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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
*barely audible muttering*
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
EKE's pretty perennial for good or ill.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
EKE is overused for sure, but ‘eke out’ is at least a thing. ‘eke by’ is not
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
"I had trouble but i managed to eke by" sounds fine to my canadian ear.
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
take by, hoser
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
a) not really b) 10000% yes
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 9 August 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
like so
also ETS, AMI, ATEIN, PTA
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 August 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
ACAI
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
GOJI
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 September 2020 08:11 (three years ago) link
ALOE
UGLI
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 10 September 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
ELOI
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 September 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link
EPEE
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
a few days ago FBPOSTS was, i thought, a step too far
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 September 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
ILE
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
ALEE
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
ACK ICK OCH UCK OCH all these suck as "exclamation of disgust/surprise"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
DRNO was in matt gaffney's xwordcontest.com puzzle this week. not meta related.
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
like this?https://crossword-solver.io/crossword-clues/drno/
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 18 September 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
disappointed that we have yet to see FAUCI
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
seriously!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 November 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
In the Mini, last Saturday.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 20 November 2020 07:49 (three years ago) link
i don’t do the mini - it’s not in the newspaper
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 November 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
larger WH Smiths, Waitrose, newsagents etc - it’s not too hard to find. outside London forget it though. I get it delivered.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 November 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
i only subscribe to nyt games and not the paper itself. officially a spelling bee addict too
― donna rouge, Friday, 20 November 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
The print version is ludicrously expensive in comparison to the online version, even if one subscribes to both the paper and games.
I begin each day with Spelling Bee and the Mini in bed, before the coffee. Helps me wake up.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 20 November 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
Gotta say that every time I see this thread bumped I think DRNO must be a city in Poland or Slovakia or something
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 20 November 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
beat my previous record for solving a Friday puzzle today. KAC’s one of the best constructors, always happy to see his name on a puzzle
― donna rouge, Friday, 20 November 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
I do, for puzzles only though. For $20 a year, totally worth it.
― Niplheim (Leee), Saturday, 21 November 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
^^^
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 November 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
Brno is in the Czech Republic - a lot of my employer's European staff work there.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 21 November 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
Oh that’s why!
― is right unfortunately (silby), Saturday, 21 November 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
thought saturday was really hard. it almost defeated me. first time in a long time i’ve had that feeling.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
same
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 November 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
(This is just above Blue Saturday in my bookmarks - some confusion)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 23 November 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link