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I used to dread Thursdays. Now as I've become more experienced and confident, I love Thursdays! Especially here where each theme entry was a mini word puzzle to solve. That was really fun. And the fact that I got stuck in the NW and couldn't figure that there was a triple rebus instead of EGG for the longest time... I'm just annoyed at myself, and not deflecting it onto the puzzle or the constructor.
@Asher Why unfair? Like you and I'm sure many others, I'd never heard of it. But once I got some crosses it was solvable from the clue. KIM is a very common name in Korea, and corner store = convenience store.
That was tough and 20 minutes over my Sunday average but I did enjoy the workout. I actually caught on to the theme and the rebuses (rebi?) but it was really hard to keep track of everything online. "So wait ... that one ties in where?" I've never gone up and down the clues so much in a puzzle! Figured out "I WAS FRAMED" and that helped me see a couple that I missed. But I had a bigger challenge from the many words and names I'd never heard of, some intersecting, and a crucial misspelling of "OKEEFFE" in a rebus that took ages to find due to it being in a micro-sized font on my laptop.
Wow, this one just solved liked butter for me. Once I figured the middle spanner without any crossings, a few others long downs fell quickly and then I solved from the middle out. From early comments here, some people felt this was more challenging, whereas for me it was <50% of my average Saturday time. Usually the only times I do this well, lots of folks say the puzzle was too easy (see yesterday). Could I finally be getting a hang of this?
@Ken W. You can't escape the term here in California where building ADU'gs is a hot topic to help with the housing crunch.
But someone with a parent can also be a parent, correct? Companies are people too!
@Chris g I think what's great about having averages and PBs is that it's like a handicap in golf. I also had a PB on this puzzle of 23:13 -- 9 minutes better than my old PB and a whopping 39 minutes less than my Sunday average. So yeah this was a super easy course but with my high handicap I would have smoked you guys with a net 58! lol
Nice puzzle. I flew through it unlike a couple other puzzles this week (ugh, Tuesday). Maybe helped that it had, by my count, 8 sports-related entries - 3 football, 1 hockey, 1 auto-racing, 1 tennis, 2 general (boo birds and one all). Combined with stank, reek and jello shots it was one big party!
A Friday PB for me! On its wavelength for sure, with some cute clues. No whining, no complaining...
Ooh that was a tough one. I look forward to Sundays however this put me back in my place two days after a Friday PB! Didn't help that I misspelled apocOlyptic which crossed with a name I'd never heard of. Question: what does "solving dis" mean? ... never mind just figured it out by writing it out - I always thought it was spelled "diss."
@WMY So if your coach tells two of you to head to the outfield and shag, you'd look at him funny???
@Steven M. It can be crazy some weeks, but different strokes for different folks. My fastest to slowest this week has gone Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Saturday, Friday, Thursday (with Sunday yet to come). Really, how often does a week ever go in a "clean" order?
@Jay I deduced that it was from the term "blue movie".
@jeb @jeb My last letter. I first had HAH with WHIST (maybe a word?), HAA with WAIST (made sense as "watch you waist is a saying I've heard), then tried HAR with WRIST and was shocked when I got the music as I thought I must have screwed up somewhere else. Like Chris I have no idea why is "wrist" is the answer. Anyone?
Noooo! After the last few difficult (but fun!) puzzles, I was soooo on the wavelength of this one, surprisingly blitzing through all the long entries with just a few crosses. Was gonna obliterate my Friday best time, but got stuck on one letter - the H of ERICH and MACH. Had no idea what a Maca or Mack number could be, or how Erica or Erick could be related to crypto, but convinced myself I must be wrong somewhere else and off I went. Finally came back to flyspecking that square, got the music on H, and missed my Friday PB by 6 seconds! @#$!&
@Steph I feel that way sometimes too. In fact this puzzle was so breezy that the last 2 "tricky clues" weren't the least bit tricky to me because I never even got to them! They and a few others just filled in from the longer crosses and I never bothered looking at the clues once I got the happy music.
@Striker And in many (most?) other countries, the order is WINS-TIES-LOSSES but TIES was easy to dismiss with the crosses.
@Sal Z Before I figured out the theme about halfway through, I kept wondering how I had never heard of that awesome ESCAPE-ARONI term!
@Laura Stratton My goal for this week is for the Wednesday puzzle to take the longest. So far, so good - it's not even close!
I had a great time figuring this one out. I had a few rebuses, noticed they were types of worms, had the WORMHOLE hint, but couldn't really figure where the post-rebus endings came from, especially when some weren't even real words. It was only after I found a duplicate rebus and I noticed that its colors were the same, that it all clicked! Super fun then spending a few minutes worming away to fill in seemingly non-sensical terms like ARACHTER and RISTIAN to get a head start on the rest of the puzzle.
@Nick That exact mistake (putting an A instead of U) was my one error in the puzzle too - it's not often I need a lookup on a Tuesday (:
@Brian I don't understand why it must be consistent. There have been other puzzles in the last few years where they haven't been.
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