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@Jonathan Baldwin I don't think that's quite right. Whether a jury is hung or not won't be established until after the jurors have voted. A jury can't be considered hung before a vote has taken place.
@dutchiris But it's an explicit feature of the NYT crossword that it gets harder as the week goes on - that's part of the puzzle's DNA. So for a lot of us "difficulty" is one of many valid criteria by which to judge a puzzle. It shouldn't be the sole measure of a puzzle's success, but it's hardly irrelevant or inappropriate to comment on difficulty when its an inherent part of the way the NYT puzzle is set up and presented to solvers.
Another nice, well-constructed, interesting puzzle. Kudos to the creators. Lots of good fill. But for the nth time in a row, far too easy for a Saturday. The NYT has watered down their flagship puzzle so much that my mindset around Saturdays has completely shifted. The trepidation has vanished. The sense that I'm going to be getting really stuck in has vanished. The sense of being challenged has gone. That's what happens when you run 50 easy Saturdays in a row. I know these comments bore a lot of people. But if we keep banging the drum maybe someone will take notice.
Love it - knew it would be a proper test from the moment I saw the byline. Loads of stuff I didn't know, but I got there. Knowing Lea Salonga was a stroke of luck.
@Robco but it’s TESLAS in the plural so it would be incredibly tortured to clue it via the inventor.
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