MJ
Maryland
Too hard. I really did not like that “A” crossing of ARIE and TARAROAD. Quite a Natick. Never heard of either that novel nor that Chicago theater. I have been a physics professor for 16 years and I’ve never heard of GAMMA as a unit for B-field. I kept going back and forth between TESLA and GAUSS! Some very weird & arcane words today. If I were the NYT editor, I would have tossed this one back to the constructor & not published it. Also - no Mother’s Day themed Sunday?!? We got a themed Connections and a themed Strands! Come on NYT Games!!
This is the least I have ever smiled about a puzzle. The theme entries made NO sense until I came to this column to find out what I had been missing by solving on the app. How many “puzzle editors” work at NYT, and yet nobody did a basic proof-read to see if the entire theme was even visible in the NYT’s own app??
@Nahaam I was definitely surprised to see the editorial staff let that one through. Could easily have re-written the clue to be about any other DOM. This xmas puzzle is apparently PG-13!
I did not care for this puzzle. Too much Gen Z slang like "INSPO", "NEPO BABIES", "SWAG BAG". I had never heard of many of the proper names before: ELSA Schiaparelli, ILLINOISE, EDIE Windsor, nor TESSA Hadley. I was not on the same wavelength as today's constructor. I felt like I was having an awkward cocktail party conversation with a person with whom I shared nothing in common.
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