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Am still on Mon. & Tues., though Mon. offers me the most success. So, just got on a little while ago, and am already finding that I can't answer most of the clues. What's going on? I would conjecture that this isn't a Mon. puzzle at all. Would like to politely ask, why, then, do you have to put a puzzle of this level of difficulty on Mon.? I don't think that's very fair & a poor start to a new week. Maybe you should rethink the order that you post the puzzles. This new puzzle-maker would probably have a better reception later in the week. [[Even Tues-Wed].
@Red Carpet Yes, thank you for that. As a technical writer [retired] and even fiction, walking away & returning later is successful technique. I've done it with these puzzles as well. When I am sailing along on a Mon. puzzzle, walking away & then returning is a good method. Sometimes, I will do that for several days, particularly for a Tues puzzle.
@SP Thank you for the encouragement. I appreciate all of what you guys say. It really helps...
I am still getting a "grip" on NYT puzzle[s]. Mon. is usually an "ego" booster for me, that is when it is easier than Tues, but then, sometimes, it is the reverse!. At some point today, I resorted to looking things up. I do this when I am my "wits" end & can also justify doing so because [1] I am a geography geographer [lol]; sometimes Latin. I do know French; Spanish: smattering of Italian & rusted Swedish. Still, I either stick with it, or must start all over again if I fade away. Obvious to me, that the writers, today, are fluent in the puzzle[s], but I find it quirky with the double words. I simply don't get it, except as a tease & I've learned nothing from this exercise. Where am I going to apply this double/double? The challenge for Ms. Steffensen [Danish, I presume] is also turning the puzzle on its head. Again, I am stumped as to what the point of these doubledouble words is supposed to mean.
@jennie If you are asking me that, then, obviously, you've have no difficulty & I wouldn't begin to annotate all the clues that have left me clueless. I wouldn't know where to begin!
While I have been doing NYT puzzles for decades, I've only ventured as far as Wed. In a quick scan of some of these posts, I can see that I am hearing people who've been at it a long time & every day of the week. Unlike Michelle, I do not find this a "great" Mon. puzzle. Indeed, this doesn't fit with a typical Mon. puzzle at all! It is way too difficult for those of us who still rely on Mon. being the easiest day of the week. Japanese words? That's a new one. How many people would be familiar with any Japanese words, even if one of them is "yes"? Perhaps the next puzzle creator for a Mon. will reflect on the typical Mon. puzzle and not on the one today. Thank you...
@Darren As a old "newbie" I am happy to do the Mon-Tues puzzles [from the days of yore], which was recommended to me by one of your puzzle "experts". I haven't read all the "Comments". Are people really angry. So far, I haven't seen "AREA CODE" mistake, there is no room for the last letter of "CODE". Hence, the word reads "AREACOD". Perhaps this is a [617] area code, born & bred in Boston. Or perhaps, I have just lost my mind....
@Isabeau THANK YOU SO MUCH, ISABEAU, for your kind words. What a relief! A fellow Californian...I should have known it!. I was pondering -- in another lifetime -- if it was a play on words for, "Cod" [as the fish] or "Cape Cod". Alas, I am only a "SCROD" [a young cod]...I'll keep plowing at it...
"AREA CODE" is meant to be spelled out "AREACOD" there is not another square for the "E" in "CODE". Unfortunately, I cannot look ahead to see if others have "caught it", but they must have! Still struggling with Wed. Back to the drawing board...
@Ellie R. Or is it "Katz". Meow. Sorry: getting punchy...
@TLC Fri. is considered to be bloody difficult, on par [or close to it, anyway] to Sat. I see, everyone has left out Fri., which is considered a "bear".
@David Reiffel Not to be rude, but is taking an extra shower today, an option? When I lived in NYC [unconditioned in a walkup in the 1970s] I took multiple showers to help me cool-off.
@Isabeau : Great, Isabeau! People who live on the CA coast should have a lot of fish puns! Thnx again!
53 Cones' counterparts in the eye I'm still learning to do puzzles beyond Mon. TO cut to the chase....Clue #53 asks a very technical ques. with regard to the eye. How would anyone know this, except someone with medical knowledge? The answer i s rodes", a very technical term. I find that a little over the top!
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