OTT has a newfound importance to me because of my Duolingo Hungarian, but yeah.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:46 (five years ago)
7 ATTABOYs in the WSE, including one by the XWORD JESUS himself!
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:49 (five years ago)
oh man i didn't even think about 'sleepless in seattle writer' or what have you, duh. you could also go with 'neither a borrower ___ lender be' i suppose. i guess i missed them.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:54 (five years ago)
There are tons of different clues, the most common being a variation on "Author Roberts."
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:01 (five years ago)
I will stan for ALOU, not just because I was a Giants fan, but because it's also a multi-generational baseball family from the Dominican Republic that helps balance out all the times that OTT appears. Furthermore, at least one member was active in baseball through 2008.
― Garry Shambling (Leee), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:10 (five years ago)
the current manager of the mets is actually an alou
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 August 2020 18:21 (five years ago)
puffins that hate erns, typical
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:30 (five years ago)
I am sick of all variations on MST/CDT/DST, mostly because I can never remember which is standard time and which is daylight savings
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:32 (five years ago)
Don’t forget EDT!
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:46 (five years ago)
or GMT/GST - just had the latter in the NYT Sunday
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 3 August 2020 18:50 (five years ago)
EKEBY? really? that's... not a thing, is it?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:24 (five years ago)
it absolutely is not
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:28 (five years ago)
i mean....... to use language that will shortz might understand but never god forbid use..... GTFO
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:29 (five years ago)
and like... when was the last ipod nano sold??? that’s the clue? christ
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:31 (five years ago)
Last ipod nano was 2017.
Last SST was 2003, but it's still a popular crossword answer.
― chasing rimbauds (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:47 (five years ago)
*barely audible muttering*
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:12 (five years ago)
EKE's pretty perennial for good or ill.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:18 (five years ago)
EKE is overused for sure, but ‘eke out’ is at least a thing. ‘eke by’ is not
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:35 (five years ago)
I look forward to the day when SST will be clued by "Punk label" or somesuch.
― Garry Shambling (Leee), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 23:40 (five years ago)
"I had trouble but i managed to eke by" sounds fine to my canadian ear.
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:36 (five years ago)
take by, hoser
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:59 (five years ago)
I finished today’s none the wiser how the gimmick was supposed to have worked
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 9 August 2020 14:21 (five years ago)
Me too, but I did it online so there was a cute reveal at the end.
Do you (a) care, and (b) want to know?
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 August 2020 16:27 (five years ago)
a) not really b) 10000% yes
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 9 August 2020 16:29 (five years ago)
SPOILAGE
The revealer is "shipshape," and if you connect the circled squares it makes a stylized sailboat. But that's not all - the theme answers each have a shape word: LOVETRIANGLE, STORYARC, SECURITYLINE, and TOWNSQUARE. The boat shape is made up of a triangle, an arc, a line, and a square.
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 August 2020 17:44 (five years ago)
like so
also ETS, AMI, ATEIN, PTA
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 August 2020 18:28 (five years ago)
Yeah. In hindsight it looks like I erred by omitting SKISLOPE from the theme answers
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 August 2020 18:47 (five years ago)
i thought it was something like that. i didn’t think to actually do a connect-the-dots. usually “getting” the gimmick is an aid to solving and it wasn’t this time.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 9 August 2020 20:32 (five years ago)
ACAI
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:58 (five years ago)
GOJI
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 September 2020 08:11 (five years ago)
ALOE
UGLI
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 10 September 2020 10:12 (five years ago)
ELOI
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 September 2020 10:55 (five years ago)
EPEE
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 13:25 (five years ago)
a few days ago FBPOSTS was, i thought, a step too far
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 September 2020 13:33 (five years ago)
ILE
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:25 (five years ago)
before i forget i just want to give a shout-out to last friday's nyt. most pleasurable one i've done in a long time. was really much more about the funny/lateral cluing than the words themselves, if that makes sense.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:25 (five years ago)
i got a DRNO in the wild on my phone app last night!
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:58 (five years ago)
ALEE
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:10 (five years ago)
ACK ICK OCH UCK OCH all these suck as "exclamation of disgust/surprise"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:20 (five years ago)
DRNO was in matt gaffney's xwordcontest.com puzzle this week. not meta related.
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:02 (five years ago)
Feel like an interesting thing to do would be to go through the week to see how the clues change for one of these
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 September 2020 23:04 (five years ago)
like this?https://crossword-solver.io/crossword-clues/drno/
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 18 September 2020 03:48 (five years ago)
Never saw that particular search engine, nice. Assume clues that mention Bond are Mon-Wed, whereas Joseph Wiseman/Crab Key are Friday-Saturday, Bond & Julius an easy Thursday, just Julius a hard Thursday.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 September 2020 04:01 (five years ago)
disappointed that we have yet to see FAUCI
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 07:21 (five years ago)
seriously!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 November 2020 07:43 (five years ago)
In the Mini, last Saturday.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 20 November 2020 07:49 (five years ago)
i don’t do the mini - it’s not in the newspaper
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 November 2020 09:27 (five years ago)
I was about to say, it was in the mini last Saturday.
Does anyone do the Times online-only? I feel foolish for wanting to give myself a Christmas gift of a sub to the crossword, but kind of want it at the same time. Is it worth it?
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 20 November 2020 14:18 (five years ago)
I'm sure a lot of non-Americans do, myself included. I mean, I could probably find a NYT in print, but I'm not honestly sure where.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 20 November 2020 14:38 (five years ago)