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@Rachel I think "run" is "ski run" rather than actual running (this was one of the last clues to fall into place for me!)
@Laura Stratton a streak is a series of doing and completing the puzzle… if my partner looks over my shoulder and gives me an answer, or I check my dictionary for spelling, or god forbid go and look up and LEARN something while doing the puzzle instead of just….stopping?
blahhh, I really don't like these type of puzzles or the cluing that does along with them the themers didn't quite flow
I’m not one to comment on when a crossword is too hard…but OHO (ooh) x UHURA x NORAD x ARARAT on a Monday?!
NW was the easiest for me, how interesting how brains and clues work as a lot of folk had trouble. NE on the other hand stumped me and a few slightly wrong answers in the other corners left me staring. I’m always curious to see the tricky clues and how many of them were gimmes for me with me googling other clues far trickier (imo) to see WHY.
Lots of fun! More REBUSES! Also: there's always a lack of celebrating puzzles with few proper nouns, when the opposite is nearly always the case...less grumbling
Fun! most embarrassing 'doh' was TETROMINO when I was in the same room as my partner who was playing tetris
LITE / TNOTES got me as I have never heard of t notes and lite isn’t used on yoghurt here or in the EU as it is misleading, the label needs to say what is “light/lite” about it, so low fat is more likely to be seen. So sitting with LIVE / TNOVES as natural yoghurt often has live on the label seemed like the better answer…
@William James Nah both me and friends use GOTTALOVEIT more sarcastically than genuinely. I definitely associate it more with sarcasm and annoyance and something going wrong than actually loving something. And I’ve been called sweets more than DEARY by friends parents in Scotland. But RAISEASTINK would be definitely more of a scene than a grouse and ABLER is not great
SW is what lost me a few minutes. Really enjoyed this one though! I too had jAMbOREES before needing to change the J and figuring P made more sense. I like needing to wrack my brain when the obvious isn’t obvious. Loved suddenly seeing DOGGROOMERS and took a while to read HERES for the toaster clue once finished to get what that meant.
@Weak THEPIPS x PINOLE and BUB x BORGE were hard enough and then the CAROM x CIERAS / BANYANS / SCOW was nearly impossible until enough going away and coming back to it worked. Thankfully the wrong BONSAIS trees got me to BICORNES or I fear I would still be staring. CIO and HINKY also nearly got me, hinky wan't on my radar so henky or honky also seemed like possibilities. Looking forward to a brain reset for Monday's puzzle
I really enjoyed this! Also liked that the clue for "gluten-free grain" cam after the answer RYE (a gluten grain!)
Me smugly at no. 91 after figuring out (some of) the trick : I knew it was BunkCHECK! (BU) Cut to me wondering what the hell the crosses are and that is BuONMOT some sort of Americanism who knows? Fun but I clearly saw the trick (minus positioning) and didn't get the reveal until late into the game (would reading the title have helped? maybe...)
@Michael I'm not sure you did figure it out if those are what you were just putting in....read the column/look at the answer key and check again :)
Not me saying “prew-ar” over and over with emphasis on prep and ar to try and figure out what that word was before realising 🫣
Definitely looked hard at GORP and GROKS when I got them with crosses trying to figure out if I had made a mistake with something.
it was the TOTAL x OSTER cross that was my annoyance - everything was going so well until TOTAL and then just went south with the US brands that haven't shown up in crosswords (recently) crossing each other and the cereals. I have stockpiled some CHEX from my visit to the US because it's hard to find fun GF cereal here and TRIX were on The Simpsons (and in this crossword enough) that I would have got them...
For all the American pop culture/random knowledge I pick up doing this crossword, cars just don't stick and never will. I don't even know car models for the country I live in.
@NYC to all: the dish is Welsh Rarebit (or Welsh Rabbit) the dish is not Welsh so it is “Welsh” and often times the dish is just known as Rarebit. Suggested that is is coined as a jocular phrase for a dish as ‘Welsh Rabbit’ which became rarebit as the Welsh were known for loving melted cheese (or an additional as the English saw the Welsh as lesser so could not afford/palate actual rabbit and liked cheese). Akin to “Irish apricot” for potatoes
PEACH and PEKOE varieties of tea?! Pah!
@Bela I put in EENIE at first, then deleted because I went through it and clocked it wasn't a counting rhyme...only to refill it again.
@John Ranta regional/local gatherings are camporees…According to all the first page results on Google and the OED. Jamborees are for worldwide groups coming together.
@TRC assuming you are talking about SEE RED which is the answer...and makes sense not seared and --scopas :)
@Mr Dave I had a L and N and I have no idea why my brain knew this nugget of info
@Bill in Yokohama I laughed so hard at this, thank you
@Puzzled Brit I thought the same thing!
Took me a while to give up on HAar (I did think it was a bit obscure for a Monday American puzzle!)
@Beth nah jorts are about knee length and I mostly hear it for men, but my reference point for them is the WWE star/actor John Cena...so
@Leo idk I'm a foreigner and I really liked it. Fair enough I like Seth Meyers, and my subconscious knowing or just being aware of superbowl = junk food meant I got doritios, I am aware of enews enough to have it with some letters but not knowing what it is, and conservadox was my final solve - I had slate (srs for HS team) which changed to ?date - clearly a dating site - "conservadox" being a category of person > orthadox > jew > j. But I've also been doing the NYT crossword for a while, and some American culture is just in my head thanks to it and only in the context of it and certain clues - something to live with, or skills to help with this specific publication crossword - while I don't remember or know certain universities I know how abbreviations of universities tend to go!
@Heater press the esc key if on a browser, press the three dots on the bottom left if on an android app, read the article you are commenting one if that's not too much work because it's referenced at the start....what is useful information to you?
@Jane Wheelaghan I've read the clue differently to you! "51 to the hour" as in 51 minutes until the next hour, so 9 past. I've never heard/thought to read say 9:51 as "51 to the hour" of 10 though it's my understanding that Americans tend to not use to/past at all and just read the numbers as are so half nine is nine-thirty. The one I always have to remember and get confused by is in Germany 9:30 is "halb zehn" (lit. half ten!).
-KEEPER before looking at the revealer and a typo elsewhere caused me 4 secs off my PB boo!
@Laura SAME and because I had quite a few full crosses it took me longer than it should have to notice BIPFD for example
@Ben Surprised I had to scroll so far to see another annoyance! Either is pekoe (it's a grading of tea).
@Mtmetz jean shorts I'm afraid!
@Parker as I know them as “tray” or “security tray” you are a step ahead of me
@snufkin from my experience (of living in/near both places) it's very much a NI / Scottish term. I'm from rural NE Ireland just below the border and would use a "pan of bread" rather than "pan loaf" though (or "loaf of bread") when talking about regular bread (vs batch/plain loaf) at home and it's what my mam would say. Definitely hear it more in Ireland than in Scotland (and not at all in England). I do just say "bread" or "thing of bread" now tho because GF bread is just in a different part of my brain I guess which I didn't realise until now.
@Ambrose I'm trying to remember if there are any recent puzzles that did allow numbers vs the words as valid rebus entries but none are coming to mind (but also I tend to always spell the number so none would come to mind unless there was a lot of hullaballoo about it!)
Hmmm, of all the ice cream photos that could have been picked one a promo one from Andy Samburg’s The Roses was the winner…should I reach for my TINFOILHAT?
Hmmm, of all the ice cream photos that could have been picked a promo one from Andy Samburg’s The Roses was the winner…should I reach for my TINFOILHAT?
@Mandy Fehlbaum the second direct one this month !
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