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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.
Oh dear, we finally get given a proper Saturday challenge and the comments section is predictably flooded with people complaining that the puzzle was too difficult. I didn't think there was anything unfair in this and my problems were largely of my own making (sticking rigidly to ON tempo rather than IN tempo).
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.
Another absurdly easy puzzle. It took me just under 7 minutes and I'm not a speed solver by any stretch of the imagination. I just typed in the incredibly obvious answers one after the other... It's a shame, because objectively it's a nicely made puzzle, with some great answers. But the NYT continues to choose to ramp the difficulty dial down to a level where Homer Simpson wouldn't have struggled. Lisa probably wouldn't even have bothered picking it up. Editors - we know you see this feedback. Every single week. Usually on Fridays and Saturdays. Why won't you listen to your paying subscribers?!
@B I think it's pretty clear at this point that the NYT couldn't care less what we think..
@Robco but it’s TESLAS in the plural so it would be incredibly tortured to clue it via the inventor.
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