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I can honestly say I have never been more irritated by a puzzle in my life.
AHNOLD has ruined Father’s Day.
This was an outright absurd Wednesday puzzle. Give me a break.
We were really just throwing junk against the wall with this one, huh?
In hindsight, APPLE seems obvious, especially considering I could not for the life of me come up with a three letter beverage brand beginning with SN_. But in a puzzle otherwise totally void of rebuses, I really can’t help but feel cheated out of a gold star when that was the only square that stood in my way. A rebus never even crossed my mind.
Nothing quite like finishing a puzzle and just being irritated. Good stuff.
The Raisa-samovar-psilocybin combination was a bit much.
Lets die (rather than lets lie) crossed with something as obscure as Madama is pretty irritating reason to not finish this one cleanly.
Absolute slog from start to finish.
Two days in row with this. Get serious.
@Regine Ohh you’re a smartest in the room type. My fault. The natick doesn’t seem as insufferable now by comparison.
The WAPITI/TORO and CLEF/HELEN/FAE crosses were…not fun.
@Regine Two days in a row of insufferable Natick, this time on a Monday no less. But…you knew exactly what I meant.
@Donnie competitor *of* LIV, not in LIV
STIPE/APIARY has really ticked me off.
I always thought the Xs were hugs and the Os were kisses. Huh.
@Shrike Same. Also never heard of “HALE and hearty” so I was completely hung up there which cost me a gold star.
@Jin Thanks Jon, here’s your gold star.
@LP Well I guess it’s actually been over 48 hours since it was published Saturday night, but I used to routinely get gold stars when finishing a Sunday on Tuesday.
My word did I hate the SE corner of this one like nothing in quite awhile. I had YELP for 54A for the longest time and repeatedly went back and forth with GLASS at 64A. That corner tripped me up for a half hour.
I may have missed it, but did they reduce the allowed time to earn a gold star? I just finished the Sunday puzzle with no hints and got a blue star. It’s happened to me several times lately. I always thought you had 48 hours from publishing time.
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