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Texas
So I'm fairly new to the NYT crosswords. This puzzle is my first encounter with rebus, and I have to say...I hate it. It's lazy and counterintuitive. And there's no indication that it was done. You just have to figure out that something doesn't fit right and work out the intent if you've never seen it before. It's not a good feature or extra layer of puzzle.
@Andrew Lazy or not, it's counterintuitive and makes these puzzles impossible for the uninitiated. It has nothing to do with reasoning when a crossword breaks the fundamental rule of one letter per square and doesn't bother to tell you that. This one in particular does feel a little lazy, though. A rebus where the square means different things for different directions...ugh.
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