MartyS
Denmark/ Sweden
I love reading Deb’s column and sighing “oh, ah, I see”. For this non-local, non-native language solver it simply became too convoluted. Pick your fights and know when to throw in the towel. I’ll be back tomorrow.
@Andrzej To add to the above, the friends of Dorothy in Wizard of Oz are The Tin Man, The Lion and Scarecrow (didn’t look it up, may have names wrong). Dorothy’s friends each needed something to make them complete, a missing part without which they could never be their true selves: heart, brains and courage. Exactly what gay people would need in a world where they were (and are still) literally killed for being who they are. Being a millennial gay man myself, I believe the generations of our elders were brave, smart and loving in a way I sometimes miss these days. The term is not offensive, i don’t think
The International Herald Tribune introduced me to the NYT crosswords years ago. What a wonderful cultural insight the puzzles provided and how stumped I felt already by Tuesday and Wednesday most weeks. Fast forward 20 odd years, and I have slowly worked my way “up” to actually being able to solve a whole weeks, sometimes with the wonderful nudge-help from Deb’s columns later in the week. Yay, me…. Today, however, I was plummeted back into the feeling of my very first attempts from the early naughts in IHT. Simply too many answers I had absolutely no way of carving out. The greatest puzzles are the unsolved ones, I guess. Loved the heteronyms. I had to lay down my king, though and will be back for Saturday.
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