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I'm sorry for your losses in the LA fires Nate, but very happy you've found resilience. Thanks for the puzzle, I hope there will be more.
Great puzzle, great column, great constructor notes. I had fun and cracked up at stuffed crust. Thanks!
@Shaunin the Lord of the Rings books there are creatures called Ents that are living, moving trees. They're a bit slow, but get there in the end... sorta like me solving a Sunday puzzle
Great column Deb. Yes, life would be very boring if we all knew the same amount about the same things.
Deb, I hope we meet on a future travel. I have really enjoyed your columns and humor. Now you can travel the rivers you've only read about in puzzles. What's the capital of Samoa? Now you can find out.
@JBW mine was IKEA store. Sorta like those Allen wrenches that come in the pack.
Yay, I'm glad of Mr Steinberg's semiretirement. Welcome back.
The Mini made me laugh at myself. I just couldn't figure out what GREEN had to do with a handshake. Once again I'm a victim of all those speed reading courses I took
Good constructor notes and best wishes to Will.
@ESB when I got the O in 1D, I figured it had to be oreO. I mean, what else would you stockpile? :) Submitted 4/7 @07:31pm pdt - just tracking how long this'll take to show up.
Of course I put 'there' for Gertrude Stein's quote. I also understand Tommy Orange's book is quite good.
@cal she was Agnes the bar girl, taking off her stockings with Butch Cassidy... til Sundance barges in, jumps over the bed and they see Sweetface point them out to the posse. Precipitating a short jump to their horses and a quick git away. A far cry from Young Frankenstein. RIP Cloris. Quite a career.
I liked everything about this puzzle, the constructors, their cluing, the fill, and even Deb's column. Did I get it all? No of course not. But that didn't stop me from enjoying it. Thanks guys!
I want to see what Kareem can do with a Sunday. Looking forward to it.
I'm so sorry for your loss, Deb. I used to watch my dad do acrostics. And he'd do them like you often say. He'd work on it a bit put it down and come back to it.
Love today's photo. That would have been something to see.
Thanks for mentioning Maryam Mirzakhani. What a life! Gone too soon.
@Marcia Fidler like everyone else has said contact the nyt team at the email address at the top of the comments. They restored my streak when I missed solving by a 1-2 minutes because I was in the ER with a broken leg. (I'm now at 701 consecutive puzzles, so yay to us. It's my fun too)
Deb, I echo what Aradhana says. Without your columns I'd never have gotten over the intimidation of doing the NYT crossword puzzles. Thank you and looking forward to your next adventure.
@Adin I was just on the verge of thinking this puzzle was probably more fun to create than to solve when wham! Suddenly I got it. Yep. Fun trick.
@elizabeth and I was absolutely shocked (!) when VIGODA popped into my brain as the answer. At my age it's quite a relief when that happens. I almost felt like I should apply to MENSA.
Timothy, enjoy your travels. I loved Turkiye.
@Joan and I didn't realize the L R blinking till I read the column. Then saw the post-production blinking. I dunno, I thought this was fun.
@Bob I thought the same thing. But maybe because The Big Easy is a nick name NOLA is too? Well. At least we got it.
Thanks Robyn for letting me know about Bristol Basin.
Yeah, still not getting [One of a wide pair for snow sports] as snow board even after reading the column... unless the pair are the 2 things 'skis' and 'snow boards'? To me 'wide pair' sounds like there's 2 wide skis... I got it from the crosses anyway, but still I thought the clue was odd. Mmmv.
@Deb Amlen tomorrow's your last day?
Pretty sure Deb Amlen would have gone with THEDOCTOR before DOCTORWHO. Hope you're enjoying the next phase if your life, Deb.
@Fact Boy I thought it was more nuanced than that. B-52s held at their fail-safe positions as insurance that "something didn't go wrong", like the Russians nuking the US. Our planes would be in postion to quickly exact retribution. So if they hit us, we'd hit them. Ditto submarines holding a position to nuke any transgressors. "A system or plan that comes into operation in the event of something going wrong or that is there to prevent such an occurrence. "the secondary safety system is indeed a fail-safe"
I liked the [Says who] clue in the mini.
Todays Mini wasn't bad either. Fun puzzle day.
@Janis and big congrats to Mao Saigo, who I'm sure will be coming to a crossword puzzle soon!
@Andrzej you've probably heard David Sedaris talk about the Dutch version of Santa. <a href="https://youtu.be/hPfg20k5TE8?feature=shared" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/hPfg20k5TE8?feature=shared</a> He also talks about the times he worked at Macy's as one of Santa's elves. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/25/nx-s1-5214456/a-morning-edition-tradition-david-sedaris-santaland-diaries" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2024/12/25/nx-s1-5214456/a-morning-edition-tradition-david-sedaris-santaland-diaries</a> Now arentcha glad for the simple flying sled of your childhood? Lol!
@Leontion so he finally caved and let you major in French Poetry, and that has made all the difference, right? :)
@abelsey yeah, beep beep is how you show 'em that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn.
Congrats Tarun on your voyage through puzzlehood. I like the Midis, sometimes more than the main puzzle, so I'll chalk that up to you.
@Jim Cohoon that got me too. google lens says: "Where Do I Sit? British comic actor Peter Cook (1937 - 1995) with actress Judy Huxtable, filming a scene for the television show 'Where Do I Sit?' at Black Park, Buckinghamshire, 21st January 1971. (Photo by Stan Meagher/Daily Express/Getty Images)"
@Mean Old Lady Frances Perkins should be on the 20 dollar bill.
@K Barrett oof, hit submit instead of cancel!
Crystal, I'm 73 and I haven't seen Mary Poppins either.
@Laura Stratton AI says its a typical pattern or practice, as in "he showed up late, as is his usual wont." Sounds like something Mr Darcy would say. 😊 Thanks for asking because I didn't notice it while doing the puzzle. I must have just been plugging in letters till the crosses made sense.
@Dan kinda showed me how much I depend on the two directions to solve a puzzle. I had to read the column. 😀
@john ezra well, it's the true zen of growing orchids. Evenly moist media. If you know you know.
#22 across, I don't understand why [Irritated] is GOTTO. Any help?
@Miles Blanton well, me hearty, they're really more like guidelines!
@Isabeau my first guess was flat.
@Marshall Walthew I only thought of Art Tatum because I've reread the Harry Bosch books so often. Actually, I thought 'no way, they can't be talking about Art Tatum' because its not a name like Ella, Etta, Lil Nas, Ono, Eno or Bono. Will wonders never cease.