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Rough Tuesday. Unnecessarily difficult for the day. For those in the comments talking about how good they are and how they didn’t have a problem, great, how quickly we forget what it’s like to be new. I would wager when you started doing this you probably started with Mondays and Tuesday’s to get better and grow. The whole point of easier days is to allow more people to participate and get better. Puzzles like this ruin the whole concept. Congrats on getting it. So did I, but making it this challenging on this day prevents others that may be newer from growing and getting better and participating. There are decades and decades of Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays that may be more your speed if having slightly easier days is so annoying to you. This puzzle would make for a great Wednesday. But it is not a good Tuesday. No fault to the creator who made a good puzzle, this is a NYT issue. They put the puzzle on the wrong day of the week.
After 30 minutes I revealed the whole puzzle and I still don’t understand many of the dramatic leaps taken. “Intwoacts?” I get it kind of but it’s a huge stretch. love a hard puzzle but this was as close to unworkable as they come.
Terrible Monday. This felt like a Wednesday. Leave Wednesday for Wednesday. I put it down honestly just lost interest for a long time. Begrudgingly came back, only for the streak, but otherwise I would have been better without it.
Yea I’m cranky about this too. Mondays are getting extremely difficult for the day. Maybe I’m just not good at crosswords but I’ve done every Monday and Tuesday for months now and this one is going to take me over twice as long as average and I’m still completely stuck on the right middle portion. It may be the first one in maybe 6 months I just give up on and don’t solve. Some obscure cheese crossing a cat clue? Pet cat? Lap cat? Fat cat? Whatever the clue about lying about the reason for doing something I have most of that and still have no clue what it could be, I used to have at least one a week I felt I could do enjoyably. Maybe it’s back to minis.
@Scott true. But one example - a Tuesday puzzle, in my opinion, should not have a clue that doesn’t fit in its square and instead bends around and into the downward RBG clue. We may say, “how creative,” but my fiancee, a very well educated attorney, who is trying to get more into these, worked on this for over an hour, got halfway done with hints and simply gave up. When I told her the revealer it wasn’t joy or surprise it was annoyance and frustration. “That doesn’t make sense it doesn’t fit there how do they make an answer that doesn’t fit in the space provided…” I have to agree. It’s a Tuesday, answers shouldn’t be wrapping around the board yet. Moreover slang for a 100 not being CNOTE threw everyone off, then we have a whole host of words nobody has ever heard of or used in decades. A Biggs bunny cartoon title from over 70 years ago, Feature wise, it seems more like an average Wednesday or a breezy Thursday.
4/10 Tuesday. 3D was too much for a Tuesday, especially crossing an obscure basketball term that you hear a lot more in football. That particular term has never been used before in the format of an abbreviation and it’s not something people would think of. MEME is becoming overused. It seems to be in every puzzle as a solution to a different clue. USWNT I saw complaints, I think it’s fair. Although it felt like a Wednesday or Sunday situation. BOINK, eh - I mean whatever I guess. Otherwise fine. I also recognize that the skill needed to create this crossword is infinitely more than I have and for that I am appreciative and recognize my minor complaints are EXCEEDINGLY (dim witted).
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