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Welcome to ROOTLE ! The new game where you unscramble words with your prehensile snout! Sorry I know it s not right? I just couldn't muzzle myself. [sniff, sniff]

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I generally don't move in far right circles so I left.

The past tense of "shinny" (to climb up something like a pole or rope) is shinnied. Therefore, the correct phrase is "shinnied up a rope". From the NYTs Help section: •The New York Times Crossword increases in difficulty from Monday to Saturday. •The Sunday puzzle is approximately on the same difficulty level as the Wednesday or Thursday puzzle, and is larger than other daily puzzles. SOMEONEISGETTINGFIRED amazing and fitting long entry.

Aw gee I really liked the "CROSSWORDS" crossing at 30D. Nice work Rena !

Sande's puzzle was the perfect level of difficulty and originality for a Tuesday puzzle, all fooling aside. It's the most fun you can find next to a barf bag. Also, please remember to return your seat tables to their full and upright position and have a good day at your destination. Buh-bye

ONION RINGS! HOW CAN I RESIST!? SIPS ALES SENDS STAR Thanks Robyn!

It's not quite accurate to say "sines produce waves". While sine waves are a fundamental type of wave, energy is what actually creates waves. Sines, more precisely, are a mathematical representation of the shape of a wave, and can be used to describe many different types of waves. (from Google) I prefer RAZZMATAZZ over RIGAMAROLE anyday.

6D &49A have an unusual relationship as Vermeer Co. is a leading manufacturer of stump grinders/cutters. <a href="https://vermeerused.com/en-US/browse/all-categories/stump-grinder/vermeer/all-models" target="_blank">https://vermeerused.com/en-US/browse/all-categories/stump-grinder/vermeer/all-models</a> I have never seen a stump uprooter.

It's a Prime misdirect when SAMEDAYSHIPPING and SAMEDAYDELIVERY fit in the same size boxes.

Quite a sophisticated central AC system puzzle for a Wednesday! Complete with 4 mini-splits! Pretty cool Ben & Zach. You put on quite a CLINIC in AC with LEEDs certification. Unfortunately, I heard a THUMP, then SNAPCRACKLEPOP, but no worry, It's hard to stop ATRAIN.

This was a constructor's crossword, not a solver's. Too much Slanglish, unknown or rare words, words that appear on the "new word lists" that constructors use to feed their construction software programs that force-fit thousands of combinations and spit out something like this. BORK. That even makes the Slanglish SNARF(appeared last week) look mainstream. Both of these words flatline on Google Ngram viewer, especially when compared to SCARF, which is slang itself. Why do they keep saying "Sunday puzzle is Wednesday/Thursday difficulty level" when its usually not? How much of the constructor's original cluing was changed by NYT editors? Will these kind of puzzles be the norm when AI takes over puzzle construction in the near future? Are these new vocabulary words useful? Or if I tried to use them in everday speech would I come off as a pretentious eccentric? I'm just left with more questions than answers, leaves me with a lot of agita. This puzzle looks much better in retrospect and I'm really glad its behind me.

This puzzle had a lot of moving parts but I like how Kareem Ayas rolls.

Tonight's full moon, June 10, 2025, is known as the Strawberry Moon. It's SEASONAL, the last full moon of spring and the wild strawberries should be ripe. “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” ― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Taking Your Olympic Measure Alberto Ríos 1952 – Think of the records you have held: For one second, you were the world’s youngest person. It was a long time ago, but still. At this moment, you are living In the farthest thousandth-of-a-second in the history of time. You have beaten yesterday’s record, again. You were perhaps the only participant, But in the race to get from your bedroom to the bathroom, You won. You win so much, all the time in all things. Your heart simply beats and beats and beats— It does not lose, although perhaps one day. Nevertheless, the lists of firsts for you is endless— Doing what you have not done before, Tasting sake and mole, smelling bergamot, hearing Less well than you used to— Not all records are for the scrapbook, of course— Sometimes you are the best at being the worst. Some records are secret—you know which ones. Some records you’re not even aware of. In general, however, at the end of a long day, you are— Unlikely as it may seem—the record holder of note. Copyright © 2021 Alberto Ríos. —Poetry was an Olympic event from 1912-1948. The "Pentathlon of the Muses" refers to the five artistic disciplines that were part of the OLYMPIC GAMES art competitions from 1912 to 1948.

