tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8322274406665994924..comments2024-03-28T12:23:36.637-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: SEC school near Atlanta / WED 8-1-18 / Buccaneer's sword / German pop star who once had #2 song / Home to Queen Sonja / Capek play that debuted word robot Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13557308097270560482022-12-20T08:03:46.282-05:002022-12-20T08:03:46.282-05:00I thought this puzzle was very clever; I enjoyed i...I thought this puzzle was very clever; I enjoyed it thoroughly. Ron Mediatorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13310152909445048452018-09-05T22:16:04.299-04:002018-09-05T22:16:04.299-04:00@Rondo - no team in EYELESS - ha!
Like the theme ...@Rondo - no team in EYELESS - ha!<br /><br />Like the theme better than @Rex - not the best ever, but fine and dandy for today. Had to think a tad here and there, and really want to see those SOCALBUTTERFLies flitting about in the trees. Do they have unusual markings? (Tatoos, no doubt)<br /><br />At a workshop all day so I'm late to the party. See y'all tomorrow.<br /><br />Diana, LIWDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56339017073571575212018-09-05T16:18:04.736-04:002018-09-05T16:18:04.736-04:00Rex has a point about this puzzle overall. It'...Rex has a point about this puzzle overall. It's rather pointless. <br /><br />Maybe should give the constructors some points, though, for perfect "I"-lessness. But that may have been more fun for them to do than for us (me) to solve.<br /><br />All that aside, I found it otherwise very easy and smooth-going. Would have made a good Monday or Tuesday, maybe.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52000831231935548812018-09-05T15:03:01.788-04:002018-09-05T15:03:01.788-04:00I liked knowing that the answers could not have an...I liked knowing that the answers could not have an "i" - helped me reject many wrong answers, and I had a much tidier-looking completed grid than usual. I appreciated reading in this blog that the missing letters in the themers were all "i" - never twigged to that, as I don't know Randy Quaid and I was thinking local butterfly, for obviously no good reason, but I thought it was just that one letter was replaced, and I couldn't figure out which one. This blog made it a much better puzzle for me. wcutlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615799228069705972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81164438815758373232018-09-05T14:23:47.584-04:002018-09-05T14:23:47.584-04:00This puz was a snap; 2X OFL's time, less than ...This puz was a snap; 2X OFL's time, less than 10 minutes. Probably would not have noticed the whole EYELESS thing without the revealer clue telling me. Did a Harper's puz recently that had only Es for vowels in the answers , but no Es in any of the clues; They clued you in ahead of time.<br /><br />Can't forget uber yeah baby NENA and "99 Luftballons" or "99 Red Balloons". GOOD in German or English.<br /><br />Too bad there's no team in an EYELESS puz, but I like it when there's a RON.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6884178813828577792018-09-05T12:14:00.804-04:002018-09-05T12:14:00.804-04:00Only one complaint about the massive natick? Oh w...Only one complaint about the massive natick? Oh well, I did guess correctly. Oh, there is no i in ego.centralscrewtinizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404913280254786506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35144409516956388682018-09-05T12:11:52.223-04:002018-09-05T12:11:52.223-04:00This puzzle was something o an ODDDUCK for me; the...This puzzle was something o an ODDDUCK for me; the clues were almost Monday-level. That I noticed; the fact they were EYELESS I did not, as OFL rightly complained. The byline foretold some verbal calisthenics, but I wasn't seeing any. Then when I got to the revealer and saw that "I" was absent in the whole grid PLUS all the clues? Now there's the Jeffmeister at work. But as OFL said, who knew, beforehand? Ergo, what's the point? Same reason a dog licks his...nevermind.<br /><br />So, I-free clues notwithstanding, they were really simple and made for an easy-peasy solve--until wrapping up in that SE. Yikes! EDBURNS? NENA? And woodpeckers eat SUET??? I had to guess the Natick at 64; got it right. Whew!