In the Wordplay column, Kiran Pandey says, "One of the first things you learn as a crossword constructor is that it’s important for your puzzle to pass the [breakfast test.] That’s why I made sure to include lots of answers like SAUSAGE LINK, ONION BAGEL and SYRUP in this grid." The constructor forgot to mention GIRLSCOUTCOOKIES. As far as I'm concerned, if they're in the house, they're breakfast, especially Thin Mints. I'm a seven-month newbie and this was two days in a row without lookups! Yay!
@lucky13 Yes, when they're in the house, a sleeve of Thin Mints is definitely the breakfast of champions! Congrats on your two-day streak of no lookups feat today!
Youth representative here, 32 across should be TYSM (thank you so much). 🫶🏻
@Lo GenXer here and I agree 💯 That was my original guess 😉
@Lo, another GenX here, and when I finished and didn’t get the completion message, I had to fly speck and realized the crossing (37D) was not ASANTGARDE. Added a minute and a half to my time. Nobody I know says TYVM. Oh well!
@Lo So should one read TYSM ironically? As I believe the comment from the erstwhile Girl Scout cookie mom should be read?
@Lo Old person representative here, just to say Andy Kaufmann would like to thank you VERY much. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yDAnoFieN4k" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yDAnoFieN4k</a>
@Lo I am terminally online and not once in my 30 years have I ever seen TYVM
@Lo Like others of my ancient vintage, I've noticed that "thank you very much," the natural standard in my native dialect, has almost totally capitulated to "thank you so much." The "so" version was always an option, but used only as a strong expression of appreciation for something extraordinary. Anyone have a sense of when this transition happened?
@Lo This is the first I'm hearing of tysm... It's always TYVM. Maybe this is regional to Canada? I'm a Xennial, so not terribly old.
@Lo Just coming on here to say this. My Gen Z solving companion informed me only old people say TYVM. And further, "chronically online" is the correct term.
Aah, a nice crunchy week, it seems like. To beginners, I say: Don't be discouraged. Being challenged is in keeping with the NYT gold standard. Expect it always, and you'll never get angry nor disappointed. Conversely, if it feels easy, revel in it – you're getting the hang of it, or you're getting better, or you're getting smarter, or you're on the constructor's wavelength, or Will Shortz loves you specifically, or any combination thereof. Thank you, Mr. Pandey, for the crunch and the many times I had to back up and retry and re-enter and skip and go back. Fun to see Shibuya Crossing which I happened to know because of this very recent (not so fun) article I read: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/japan-butsukari-otoko-bumping-man-trend-explained-tokyo-girl-shoved?CMP=share_btn_url" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/japan-butsukari-otoko-bumping-man-trend-explained-tokyo-girl-shoved?CMP=share_btn_url</a> And here is a live-cam of the crossing, for those not yet familiar with it: <a href="https://worldcams.tv/japan/tokyo/shibuya-crossing" target="_blank">https://worldcams.tv/japan/tokyo/shibuya-crossing</a>
@sotto voce cool to have live cameras; of course it's 4am there right now, so not many pedestrians.
TYVM is not a saying. It's TYSM
@Stephanie - One of many, many dictionary entries: <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/tyvm" target="_blank">https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/tyvm</a>
Nice little brain pings as I uncovered the grid, such as when the clue for TOKYO shot me into imagining the world’s busiest traffic crossing, or when the gorgeous term for film and video – “moving image” – a term I haven’t thought of in a long time – appeared. The beauty continued. Not only in answer – STOIC, ODDITY, AVANTGARDE -- but also in the lush lineup of loveliness embedded in the clues: “squirt”, “unflinching”, “pungent”, “sprawling”, “relinquish”, “cosmic”, and “snippet”. Wow! Standouts such as themes, clever clues, and zingy answers are often the stars of a puzzle, but the less easily noticed supporting cast of images and memories that clues and answers ping, and splendid words, add richness. I certainly felt that richness today. So, much delight in the box for me, Kiran. You elevated my day, and thank you!
