Andrew
Baltimore
So. Many. Proper. Nouns.
ELON crossed with SINGLEMOM was good for a laugh.
Got bogged down with the pairing of LYCEE and “Soupçons” cluing IOTAS. Too much French for me.
Just brutal, but ultimately fair. Gold star in 45 mins, might be my longest ever.
Felt like a Tuesday in a Thursday slot to me. Would have been more compelling without explicitly calling out the substitutions
Closed out in just under 12m after finally letting go of DRIEDHAM in favor of DELIMEAT. The SKA/SCIFI crosser was right up my alley.
Did not like this one. As others have said, theme was gimmicky and fill was weird/gross. “The” cluing DEFINITEARTICLE was fun. The 5 contiguous L spaces was kinda of interesting, but only from a linguistic perspective.
Pedantically speaking, ONEG is an exact constant (of acceleration, not force) and not what I would call informal.
@Nancy J. that is… the name of that national park, per the federal government
Got that PR feeling about halfway through, helped out by the slew of younger millenial answers. 6:41
Finished in a quarter of the time relative to the preceding puzzle - 10:50. Lots of easy vertical stacks made this one a bit too vanilla for my liking.
Struggled through in 31m. Only real gripe was DAT clued as “Not dis”. Guessing that was supposed to be a corruption of “this” and “that”, but I had it in as DAp for awhile (as in a handshake you would perform to indicate (lack of dis)respect).
@Pamela perhaps even odder, I had it from Chris Onstad’s seminal webcomic Achewood, where a cat is so depressed he is implied to be well received in Peoria.
@Times Rita surely you’re able to separate one dude from a nation of 57 million, no? I assume here you’re talking about Mr. Musk
@Mean Old Lady lowercase g, as used here, is the gravitational acceleration at a point on the surface of the earth and is usually equal to about 9.81 m/s^2. 1g, thus, is one times the constant g, and can be substituted into Newton’s F=m*a to find (for example) a force resisting the gravitational acceleration at Earth’s surface. Again, pedantic, but as an engineer that’s my job…
@Brian I suspect a lot of good solvers are going in that time range, they just don’t feel the need to post about it as I do
A total war for me, coming in at what I imagine is a personal worst of over 40 mins. Had to put down and pick up multiple times. Ultimately a great challenge. Nice one!
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