Cory C

I always look forward to a Monday sprint after a Sunday marathon, but what should have been a quick puzzle turned into an average time killer! I solved this one before bedtime on Sunday night. I wasn’t watching, but I’m guessing it would have been 15-20 minutes. But when I filled the last square it did not end and I knew I had a mistake somewhere. I thought I must have been too tired to see it last night, but it took me another 25 minutes this morning. Everything looked right. I finally found it because it was bothering me that I had never heard of the king of the Egyptian pantheon. Ha! I had read the clue to be a noun meaning “mouth”, as in shut your YAP! So I put down GOB-a perfectly fine fit, but how had I made it through 50 years of life and probably 25+ years of NYT puzzling without ever hearing of this god of gods, OMAN? I finally deleted OMAN completely and thought to myself wouldn’t the king of the gods be the sun god RA? AMON RA? 🤦🏻‍♂️ It wasn’t the noun definition. It was the verb! Not your fault Ryan! Great first puzzle and great Monday.