You regularly come up with very moving images your own self, @Lewis. Lovely to have you share your 'Ho, ho!' pings with us. "pungent"? Sure, ever since "tangent" "relinquish"? Certainly, "quirelsh" TYVM also, delightful elevator that you are.
@Lewis I’m instantly reminded of Lost in Translation which features said crossing in Tokyo, and wipes the floor with this year’s Oscar contenders.
SOFA as I'm concerned, an ONION_BAGEL hasn't ONION enough to give you pungent breath. SAUSAGELINKs, otoh.... In LIU of either Oh the IRONY of thinking that little milk vetch plant was ASTRALagus! I understand it grows well in TOPS OIL... Merlin's autobiography: I, MAGE. The sequel, while in higher ed: GRE, O, GRE! Don't DUNST sound like it ought to be some kind of portmanteau verb? Like halfway between MUSTN'T and DAREN'T? Is it true that a ROBIN sings at dawn? I thought that was a rooster or crow, though that might also be a COCKTAIL. I'd love to TOKYO at face value but can't AGREE about Hospital concern being HEALTH, when focus was always Disease care more than HEALTH Care. Of late, they're all shifting toward being TERMINALLYbottomLINE /sliding softly into endrant so y'all don't have to interCEDE Loved the GLORIouS fill of ALLTHUMBS and AVANTGARDE, for non-downer Downs to balance the excellent Across themers. Appreciating the IRON-clad IRONY of BLOGPOST ending: HOST MEETS PEST TY VEERy Much, @Kiran Pandey, I enjoyed it SHO 'nuff!
@Leapfinger inspired and inspiring. not to be a pest, but sho ‘nuff good to see y’all here, ya heah?
@Leapfinger (Robins are definitely the dawn singers round these parts - they get going around 4:30 in late spring ...)
Not really sure how they saw this week's Monday and Tuesday puzzles and landed on their respective days... Dead simple puzzle compared to yesterday's.
@J Walker Agreed. Came here to say this.
@J Walker It was totally the other way around for me. I found yesterday's puzzle very easy, and today I struggled - I ended up completing the grid in my average Tuesday time, but I had almost nothing on my first across pass.
[At Disneyland or the DMV, say] TERMINALLY IN LINE
@aa [ . . . or on the Grim Reaper's docket] (BTW, some people say my spelling is poor; I say it's Chaucerian.)
@ad absurdum And now I'll emulate you, badly. [Where did the trespassers at Vlad Tepes's estate find themselves?] AT STAKE [Digital ghost in the ice machine?] AC AI [What did the Slavic character on an American cop show say with a heavy accent as they were expiring having been righteously shot, this being 'murica?] I DED [Just any random mouser] A TOM [What's the same about being present and absent?] SENT I'll see myself out.
What's Irish and stays out all night? Pati o'Furniture! Happy St. Patrick's Day!☘️☘️☘️
'Paddy'. That way it's funny.
A SODA/COLA mixup in the top row made me think for a while that a SOCKTAIL was a thing
I had Soda instead of Cola, so my answer for "Old Fashioned" was socktall, and I was thinking "yeah I mean I guess old people wear their socks up high so I suppose that makes sense"
@Calvin You have a gift for "justification" and twisted "explication." I'd love to hear your excuse for the missing homework!
Suitable Tuesday I suppose. Is it just me, or just an occupational hazard, or is there a surfeit of bog common fill lately? It seems like every single day I'm entering Ogre, Saga, Iron, Pest, Host, Agrees, etc. etc. This one seemed a bit more filly than usual. The theme was okay.
@B As a very longtime solver, I haven’t noticed such words appearing more than usual. There will always be common fill, but the alternative, which was the rule when I started out, is worse: uncommon fill that is so uncommon that people will not recognize it, even after it is revealed. Ports on remote Philippine islands, minor rivers in Asia Minor,supporting characters in Aeschylus plays, third-string outfielders from Babe Ruth’s era. These are the kinds of words you’ll see if the era of ERA comes to an end. I know which scenario I’d prefer.
