Merry

Kudos to Christina Iverson for her Strands puzzle today. It was really quite clever, both in its concept and layout!

Really clever theme! I don't often enjoy a Wednesday puzzle, but this one was a treat!

The last couple of days our stats show that we completed the crossword in significantly less time than we actually did. We'll gladly accept the boost to our average, but... wondered if anyone else has noticed this or if it's just a glitch with our account?

Registering a problem here and wondering if anyone else is having the same? The timer is very often messing up on the crossword, midi, and even the mini for this household. It doesn't seem to be the computer. I've contacted customer care many times, and they cheerfully reset the times. But it has become so frequent as to be a super annoyance. On today's Midi, for example, we finished it in 4 minutes and some seconds - much longer than our usual goal of getting it done in 2.5 minutes. But the timer added ten miutes to the final score. And the little chime reward when the puzzle is completed went off three different times. Now you may say, "What's in a score? Chillax." I'm not that evolved yet. Just wondering if this is a household thing or a NYT thing?