Paul OShaughnessy

@Andrzej I am in awe of your ability to do these crosswords in cryptic English - can’t imagine ever trying a Polish crossword! One thing I have learned is these puzzles is “, once” is used to indicate in the past, usually distant past. So not the current crop of Senators, the original crew 😉

@Outlier 101 Well actually, quite a few people do. Why can’t this be true, rather than someone is trying to fool you? For instance, “ A new HDTV for only a couple hundo? That's a great deal.” The meaning can be picked up by most people.

@Petrol I have bookmarked the link directly to the Wordplay homepage on my iPhone - works for me Check it out! <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/daily-crossword-column" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/daily-crossword-column</a>