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I've been known to complain about a Thursday puzzle now and then, but no complaints today. I liked it.
Three easy peasies in a row no doubt confirms that tomorrow will be a bear.
Not surprised to see how many comments this puzzle garnered, nor how negative many of them are. As I worked my way through this I kept thinking "must have seemed like a good idea at the time."
I'm not sure which is worse, accessory dwelling unit or referring to it as an ADU. In the first case it's pretentious, and in the second it suggests, to me at least, that we've gone overboard with abbreviations.
At first looks a lot more difficult than it is.
I needed this one after Thursday's debacle.
I've attended cocktail parties that made me feel as if I'd wandered into an uncanny valley.
@Jason K STP does indeed market motor oil.
This goes on my puzzle list of favorites for sure.
I got ATA but didn't get it until I read the explanation. And as others have surely noted, TSA bin is not terminology I've ever heard but it makes sense.
@Vinny You get an A for perseverance.
Enough already with the ever growing list gender identity acronyms.
Jib sails are mentioned in Moby-Dick and that is all I know about them.
@Mark Some puzzles seem like they will never fill, and it's easy to get a little anxious. But then you see something and that something helps you see something else and before you know you're off to the races.
For what this is a worth, rarely used words like SLEEKEN can't help but look gimmicky. They're the golf equivalent of a par 5 that won't let you hit driver from the tee box.
I've been advised while in NYC to put my wallet somewhere other than in my hip pocket because pickpockets are, presumably, a problem. As for the clue, it doesn't suggests that hip pockets are the only places to put a wallet, just one of the places. Some guys I know put their wallets in their man purses.
After fifteen minutes of getting almost nowhere I found myself thinking, "Wait, this is Thursday. Here we go again." And then as if by magic things began to fall into place.
I've noticed that a clue like LONG STRETCH, which iimmediately suggests EON to me, is now taking ERA as well. That delayed me in the southeast corner for a while.
What? No gender related clues/solves? I thought that had become almost obligatory at the New York Times.
Two very easy puzzles to begin the week so I'm girding my loins, metaphorically speaking, for Thursday and Friday.
@john ezra Thought it was only me. Good to know I'm not alone.
Compared with yesterday's puzzle, this was a very satisfying challenge, although I suspect some found it too easy for a Friday.
@Crispus Attucks All depends. I've had Brie that was gooey and spreadable right out of the fridge. I've also had Brie that was not spreadable an hour after coming out of the fridge. So I agree that this clue needed more work.
@Times Rita When we speak of a thing that "covers a fair amount of ground" we are typically referring to something that is supposed to move, so the clue is a misdirection. Or at least that is how I took it.
@Marshall Walthew According to Google, SAPOR "appears in English fewer than 0.01 times per million words, making it largely obsolete."
@Charles Peterson A suffix is added to a word to change its meaning or grammatical function. CAFFE is not a word by itself so INE are simply the last three letters of the word.
@Dan Woog I'm a paper and ink guy and doubt the italics would have helped. This is one of those puzzles I solved and then had to come here for the explanation.
@Mean Old Lady My daughter attended the DeKalb School of the Arts which was what Briarcliff High School eventually became. Just yesterday I was traveling North Druid Hills Road and passed that site. It's now vacant acreage.
@Hope M It's pretty much identical to a pineapple upside down cake only made with bananas.
Neither easy nor difficult, and no rebus! As for Dede Allen, come on. I could see if she had just diied maybe.
@FWIW the letters e-r-i-n appear in that order in the clue. See the words "her" and "in."
I solved today's puzzle .9845319% faster than usual. New record!
@Larry "That'd" in crosswords puzzles is sister (or brother) to "It'd."
@Nancy J. I've always solved in ink which forces me to be a little more cautious than I might be if using a pencil. I've also found that the erasers on pencils these days dry out and become useless much faster than they used to do.
@Helen Wright I no longer receive email confirmation of posts or responses even though I've checked the "Email me when my comment is published . . . "
I solved the puzzle before I figured out how the shaded squares work. Liked it.
@Matt Following up on Barry Ancona's observation, it isn't a phrase either.
I am not surprised that the Toyota Supra, especially the $60,000 variety, is no longer being produced. Never in all my travels have I seen one of those on the road or in a parking lot.
This took a while, and then I felt really stupid because I'd been spelling Xanadu with a beginning Z.
@Wendy I wasn't aware Freudians had worked their "magic" on the poem, but it makes sense that they would.
@Jonathan Baldwin So what's a homophone of LON? Or LAWN?
@Roberta I think in that case Americans would be more likely to say restroom.
Finished both the LATimes and NYTimes puzzles very quickly this morning, and if that means they're easy I'm definitely OK with that.
Ear correctors should be offered at all karaoke bars .
@Barry Ancona You're right. I assumed incorrectly that those letters stood for something.
@Eubanks Not so sure ASAP also means "Finish what you're doing and then do this thing." If you were halfway through a crossword puzzle and asked to help put out a grease fire in the kitchen ASAP, would you take that to mean that the grease fire could wait until you finished the puzzle?
@Barry Ancona I thought these links would mention POSH, but it sure doesn't look like it.
Friday and Saturday puzzles this week were almost identical as far as difficulty goes. Easier than I expected once I got a few fills.
@T Jones No, I'm saying that if she had been in the news recently.