WAAAAAAH!
― Austin S (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Tracer: I'll complain that the Sundays are surprisingly boring and tedious considering their fame.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Saturday's NYT puzzle is really the hardest for me, because the answers are longer words. I can do it maybe 50% of the time. Monday-Thursday I can almost always solve, Friday about 70%. Sunday takes longer, but I can usually do it easier than Saturday's.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link
My complaints for this week are: "dais" twice in a row, with practically the same clue, what's next, "microphone's environs"?
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 2 May 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
I catch this thread a year after the fact, and wowee: I totally remember this one! I really enjoyed it! One of those dramatic Thursdays where figuring out the theme opens up a whole new world. It's like the moment in action movies where the hero's getting his ass kicked by an unstoppable creature and then suddenly the geek calls in and says "it's fire, he's only vulnerable to fire," and then the hero turns around all refreshed and lays his smack down.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 17 March 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
plus did the circled spaces actually spell anything? i feel like there was something i was missing
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link
the circles were "crossings", as in down-clue crossing the across-clue (or vice versa, I forget).
― patita (patita), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
"columbus" was the first of those that i got, and i was all like "aha! columbus circle!" but no. i liked that. but then the circles proved to mean 0. i even took the circled letters and tried to anagramatize them, but they make nothing.
i obv thought "tee" at first, but then that makes the clue that goes through it "Big Eest" .. "Big East", surely?
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
WTF, Shortz?
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Am I the only one who's a bit skeptical about this?
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link
SLAWS may be the funniest word.
― Abbott, Friday, 4 April 2008 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
The Nintendo DS NTY Xword game is pretty sweet bcz you can have a friend (w/no cartridge even!) share a game & you solve the crossword together, each collaborating on yr own DS's screen. So much better than trying to arm in over each others' arms and omelettes and coffee while mutually solving.
― Abbott, Friday, 4 April 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Some of my favorite times have been tackling the xword with friends at a diner.
― Abbott, Friday, 4 April 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
that "slaws" clue STILL has the power to bother me. more than three years later
i finally had coleslaw on a burger, yesterday - it was great - but no matter how many bowls of different peoples' coleslaw was out there, it would all just be "slaw"
the plural of "slaw", in other words, is "slaw"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Not if you had multiple kinds of slaw.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Hurting otm
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
No, different kinds of slaw results in "slaw", you can trust me on this
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
slawz
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
slols
― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
slaws are made 2 be broken
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
fwiw tracer i have been trying to figure out what they mustve actually meant myself for like 5 minutes now
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
If you were at a slaw tasting, you would be asked "Which of the slaws do you like best?" not "Which of the SLAW do you like best?"
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
"which slaw do you like the best"
he is correct imo
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
BTW, did you know that "coleslaw" literally means "curly slave" in German?
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link
if i was at a slaw tasting i'd look out over the long rows of tables, all laden with heaped platters of vinegary cabbage, and say softly to myself in awe, "that's a lot of slaw"
xpost: no, that is fantastic
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
no, I made that up
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link