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“In” boxes need not be digital. Picture the characteristic office desk of the mid-20th century (in a New Yorker cartoon, if nowhere else). On it are two low rectangular boxes, one labeled “in” and the other “out.”
(Posted earlier, but it has disappeared) Someone should tell Wyna and Sam that "restaurateur" is misspelled in the 3 Down clue in today's Mini Crossword (actually, I hope they know by now). See <a href="https://ciachef.edu/blog/what-happened-to-the-n-in-restaurateur" target="_blank">https://ciachef.edu/blog/what-happened-to-the-n-in-restaurateur</a>
@SBK I think you mean “Rod.” No logs in this puzzle. But otherwise I agree. And to Sam’s claim that the difference is more evident outside the pretzel world, fishing rods and hockey sticks excepted, many things that may be called sticks may also be called rods and vice versa.
Sorry, don’t know how that typo happened. Should be: We may never use “Donee” in a sentence, but you often can’t finish the “Spelling Bee” without it. Editor, please fix, then delete this if possible.
I was thinking a better clue for 21 D would have been “Agnew’s plea.” For many of us who were aware at the time (I was a freshman in college), it was the first time we heard of that plea.
@ad absurdum I expect you mean “The Far Side.” I was wondering the same thing.
@Steve L Not the first time.
@Barry Ancona If it is a variant it became one only because it was misused so often it couldn’t be ignored. Both my Culinary Institute link and your Merriam-Webster link make clear that restaurateur was a word long before there were restaurants (or a word for them).
@Hardroch - Thanks. The link to the comment still finds it. <a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/nGpyf1ZiU4cX2Eh3fWtsnQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRpczBzP0RbaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNS8wMS8yMi9jcm9zc3dvcmRzL2RhaWx5LXB1enpsZS0yMDI1LTAxLTIzLmh0bWwjcGVybWlkPTEzOTE2NjcyMVcDbnl0Qgpnf3OrkGfwzBlLUhJkYXZiYXJuZXJ0QGFvbC5jb21YBAAAAAM" target="_blank">https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/nGpyf1ZiU4cX2Eh3fWtsnQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRpczBzP0RbaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNS8wMS8yMi9jcm9zc3dvcmRzL2RhaWx5LXB1enpsZS0yMDI1LTAxLTIzLmh0bWwjcGVybWlkPTEzOTE2NjcyMVcDbnl0Qgpnf3OrkGfwzBlLUhJkYXZiYXJuZXJ0QGFvbC5jb21YBAAAAAM</a>~
… except that the final ~ didn’t become part of the active link and is necessary. To access it, one must copy the whole link including the ~ and paste it into a browser.
@Dan Collins Wondering the same thing. Finished the puzzle easily enough, got the A+something pattern, but what’s the big joke?
@bobbie “Verklempt” wasn’t even a Yiddish word until Mike Myers made it up.
We may never use “Donee” in a sentence, but you often can’t finish the sentence”Spelling Bee” without it.
@Barry Ancona Yes I understand what he wrote. But if you copy the link I posted earlier (including the terminal ~ that didn’t make it into the active link) and paste it into a browser you will see that the comment is still out there in the ether (I just tried it).
@Wendy Agree. I learned in elementary school (maybe 60 years ago) that a troupe is a group of individuals (actors, perhaps), but a troop is a single fully outfitted soldier.
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