It took me a while to get that Special Kea in 16A.

Francly, it's enough to give your colon krones. I found it centsless but the grupees find it sterling. So many shilling comments. Forint stance, a rial puzzle would not rely on Rube Goldberg-esque highlighting, asterisks, synonyms and substitution. A gold-standard puzzle stands on its own without device or artifice. A quality puzzle doesn't need to function like an escape room. One should not have to be a yegg or a peterman to sol ve it. Throw off your shekels and let the NYTs know they're being pennywise and pound foolish. Don't be a loonie, buck the system! We baht in, so ask for your money's worth in quality puzzles and a quality comments platform! [đồng] Sorry, It's time for dinar.

The rebus doth protest too much, methinks.

(Cont'd) OPHELIA: (She wrings her hands.) Neither fits! Neither! This puzzle is a torment! It speaks of worlds unknown to me! What am I to do, Hamlet? My mind reels! Mine own wits art scatt'r'd like autumn leaves! HAMLET: (Patting her shoulder awkwardly.) Calm yourself, Ophelia. It is but a game. A trifle. OPHELIA: A trifle?! It is a testament to my ignorance! A cruel mirror reflecting my own inadequacies! I cannot solve it, Hamlet! I cannot! (Her eyes grow wide, a strange light entering them.) OPHELIA (cont.): I see... I see the patterns now! The hidden messages! The grid is not random! It is a map! A map to… to a place where knowledge is not confined by tiny boxes! (She starts to back away, her voice growing distant.) OPHELIA (cont.): I must… I must go! To a place where puzzles hold no sway! Where ignorance is bliss! HAMLET: (Reaching for her.) Ophelia, wait! Where do you go? OPHELIA: (Her eyes fix on some unseen point in the distance.) To a nunnery! Yes! Where the only riddles are matters of faith! Where the vocabulary is limited to prayer and piety! Fare thee well, Hamlet! Fare thee well, cruel puzzle! (Ophelia rushes from the chamber, leaving a bewildered Hamlet staring at the New Yorick Times Sunday Puzzle. He slowly lowers it, a look of confusion on his face.) HAMLET: ... A nunnery? For a wordsquare puzzle? Truly, Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. That one may smile and smile and be a villain.... and perhaps, about the content of these Times. [SCENE ENDS]

I drove my Chevy SIX TEN extended-CAB to the LEVEE but the LEVEE was dry.

[INDOOR - A sun-drenched chamber in Elsinore Castle. OPHELIA is hunched over a large sheet of paper, furrowing her brow. It is the NEW YORICK TIMES SUNDAY WORDSQUARE.] OPHELIA: O, woe is me. T'have seen what I have seen, see what I see! (She gestures wildly at the wordsquare puzzle, her hands trembling.) OPHELIA (cont.): This… this… labyrinth of letters! This tyranny of tiny boxes! I have wrestled with kings and princes, yet this... this "theme" defies my very soul! "Nine Letters, "Vintage racket?"? What vintner's goods could possibly fit the pattern? Is it Mead? Nay, too short! Wine? Five letters astray! I am lost! (Hamlet enters, carrying a quill pen.) HAMLET: Ophelia, fair Ophelia. What troubles you this morn? Is it the weight of the court? OPHELIA: (She throws the puzzle down in exasperation.) Nay, Hamlet! 'Tis this infernal wordsquare! It mocks me! It whispers secrets of forgotten facts and esoteric knowledge! "A five-letter word for an obscure catcher of unagi," it says! "A six-letter word for a breed of young pig!" My knowledge of pigs is shamefully lacking, my lord! HAMLET: (Picking up the puzzle, trying to appear helpful.) Ah, the Sunday puzzle. A challenge, indeed. Let me see. "Catcher of unagi"… Hmm. An eel of the East, "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the eel that hath fed of that worm". HAMLET: FORSOOTH! A Character in "The Crown"! Heavy is the head that wears the crown, dear Ophelia. Hmm, Lady Anne appears here. (Cont'd)

Impressive puzzle flyspecking adnauseam I spat game but the puzzle was having none of it.

