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This was a slog, not a fan I know a decent amount of words and trivia, and it's not that often I see an answer in a NYT crossword where I'm just totally unfamiliar with the word. Happened a number of times today. SOLI TEMPUS RECTO MOUE NERUDA (natick with RECTO...ugh) ELAINESTRITCH NADIYA Hussein Bleh.
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.
I guess I'm going against the grain by liking this one, though it felt like knowing BOOLEAN ALGEBRA off the top of my head probably was borderline cheating :) SE corner I had LOT, and have never heard COUNTS NOSES in my life, so that took a minute.
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" :/
Didn't like this one. TL corner was difficult in the annoying way - lots of obscure trivia (Hindu clerks? Female Elephant seal packs? First black Yankee? Whatever a "Snee" is?)
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!
@Larry R The current geological era is the Cenozoic, named in tribute to former WWE Superstar John Cena
First time in a long while I couldn't get a Tuesday puzzle. LAMOTTA/COATA was particularly evil, amongst others.
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!
Ugh, ended a streak of 12 in a row with no hints :( A lot of answers here that I have never heard of at all even after getting them through crosses. MACS ARGOT KIR MANGOSTEEN Also...does the ETON school in London have some sort of marketing deal with the NYT crossword team?
Fun one! Theme was really easy and basically gave 8 free clues but all the other clues were significantly trickier than a typical Tuesday.
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.
I spent a minute trying to figure out where I went wrong because I could only get EIDER for "duck down". I've never heard that word in my life, so clearly that couldn't be the answer on a Tuesday, right? Oops lol
Great Tuesday puzzle. Some tricky clues, a relatively simple theme, no naticks and limited common filler words. Enjoyed it!
After a week of getting my butt kicked, this was a nice reprieve. Fun puzzle!
@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.
That was brutal to the point where it was annoying and not fun. - It's not often I come across a word in these I have just never heard before in my life. PEREPETEIA would be that. - Lots of words work with ball and board, so got stuck with both ROOM or BASE working - YATSEN/OREE was an annoying natick that shut down the left corner for me. Again, have never even heard of either name, and I'm a hockey fan!
@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!
@Kelli Agree - this was a fun puzzle for the constructor, undoubtedly. But i would prefer a theme on Sunday.
@Agent86 I had the same reaction. Been an engineer my whole life and took many classes that used pi (and 2*pi), never once saw this represented as tau.
@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 :(
@Katie This was exactly my experience. Got the first three corners relatively easily for a Saturday, banged my head against obscure trivia in the NW corner for far longer than I would have liked, gave up and revealed some squares.
@Barry Ancona Engineers take lots of math courses in all different areas - tau is just not used this way in current times in any context I've ever seen.
@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
@Joe P I'm with you. Have never heard this term in my life. Thought I had gotten one of the crosses wrong somehow.
@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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