@B I can’t tell you how often I’ve been relieved to fill in oreo
MIDI related comment: Seems a bit harsh to be catching strays over our world cup history on a paddy’s day theme. Related PSA, not relevant to the puzzles: no one here would ever say Patty’s day, Patty is short for Patricia. Paddy is short for Patrick. (We’re mostly over worrying about being called Paddies as an insult. Mostly. Depends on who says it.)
@Niall, those in the know here in the U.S. write Saint Paddy’s day also!
@Niall Here, an old name for a police van is a paddy wagon, supposedly named because most of the cops were Irish, or because most of the criminals were Irish, depending on who you ask. Patrick is usually just shortened to Pat here. Patricia becomes Patty, Patti, or even Pattie. Patty (or Patsy) might sometimes be short for Pasquale. Happy St. Pat's*, as we sometimes say, to all who celebrate. * Can also refer to the NYC cathedral.
@Niall, (Dad Joke Alert!!!) You may have heard of Paddy O’Furniture …
This required more little gray cells than usual for a Tuesday -- and I applaud the relative challenge. This was because of such later-week cluing as the clues for ON IT (2D); AT STAKE (20A); IRONY (48D) and OIL (44A). Now, as all of you know by now, I don't drive, so my knowledge of the care and feeding of cars is pretty much non-existent. But I would have thought that the ol' gas-guzzler would require more than a "little squirt" of OIL. My only writeover was Kirsten DUrST -- which kept me from seeing AVANT-GARDE for a while. Re YODA: By the time I have fully completed my lifetime of doing the NYTXW, I will know everything there is to know about this franchise despite having walked out of the first film after about 50 minutes (not nearly soon enough!!!) and having never gone back for any other the films. This YODA guy (a male, I assume) sure talks funny, doesn't he? A Tuesday that I enjoyed quite a bit.
@Nancy You were thinking of Fred Durst, the frontman of Limp Bizkit. Nah...
What does it say about me that I went with Asti at 5A? Only because Champagne didn’t fit darling. I’m definitely not TERMINALLY ONLINE, I do not engage in any social media, unless the comments section counts as a platform. I prefer to keep a low profile. I feel I’m become one of the dinosaur generation; hear me roar. I have joined the crowds over the Shibuya crossing. TOKYO has to be one of the most crowded cities I’ve ever been in, and I lived in London for a few years. Loved Japan and dream of returning one day. A chewier than average Tuesday offering I felt, but nothing wrong with that.
@Helen Wright I had MOET for that at first!
@Helen Wright I also went with Asti! 🍾🥂
@Helen Wright I prefer to BRUT force clues like that.
@Helen Wright My wife and I went to Japan for Expo 70. Tokyo was hopelessly crowded even then, so I can’t imagine a word that could capture what it must be like now.
The constructor's note was delicious! Puzzle wasn't bad, either. Fun and enjoyable. Thanks, Kiran!
Apropos of nothing at all: slow day at work and just happened upon a Weintraub Friday from 18 November 2022. Sheer delight. Her puzzles don't even need to be particularly difficult in order to elate, so delicious is her cluing.
If you're looking for more of a challenge today, here's what's described as a "moderately challenging" puzzle by Erik Agard, from today's New Yorker: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/crossword/2026/03/17" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/crossword/2026/03/17</a>
@SL Took me half again as long as Patrick Berry's Monday puzzle, which was described as "challenging." (I usually find Monday NYers quite challenging.) For those unfamiliar, the New Yorker runs puzzles Mon.-Wed., in *decreasing* levels of difficulty--the puzzles stay posted for a week--and limits itself to handful of seasoned constructors, whose likenesses caricature well; solving Robyn Weintraub's "beginner-friendly" Wednesdays can be a treat. Alas, no Happy Music upon completion, just silence. (I see last Tuesday's puzzle was by Chandi Deitmer, one of my favorites. I must now go that.)
Bill, Why should only The Times mix up difficulty days? Erik's took me a bit longer than Patrick's too. Both puzzles would be worthy Fridays of ELD here.
