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So. Many. Proper. Nouns.
ELON crossed with SINGLEMOM was good for a laugh.
AREWECOOL -> TOYPOODLE -> POOLNOODLE was great!
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.
We don’t call it Hotlanta, and ONEG is an acceleration, not a force.
Shockingly easy Thursday. C’mon NYT, give us a challenge.
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
As a former musician and math doer, I suspect I had an easier time than most. Cheers!
5:43 Wednesday PB, including the time to waffle between eNDOR and aNDOR like most of you all. Big sci-fi and fantasy fan, but never been able to get into Star Wars
Got that PR feeling about halfway through, helped out by the slew of younger millenial answers. 6:41
@Margaret sort for modus operandi (lat.)
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.
@Jane Wheelaghan yes, its the norm in the US and I’m sure many other places
@Jeff I had NaN for quite a while before landing on NIL (???).
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).
Another Friday cakewalk. C’mon NYT, last Saturday (or was it the Saturday before?) showed you had a little more in the bag than that.
@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…
Far too easy for a Saturday, in my opinion. 9:09.
PB 4:45 laying in bed. A light monday
@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!
An almost straight-through solve. Clever theme but didn’t really get to enjoy it due to level of difficulty. Felt like a Monday.
@Ben Blackwell agreed. What?
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