easy easy easy then HARD
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 23 July 2022 20:50 (three years ago)
Saturday’s puzzle by Lance Enfinger was really good.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 July 2022 13:29 (three years ago)
agreed
― symsymsym, Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:27 (three years ago)
can we really do no better than APT ANAGRAM OF ‘VILE’
ffs
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 05:50 (three years ago)
Great revive
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 14:53 (three years ago)
Clever theme today!
― God of Snore (2018) (Leee), Thursday, 11 August 2022 15:44 (three years ago)
Today's grid is really impressive.
― It's like there's a Republican party in my mouth and everyone's indicted (Leee), Sunday, 21 August 2022 17:16 (three years ago)
Less than a week until Lollapuzzoola
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 August 2022 17:39 (three years ago)
Think I will probably pass this year
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 17:43 (three years ago)
44A
https://www.brendanemmettquigley.com/2022/09/crossword-1502-themeless-monday.html
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 September 2022 18:20 (three years ago)
immortality is hers
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 September 2022 18:41 (three years ago)
I'm thinking of doing Boswords, but maybe signing up for Smooth instead of Choppy?
― we talkin bout praxis (Leee), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 18:58 (three years ago)
Do it! I switched to choppy from the hardest level (stormy?) which made it a lot more fun, still plenty challenging under time pressure.
― symsymsym, Thursday, 8 September 2022 01:28 (three years ago)
Really liked this last NYTimes Sunday, simple idea executed elegantly
― symsymsym, Thursday, 8 September 2022 01:29 (three years ago)
Signed up for Boswords as a Smoothie, hopefully that'll ease my ego!
Today's NYT has a very cool grid.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Friday, 9 September 2022 16:48 (three years ago)
this was, for me, the most interesting sunday nyt in quite a while
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 September 2022 12:48 (three years ago)
Yeah, I enjoyed it, particularly after the Friday provided no resistance at all, a new (not globally impressive) record for me.
33D was the last in and I still don't really understand it? It wasn't helped by me blind-guessing ALLOW instead of ALL OF for 11D.
But I should have known that the answer to 39A is what the answer to any near-similar clue always is, a vast maw consuming everything.
8 themed clues though!
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 25 September 2022 12:57 (three years ago)
I am such a compulsively linear solver that I completed the puzzle without getting the theme. That happens to me with fair frequency.
Hit me like three minutes later. OH!
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 25 September 2022 15:31 (three years ago)
33D: I imagine it's play on beer keg and soda fountain.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Sunday, 25 September 2022 16:01 (three years ago)
I liked today's theme, hard as it was.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:29 (three years ago)
33D was the last in and I still don't really understand it?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 29 September 2022 21:01 (three years ago)
RIP to my NYT streak, not because of a Natick but because I somehow just forgot to do it, which I didn't even realize had happened two weeks ago.
― Kim Wipers - Youth in America (Leee), Monday, 3 October 2022 23:23 (three years ago)
you're free now
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 3 October 2022 23:26 (three years ago)
Welcome to the camp! One of us, one of us, we accept you, one of us!
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 00:03 (three years ago)
I don't feel free. :(
― Kim Wipers - Youth in America (Leee), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 01:04 (three years ago)
I skipped a day a month ago, and said goodbye to a 500-day streak. Ah, well. Life goes on.
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 01:11 (three years ago)
We’re all normal and we want our rebus.
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 01:20 (three years ago)
Here we are now
Enter rebus
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 01:44 (three years ago)
happened to be listening to 18A while doing today’s puzzle
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 21:35 (three years ago)
In other news, Boswords Fall Themeless started. Hopefully this time I remember to submit every week.
― Kim Wipers - Youth in America (Leee), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:31 (three years ago)
did you do the first puzzle? I was fast but had one dumb mistake
― symsymsym, Thursday, 6 October 2022 05:22 (three years ago)
Got them all right, but I took almost 8 minutes.
― Kim Wipers - Youth in America (Leee), Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:47 (three years ago)
Today is quite clever.
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Sunday, 16 October 2022 16:54 (three years ago)
Boswords: Weeks 1-3, clean sheet, but not so Week 4. :(
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:08 (three years ago)
I did good on Week 4, but felt like I was totally guessing on a few crosses. rn I'm 4th overall in the Choppy rankings...this is before a bunch of the solvers have even finished, so I'm sure I'll get knocked down a few spots, but I think this is still as good as my competitive solving career is ever gonna get
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 00:57 (three years ago)
did thursday's late last night and couldn't parse the mechanism at all, but it's a good one
― symsymsym, Friday, 28 October 2022 16:23 (three years ago)
Interesting grid today, though I'm of two minds on the fill.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:12 (three years ago)
Awful SW corner today, I had to brute force my way through it.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Sunday, 13 November 2022 16:34 (three years ago)
Like VU ref today
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 November 2022 17:48 (three years ago)
And Bad Company reference.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:48 (three years ago)
Really enjoyed this Friday puzzle by Simon Marotte.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 November 2022 18:12 (three years ago)
Fri and Sat puzzles were good but they were both too easy. I spent no more than 20 minutes on the two of them combined (and I wasn't even speed-solving). I need more resistance, this is getting ridiculous. I habitually set aside 30 minutes to do the Friday puzzle and 30 more for the Saturday puzzle but I feel like I'm getting ganked.
― Josefa, Sunday, 27 November 2022 01:53 (three years ago)
Maybe, but wasn’t Thursday a little more dit than usual?
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:58 (three years ago)
Difficult
I don’t do the Thursday ones. Maybe I should start.
― Josefa, Sunday, 27 November 2022 03:01 (three years ago)
i thought Thursday's was medium-ish, tough going at first but fairly easy once you figured out what the trick was.
― Roz, Sunday, 27 November 2022 05:12 (three years ago)
the Thursday reminded me of why I fckn hate the Thursday ones.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 27 November 2022 06:21 (three years ago)
I think on Thursday I got 15 across, and then combined that with the fact that 10/11/12 "down" were such standard NYT filler, which clued me in quickly.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 27 November 2022 11:00 (three years ago)
breezed thru fri and sat too. today’s was a bit of a slog tbh.
― donna rouge, Sunday, 27 November 2022 19:19 (three years ago)
Today’s was painful yes
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2022 19:36 (three years ago)