@Steve L Thanks for the recommendation. It's nice to have these early-week puzzles that put up a little resistance.
@Steve L Apparently you can only solve New Yorker puzzles once in a while when you're not a subscriber - I did yesterday's but today I was hit with a paywall pop-up. I've been solving NY puzzles every few weeks recently and never ran into the paywall before.
A bit on the slow side for a Tuesday but managed to work it all out. And... must confess that I remained a bit puzzled about the theme even after I was done. I guess I get it now, but just seems a bit odd to me. No big deal. And, of course, puzzle find today. A Monday from October 28, 2019 by the great Zhouquin Burnikel. Three straightforwardly clued theme answers: TAKEAGANDER ARIANAGRANDE COVENTGARDEN And then the 'reveal': "Safe.. or how the last words of 16-, 23- and 49-across are made?" OUTOFDANGER Here's that link: <a href="https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=10/28/2019&g=10&d=D" target="_blank">https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=10/28/2019&g=10&d=D</a> ....
@Rich in Atlanta And one more puzzle find - appropriate for today. A Sunday from March 16, 2003 by Elizabeth C. Gorski with the title: "Works like a charm!" A few answers straightforwardly clued: PEAGREEN GREENTEA GOLFGREEN GREENSPAN And then... hard to describe the center but it was a 3 x 3 block with some green squares. And one other pair of clues and answers was: "With 114-across, tune heard on the 37-down" IMLOOKINGOVER And... 114-across: "Centerpiece of this puzzle" FOURLEAFCLOVER And... two other long down answers: 37-down: FEASTOFSTPATRICK 16-down: THELUCKOFTHEIRISH Here's that link: <a href="https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=3/16/2003&g=37&d=D" target="_blank">https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=3/16/2003&g=37&d=D</a> ....
Please please could these get a little harder … in this world of pain, the NYT crossword brings joy. And I liked this one but wasn’t ready for it to end so soon!
@Caroline Caroline, no! Those of who us are still climbing up the curve, Mondays and Tuesdays are morale boosters, please don't take away. Also on that note, give a shot to LA Times crosswords, they are slightly tougher than NYT IMO
I found this one quit fun, thanks! Loved the TADA TYVM corner.
Tonight we watched the most recent Elspeth. Murder at the crossword convention!! What a freaking delight!! I'm generally a fan of Elsbeth th and her Columbo like approach to things, but the whole crossword puzzle connection was delightful!! I think it was @Lynn that first drew my intention to it. How fun! Remind me so much of these crossword comments... It was hilarious!!
@HeathieJ honestly, I am disappointed it didn't have Will Shortz cameo like Brooklyn 99 did.
@HeathieJ Name of show, please! ??? I am mystified.
So, as per usual, saved the revealer as the last string to fill in, paused the puzzle, and tried to figure out what the four theme answers had in common-- --things sold door-to-door, or at stands in public parks? Well, SAUSAGE LINKs not so much, although my lysergic acid diethylamide kiosk ("Lovin' by Lucy") does a brisk business. --things consumed for breakfast? Once again, HIGH PROFILE doesn't fit the set. --Oh, the *last* word in the entry! Did anyone watch Jeopardy! last night? One answer/question directly related to Sunday and Monday's puzzles.
@Bill The judges did not expect the Latin. That pause was priceless.
@Bill -- I, who like you, like to keep that revealer blank and try to guess what it is. I got as far as realizing that it had to do with the last words of the theme answers, and was computer-related, but then, after much forehead wrinkling, I uncle-d. My brain loved the effort, though.
Took longer than I should have because the Canadian in me put GIRLguideCOOKIES at first and then took even longer than I should have because I wrote sOdA at the top. Fun puzzle though, just the morning brain got the best of me!
