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@J Yeah the bottom left with the proper name and French word crossing was rough. There’s always one corner like that. There’s a sort of weird thing that happens in your brain the more you do these though where you can somehow stumble into golding it when you’ve done enough. It’s like how I didn’t know about “epee” before but now it’s in my back pocket. Whatever that phenomenon is seems to happen all over the place now. I still find myself searching trivia for the Friday/Saturday puzzles though. There’s a lot of knowledge way before my time that I could never hope to have in my brain.
In a weird way, I appreciate the negative comments that some puzzles elicit. If I’ve had an especially hard time solving one, there’s a satisfaction that someone else was annoyed or put off by the clues. That said, today’s puns felt like pretty standard stuff. They’re a little cheeky, but they do solve to phonetic versions of common phrases. Like it or not, this is what you can expect out of the crossword sometimes. I do agree though that the SE corner was a little ridiculous, especially a proper name meeting a symphony key. In a perfect world, there wouldn’t be clue intersections requiring knowledge that most of us don’t have.
The “adeux” / “glaxo” intersection was brutal.
Lately I’ve been turning on auto check right at the start for these Friday/Saturday puzzles. At first it felt like cheating, but I’ve find it makes the solve more enjoyable for the clues I’ve never heard of. Does anyone else do this?
If you have your “Thursday brain” equipped, I’d say it’s not too bad. It was a quick solve once I figured out the wrinkle with a few of the more obvious down clues. If I wasn’t looking for highjinks, I could see being stumped/frustrated.
@Heidi I appreciate hearing that someone else struggled on that corner! All of these comments saying how easy the puzzle was were stressing me out.
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