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Hecka hard for Monday. Though I am comfortable solving up to Wednesday so I mostly managed to finish, with the exception of needing the N in PEEN / ORONO which is just obscure knowledge frankly.
ENNEADS / SERE / AER was a little much for me!
@Jesse 100% , echo is delay not reverb. I think most any audio effect enthusiast would know what the clue meant but still be slightly irritated at the inaccuracy.
@Andrzej he is overusing gen Z / gen Alpha slang in a cringey way. When the adults start doing this, you can be sure the slang wont last for long.
EMERY, AMES, DRIB, MEWLS, EDGERS? This was harder than many Tuesdays.
30 min in, I'm halfway through and giving up. Not Wednesday difficulty.
After going through both directions twice I had literally 9 clues solved. I can usually do Wednesdays pretty well. This one is too hard.
@Billie this was a hard Monday and very close to Tuesday level, youll be fine
This one sas smooth except for. natick for me on ARLO and TRIB, also unfortunately SYNOD, YEN, or OILPAN were not in my vocab which made fof a tough cross
Mostly liked but ASKIN was not obvious enough and had me stuck, since the crosses SEN (vs REP?) and KROC were not gonna happen. Also MISEENPLACE (which is an obscure word you either know or looks like total gibberish) crossing with proper SAL and CANST. All in all took me 5 reveal squares
liked this puzzle. Easy for Tuesday, but at least I actually finished it unassisted which is rare for me. Tower of Hanoi is a freeby for many software engineers because its often taught in beginner classes (being a very simple game to code)
As a monday tuesday solver i can happy attest that this was an approproate difficulty level for me. Only ones I had problems with were “mum” (which is one of those words nobody actually says) and lunk (which i have really never heard)
this was pretty hard for me. After 20 min I gave up and needed 17 revealed squares. I dont always finish Tuesday but usually if I fail i will only need 1-5 reveals. The theme is not even worthy of a groan. Seems like an afterthought.
@HackDiesel I know. I definitely tried to write pop before I realized it didnt fit. But if mean, if Blink 182 and Sum 41 hadn't gotten so famous, I'm sure nobody would be as bothered by them being called skate punk. We're kinda splitting hairs here.
Theme was irrelevant after reduce reuse recycle, and there was a lot of obscure words and proper nouns. Wasn't really a fan
@Alan this one really screwed me up because i was sure it had something to do with baseball (hit, run vs error) - these are all things that can happen in at at-bat.
utz and barmitzvah was tricky. Never heard of utz so i had it as uts and barmitsvah.
Tuesdays are so much harder than Mondays. I turned on Autocheck very early and still had to reveal four squares. Two for LIPO of course. Sometimes these clues feel like trivia for obscure definitions. Is it really common knowledge that BLIND is a noun for a duck hunting locale? DIET as a synonym for fare is a bit of a stretch. And “EPA” for DDT banner? I have no idea what this means. With this difficulty, it took me about 19 min to solve. Compare this with yesterdays 5 min speedrun. I personally think the jump between Mon and Tue is too big
@Jay fyi this site is very sketchy. You should never provide a login token to another website, they can use this to impersonate you.
@Nate G Imo Monday was way harder but this was typical for Tuesday.
7 minute Wednesday is about half my average time. Happy to solve it without hints, but could have been a tad harder. Thanks for a good time anyway.
this one was pretty easy except for TAMPS / PANSY. I suspect I will never see TAMPS outside of a crossword.
@Dan Collins The food crosswords are hard because of wordplay in clueing. If it requires trivia or proper nouns then it's a construction issue
@Sian Difficulty rating is important. Personally I can only do up to a certain difficulty and I don't enjoy being stuck or having to look things up. For beginner / intermediate solvers Monday Tuesday and maybe Wednesday is all they can do, that's 3 crosswords a week. So when one of them is too hard it's a disappointment.
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