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This crossword was so much fun! I’m pretty new to these. I love WORDLE and SPELLING BEE but I had always been intimidated by the NYT crosswords. Anyway, it’s been a year now and I’m beginning to find my groove. My husband suggested I start by doing the daily minis and then attempt the full-size Monday crosswords, which he said were the easiest, and I’ve gotten good at solving those. So today I decided to be brave and tackle this Friday crossword, and I’m amazed because I was actually able to figure out most of it without a lot of help. I had to look up some clues of course, and I still don’t know what THETURN means, but I feel I’m beginning to go up a level and this crossword was really encouraging.

I enjoyed this clever puzzle. The only clue I had an issue with was: Yiddish "Yeesh!" (49D) = OY VEY. At the risk of coming off pedantic, YEESH! is used to express irritation or eye-rolling annoyance. Whereas OY VEY in Yiddish is used to express dismay, grief, or worry. It literally translates as “Oh, woe”, meaning “Woe is me”. It doesn’t necessarily have to imply that dramatic a reaction but it conveys fluster more than eye-rolling exasperation.