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Loved the puzzle except for the spelling of the word "lychees."
Fun puzzle! A tough one for a Monday which is nice :)
The long answers aside, this is the epitome of an unfun crossword for me. A quiz about obscure names and a vocabulary lesson.
Fun puzzle, thanks for that! I got stuck for a while because I was a little too proud of my cleverness by adding "an en" to "one" to make "none" for zero (instead of NOTA). Held onto that for a little too long.
Many of the clues (and some of the answers) were just a bit... off for me. Like I'd get an answer from crosses and be like "okay, yeah I guess that kinda makes sense?" That in combination with the (very cute) theme, in which it is mandatory to have cross letters to get the answers, made this an impossible fill for me. Also I never thought an airhead = scatterbrain. Some of the smartest people I know are scattered.
@Sammy Just thinking about how such a simple formatting issue could make what could be a satisfying solve, into a frustrating start to the day.
I got robbed of a gold star because of incorrect formatting. First I just put "LINE" and left out the dashes. Then I took the time to enter rebuses In each for L/- I/- N/- E/- Still NO-GO. Boo.
Still DRE is from 1999, not 2022.
Fun puzzle but EAVES tripped me up for a minute even though I knew it had to be that. I believe they can be called an eave or eaves to mean the same thing, but if calling it by the plural you have to address it as the plural. As in "they," not "it."
@Sam Lyons I agree. Not that "bowing" was his specialty, BOP certainly was not. He came after bop, and while he admired bop musicians like Charlie Parker, he only did bop sections of music as a contrast to the meat of what he was doing.
Fun puzzle, thank you. Am I wrong to think that the chess clue is incorrect? "Upon becoming the champion" would mean that as a result of his win, he then became a teen. But he was a teen first.... do I have my phrasing wrong?
TIL that some lights in the sky are actually UFOs.
@Barry Ancona I'm curious what the updated stats look like now that the day is done. In theory some people (like me) were still working on it at the time you posted this and some people (like me) were ultimately not able to complete it at all. I'm assuming that what you captured in the stats was a snapshot of all the whizzes who were able to complete it, or stumblers who needed lookups. So a couple stats would be: - Updated completion time - completion rate vs other Saturdays But I'm sure a few others would help. Incomplete data sets with inferred conclusions are usually worse than no conclusions at all :)
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