Barbara Barnes

@Mike. welcome to my (retired dayless world!! Congrats!!

@Dan. My name has five As too!!! ( my middle name is Anne)

@Barbara Barnes. After a first pass through all i usually make my way through the puzzle in one more or less continuous sweep working and chaining through top to bottom or maybe from a corner in sort of a triangle. Today was very different: worked through the middle of the puzzle using mostly crosses to recover the theme, then worked the top and bottom mostly using the themes to recover the crosses. That made it extra fun for me.

Or maybe just call that complaint department “70A”.

@Geoffrey King i remember an old joke about scrod. Actually i can’t remember the joke, just the punchline, which was something like “never heard that particular pluperfect subjunctive before.”

@Dan W Actually old “old school” crossword style (60 years ago when i started solving @ all regularly ) was the obscure trivia style. Isn’t Wil Shortz often credited as prime mover of the wordplay style? Thanks again, Wil!

@Knittingtheblues Agree!! Very fun puzzle. My brain lane was evidently well suited to this puzzle as i solved it in half my average time and enjoyed every minute. Thanks Rebecca and NYT Games!!

@kkseattle ezactly!!!

@Eva H. When i don’t like a puzzle, that makes me like it because it’s showing me something i underappreciate.

@Hillary Rettig mine too though i didn’t remember the joke just most of the punchline. Somebody did give the whole joke here.

@Bob T. This might be true (I do hope so): Many home-schooling families were using the Saxon Company’s Math Curriculum. A local reporter was doing an article on home-schooling and reported they were teaching sex and math.

@Jeb Jones You are not alone.

@Grant Also a Marylander but vacationing @ Rehoboth Beach in Delaware was treated to a nice fly-by by Marine 1 @ water’s edge: Biden flying to his home there. I enjoyed the stand that sold Biden’s favorite ice cream.