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Manhattan
The usual self-indulgent obscurity from this constructor. Not too fun.
"Cleverness is not wisdom" - Euripides
I just can't. A couple of months now since I interrupted my 2K NYT crossword streak, and with each passing day since, I'm grateful that I have broken free and no longer feel the pressure to solve all of them, that I can - without any sense of guilt - skip over the losers like this one. Happy solving, suckers!
DOORNAILS was my favorite.
SIBDUI. (solved it but didn't understand it)
That was a slog. Sadly, my dogged determination made me see it through to the end. I think I need to get a life.
A pleasantly annoying puzzle. Took me a little bit longer than I would have liked. Finishing it, I experienced more a sense of relief than of satisfaction. Thank you for reading this.
More like a school assignment than a joyful diversion, but I did it.
What my late friend would have called "a real filler-inner."
An easy peasy Friday filler-inner. But I do kind of miss the ants.
In the past I found a lot of Ezersky's crosswords pedantic and self-indulgent but I think this one is peachier than those and a fair challenge. Thanks
A real tour de force. ISPEPSIOK was my favorite, and despite its rather clunky appearance as a sequence of letters, came to me pretty early on in the solving process.
@Scott G I think you're being a little too literal. The Nano provided (as in supplied, gave, spewed, etc.) music, so it's not unfair to say it's a music provider.
The mechanics of having to enter the rebuses took me longer than having to think of the answers to the super-easy clues. Sort of like how they say Mozart composed in his head faster than he could write the notes down on paper. I have something in common with Mozart!
Cute n' easy. (Just how I like 'em)
Easy for a Friday but smart, tidy.
Lovely puzzle but Oh! The Calories!
But is Broadway truly an AVE? It's a great debate because, remember, Broadway crosses AVEs.
@Deb Amlen (love this inside, behind the curtain stuff)
Clever and fun. But ANTIPATTERN was a little yucky.
@Ant I don't think it's incorrect to use "bassos." It's not uncommon to keep a noun in the original language but not the plural.(Especially in music terminology.)
@Rick Ridiculous fun. Live a little!
@Rob Fair enough but I would've felt better with 'sings.' Maybe the takeaway for me should be that the crossword clues are not really about my feelings.
Ah, yet another M_NET situation.
@Logan Yeah, that Saginaw line can be a real belter.
Magnificat, er, I mean magnificent puzzle. A virtuoso performance by its creator.
On the other hand, 'oeuvre' for 'the works' and 'creased' for 'in need of an evening out' are brilliant.
Lately the Friday & Saturday crosswords seem to be significantly less challenging than they used to be and, in my opinion, than they ought to be.
It's a Saturday crossword and yet we have LEMONRIND for "Zest source." Why so literal? Please toughen up the late-in-the-week puzzles. Thanks
Astute observations. Some sloppy cluing right there.
Gosh, I thought today was Saturday but it must be Wednesday.
Easiest Friday ever, 1/2 my average Friday time, providing me with an unusual (and certainly imaginary) sense of confidence as the day begins.
@Barry Ancona True, but Greenwich Ave has "Ave" in it its name but Broadway does not. I rest my case (that it's a debate, not that Broadway is not an AVE).
It was a bit "tweezy" but fun.
@Marc The so-called "Manfred Man," in honor of its creator.
APPA is problematic. It's just not in the English vocabulary at all.
Ugh, no thanks. (Maybe it's just the current state of the world... but maybe not.)
Smart meaning chic is British usage. It would be considered uncomfortably pretentious to use 'smart' for 'chic' in the good ol' US of A.
@TMD We'll try to keep you posted.
Thank you for setting the record straight with regard to pronouns. We seem to have lost our way.
It's unfortunate that Arlo Guthrie is mentioned in the past tense since he's still very much with us.
ACTS for "Isn't oneself?" is elegant but would have been even more so without the punctuation hint.
Regarding the "revealer," don't we expect a pun there? It just seems so literal, so flat, without some sort of wordplay in the answer.
@Barry Ancona So glad you came around!
@Mr Dave And I thought it might be a "roadway" as in "B Roadway."
@MJ Those examples are common in English and are used frequently. "Appa" is not.
@Grant Grant is exactly correct. Crossword clues should hints, not tests of esoteric knowledge. If the answer is a word foreign enough to be pretty universally unknown in English (such as the Korean word "appa") then it doesn't belong in the puzzle.
A truly perfect game would be twenty seven outs achieved by three swings-and-misses per out. Eighty one pitches, no balls, no fouls, no contact whatsoever. I dream of such a game.