this is the thread where we complain about the new york times crossword puzzle

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I think the bad things about this app and its games can be summed up by the fact that the subtitle for wordle is “untangle terms”

Boris Yitsbin (wins), Saturday, 23 December 2023 18:34 (four months ago) link

four weeks pass...

otm

there are so many extraneous and useless words and i hate them

Good morning. New puzzles are waiting for you.
(at other times of day it displays even worse things about ‘winding down’)
Crack the clues in today’s puzzle.
Fill the grid with answers. Ready?
Untangle terms
Group words
Connect characters
Match motifs
Decode digits
Go fuck yourself

mookieproof, Saturday, 20 January 2024 08:04 (three months ago) link

you are being interpellated as an extremely basic aspirational dimwit

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 January 2024 09:48 (three months ago) link

one month passes...

wtf

mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:29 (one month ago) link

that is bewildering

symsymsym, Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:40 (one month ago) link

Sucks

The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:48 (one month ago) link

I still don’t think that makes it “modern.” The puzzle column seems to imply its “colloquial” but those words don’t mean the same thing to me

The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:54 (one month ago) link

It’s not worse than that twee “story” but it is very lame

cozen itt (wins), Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:42 (one month ago) link

Okay today has some major mindfuckery.

I filled everything in fine and was like, "huh?" Then "oh HELL no." Then "whoa."

alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 17 March 2024 10:28 (one month ago) link

Yeah v elegant

cozen itt (wins), Sunday, 17 March 2024 12:12 (one month ago) link

it's like a sfw version of the freud nyer one

, Sunday, 17 March 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link

what a great puzzle. probably shouldn't have started in the middle

symsymsym, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 05:37 (one month ago) link

ffs lads

Synonym found after deleting half the letters of EXHILARATE

Pulitzer-winning author whose name is found in nonconsecutive letters of “page turner”

mookieproof, Thursday, 28 March 2024 12:40 (one month ago) link

i mean i’m sorry that james AGEE is inevitable fill several times a month but try harder

mookieproof, Thursday, 28 March 2024 12:45 (one month ago) link

for all of the grid embellishments, that puzzle was kind of dull in general.

jaymc, Thursday, 28 March 2024 13:01 (one month ago) link

57A was brutal clue and answer.

Astarion Is Born (Leee), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:20 (one month ago) link

not really a complaint, but it’s weird to go six years without ARHAT then get it on back-to-back days

mookieproof, Friday, 29 March 2024 03:50 (four weeks ago) link

I learned it from the NYT Spelling Bee!

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 March 2024 10:41 (four weeks ago) link


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