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Blue dot/red state
A good deal of the joy I get from completing these crosswords daily stems from the anticipation of making sense of the completed puzzle via the insights and humor in this column. I still struggle with rebuses but Deb’s explanations always make them understandable and make me better-prepared the next time a rebus pops up. I can only reflect your words back at you Deb: <a href="https://youtu.be/s9P71s8Zc4k?si=y3HwWFHA8CYFNbaC" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/s9P71s8Zc4k?si=y3HwWFHA8CYFNbaC</a>
Rebuses usually make me sigh because I find them engaging but challenging…this was way too easy for Thursday. I’m not a master but if I can finish Thursday in under 30 something is off…but it felt ok since yesterday was very hard for a Wednesday — to me at least.
30D. When I envision a [Pitch catcher?], I imagine someone squatting over home base holding a catcher’s mitt. This is a business pitch, however, and the catcher would be another person’s EAR. I simply thought pitch was a reference to sound and thus the “ear” is what is used to hear an unmodified voice warbling off-key.
I love anything that’s not a rebus on Thursday and this was fun. One of my better times for a Thursday puzzle…not sure why I knew yoink but once I had the Y it just filled itself in without me thinking. I love when that happens! ( I, uh, mean, that does happens to other people, yeah?)
Congrats Nate! A fun Tuesday solve. Not sure why but I love the clue at 49 across - maybe because I get hung up on this particular kind of clue fairly frequently and a singer’s pitch could be construed as a tool to sell music? It produced that giggle/groan that I love about doing these crosswords! (Autotune would’ve been a great clue in this puzzle — but I bet Queen never used it!)
@Cherry I have similar times so your post made me feel better…I made the mistake of asking ChatGPT the average solving times by day and was somewhat devastated by the short solving times AI spit out. As the saying goes you can only compare yourself to yourself so I will enjoy that my solve times on average are at least half of what they were at the beginning of last year. I’ll might never be a super speedy solver but I no longer fear the late-in-the-week puzzles.
@Ian Never tell a dragon boater they are rowing! They will snap at you that they PADDLE and likely tell you why paddling’s form is completely different from rowing (and of course how a paddle and oar are apples and oranges!) 😂
Ack! Argh! (some American cries?) seems most comments thought this was an easy puzzle but the moment I see rebuses I panic and it slows me down. Who thought of the rebus? Despite years of doing these puzzles I still feel like it’s just wrong and a bit of a cheat. Am I alone in this?
@katarina Never evah heard or seen this. 😉
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