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@Grant When I read "some bozo delivered a speech" my first thought was not Mamdani. Just sayin'.
@Ryan G Vinyl records have been called discs for 100 years. The term DJ, or Deejay, or disc jockey hails from the 1930's. CD's and records and Frisbees and brake pads are all called discs because of their shape.
@Hugh Carlin I PAY for this!! too and I disagree! I enjoyed the puzzle AND! I thought the rebus was a pretty easy get. Certainly not forced, awkward or frustrating. A rebus DOES belong in the NYT Crossword!
I don't do passes. I solve by quadrant. I don't time myself. I turned off the timer. I don't need bells and whistles and a pat on then back from a computer program. The more daydreaming and fact chasing I can get out of a crossword puzzle is a win for me. I am not in a race to finish. -- The NYT does keep records of my solve times and I wonder if my deck sitting and bird watching has an effect on solve time averages for everyone. Anybody?
I may be expecting too much but I would've liked to have seen more of a connection between the particular hook (the movie) and either the fish or the cross containing the fish. It seemed a bit random and not really bait worthy. I was snagged but not landed.
I am picturing a tornado at a tomato farm. SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT Onotomatopoeia!
I think a lightly grilled branzino pairs well with a dry bandeau. Two words I had only heard before today.
And a dollar short. I just solved yesterday's puzzle and I must interrupt today's proceedings to say I just love Saturday's 17A clue and answer. I don't get to type DIADELOSMUERTOS often enough. Thank you for indulging me. This was not a cry for attention.
I'll rate this one XS. But, what the heck, I'll be back tomorrow.
I am kind of shocked at how well liked this puzzle seems to be. I just don't appreciate all the clever frou-frou, and the light show, as much as most seem to do. Go figure! I am a big fan of Earth Day, though. Go Planet!
@Elbridge Gerry No. I would never call our president the R-word.
Did I hear "Boomer!"? Shoot me with a POTATO GUN! The last video game I played was Pong on a tabletop-cabinet screen in a Shakey's Pizza in the early '70s. Even after solving 24A PRINCESS PEACH I had no idea what the theme or the artsy grid was all about. Not even a genre. I think I actually "gulped". But it wasn't as bad for me as I then feared. While I still don't fully understand the gold question mark squares, by the time I got to FIREF-LOWER I at least wasn't wondering what a WARPPIPE might do. (Though I think FIREF-LOWER might be why I kept reading 105D as "daisies" even after typing PODIA.) My biggest hitch was the intersection of 77D's MOW (weak pun) and 88A's WARIO though "W" was my first guess. All in all, though out of my wheelhouse, a fun puzzle. Not overwhelming (maybe a tad under) and leaving plenty of time this morning to walk my NEOPET. Do I hear "Boomer?"
@The X-Phile Thanks, X, for taking me down that interesting hole with you.
It was bumper to bumper at the intersection of YEOH and HITOUT. Nothing to MEWL about.
@wu zetian is of the tang dynasty I understand that she is of both. She deposed her son (a Tang) and founded the Zhou and ruled for 15 years (690-705) before abdicating and returning her son to the throne. The Zhou is considered an interregnum, or temporary, dynasty within the Tang dynasty.
@JimmyG That would be the "hep cat" era. You can look it up in Cab Calloway's "Hepster's Dictionary" published in 1939.
I had to work this one a bit but in a good satisfying way. I thought it a nice puzzle once I re-remembered how to work the rebus option. (I am more used to cramming in the letters with my ball point pen.) Today I learned an awful lot more than I needed to about slime mold. Fascinating stuff!
I wear a snarf around my sneck.
After 22A "Babes in the Woods" I kept thinking "I don't remember any Natalie in the Bible. Nor orphans for that matter." It took 28A "Beats around the Bush" for my eureka. Ginsberg makes me howl anyway. Kerouac makes me lay rubber.
@Tim I also tried my first and sixth puzzles at one time. Did you know that with your subscription comes access to over 20 years of crosswords? You can have at over 6,300 of them and still skip all Thursdays!
I was thinking WaIST band not WRIST band (78A) and was open to WHoRLS or WHIRLS for Eddies and thus was wrinkling my brow at how could GaO_VES ever possibly lead to Pleasing rhythm so, being slightly discombobulated, I had to chuckle when my last entry finally came to me. Uh Oh. It's WARIO! At least I can't say, this time, that this Boomer has never heard of him.
