Manuel Pagan
Houston, TX
Sam, I am sorry. I must admit... I had to cheat. Very rapidly I understood I was going nowhere and my brain started hurting. I left it, came back and left again, many times. I began to negotiate, why do I need this? I told myself. Cancelling my subscription fleeted in and out, My brain still hurt. I took a drink of water and resolved to end it all. I looked in the Word play column. I will be eternally grateful for Ms. Lovinger, she saved my life today.
Close to my Sunday best time. What is all the complaining about? The title tells you it's multi-hyphenated. I guessed where the hyphens were almost immediately, and my brain is pretty slow. I did not even realize it implied the word line until ----BACKER. None of the downs were compatible with the word LINE. I am not a fan of tricky Sunday puzzles but as far as difficulty goes this one was not. Chill out people.
It's been a while since I had a Sunday puzzle make me laugh out loud. Favorites were DONT START WITH ME and YOU CANTWINTHEMALL. Thank you, Mr. Kugelman, for your entertaining and funny puzzle.
Yey! A rebus Tuesday puzzle! More of these please, they make me feel good about myself. Thank you thank you so much Mr. Young!
I got GENTLEMEN START YOUR ENGINES early but midway through it I found myself just staring at it as if the wormhole had swallowed me and given me a tour through space and time. I completed it in 48 minutes which for Thursday puzzled is short for me so i am convinced that time stopped when i was out, unfortunately I don't remember anything that happened during that interval. Shame. A very novel idea Mr. Ayas, i look forward to your next one.
Pi is not just about circles. It is all over waves, whether electromagnetic, mechanical, gravity or the ones you surf on the beach, Pi (and E) is literally everywhere in the natural world.
In Puerto Rico we make Tamales too, but we use bananas for the mass and banana leaves for the wrapping. The filling is mostly ground meat and olives and peppers and anything else you want. We call them Pasteles. I have never seen this unique dish in the States, other than when my late spouse sent them from the island.
@Bill Here in this part of Texas the various dots along the horizon have names straight out of a Mescal trip. I live in Madera Canyon Lane even though the only wood around is in the nearby houses and the only canyon is possibly the sewer line. Then there is the Hilltop Restaurant a few miles down the road even though the highest hilltop in 200 miles around is the nearest ant hill. Maybe it was just the local tribes having fun.
I'm surprised at how many people didn't know who Sisi was. I guess nobody watched the recent PBS mini series or the 1956 movie with Romy Schneider. I guess you had to be there. Pet Peeve: the clue for 103A starts in singular and ends in plural.
I found out the theme early when I also filled in EMAILS with the "These can be marked absent"clue. Looking and the clue and already having ABS in place through crosses pointed at the clues having something to do with ABS. I found the clue to be clear and not obscure at all. My time with this puzzle was still above my average: I found some of the fill tough. About carets: If you ever took a Fortran or Basic computer programming course, you'd be familiar with exponents after carets. It is the only way to represent them in statements.
Ingenious! My favorite was LIFE OF JAWS. Great clue! I just have one question: How is a TOMATO part of a club? Do emus eat tomatoes?
I have no doubt that the idea of this puzzle was extremely clever for the authors, but for me it was a slog. I've been known to laugh out loud when solving puzzles but not a chuckle here. This was too much for my addled 70 year-old brain.
Very nice puzzle! I got THE SPANISH STEPS almost immediately, the church took a little while longer. I spent a couple of years in Malaysia, so I sympathize with @T's indignance: Orangutan comes from old Malay "Man of the forest", however the word "Orang" no longer exists in the Malay language.
@Francis Yes, also why does 65A have a question mark? The answer is pretty literal. And SLEETS comes down as a wintry mix? Anything wrong with that? I had SLURRY and then FLURRY but SLEETS? really?
I started this puzzle with some trepidation when I saw the three triple stacks, only to find it later surprisingly easy & entertaining. I don't know if it indeed is, or if it's that my few remaining brain cells decided to work together today, but I will congratulate Mr. McMahon for his debut. I wonder what he is going to do to top the triple stacks. Thank You!
Hey no fair! After all that work putting in those double letters they all disappeared! It was fun while it lasted.
@F I realize the word SPANNING will mean something different in London than it does in, say, NYC or Houston. Spanning refers to encompassing the entire length (or span) of something, like a bridge for instance. Hence the clue "Reaching across."
Yikes! I didn't stumble upon the clue in 116A until I was 1 hour and 48 minutes into this slog, I almost quit a few times. It took me 5 minutes to finish it after that. BOOYA! I enjoyed those last five minutes. Also, why F sharp? Why not A?
@JohnWM Wait is mazy not a thing?
@Bill in Yokohama I had never heard of BOBO the clown until this puzzle either.
@Stan43 Or you may just have that magic touch... . . . Emu fodder
@BW I thought it was the English BIER which is where they put dead people for viewing. Oops!
@Stephen Actually I read it in Car and Driver Magazine when I used to subscribe to such things. They always called them bimmers. This is actually the first time I have seen the word beemer.
@Mean Old Lady I too was born a lefty and after much grinding and gnashing of teeth my parents succeeded in making me a righty. I proceeded to win award for worst handwriting through middle and high school, and to this day my handwriting is unintelligible to all but the most courageous. I learned how to type early in the game so I could make myself understood. Hurray for personal computers! Now I don't have to write ever again.
This puzzle was like vacation at the beach. Thank You, Thank You. Fun fact: Big Ben is not the clock, its the bell. - - Emu fodder
Cow tipping? - I dare whomever to tip over a half-ton animal standing on its four legs, asleep or not. A job for SUPEREMU!
@Rebecca I sympathize with you. I would routinely get 40 lashes if I had C (even a C+) in school.
@Mean Old Lady You are right about the book. The blue marlin was the fish in the movie, which I remembered from my childhood days.
@Lba The complete Holy Rosary has large beads which stand for the Our Fathers and in between each large beads a number of small beads (which varies) that stand for the Hail Marys. <a href="https://ubicaciondepersonas.cdmx.gob.mx/how-to-pray-the-rosary-ee-19822560" target="_blank">https://ubicaciondepersonas.cdmx.gob.mx/how-to-pray-the-rosary-ee-19822560</a>
@Ron Bravenec I'm on a Mac and it didn't show either
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