Violet
WV, USA
I'm fairly new to tackling the Sunday Crosswords, but I think this one might be my new second favorite (second only to last week's Star Trek themed puzzle that I loved so much I printed it out to make my 20 year old daughter solve as well). It's one of the first times I immediately got the revealer and understood what it meant without having figured out any of the themed clues yet. The puzzle, over all, was still challenging for me as a newer solver, but knowing right away I was dealing with an "eye" rebus was so helpful! I haven't read the comments yet so I'm going to assume everyone else found it too easy, but I enjoyed it, at least.
Fun Monday! I came in seven minutes below average even though I got stuck way too long because I didn't question my 67A tele answer since several of its crosses were eluding me. Two did become an "ooohh"*facepalm* moment once I decided that corner had to be the issue and began to wrack my beleaguered brain, finally "Aha-ing" with MEGA. Kind of embarrassing, but that's me on a good day.
@T They were saying that they misspelled the word sceptre as scepter, not that it's misspelled in the puzzle.
Ooh, this was a fun one for a relatively new solver like me. I felt as though I was on this constructor's wavelength right up to the finish....when I got the dreaded nearly there pop-up. Turns out, I should have left the M in MAXIMUs that I had originally before switching it to an s to make the crossing work. I learned something new today, at least. (I didn't get the actual theme until reading the blog afterward though.) I finished fifteen minutes faster than my average at thirty-five minutes (worked on it last night untill I fell asleep and finished this morning). I'm likely much slower than more experienced solvers, but I'm happy with it.
I hate it when I proofread twice and still miss typos. I think I need to make the font on my phone larger until I can get my eyes tested to see if my prescription has changed.
@Kyle In the app, on the gameplay screen, click the three dots (...) and a rebus window will pop up, this allows you to enter more than one letter in a single square. To solve this particular puzzle, the squares that have circles you need to enter a word into those single squares.
Fantastic puzzle for this (relative) newbie. I figured out the rebus before I got to the revealer oddly enough. I really enjoyed this one as being both approachable for newcomers but also a legit Thursday-level puzzle.
@Alex I started out with dADJOKES and when it became obvious that wouldn't work I tried mADJOKES for some stupid reason. It took way too long for BATTED & BADJOKES to dawn on me. I'll blame the hangover.
@Carley Jersey is a type of cow, and a baby (new) cow is a calf.
@Francis It's just a shortened version of "middling". It's not super new slang as some have posited, and it's not really interchangeable with "meh".
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