I swear there was a "search comments" option yesterday. I am not offered that function today. Anyone?
@Chin Did I happen to mention that I am an Ivy League Doctor?
Yet another user friendly LSD reference. I never would have predicted that while expanding my optic lobe in the 1970's. I suppose, now, I could call 100 acid tabs an excellent sheet.
I was off to a slow start, with not much more than IGGY and TWILL, when I hit with REGGIE JACKSON . After that it was a romp. A fun romp!
@William Kash In the days of yore, ether, or Aether to the Greeks, was believed to be the fifth element along with earth, water, fire and air. This ether was thought to make up the heavens, stars and planets and everything beyond earth. By Shakespeare's time it had become more of metaphor.
@SBK in TO I believe A) is more commonly "Yuck" while B) is "Yuk". Or, your A is your B with a C.
I also got the huge Utah shaped blur for the animation feature. When I refreshed the page I saw the wee moving graphic. I enjoyed it so much more before I saw it. I may be a cubist rube.
Usually I dread the names in crosswords and it often takes getting the spanners to "confidently" complete them. Not so much today. It was old friends Rod CAREW, Harper LEE, KATO Kaelin and ANA Continents that gave me the whole upstairs stack. Then I chuckled when Eartha, Otis and Dr. Doom introduced me to Leonardo. Maggy CHO and KEIRA I met in puzzles and always make me feel less a wallflower.
@Karl M Now I feel nostalgic.
What am I missing? Doesn't the gerund "exploiting" in the clue for 1 across call for a similar form in the answer? And the double abbreviation means what? I'm not getting it. And how do I fill in the rebus? (just kidding)
My own career in electronic gaming consists of PONG (on the big console) but never-the-less I managed to piece the puzzle together. Oh, I'm forgetting pinball and "Operation." I prefer Virtuous Reality mindsets.
MIDI puzzle- Today I learned that I have been living under an animated rock. Bugs Bunny has a girlfriend named Lola Bunny? Whatever Lola wants.
Breezy for me and I used only the down clues. I had never tried that before. Fun! Though I almost missed my favorite clue of the day (40 Across Blue state?) but I had time and inclination to go back and peruse.
Ah! Regularly tackling the NYT's Spelling Bee paid off today in the Xword. I knew 30 had to be RO4, oops I mean ROTI! Ah! It's the little words, oops I mean things.
I was a tortoise and not a hare. Slow and steady won my race. As Lovinger wrote in the Wordplay column, "just enough letters to keep moving."
That's a good one, Francis!
Just me but I don't really care for rebuses and I find that I like them even less when they are not in the circle.
@Valerie They might not get SAY IT/SPRAY IT because they are so rarely in the same room with each other any more.
Totally not pesky! + = o No Jive!
1 Across -- I have had a few copies of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" pass through my shelves. I never bought one nor did I begrudge the friends who "owned" them after me. Lifted is the verb I was looking for.
@Paul "The devil made me do it!" Also "Here comes the Judge!" and from Geraldine "What you see is what you get." Hah!
Has the Games editorial staff ever publicly commented on the "puzzles are demonstrably easier" phenomenon? I'm curious. Hmmm.
In the pen and newsprint days I would have tentatively put the "e" in Bess and Telugu and been forced to wait patiently for tomorrow's paper delivery to know for sure.
@Kate You mean Columbia as in the "gem of the ocean" or perhaps you mean Colombia, (with an "o") el pais de habla hispana?
@Down_Home I feel seasoned. I've been doing NYT puzzles for almost fifty years but I still took a bit and maybe that is why. I had not remembered Shamash nor Nas and I've never heard of Aldi and didn't connect it with Lowes so the big box thing eluded me for a while until Ikea. (Though I do love Vivaldi and got the trick right away.) I didn't know slime mold so I wavered a tad between eldest and oldest. My favorite clue was 51D.
@LeCheffre Dunno who you think you are talking to but nobody here is responsible for ordering or reordering games. This is a forum for players like you. You should probably write directly to the editors if your desire is to effect change.
@Gareth Smug to your heart's content! It doesn't make me suddenly dumb if you have a breezy fill. More power to you! I'm not competing, I'm solving. (I'd give it a Friday lite.)
I thought we had TARANA last month. I remember learning about her and her role in "me too" recently. Oh well, I barely remember yesterday. Maybe Tarana was in the clue and BURKE was the answer?