For those who haven't seen it, Canadian national treasure /hero Chris Hadfield took his guitar with him to the international space station and did a cover of Space Oddity, in which you can see planet Earth in the background. <a href="https://youtu.be/pDyl6I6ESSw" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/pDyl6I6ESSw</a>
Easy and breezy. Thankful the Midi quenched my thirst for a St. Patrick’s Day themed grid. I guess YODA and OGRE are both green? Thank you Kiran. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Crosslandia. Enjoy this snippet of the Gardiner Brothers <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/j-Wa-BzsQfE?si=zdI9Hb35l3iJQqt" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/j-Wa-BzsQfE?si=zdI9Hb35l3iJQqt</a>-
I don’t think STOIC means what people think it means. As I was going along I thought this is a nice Tuesday puzzle and then the star came and the app said I had been quicker than normal. Quite a bit quicker. I am becoming somewhat stoical about it.
@Ιασων I say this with the straightest face possible: especially as language is in a constant state of evolution, a word can have more than one meaning. To your point, there is definitely more to being *a* stoic than rbf.
@Ιασων "the star came and the app said I had been quicker than normal" That's what you get when you leave your smartwatch on when dating *way* up...
@Ιασων -- I think it means up-with putting stuff not-with complaining, so I'll say no more. @KB, I think being "a" Stoic is a capital idea ;D
@Ιασων It would be nice if people read the ancient Stoics and learned the teachings of this school of philosophy. Epictetus is my personal favorite, and his "Handbook" is short and very readable. But this is what the word has come to mean in modern English.
SOCKTAIL could maybe be something old fashioned, right? Nah, probly not ...
@Down_Home Yes, I also had SODA and SOCKTAIL ... but not for long.
@Down_Home funny thing I did the same thing (soda) and then realized it was cocktail. Sorta pathetic since my wife and I drink Manhattans a close relative of Old Fashions.
This comment has nothing to do with today's puzzle, but rather because I saw this video about a word that appears commonly in the puzzle: DEKE. DEKE, which is short for "decoy," is almost always clued as a hockey term, and it seems that it got its origin in that sport. But in previous discussions, I've mentioned that the word is often used in other sports with the same notion: a player pretends to be doing one thing in order to fake out an opponent, who makes a mistake based on what he thinks he sees. Here's the video, from a few days ago at the World Baseball Classic: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6rRJAqQQ7E" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6rRJAqQQ7E</a>
No disrespect to Amy Virshup. I'm sure she's a fine travel writer and is probably helping out at the Games section with no pay bump for the extra work. But did it seem to anyone else that she was just "phoning it in" today? I suggested jokingly a few months ago that the Times could find willing and able columnists with ample knowledge and wit by scanning the Comments section here. Now I think that it's time the puzzle editors looked at that suggestion a little more seriously. Nominations are now open for visiting Wordplay columnist!
@The X-Phile Lewis and Andrzej. For variety.
I'd be up for it on a John Kugelman Sunday.
@The X-Phile The Replies are not showing up! I agree there's plenty of talent available... but now I guess I must read this column to see what set you off .... (Reading it usually makes me cross. The tough clues never are.)
@The X-Phile Not everyone can ferment controversies the way Amblin' Deb Amlen did.
@The X-Phile Having @Andrzej responsible for filing a relentlessly positive crossword column and puffing up the clunkers would be hilarious. I can't see him lasting 2 weeks before imploding.
I found this a very fun puzzle! Thank you, Kiran Pandey!
Kiran Pandy I found david bowie blasted throughout the clues in this puzzle. Were you listening to Hunky Dory when you constructed this? Here’s today's poem made from the clues and answers… <br><br> a/ turn on the tv<br> is he lost, hopelessly <br> is he david bowie<br> thin of face, unflinching<br> the super-brained in super-space<br> in danger of a crash<br> d/ a reptile fashioned<br> in the breath of stars<br> o patrons, fans put the man back together - <br>that’s a good trick… that’s cosmic<br> and a bit dramatic, the irony<br> a bird sings <br> a lungful of <br> a/ oddity<br> it’s a movie<br> it’s on tv<br><br>
Quick and easy, easier than Monday. Wish it'd had a little more meat on its bones, although I did enjoy the cookies. Ever notice how liverwurst and ONIONBAGEL have the same number of letters? (Thought not.) Gotta get back to a past Spelling Bee that has me deTERMInedlyONLINE. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXjSVmz0IT0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXjSVmz0IT0</a>
@dutchiris I already had enough crossings to know it was onion bagel, but oh how I loved liver sausage back in the day. I don't know why, but it's been forever since I had some. I should remedy that soon!! Hope you're doing all right!!
