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I understood the rebus quickly, but I don’t really care for it since there is no apparent connection between the two states occupying each square. Solving the answer in one direction does absolutely nothing to help you solve the word that intersects through the rebus, because it’s basically as if the word doesn’t intersect at all - every letter used in the rebus square is only part of one answer. And I would strongly urge, AGAIN, that you simply have the app accept any rebus entry at all as a correct answer for squares with a rebus. Nine times out of ten, the solver only has the square entered “wrong” because they don’t know what syntax they are expected to use. If they got everything else right and only fudged the rebus syntax, they clearly knew the answer and you should just take it.
One of the easier puzzles this week. My only hiccup was GOFETCH - I kept oscillating between GOGETIT and GOGETEM.
Quite a quirky quality in one quadrant
@Barry Ancona I understand that they are all western states, but why does OR share a square with NM and not some other that, for instance? That’s the problem I have.
@Meryl S.would you have the same objection if someone were called a “feast for the eyes”? This is more or less how “snack” is used by some. Any of these could be used to objectify someone, but that doesn’t make them inherently bad in any context. If NYT removed any word that anyone ever found insulting, it would deny us a lot of excellent puzzles. There are absolutely words that shouldn’t be used, but this isn’t one of them. I think when we stop giving people the benefit of the doubt and see the worst in everything, we also stop learning.
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