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@jlemen It’s always projection with right-wingers: your entire movement is fueled by extreme media bias (e.g. Fox “News”, “X”, and so on). The Times has notably bent way over backwards — so much so to the point of disservice to the public — when it comes to Donald Trump.
CHECKMATING CHICK MAGNET will have me chuckling all day.
@redweather I rolled my eyes at your comment so hard that I almost sprained them.
I wound up trying to say these phrases in Sean Connery’s voice: SHKIP TO MY LUGE.
I got a NIKON camera I love to take a photograph So Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away …
“Like a mom or dad’s patience” is a great clue.
@Allen As an attorney, I thought this was an excellent theme.
Serious question: Does the American Orthopaedic Society pay the Times to have ULNA appear in so many crosswords?
This Friday puzzle was as tough as a Saturday for me.
There was a broadcaster, Grant Napear, for the Sacramento Kings who had a catch phrase: “If you don’t like that, you don’t like NBA basketball.’” Well, if you didn’t like today’s puzzle, you don’t like Thursdays.
I always check the comments for the controversy du JOUR. I doubt it’ll ever get sillier than meep meep versus BEEP BEEP. (Though I’m a meep-meep-truther.)
Yesterday and today were not good for my averages, but good for warming up my brain!
For a little while, I was trying to figure out what kind of OMELETTES would be served with ribs.
This crossword had a very silly theme, so needless to say I enjoyed it.
Is this where I come to register a complaint about the REBUS in today’s crossword?
I slowed myself down by deciding early on that a flying fox is a type of SQUIRREL. Oh well.
@HeathieJ I’ve had to buy every one of Yoko Ono’s and Brian Eno’s albums, thanks to the NYTXW.
I, too, am outraged that there is normal deviation around the Thursday average difficulty! All seriousness aside, while I solved this faster than my Thursday average, I was slower than my Wednesday average. Anyway, who cares, it was a fun one!
Great to see an entire puzzle built thematically around our frequent guest, OREO. Tom and Dan, do EMU next!
On a Thursday puzzle, I neither clench my jaw nor approach it like any other day. Instead I take a special delight!
Love a good rebus, and this was a great one!
@Lewis Great, now I’ve got that in my head. “Rumspringa, the rite with the Amish touch.”
Nice Monday and congratulations on your debut, Steven!
Outstanding Friday, thank you Adrianne for sharing your work! The six spanners are all excellent.
@Tom Bandy I rather enjoy the whining and griping, particularly when someone (most often Barry) refutes a nit pick.
Being BUTT HURT about the crossword’s difficulty is definitely a FIRST WORLD PROBLEM (has that ever been in a Sunday puzzle?). In addition to SMÉAGOL/Precious one, I like the crosses of THATSME/IMHERE and LETFLY/SATBY.
For me, THAT’LL DO is the cherry on top that makes this puzzle.
Congratulations, Mason, and thank you for getting AISLOP into the NYTXW! It’s such a terse and perfect term.
@Dick Yates It works either way.
I’ll be saying “Shred the GNAR” all day in my best Sean Penn from Fast Times at Ridgemont High voice.
I wanted “It’ll find a way” to be LIFE, per Jeff Goldblum.
I let out a big groan when I figured out the theme, which is a tribute to the constructor!
I’m not quibbling with the clue, because it was indeed a fad at one time, but I just wanted to note that TETRIS is still played actively. There are even tournaments!
If this is the new Friday standard, I’m in big trouble tomorrow.
Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da. Thanks for the morning earworm, Ikechukwu! I also went awry with EXTRAS, wound up just below my average time. And thanks Daniel, for the excellent Tuesday!
Definitely easier for hoops fans like me, but them’s the breaks of the game. Getting all-time great Hakeem OLAJUWON (who I remember well) into the grid was a nice cherry on top.
I always use EXTRA OLD BAY on popcorn. But then, I grew up in Maryland.
Sufferin’ succotash! I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque. What a maroon. Well, so long suckers.
We have an ONO but no EMU. Can it really be said that this is the alternating-consonant-vowel-crossword to end all alternating-consonant-vowel-crosswords without an EMU?
If you have absolutely no alibi or defense to a RAT squealing on you, does that make you STARK NARKED?
I’d like to have seen Wordplay give a shout out to jazz great ART TATUM. Here’s a YouTube that shows the nearly blind pianist’s absolute virtuosity: <a href="https://youtu.be/q0QD558TWSQ?si=12BCt0S4rgPRAegC" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/q0QD558TWSQ?si=12BCt0S4rgPRAegC</a>
For all of you who thought of SHOUT phrases, I want you to know that I will be childishly giggling for the rest of the day.
Well, I must have gotten much better at this over the past couple of years! Yay me.
My first things are a shot of espresso and the NYT XW!
Oof, my poor Sunday average!
Another tough one, even knowing Sun YAT-SEN. Lately, the end of the week puzzles are really exercising this senior’s noggin.
Yay, a bonus rebus! Excellent Sunday.