<br /><br />Starting 17-across with RAND_____ I was thinking, oh no you didn't (elevate an ampersandwich to theme status)! No, thank goodness. @M&A will be in his glory with all those U's. AVA takes a DOD curtain call. The cleverness here was outside of the actual solving experience, existing only in the revealer: "Oh, how about that?" An unsatisfying trip through Wednesday that results in a bogey. spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54235080744808968052018-09-05T11:57:13.254-04:002018-09-05T11:57:13.254-04:00The SE corner gave me the most trouble and was sta...The SE corner gave me the most trouble and was starting to take ATOLL on me. But it all fell into place when Mrs. Foggy suggested EDBURNS which then begat NENA and STAT. Hats off to Sande Milton and Jeff Chen. The theme was clever and the solve was most enjoyable. I'd give it at a BEE plus. I'm tempted to say Rex should get off his high horse and switch to decaf, but he's an ODDDUCK and I like him like that.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4519342362270132492018-09-05T11:19:21.640-04:002018-09-05T11:19:21.640-04:00URN PUN
YOU'RE EQUALLY ELOQUENT and GOOD with...URN PUN<br /><br />YOU'RE EQUALLY ELOQUENT and GOOD with PUNs;<br />Is it ATOLL evident HOW much a GREEKRUNS?<br /><br />--- JOYCE RENOBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9246503777177912682018-09-05T11:01:25.861-04:002018-09-05T11:01:25.861-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85930280945885128512018-08-03T01:08:48.494-04:002018-08-03T01:08:48.494-04:00I'm speaking up here for the dummies, apparent...I'm speaking up here for the dummies, apparently, who thought that extending the I-less theme into the clues was kind of fun. Why? Because it's a clever playing with words -- the same general reason that we enjoy, say, doing crossword puzzles. Was it the greatest trick ever? No. But there's no reason to call it out as especially foolish, either. <br />This kind of thing even has a quirky literary pedigree via Georges Perec, who also would have noticed that there were no i's in the clues, and also would have thought that that was pretty tight.Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68061366241867355652018-08-02T13:48:43.476-04:002018-08-02T13:48:43.476-04:00Did anyone notice that the Barefoot Contessa’s nam...Did anyone notice that the Barefoot Contessa’s name is “Ina” and not “Aina”? I got the eyeless theme, but this is just an error. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13068932972336633519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2217920681453184292018-08-02T00:07:51.802-04:002018-08-02T00:07:51.802-04:00I'm trying to get to 200 species seen in NY St...I'm trying to get to 200 species seen in NY State this year. Right now, the count is 160. @Banana - I never bothered to photograph sparrows or house finches at the suet, because I never thought that unusual. In the winter, jays will eat just about anything. Mockers prefer raisins, but they will take sunflower seed. (they have to be GOLDEN raisins for some reason.) I HAVE had nuthatches, and titmice, but not in the past 2 years. However, the suet I buy generally has some seed or fruit embedded in it, which may be what attracts the finches. Nevertheless, they consume the whole thing.OISKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16808675378318214461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38747633837100709652018-08-01T22:43:44.622-04:002018-08-01T22:43:44.622-04:00@Banana. Whose lawn did your dog caca on? Holy C...@Banana. Whose lawn did your dog caca on? Holy Cannoli.<br />@Aketi.. At least you know someone reads you. Mostly likely @Banana's troll after his dog left a present.<br />@JC66 and @Nancy. I sometimes wish I were a birder. Love those critters. I have two Hummingbirds that Come to visit me when I'm eating breakfast on my patio. I've named them Chutzpah and Go Away. Smart little buggers. And guess what...They don't like SUET...just honey and sugar. GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67181701176087510072018-08-01T22:25:57.299-04:002018-08-01T22:25:57.299-04:00@Nancy
I've seen more fingers than birds (I b...@Nancy<br /><br />I've seen more fingers than birds (I bet you have, too).JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40760002618108312952018-08-01T22:22:28.612-04:002018-08-01T22:22:28.612-04:00I'm not a birder. Birds get up very, very ear...I'm not a birder. Birds get up very, very early in the morning and, therefore, so do birders. I do not get up very, very early in he morning. Nevertheless, without actively seeking them out, here are some of the birds I've seen personally in Central Park:<br /><br />*A cormorant flying over the Reservoir<br />*A bright red cardinal after a fresh, deep snowfall, etched against a silent white background. That was my most thrilling sighting.<br />*Hawks. Mommy hawks, Daddy hawks and Baby hawks. There's a nest across from the sailboat pond at 72nd street. Pale Male, the patriarch, is world-famous. He's been on PBS. <br />*Seagulls over the Reservoir.