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I understand the complaints about easy puzzles — I too seem to be solving under my average time pretty much every day now, and while inexperienced solvers can focus on early days of the week (or the new midi), there’s nowhere for experienced solvers to go for a challenge except the archives. And god forbid you’ve been solving long enough to have already done them! What I will never understand is the people who want the puzzle to be less US-centric. It’s the New York Times! That would be like me complaining that BBC tv shows are all full of English accents. I have no doubt many clues are challenging for non-Americans, but that is because you are doing an American puzzle. 🤷🏻♀️
@LJADZ Don’t worry, if you keep relying on large language models to do your thinking, I’m sure crossword puzzles will eventually get difficult for you again!
Zoomed through this one except for that little 38-46 nook! Ended up having to look up three separate clues to fill it in — somehow those clues collectively comprised several specific gaps in my knowledge.
@D man, sometimes I think it would be fun to learn to make crosswords and submit them, but comments like this remind me that getting one published would probably ruin my month. Some of y’all bring so much negative energy to these fun little games!
After last week’s incredibly challenging Saturday, I was nervous about this one, especially when my first pass yielded only a handful of confident answers! But this one came together piece by piece, and even though the NE quadrant had me banging my head against the wall by the end, I was surprised and pleased to finish it with no lookups — and eight minutes under my average time! What a heartening way to kick off the weekend. Great puzzle!
@John I see you’re in Boulder, but if you visit Denver for FanExpo and join 100,000+ of us there, you’ll see that this is anything but an obscure clue!
I liked this one and zoomed through it! YOINK was one of the easiest clues for me and I was shocked to see it explained as a challenging clue… I guess most crossword solvers aren’t as terminally online as me! (And… is “spot on” British slang? I use it all the time, but maybe I picked it up originally from English media…)
@Jesse S Oh hush, you get Paul Newman and I’ll get fursona — seems like a fair trade to me!
@Mean Old Lady That one’s explained in the article you’re commenting on
@Valerie Tassinari Sometimes I find the clues about subjects I know extremely well to be the hardest to solve. I have to step back from my insider knowledge and ask myself, what would a layman think?
@D Nobody can make you feel anything. You felt bad because you voiced a negative opinion in a snarky way and people didn’t like it. That’s just what commenting on the public internet is like, bud! Sometimes people don’t like what you say.
@Steve L I’d heard every one commonly except SUIGENERIS… which also crossed with GSUIT. I had to go through the alphabet to figure out what kind of suit it was! Not a huge deal but startling on a Monday for sure, which I can usually knock out in five or six minutes.
@Nancy That’s the one I didn’t know, too! If I’d ever read it, I must’ve forgotten it.
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