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I admire the effort out into constructing the puzzle but just did not enjoy the solve. Alas.
Tuesday’s puzzle should have been a Monday, and yesterday’s should’ve been the Tuesday.
Did anyone else have FINGER for “you might hear a hiss when it’s pulled”?
SPACESHOT feels like crossword malpractice…
These two answers in exact opposite corners were also responses on today’s episode of Jeopardy. What are EDGAR and INSPO?
I kept telling myself “there’s no way NOODGE is a word.” Learn something new every day… A mix between too hard and too easy with no nougat-y center. Very uneven,
I’m glad some of ya’ll liked it, but this felt like pulling teeth to me. Maybe this makes me a grump, but if I wanted to do a crossword puzzle with German words in it, I’d read Der Spiegel.
@Hugh We’re all very impressed…
@Barry Ancona ill-advised perhaps, but inappropriate? That’s a stretch.
I enjoy a challenging puzzle, but this one just did not jive with me. Upon sussing out some of the trickier clues, I found myself groaning more often than not. PRTEAMS resulted in an exceptionally guttural tone. Alas.
@Wayne Harrison a flicker, as I’ve also just learned, is not someone delivering a gesture we might otherwise refer to as “the bird” in the prescribed way, and is in fact a real bird. No real resemblance either.
@upperwestsider the highlighted boxes are words that connect the two separate words indicated in the clue into an unrelated phrase. Also = TOO and Frozen water = ICE. Combine them with a KNOT and get TOOK NOTICE
@Pedant I cannot express how deeply distressing I find your use of the word “chewy” in this context. Truly heinous stuff.
6D is crossword malpractice.
Another groaner for me. The theme was fine, I suppose (I was an only child who received many non-familial hand-me-downs, making me question the premise as a whole), but the clueing was tricky in a way that unsatisfying, leaving me with an overwhelming feeling of “meh” upon completion.
A fun theme sullied by some dreadful clueing.
An especially tricky one for me but very satisfying to finish. Nothing I was stuck on was true trivia which is the kind of difficult solve I really enjoy.
Really enjoyed this puzzle, but 49A is among the worst clues I’ve ever seen.
I prefer when a rebus or trick can be figured out before even reading the themed clue as it was with this puzzle. It feels more like an Easter egg than a tortuous riddle.
Not my favorite, but an overall enjoyable solve. Crossing TETROMINO and SOO was a bit dastardly…
@Jane Wheelaghan there are few things more enjoyable on a blazing summer’s day than an ice cold Arnold Palmer.
Really hated this one. Just an unpleasant experience all the way through. The clueing was clunky and the theme was deeply unsatisfying.
Not to be dramatic, but someone should be in jail for the clueing at the crossing of TAXEXILE and TEXT.
This might be my last NYT crossword for a while. What an absolute disaster. There have been some truly horrendous puzzles the last 3-4 months.
@Doug Crave is a synonym for want or desire, not need
@John Alternatively, don’t tell people what they can and cannot like.
@Charles Peterson The K’nex delegation is equally unbothered
@Collie I got it, but I really did not enjoy this puzzle at all. If I weren’t so vain about my streak, I would have called it quits much sooner.
I really enjoyed this puzzle despite some confidently incorrect answers in the SE corner that ended up costing me 12 minutes over my average.
Very happy to leave this week behind. Please, NYT, do better.
@JoPa no thanks. I don’t want the NYT App
The NW corner of this puzzle is a war crime of naticks.
Yet another midweek puzzle that I just didn’t jibe with. Not nearly as unpleasant as yesterday, but an unsatisfying solve nonetheless. Oh well, onwards to Friday.
Has anyone else noticed that the keyboard in this app (at least on the iPhone) has been dreadful to use lately?
@Beatrice you mean 11 N’s in a row?
@Barry Ancona last I checked, nobody anointed you as the arbiter of puzzle enjoyment
@GRS I’d never heard of LASHUP, but at least it’s a word (unlike “number” as in “something that numbs”).
@Dale M thank you for noticing. The joke seems to have flown over the heads of others.
@Terri I know what the Edgars are. I was phrasing my response in the form of a question (as you would on Jeopardy!).
@Nancy J.Miss Piggie famously does karate chops
@Jerry This was a wild read. Maybe step away from the keyboard for a while.
@Steve L “who was but a high school graduate” is one of the most condescending, elitist phrases I’ve ever read. Did your mother knew you looked down on her for being a lowly high school graduate? After looking at some of your other comments, your intellectual self-righteousness is unbecoming and smug.
Had TAI/SNIT for the longest time. Kind of a hokey intersection, in my opinion.
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