Adin
Denver
Really enjoyed the circled letter trick
Felt extremely easy then almost hopeless then it was over. Surprisingly intense & demanding solve given that it didn't actually take that long
@Doug riders also receive ratings
good grid/fill. let's have some harder clues for the hardest puzzle of the week, please
Rough one for those of us with gaps in our Spice Girls and Joplin knowledge
fun puzzle for me with several clues I enjoyed. somehow managed to spell hat tree with 3 Es (hat treee) and didn't catch it until I had rechecked all acrosses and most downs. I once believed I had a good grasp of four letter words in English. perhaps not. perhaps one day treee could find a place in our language, a tree of a more exuberant variety
@Grant J you'll get a better sense for puzzle variability once you've been solving a little longer ;) Agreed, difficulty seems less well calibrated than in even the recent past
TRIM does seem like a stretch. Decent puzzle though all the same. In-flight magazine theme was a tough act to follow
Man I could've sworn São Paulo had 3 Os
I solved rebus style and then had to go back and delete. Definitely weird to not be able to enter full answers. Enjoyed the puzzle but wonder if it's worth it to do the outside the grid thing with the current limitations of the app
Not saying it's a bad puzzle, to be clear. There was a lot to like. Just unlucky with the trivia this time and I love to complain :)
@Schroedman significantly harder Across than Down in this puzzle I thought
Filled with doubt at both the outset and the conclusion yet it was all over rather quickly. Enjoyed the fill & cluing. Fewer wrong guesses than usual
It would appear 19-Down is too uncivil for the comment section haha Really enjoyed that entry while solving, cool to read it was a focal point in the construction
BENNY, CERTS, CONTE got me. Lunch isn't really a place I guess so BENCH makes more sense. Would've been nice to solve unassisted. Oh well. Good puzzle imo! Difficulty felt better calibrated than other recent late week puzzles
@Kachi heck yeah haha way to persevere. I lack the patience to thoroughly check for errors these days
@Adi did you check the rebus? There is an extra C I believe
Rot in hell really took me by surprise haha
@john ezra now that you bring them so vividly back to mind, I think tees might be referring to shirts
Really high quality fill overall in both yesterday's and today's puzzles. As a rectangle-dweller, however, I refuse to consider Utah a hexagon.
@Eddie in your solve or are you seeking a broader sort of salvation?
PIAMATERS crossing STPAULIS and SWANN got me. Maybe eventually could've guessed my way to the solve but there were enough other parts of the puzzle I wasn't sure about that I decided to just reveal wrong squares. It does seem like my errors are often concentrated in the section I finish last so maybe I'll persevere a bit longer next time. In retrospect St. Paul & Swann are more likely names than any of the alternatives
@Naud could it possibly be BECAME in the 2nd Spice Girls clue?
Loved the jank animation haha fun puz
@Barry Ancona that's assuming they solve accurately in numeric order
I really despise those ads so that early clue marred the solving experience for me a little bit. good puzz tho props to the constructor
Full spans could've been clued harder, fun though!
@Shan I was also sure MELC was wrong but turns out it was actually BECAME crossing AHYOUHAVENOIDEA. Glad I cheated tbh, don't think it would've been that fun to fix that
@Charles Nelson Reilly I liked the puzzle but agree odd cluing for LAY
Great puzzle, and the constructor note made me appreciate it all the more
@Andrzej thanks for this. I liked the recent David French interview about Polish democracy. Not as if we can just do exactly what you all did but still nice to hear about, and hopefully we can muster a similarly effective response in the US
@Kimiko you can just enter the first letter I think and it'll still register as solved. Not ideal not to be able to see while solving though
@Jimbo less than we've seen in other recent puzzles I thought, but maybe I just knew the brands and therefore wasn't as bothered
@Francis doesn't really fit the clue tho, foreign language or not
@Andrzej multple nemeses how do you find the time
@Pezhead @Ada from Canada got it! Brisket!
@Ada didn't see your response before I posted mine. Nice job!
@AK unusually fast for me too but it's probably because we both spontaneously became very good at crosswords
@Bruh wow unlike in most cases this appears to be an actual error
@Steven M. Quite fast for a grid this size
@Barry Ancona bit heavy on brand names imo
@Chris "midweek difficulty" I've read which I suppose would include both Wednesday and Thursday. Monday and Saturday mark opposite ends of the difficulty spectrum so that seems like the right range of days from which to determine the midpoint. rather than including the Sunday puzzle itself