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Someone said yesterday that people only tend to talk about puzzles being too easy or too difficult. Well this was a perfectly appropriate Wednesday, in my book. And fun theme!
Not a fan of this one. SET in opposition? Who has ever said that? DOWSE? LDOPA? Also, lots of crossword crutches like SOSA, ODORS, MCATS, EON, multiple plurals. Bleh.
Too much "tell me this word in a foreign language" here. Especially not a fan of the language natick NIHAO/ESTOS, which was especially tricky because ESTES also means "these". So I got stuck and had to check the key because I forgot how to spell Chinese "hello" :/
I found this to be the toughest Friday puzzle I've seen here. Just got nowhere until I revealed a number of answers. TIL "come hither" is an adjective and not a verb/noun.
I like this a lot - it was fun figuring out the catch piece-by-piece
Really loved the trick in this puzzle. Fun solve!
I really liked this one. Really challenging, but everything was doable. Relatively few naticks or crossword crutch answers. Clever theme that took a few minutes to figure out even after getting the revealing clue. Well done!
Bleh, zoomed through this but had a single error I couldn't find. Not the first time I've gotten caught on one of the variations of KEBAB crossed with a proper noun. TINMAN seems like a perfectly good name for a movie that I've never heard of!
@Sean Here’s why we hate rebuses Speak for yourself. I thought this was a great puzzle. Sometimes puzzles aren't straightforward in their solution, which is why they're puzzles.
@Asher B. Dear Will Shortz: Can we please make sure every puzzle is personally run through commenter Asher B to ensure it doesn't overly challenge him? I realize there are plenty of people who find this challenging and fun, but really it's about Asher and giving him something that doesn't cause any unnecessary thinking.
@Esmerelda I'm sorry you spend your time fantasizing abut wars that don't exist. I would suggest doing more activities to keep your mind away from that, not less.
Don't love the theme, as it necessitated a lot of names and makes the crossword a test of trivia. I'm solid at trivia and this was my fastest puzzle ever, but that's not why I do these!
@lucky13 > Am I missing something? Yes, it seems. This is a pretty common term.
GREEKMYTHOLOGY for "Echo location". Clever! For those of us who have never heard of "SPLITENZ" having the Z be a D the whole time threw me off big time. Bleh.
I enjoyed this one! Once I found SELF through crosses I knew it had to be SELF HELP somehow, then realized that "Nuclear Fusion" referred to the ends splitting and the middle two letters fusing. Once the gimmick was clear it was smooth sailing.
@RozzieGrandma You took the clue too literally. The ordering of the gospels in an actual Bible is Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.
It took me forever to get off of 32 across as PUNTERS, which was clever, but in the wrong direction :(
@M I liked that curveball - clearly the Nobel is an AWARD, but obviously the first guess will be PRIZE I convinced myself that only APES worked for the cross so talked myself out of the first guess
@Ryan. Had the same thought! Had no issues here, but in a good way. Really did not love the Tuesday puzzle and yesterday's theme threw me off completely
Uggggggh "SLAG" not "SLAB" It would have been nice if the cross wasn't a Native American tribe nobody has heard of.
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