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I know this is the New York Times crossword but if there was ever a puzzle to put off anyone not born and bred in the US from doing the NYT crossword again this was it - not just the theme but too many clues that only someone who lived in the US would get.
Good puzzle but can anyone explain AIT? British isle??
No…there are no eels in our pie and mash!
Shag??? No! Just no! Ick! And on Valentine’s Day!
I loved this puzzle…so many cute and clever things happening that all fit together in such a satisfying way
Churros are not Mexican, availed does not mean ‘proved useful’…I could go on…
I had to admit defeat on this in the end and I’m glad I did because not in a million years would it have it occurred to me that people put a Dalmatian in a red hat and call it a fire dog!
Not in all the millennia since Zeno would it have dawned on me that there was such a thing as a chia pet or what it was.
I’m afraid I found this too difficult to be fun. There were some clever, tough but fair clues but when you combine this with too many clues relying on obscure general knowledge, obscure idioms and words you only find in a dictionary , it’s too hard to find a way in. To misquote Seinfeld, ‘use bloviates in a sentence’.
@Tim I have moved to Essex so maybe I should be Tim from Colchester going forward - there are no aits here either!
Can anyone explain what skip a beat has to do with newspaper sections?
Can someone explain BAMA? I cannot fathom this entry. Is it because I’m from the UK or because I haven’t seen the film?
@@Joe Pie and mash is a London dish - you only get it from pie and mash shops. It’s always mince in the pie and it’s served with liquor (a sort of parsley sauce) not gravy.
I am always intrigued by how it is decided what is a ‘tricky clue’. They are invariably not the clues I struggle with. But Cli uses to be 151 - that’s completely inexplicable? Can anyone explain it?
@NanuNanu with respect that’s like me saying tacos are American or curries are British - I don’t think you’d associate them with Mexico if you’d ever been to Spain or Portugal
It would be good to have a puzzle that didn’t require detailed knowledge of varieties of Oreo.
@Alex I think it’s fair to say I am now hanging my head in shame
@Joe it’s the wrong tense - availed means ‘made use of’
I enjoyed this puzzle but can someone explain 14A - I googled the meaning of scad and it apparently stands for spontaneous coronary artery disease - how do you get from this to alot?
Some really good clues in here but I’m sorry you shouldn’t be able to get away with 26A
I hate to be pernickety but it’s pernickety not persnickety
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