit strange, but that's what the masthead says.michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83039072027579709632015-04-02T20:48:50.474-04:002015-04-02T20:48:50.474-04:00@Loren Muse Smith (and the 4th period gang) --
I ...@Loren Muse Smith (and the 4th period gang) --<br /><br />I was right there with you guys. I had never thought about how to spell pastime and I just assumed without thinking about it that it was pasttime, thereby causing great difficulty for me on the whole right side of the puzzle. But then, I wavered. Maybe it was an S that was missing.<br /><br />I did, however, throw down STUPID PET TRICKS without hesitating and without a single cross.<br /><br />I loved this puzzle.Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17459992224851404501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60418562203347203342015-04-02T20:20:36.214-04:002015-04-02T20:20:36.214-04:00BTW I liked the puzzle.BTW I liked the puzzle.Fred Romagnolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11994837736408182418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6064723493968924052015-04-02T20:19:47.540-04:002015-04-02T20:19:47.540-04:00What's all this about Krispy Kremes and Dunkin...What's all this about Krispy Kremes and Dunkin Donuts? I've never met a freshly fried (or baked) donut that I didn't like: and I've got the waistline to prove it (won't even go into my TUSH). FWIW French donuts are my faves. I have to disagree with the Muti put-downers - he really knows his Verdi. and those Stokowski and Ormandy strings were produced by players long dead, how is that Muti's fault? But I still like you "Z" guys. Fred Romagnolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11994837736408182418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83179895528739791422015-04-02T18:43:29.421-04:002015-04-02T18:43:29.421-04:00Comparing Krispy Kreme to Dunkin' Donuts is li...Comparing Krispy Kreme to Dunkin' Donuts is like comparing crepes to cornbread. On the other hand, Timbits rule!foxaronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00085435659928443459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57634313956402874102015-04-02T18:17:03.653-04:002015-04-02T18:17:03.653-04:00Hey, a "captcha" puzzle! I didn't ge...Hey, a "captcha" puzzle! I didn't get the theme until ERGO, so I can't say it was Easeful for me but still a lot of fun, I TELL you.<br /><br />Thanks, Joe Krozel and Timothy PolinTeedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43238847734285099662015-04-02T18:08:26.143-04:002015-04-02T18:08:26.143-04:00@AliasZ - Ah yes, the tired old trope that a clear...@AliasZ - Ah yes, the tired old trope that a clear mistake in typing negates substantive content. <br /><br />PS It's not trollery when one is referencing specific statements made, in context, with substance. Jes Wondrin'noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82219300655892551732015-04-02T17:58:02.274-04:002015-04-02T17:58:02.274-04:00I agree entirely with your sentiments, Rex. It was...I agree entirely with your sentiments, Rex. It was an often cringe-worthy puzzle that I ended up having a lot of fun filling. Overall it was a little too easy for a Thursday, but otherwise fun nonsense.imnotbobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18306475092005894772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63377926700517314212015-04-02T17:57:16.728-04:002015-04-02T17:57:16.728-04:00@Casco - I don't think anyone has answered y...@Casco - I don't think anyone has answered your question. It's ETE because ETE is summer in France and folks "toast"'in the summer heat. A similar version of the clue might be "Baking time on the Riviera" . jaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385568014046336373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33385877321038594732015-04-02T17:19:01.449-04:002015-04-02T17:19:01.449-04:00On that note, Texas is considering their own time ...On that note, Texas is considering their own time zone (TST) as the alternative to keeping Daylight Savings Time (which seems is becoming more and more unnecessary)!wreckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797908615185213756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59973723348001320472015-04-02T17:12:46.697-04:002015-04-02T17:12:46.697-04:00@Laurence Hunt: AST is Atlantic Standard Time. Ari...@Laurence Hunt: AST is Atlantic Standard Time. Arizona is absolutely in the Mountain Time Zone, staying on standard time for the full year. There's no such thing as Arizona Standard Time (not officially, anyway), which is what I assuming you were indicating.Steve Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185067739452052656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51583000491395824142015-04-02T17:10:55.843-04:002015-04-02T17:10:55.843-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Steve Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185067739452052656noreply@blogger.com