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There does not appear to be a place for Strands comments (I could be wrong) so I am going to say it here: Today's Strands was absolutely wonderful. It made me happy.
I do the puzzle in ink in the print copy of the NYT. It isn't too hard to write over an error with the correct answer and have it still be legible. But I have to tell you, today's puzzle is UGLY. What a mess. I got it done, but you would never know what many of the words are. Anyway, ugly or not, it was a fun one.
@Steve LOK. Thanks. I only visit here occasionally and am always surprised at how some folks act as if a difficult puzzle is a personal assault.
Great fun. Thanks. I am now humming Break on Through.
@Dan. Electronic items can be gizmos, but not all gizmos are electronic. Gizmo is is a relative of doohickey, which is akin to thingamajig.
@Joe. Bless you for not suggesting that the puzzle was somehow wrong because it was hard. (I do get so tired of the whiners.) Yes, you will get there, but I suspect that this puzzle was also a serious challenge for many of us who have been doing them for years. I know it was for me.
@Eva H. I think the NYT puzzle is only worth anything if it can occasionally stump me. I too have completed entire puzzles without ever deciphering the theme. But that is part of the fun. I then read the column, usually followed by a head smack and an "of course!"
Without having started on the puzzle yet, I have to say this: Today's grid is about the most elegant I have seen. Beautiful.
And then there are those of us who do the puzzle in the print edition. The ASL rebus didn't show at all, but the solve wasn't very hard. The T squares were ever so slightly shaded but had no indication that a T went there. Just blank lightly shaded squares. It took quite awhile to figure out the trick since there were no real clues to help us old-school solvers. All of which made it that much more fun.
Ka Lae may be the southernmost point of the 50 states, but it is not the southernmost point of the US, which includes several South Pacific territories.
"Pearls before swine" is not a phrase that crosses my path very often, but every time it does I go to the internet to pull up "Pearls Before Breakfast," a Washington Post article that I love. The two "pearls-before" have nothing to do with each other except the first always reminds me to go back and enjoy the second.
I got it with the crosses but I have never heard of dancing on a whim.
@Sam Sorry you see it that way. Perhaps you are new to the NYT crossword? This is far from the first time they have done this sort of thing. Personally I like the puzzles that demand a certain level of mental flexibility to solve.
Thank you, Deb, for the Langston Hughes poem.
@Delg The primary one is called a baba au rhum, and it is delicious. Many recipes are available on line. I recommend it. +
Hard to believe there are people who have never encountered a swarm of no-see-ums. They are memorable.
@John Carson. I was surprised by Deb's comment too. I will admit the puzzle is my first stop in the NYT (print edition). If my day doesn't leave enough time for all of it, I'd rather miss out on some of the awful news and get the puzzle done.
@ice9 Would that be because women were not allowed an education in ancient Rome?
@Michonne "Cc" stands for carbon copy, and carbon copies are no longer a thing, it might be fair to say that "cc" has now become a legitimate word of its own.
@Pat I know. News Quiz drops on Friday. Flashback is Saturday or Sunday.
I'm with Deb on 27A. I have eaten a lot of great Mexican food in my life. But I have never even heard of taco pie. Yes, Deb, please make it go away.
@Francis DeBernardo It was even harder for those of us who do the puzzle on the print copy of the paper. No color and too small even to figure out what they were. I finally just ignored them and finished the puzzle.
@Rachel. And to learn about Students Against Drunk Driving.
@Spacebabe. This was hard for you (and me) and not so much for others. There just are times when a puzzle asks for things that are not in our sphere of knowledge, and we get stuck. This one was very tough for me. But it is possible to enjoy a serious challenge, even if it occasionally beats you--as this one did for me. I'd suggest if you are seriously not enjoying it, stop. The great thing is you can always try again tomorrow.
So, if a word (Diff'rent) has an apostrophe in it, should the apostrophe not be part of the spelling and have its own square?
@Sian. I don't see "ragged edge" and "razor's edge" as analogous. Although admittedly neither position is pleasant.
@Sean McGowan. Sorry, Sean. I am 80 and Mickey Mouse meaning trivial was definitely in my adolescent vocabulary.
Just curious: Doesn't the word "malicious" always imply deliberate?
I never heard "righty tighty, lefty loosey." I was taught "Clockwise to close."
@Justin. My mistake. Clearly not paying attention. Sam, I completely agree with your assessment of taco pie. I'm having trouble believing it exists.
@Gregg "Brilliant" and "wrong" are not mutually exclusive.
@TC Erin is indeed there, but she is not in the center.
@L. A gizmo is just a thing. It has a bit of a connotation of a tool, but I don't think that is essential to the concept. It is, in my experience, something that you ask the person standing closest to it to hand you.
@Crevecoeur Related to Native Dancer?
@SP Such a fine movie. I loved Kevin Costner's baseball trilogy, but I think Bull Durham was the best of them.
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