Michael Pardys

@Jake G Not sure how you can present two cents anymore with the demise of the penny. The beautiful thing about crosswords is that everyone can make their own personal set of “rules”. I’m sure there are hard and fast rules for competitions but at my dining room table with a cup of coffee I just like to solve the puzzle. If sometimes I need a bit of help to come up with the latest 12 year old kids’ texting slang so be it.

@Timothy Thanks for characterizing my antipathy towards this puzzle. I guess I just have to stop doing puzzles. And to think that for all of these years I thought I was enjoying it.

@dkWatch The Great British Baking Show.It seems like they make Swiss Rolls every three days.

@ReaderThought Oneida immediately When the crosses didn’t fit I looked up Finger Lakes and Oneida was not listed. Didn’t get back to Oneida until the very end.

@Louise As a life long Chicagoan I can tell you that whether the train runs on elevated tracks, in the subway or down the center of the expressway it’s always the L. My Brown Line stop is at grade level but it’s still the L

@Jannicut Finally an intelligent response. Thank you!

@William Kash Maybe it’s a Chicago thing. I had exactly the same issue.

@William Kash. I’m near the Rockwell Brown Line stop and the train runs at grade level here. When walking to the neighborhood bar and the train crosses the street I think of “Train Street” in Hanoi