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A PSP in the ADU and TOM will never leave and go back to UGA. SORESUBJECT crossed with BUTT reminds me of my first MS150 bike ride. A FAIR game with plenty of GUILE. Thanks, Kate!

Great debut Sam Brody! No bones about it. Guess who holds the Guinness World Record for the most broken bones? ☠️ Yep, an estimated 433 bone fractures. <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-broken-bones-in-a-lifetime" target="_blank">https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-broken-bones-in-a-lifetime</a> Evel Knievel Museum will re-open in downtown Las Vegas this year!

The loveliest explanation of 54A—REARTIRE marks and Positraction I have ever heard. "Which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows..." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7YoxrKa4f0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7YoxrKa4f0</a>

Wouldn't it be fun, maybe, to do some of the puzzles that the editors have rejected? Or—is that already happening?

INT. WHITE HOUSE EAST ROOM - EVENING ROBIN (Excitedly) Holy Basil Batman! NEWT and the Wicked WARLOCK have double-crossed TULSI with an E-PISTLE under the WINDOWTRIM in the East Room! BATMAN How do you know this Robin? Have you checked her for any Bodily harm? Are there any BUDGETCUTs? ROBIN (Rolls TULSI over) No, I don't see any BUDGETCUTs, but she's surely DEMISED. I know because Commissioner Gordon set up a secret code in the NYTs Xword puzzle, remember? Who would do such a thing to TULSI?! BATMAN Robin, I strongly suspect Kekius Maximus, he's a PERFECTFIT, the crazed inventor of the E-PISTLE. (sniffing) WOO! Robin...I smell a RAT! ROBIN (Sighs) No, that's probably just the ASIAGO you're smelling, Caped Crusader. BATMAN Oh, ROT. Kekius Maximus is a SPORTSBUFF Robin, we're off to the ARENA!...STAT!

UTA BAUM Dan Caprera! Muy BUENO Distant strains faintly heard a half tone low "I see the bad moon rising I see trouble's on the way..."

I thought Liquid Gold was what my mom used on the kitchen cabinets.

I was DROVENUTS this week by the NYTs puzzles Chevies! "Turn! Turn! Turn!" So I STEERS my Chevy to the levee. Did anyone else notice that it seems to be Chevrolet Week? SUNDAY: 50A—Fish that passes the "mirror test" of self-recognition MANTARAY 1969 Manta Ray Concept (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/2ruzn67a" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/2ruzn67a</a>) MONDAY: 51D—Hybrid Chevys VOLTS TUESDAY: 10D—Center of a paparazzi swarm CELEB (Chevrolet Celebrity) WEDNESDAY: 11D—Starbursts? SUPERNOVAE Yenko-modified Chevy SUPER NOVAS (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ek3zpVnSgLM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ek3zpVnSgLM</a>) THURSDAY: 15A—African creature whose name is one letter away from what its horns might do IMPALA 9D—Charger in una corrida ELTORO Chevy El Toro (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/4f8cys9p" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/4f8cys9p</a>) Will Friday's puzzle bring more?

Humbled. "Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty." —Mark Twain

TIL—that Bobsleigh is the offical Winter Olympic event name, not Bobsled. sanctioned by the official Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing. Officially yours, Robert Sled

(4th attempt) Even the malodorous ump in 1A signaled this was a swing and a miss.

What would the Sage-colored sage say about this puzzle? "Big ABUTS I like. Lie, I cannot." "Is what it is, it is."

(overheard in the Thai throne room) "Molcajetes"!? "What a Krok"?