@dutchiris @HeathieJ If they wanted to promote it, they should have called it "liverbest".
At about the 45 second mark you'll see what makes Fran Tarkenton such a memorable QB for the Super Bowl era Minnesota Vikings. And here's some stats on his three Super Bowl appearances. Super Bowl XIII: 18 for 28, 182 yds, 0 td, 1 int, rating 67.9 Super Bowl IX: 11 for 26, 102 yds, 0 td, 3 ints, rating 14.1 Super Bowl XI: 17 for 35, 205 yds, 1 td, 2 ints, rating 52.746 Sum: 46 of 89, 489 yds, 1 td, 6 ints in three games. I wasn't a Minnesotan at the time, but I doubt the ratio of 6 to 1 in interceptions to touchdowns thrilled anybody.
@Francis Forgot the URL: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/5n8dhsbx" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/5n8dhsbx</a>
@Francis I *soooooo* get all of that! 🤣 (Post deliberatum, ad Superpoculum ne eamus. Locus stultus est)
@Francis As a Francis, did you ever get called, or considered going by, Fran? It just seems weird to me as a guy's name. Now, that Francis Albert guy, he had a manly nickname.
A fun one today! I do wish we had some kind of St. Patrick’s Day theme, but oh well. 🍀 In a wonderful bit of synchronicity, I just started reading Wordsworth’s “The Prelude” yesterday. How APT! Happy Tuesday!
Breezy solve, with nothing that stood out one way or another…except that the revealer makes absolutely no sense to me. How can “terminally online” possibly be a “description of the ends [of the theme answers]”? I could see it if the revealer had dropped “the ends of”, and instead just said “a description of [the theme answers]”. In that case, “terminally” would be pointing you to the end/terminus of each theme answer. However, as written, the revealer specifically instructs us to read “terminally online” as describing “the ends” of the theme answers…and while all of those things obviously relate to being “online”, where does “terminally” fit in?
@Anonymous the ends of the theme answers are the only part that relate to being online. Cookies, links, tabs... Girl scout cookies have nothing to do with being online. Cookies do. The terminal word relates to being online.
@Anonymous "Terminally online" is an expression meaning out of touch with reality due to an overconsumption of social media.
“the ends of the theme answers are the only part that relate to being online” Right, and “terminally online” would have been a clever way to direct solvers to look only at the last parts of the theme answers…but since the revealer called out “the ends”, that explanation doesn’t work.
Anonymous, Agreed. The revealer clue should not include "...the ends of..."
@Anonymous Agreed - there is a redundancy there that came off as inelegant. It should have been caught.
ROBINs....the subject of many mistaken statements. "Red, red ROBIN?" Hardly. They're brownish and orange-breasted; male and female are identical to the eye. And they're not particularly known for dawn song. A ROOSTER, now... those are famous even for PRE-dawn crowing. ROBIN's-egg blue...(not particularly unique in the world of birds'eggs.) They don't go bob-bob-bobbin' along, and their nests, constructed with considerable mud, have been known to slide or fall off an ill-chosen site, such as the angle of a drainpipe or a too-flimsy limb--(both witnessed by we ourselves.) Okay, that about covers the GLORIES of robinhood. What a TEES, eh? Every Spring, someone just has to remind me of my year as COOKIE Mom... TYVM, Kiran.
@MOL --- Glad to see I'm not alone in suspecting that clue of ROBIN hoodwinking. Given those trees near my driveway, they seem to use my car as their Littlejohn.
