Michael Hendler
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I thought the answer for A15 was “are you alive?”
A return to sanity after yesterday.
A perfect Thursday!
I’m managing to keep my streak while traveling through Australia.
At first my IPhone had no circles in the grid. Then, midway through the puzzle an IOS message popped up notifying me about a Puzzles app update . I did the update and then the circles appeared.
30 Across: no longer FDA vaccine approving org.
I miss the etuis. Have etuis been banned from the NYT puzzles?
I remember Wonderwall as a George Harrison album. It was a soundtrack to the movie of the same name.
I am wondering if there is anyone, having solved enough puzzles for a good statistical sample, whose weekday solving times graph does not look like a set of stairs. Mine look like a normal set of stairs.
I solved this puzzle and got the completion tune without entering any rebuses. All the rebus squares accepted simple i’s or o’s . I didn’t fully grasp the phi gimmick until I read the column.
@Lewis I would think that Monday puzzles are the hardest to construct.
My current streak is a bit over 500. I see that I did a total of about 2500 puzzles not counting the ones I did on paper before the digital age. My solve rate is 95%. What is discouraging is that I calculated that if I solved the next 1000 puzzles, then my solve rate will only go up 1 percent to 96%. Assuming a reasonable life expectancy without dementia and continued daily solving, I might still be possible for me to achieve a 99% solve rate.
The best and original version of the song is Round and Round by Perry Como 1957.
I miss Ned Rorem and the etuis .
It’s interesting that this teen constructor knew about a female tennis player from the 1950s, but I never saw that particular entry before in any puzzle constructed by oldsters .
@Deb Amlen I’m logopaígniophobic .
What are dale stream settings. Is it for setting a water jet in a pool to be like a gentle stream in a scottish dale?
@Sharon A Sol is a Peruvian currency note. There is no Luna currency note I know of.
@LilianNoir A pouch can be normal if you’re a marsupial, but a cyst is always abnormal and must be treated with drainage and antibiotics.
Are there any other languages which can yield crosswords with densely packed and stacked white squares with sparse black squares?
I have a general question. If I travel to a place for a few weeks with spotty wifi, can I always recover my solving streak later with the archived puzzles?
@Katrina S. What takes the H away is a base like NaOH ,i.e lye or toilet bowel cleaner. The H combines with the -OH and together forms a harmless molecule of H2O water. The rest of the stearic acid minus the H is stearate which attaches to the Na. The stearate Na combo is a salt of the stearic acid. It is basically a salt. Most soaps were originally made for hundreds of years by mixing fatty acid residues of cooked meats with lye.
@Nancy J. A fruit pie on the sill in Costa Rica would attract wild Toucans.
I just upgraded my NYT subscription to Full Access, which includes Games. Now, I’m told that I can cancel my prior separate Games subscription. I’m ready to do that, but I would like some assurance that cancellation of Games won’t wipe out my current hard earned Crossword streak. Does anyone know if it is safe to cancel Games and continue the streak on Full Access?
@Steve L I was thinking about kitchen islands, which are center positioned counters in large house kitchens which can include gas stoves.
@Dave Maybe you grasp the Thursday theme early and use it to ease over the rest of the puzzle.
How long can you wait to complete a missed puzzle in order to maintain a streak?
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