RP
Minneapolis
Lovely Tuesday solve -- extends my current streak to exactly five years. This subscription was one of the smartest buys of my life. Thanks for all the fun!
Terrific puzzle -- no better way to celebrate my sixtieth birthday than by beating my Friday average by six minutes! Well done!
This might be one of my very favorite NYT puzzles ever. Diabolical to solve but done in three minutes under my average. Thank you for a truly excellent theme.
Just to note: having actually covered sled dog racing in a prior live in television, MUSH is not used as a command for sled dogs. GEE and HAW are used for left and right, and HIKE is used for forward.
Kudos to Mr. Lieberman. This was an excellent and very fair test for me -- took longer than my average, but this was a creative puzzle and a fun challenge. Well done.
One of the most enjoyable Thursday solves I've had in a long time. Thank you!
Just wanted to chime in here to thank Mr. Schiff -- this was one of the hardest Sunday puzzles I've ever had to solve but at the same time it was an extremely fair test of my ability. Finishing this one in two hours over my average makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. Thank you and well done.
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this particular puzzle. I noticed a lot of new entries and I thought it was very clever. About 15 seconds over my average time and this one was a real pleasure to solve. Thank you.
@Red Carpet - Given the quality of some of the teams that played there, you might be right. However, as a lifelong Twins fan I attended Game 7 of the 1991 World Series there when I worked in media and it was unlike anything I've ever experienced.
Clever puzzle, but this is Exhibit A why I don't care for rebuses. I'm getting up in age, have cataracts, solve online, and I routinely have to double check all my answers to make sure the slashes are in the right place, and since you can't really size up the puzzle to make that easier (on my browser, the clues enlarge to a size greater than the puzzle), it adds up being a pain in the maguffies. Still, a fun solve -- I don't want to be a complete Negative Nancy.
Just a couple of things from an unusually pedantic solver (maybe it's a Monday mood): 1) The plural of Run Batted In (RBI) is not RBIS. It is Runs Batted In, which remains RBI. 2) Though I get the idea, George W. Bush is not George H.W. Bush, so the elder Bush is not "BushSr."
Odd. I completed the puzzle in less than my average time without ever figuring out the theme.
Yes, it was easy by comparison to most Sundays, but I don't mind that every once in a while. Set my all-time Sunday record today of 12:11.
@Barry Ancona - Then perhaps the answer key should not spell them out. My solve involved all rebus squares.
Just a quick note: Mr. T wasn't a wrestler-turned-actor, he was an actor-turned-wrestler.
Clever and creative, but a classic example of why I don't care for rebus puzzles. I'm diabetic and my eyes get tired at night and having to type in I/O and then have to go back through all eight rebus squares to enter PHI so I can get the solve means I'm using a lot of smaller letters that are harder to read for me. This one took me just over half an hour, which is within thirty seconds of my average, but it would have been quicker (and easier on the eyes) to not have to guess what variant the digital version needs to finish the puzzle.
@Mortiser - Tell ya what, what you described cost me a 1,380-day streak this fall. I finished a puzzle, got the music, but the grid stayed blue. I went back to recheck the puzzle just before the new one was supposed to issue, but by the time I got there, the puzzle was in the archive and I couldn't save it. I wrote the customer service address but no one ever answered me. So I started a new streak, but wouldn't mind getting my old one back. :O)
And of course, I was so excited I substituted "hours" for "minutes" in my first post. It took me 33 minutes to finish this, which is two minutes over my average and I loved it.
Fun puzzle, but this is where I come in and remind constructors that the plural of RUN BATTED IN (RBI) is not RUN BATTED INS (RBIS) but RUNS BATTED IN (also RBI).
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