@MOL So your post got me wondering whether the European robins--*Erithacus rubecula*, a flycatcher--are redder than the American robins--*Turdus migratorius*, a thrush. They aren't. Do they bob-bob-bob more? But in looking that up, TIL that the original English name was simply "redbreast"; later, they started calling them "Robin Redbreast," with the (human, male) name added for cutesiness; then finally, just "robin." This the same way the original French word for "fox," *goupil*, became "Reynard the Fox," then finally Modern French "renard." (My Partner's surname is a variant on "renard," and I can assure you, he is quite foxy, in both senses of the word.) *The Linnean name *Erithacus rubecula* comes from the words for "red," in Greek and Latin, respectively, so no confusion there!
@Mean Old Lady - I agree, mostly -- most robins are decidedly orange, no red, but there are regional variation, and some are quite red. There's a subspecies that breeds in eastern Canada that is more red -- it is sometimes seen in the winter where in New England. (Fun factoid*: robins are NOT a sign of spring on the East coast -- they're here year-round.) Robins in the PNW are often more red, too. I also agree about their song -- they sing all day, maybe more later in the day than the morning. But they do sing very early, usually before sunrise. But I associate larks and wrens more with the dawn -- and, as already mentioned -- roosters. *Sadly, I must now include a disclaimer for the pedants who feel the need to 'splain what I suspect most of us already know: a factoid is not really a fact. At least according to its etymology. I suspect such people also think the word "decimate" can refer ONLY to the specific situation where you are killing 10% of the soldiers in an army.
@Mean Old Lady I always assume red/orange confusion in naming things is because of the thing where there was no english word for orange until the fruit showed up in Europe. Absolutely no idea of that is the case here (or any other thing). Someone could well be about to tell that red/orange naming thing is just made up.
@Mean Old Lady, “… the GLORIES of robinhood“ Brilliant!!
One more puzzle find - just kind of stumbled across this one. A Sunday from January 26, 1986 by Bert Rosenfield with the title: "Doubled headers" Some theme answers: MIRRORMIRRORONTHEWALL OVEROVERTHERE GOINGGOINGGONE REDREDROBIN NEVERNEVERLAND MANYMANYMOONS NONONANETTE TOOTOOSOLID And then a pair of linked answers: DODOTHATVOODOOTHATYOU DOSOWELL Here's that link: <a href="https://www.xwordinfo.com/PS?date=1/26/1986&g=64&d=A" target="_blank">https://www.xwordinfo.com/PS?date=1/26/1986&g=64&d=A</a> ...
GAAAAAAHH! The MINI! 4D. Just... No.
@Captain Quahog I wondered about that too.
@Captain Quahog As a staunch supporter of the bivalve community, I first entered “crabs,” as in “sand crabs.” So sad that (you know) was the answer.
It took me way too long to realize I had Sobin instead of Robin. I don't listen to Beach Boys, so for all I knew, they sang about Shonda lol.
Sydney, Here you go: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCYTRjViAGg&list=RDCCYTRjViAGg&start_radio=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCYTRjViAGg&list=RDCCYTRjViAGg&start_radio=1</a>
51D/54A had me turning to professor google but otherwise a fun Tuesday
@Andy I was amazed to come up with FRAN... I mean, he was a BIG deal when I was in HS (in the early 60's!!!) A desperation entry?
MOL, Why stop in the early 60s? It could have been Kukla, ____ and Ollie.
It’s a shame that clue #10 across on the FIFA world cup quarter finals does not distinguish men vs women.
Paige, I assume you are referring to the Midi -- the page for which, for me, no longer exists at the moment -- so I'm working blind, but please note that FIFA makes the distinction: there is the FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup. (My family has attended the latter.)
Took me just about as long as yesterday's puzzle, but enjoyed this one less. Didn't find the thematic entries or the revealer all that interesting, Must have gotten ATSTAKE entirely from the crosses, since when I looked at my completed puzzle I couldn't parse it, and I wondered if it might be some variety of Japanese mushroom. Not much green in today's St. Patrick's Day puzzle---most FIRS and many an OGRE, I suppose.