C. Robert Dimitri

C’mon, NYT. *Please* do better. Even though it makes for a subpar and disappointing experience, I’m willing to accept that on rare occasions the app fails to represent key elements of specially designed puzzles, even though in this case I have to think there are ways you could have gotten around this to convey the key message. But even accepting that, is it too much to ask that you indicate the shortcoming on the puzzle’s title page, instead of making me go to the clue page to discover this information? I *won’t* go to the clue page, because I want to solve the puzzle without help. And in this case I did, even though I had absolutely no idea why my theme answers were correct. It’s an extra bummer too, because now understanding the intent, I think this was a very cool design, and I’m sad that the authors won’t be sharing their puzzle as it was intended with so many players.