40-down in today’s NYT is wholly new to me
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 20:33 (eight months ago) link
I think I'd heard the word before, but couldn't tell you what it meant.
The revealer is a 5/5 groaner.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:07 (eight months ago) link
yeah good puzzle today!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 23:03 (eight months ago) link
40-down is the name of a character in dune messiah iirc
― 龜, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:28 (eight months ago) link
wow
i guess you no longer need the weirding module
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:30 (eight months ago) link
Tomorrow's NYT theme is reminiscent of a puzzle I submitted to them 15 years ago, which was rejected.
Mine:
Full-grown frontiersman?: FOX CARSONFull-grown rock musician?: KOALA RAMONEFull-grown inventor?: SAMUEL HORSEFull-grown actor?: RYAN GOOSE
NYT, 4/16/24:
*Actor who played Oscar Wilde in "Wilde" [fish]: STEPHEN FRY*Inventor who patented the first revolver [stallion]: SAMUEL COLT*English essayist who wrote "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once" [ram]: CHARLES LAMB*Mouseketeer peer of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake [gander]: RYAN GOSLING*Certain immature adult … with a hint to both halves of the answers to each starred clue: MAN BABY
Today's puzzle is admittedly better, conceptually -- but it's funny now to remember that one of the reasons I was given for why my puzzle was rejected was that Ryan Gosling wasn't famous enough.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:36 (five months ago) link
Cute theme today, which I didn't notice until I'd solved it.
― The Mandymoorian (Leee), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:35 (four months ago) link
Clever theme today.
― Bottom Cruise (Leee), Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:58 (three months ago) link
I didn't love it because there's two ways to fill it in, one of which leads to writing down some non-words. Which, when I put it like that...
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:13 (three months ago) link
Interesting shape today.
― Decam'ron (Leee), Thursday, 27 June 2024 17:04 (two months ago) link
Pretty fun once I clocked what was going on.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 June 2024 22:27 (two months ago) link
I really enjoyed today's crossword puzzle. There was a gimmick but it wasn't too hard to figure out. I loved the rebuses around the edges as well as the whole concept and pleasing visual pattern
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2024 23:19 (two months ago) link
Also it changed colors upon completion
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 June 2024 23:41 (two months ago) link
yes! crust, cheese, pepperoni, mushroom and pepper
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2024 23:47 (two months ago) link
and the slice lines worked in
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2024 23:49 (two months ago) link
35-Across in Friday's puzzle is one of my favorite fills in a while.
― jaymc, Friday, 2 August 2024 03:54 (one month ago) link
And I love that according to the notes she's been submitting it for a few years and trying to convince the editors that it's valid and widely spread enough.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 2 August 2024 09:31 (one month ago) link
Tough but satisfying puzzle today, and very impressed that the constructor is still in high school
― Roz, Friday, 20 September 2024 14:09 (three hours ago) link