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This was painful and not in a good way
What is the right side today? An abbreviated basketball position, a card game, a dog from a 92 year old movie, a Japanese airport, random athlete team, a south-east asian holiday, what ever is "Seat of White Pine County, Nev." Ugh
Too much trivia for my taste. We're still doing obscure actors from a hundred years ago?
Yikes, like half the answers were trivia
Feels weird to be stuck on a Tuesday puzzle, but here I am, with: Iraqi port city crossing a writer named Jennifer City in Northern Ireland crossing a jazz singer A Maori dance crossing a book character Better luck next time
This one felt like it was made by an alien. Most answers were strange and off beat. 2/10
Everyone's saying how they completed this puzzle with no lookup meanwhile I had to look up like 80% of the answers. Nothing was vibing with me, I think I only really got Cottagecore which was a nice little victory
Fun puzzle, although I still had to look several answers up due to them crossing. 21 across kept me combing through the puzzle for a while. At first I thought of a US citizen and put down ESP. Then after EAGLET I though, "OH! Of course, it's ASL! I don't think anyone learns ASL just to be bilingual but cool of the constructor to raise awareness" Had no idea ESL was a widely used acronym but here I am, someone with English as a second language 🙈
What? DOTOAT? GAS as island purchase? Messy and annoying all around.
Started off fun but quickly turned into a trivia hunt
You'd think the constructors wouldn't cross answers that require specific knowledge (sports team names, singers, writers, plays, podcasts, etc) with other such answers. Since if you don't know either of them you're stuck with overlapping squares that you have to brute force to answer correctly. Looking at you, "A.L. East Athlete" crossing with ""Call Her Daddy" podcast host Cooper" AND "Activist Brockovich", among others in this weird trivia filled puzzle.
@Steve AER lingus is such a staple in the crosswords that it's just something that gets beaten into you over time
@Andrzej Elliptical equipment are stationary machines you can usually simulate walking on. The elliptical path the pedals follow give its name to the equipment.
Isn't it Arthur Rubinstein, not ARTUR?
It would've been fun if it was at all hinted at that the special answers were in reverse. But it wasn't. Just because there was the word scale in one hint does not make it so. Also I'd say Uncle Ben was the one who popularized the saying but sure, Spiderman works too
I'm not sure what it says about me but the crossing of liquor and knights on quests brought the whole thing together for me, helping me figure out the theme pretty fast. Fun puzzle, I thoroughly enjoyed. The NE corner required multiple look ups tho.
@Gregg SO MUCH trivia, I just gave up and looked every name, football team, title, and other non-clues up after a couple of rounds. Made for a much more enjoyable experience.
Eh, didn't figure out what was going on until I completed the puzzle and the letters popped out. Sure, ORC, CON, and others seemed weird, but I assumed they were just obscure answers like a lot of puzzles often do. Sure, the theme is delightful but it's like a flower bed in the night - I'm not going to notice it until it's too late
First run through and I only got LAWSON (Thanks Uncle Roger) and THC. The rest was manageable after looking up all the trivia questions though.
@Heidi Crazy right there were like 14 name based clues alone
Clumsy and awkward
Loved the theme and felt really good about it until I could no longer proceed and had to look up a bunch of names and obscure words. But up to that point it was fun!
@Daily-Solver I had to look up every single answer in the middle west area. Probably could've guessed TRIO but I was already so done with that area
"a posh spot — TONY, of course" Yeah, OF COURSE, said as if that isn't the most obscure word to use for posh.
@Sonja I would consider the exact number of players needed for a game as the team. Just like a soccer team is 11 players, not the whole 20 to 30 that are there as substitutes and what not. Totally agree with you on the Severance clue though
The southwest corner was a bit tricky, but thanks to Brooklyn 99's mention of PICANTE beef, and IMPs I was able to figure out it wasn't rev (up) but rather PEP. Couldn't remember the last name NESS but APPRISES seemed like to most logical combination of letters, even if I haven't seen that word before in my life. Fun puzzle, I really enjoyed the theme. The answers came out naturally once I reached the revealer.
I really enjoyed this one. Might be one of my favorites to date
Ugh "The clue "Explicit subject for her?" uses "explicit" to hint that the subject is clearly stated. "For her" points to a pronoun, and the antecedent is the grammatical term for the noun that "her" refers to. Thus, ANTECEDENT is the perfect answer—it's the explicit subject that 'her' refers to " You need a ladder for that reach?
@Marshathis happens from time to time. Only solution I've found is to reset the puzzle and solve it again. Which of course skews your average times since you'll probably do it in a couple of minutes, but as far as I know that's the only way to keep the streak going
@Jacob on the NYT Android app we have three dots on the lower left corner of the keyboard for that
@Sarah A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. I thought so at first too
@Eric Hougland It's a 25 year old biographical legal drama film... while I've watched a lot of movies during my lifetime I haven't really gravitated towards that genre. I guess it's better than trivia about 80 year old sitcoms that some constructors like to add, at least.
"This is without a doubt one of the most complex themes I’ve ever seen in a puzzle without a rebus." Complex? I'd say lousy, but to each their own. And DAUBS? Be so for real
What was up with the Mini today? Took me like 6 minutes and even then I had to look up answers. Crazy!
@Francis I wonder if it's some sort of a copyright issue or something that prevents this slang from making it into any media. Might just be something you only hear in person in the US
Ugh, too much trivia. It was pretty fun after I looked up about a third of the answers though
A lot of misses for me personally this time. If someone asked me on the street I'd bet a hundred bucks NATTERED ON isn't a real word but here we are. Thanks for saving me a hundo!
I liked the idea of this puzzle but I just couldn't crack the grey squares, mostly because they all had either someone's name, brand, or other trivia crossing them
@Andrzej Ah nice to know. I'm not sure how on board I am with changing the spelling of someone's name if they didn't change their name themselves but props for the constructor for using the original name! Thanks for your help!
@Phil I put MNMS and RNB Perhaps it was a potential rebus square?
@Jim Same here but I didn't even know what spoonerism meant 🤷♀️ The puzzle itself was fun, the four special answers kind of just popped out. I was nervous to try CHAINLINKEDFENCE with only a couple of letters in place but it turned out to be correct. Only had to look up the tennis player and the House of Dragon actor
Not a fan of MRIS crossing with MAUNA, RONAN, and DEBI
This was either written by an alien or AI. Bloviates - what next
@SP GODMODE is absolutely a common term. I even had a list of codes for GTA games and GODMODE was one of the classic ones. In Half-Life you literally activate it through console commands by typing in "god" and getting a prompt confirming "godmode ON"
Looks to sell is "shops"? That's looking to buy but okay...
@Jane not really clever when the solvers don't get it after solving tho
The bottom right section the puzzle was fun and got my hopes up but the rest of it turned to looking up the answers one by one and getting frustrated over the lack of sense. SEA EEL? Really? This might show my lack of knowledge but what do you mean the destination of a walk is FIRST? Let's take a trip to first? Is it I'm going to take a walk first? Or is it some random obscure tidbit that a handful of people understand? 3/10
How is "Gotcha!" I SEE?
@Gilead Kutnick That was straight up criminal