<br />*Geese and ducks on the Reservoir. There are even more geese at the lake<br />*Huge numbers of the iridescent blue and black birds near the tennis courts. Are they grackles or starlings? I'm never quite sure.<br />*Blue jays<br />*Robins -- and not only in the spring<br />*More sparrows than you can count -- at least as many as there are pigeons, @JC66.<br /><br />I've left many, many kinds of birds out. Some that I've forgotten about and some that were so rare I couldn't identify them. According to Audubon, there are more than 200 species in Central Park. Central Park is surprisingly wild. Which is why I love it.<br /><br />Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66049383661509663602018-08-01T21:47:18.571-04:002018-08-01T21:47:18.571-04:00@Aketi
Yeah, when I do the loop in Central Park, ...@Aketi<br /><br />Yeah, when I do the loop in Central Park, it's not unusual to run into a group of birders checking out the local bird population. Just not my thing.JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3501744556141473782018-08-01T21:46:26.312-04:002018-08-01T21:46:26.312-04:00Aketi,
Wow. After reading your drivel for years, y...Aketi,<br />Wow. After reading your drivel for years, you got it right. <br />Central Park is certainly the great oaisis, but there are scores of wonderful birding spots around the 5 boroughs. <br />For you: a good many of the neotropicaL warblers that arrive in Central Park each May have migrated from Brazil. Thankfully, they dont blather on about ju jitzu. Or make bizarre claims about gender and or sex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61676003628236287892018-08-01T21:29:47.271-04:002018-08-01T21:29:47.271-04:00OOOH. NO EYES.OOOH. NO EYES.NatCommStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17168891884745193060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23237667307100158552018-08-01T21:27:31.388-04:002018-08-01T21:27:31.388-04:00@JC66, my son’s 2nd grade teacher would have a thi...@JC66, my son’s 2nd grade teacher would have a thing to say about the notion that pigeons are the only bird besides the ones I flip at tour buses on Central Park West that are parked in bike lanes. She took the kids to the park once a week for the entire fall to study birds with an elaborate curricula that included math, science, reading, writing, art, and ecology embedded in those walks. I didn’t keep much of my son’s school work but I did keep the book he wrote called “World of the Ospreys”. To date she was the most amazing teacher I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. There are an incredible number of species in Central Park including hawks. Aketihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07059835429995060000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50294911635128895702018-08-01T21:10:17.934-04:002018-08-01T21:10:17.934-04:00Banana,
Where to start? How about this? All birds ...Banana,<br />Where to start? How about this? All birds have bills. Yeah. Ducks included. Not even casual birders, let alone ornithologists, use the term beak. <br />More important, of the 750 or so species of birds that occur in North America, less than a dozen are regulars at suet feedees. <br />Sure there are oddballs that try a food source, though I'd kill for legit confirmation of Oisk's report, but your original claim that any wild bird woukd be a legit clue for suet feder is demonstrably bankrupt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87395202451125568752018-08-01T19:39:06.503-04:002018-08-01T19:39:06.503-04:00I live in NYC and the only bird I'm familiar w...I live in NYC and the only bird I'm familiar with (aside from pigeons) is the one you flip.JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19196206705830917662018-08-01T19:16:48.269-04:002018-08-01T19:16:48.269-04:00@Banana et al,
We actually have one robin who goes...@Banana et al,<br />We actually have one robin who goes for our suet. If thrushes are all like robins, one reason they might skip the suet is that those tummies make it hard to hang on and also peck. Suet’s fatty like bugs, so yeah, it’s the bug-eaters that want it. Too bad for those of you who don’t have nuthatches. They are real gymnasts and fun to watch.<br />BarbieBarbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31844818937656178682018-08-01T18:16:04.766-04:002018-08-01T18:16:04.766-04:00@C Devil
Welcome!@C Devil<br /><br />Welcome!JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64110985916202466062018-08-01T17:56:03.333-04:002018-08-01T17:56:03.333-04:00Test new kidTest new kidCrimson Devilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665174292516725433noreply@blogger.com