this is the thread where we complain about the new york times crossword puzzle

Are they confusing pan (horizontal) with zoom in?

yes

"emgrans"?

fuck off

somebody explain to me the reason why "UNACMETTED" happened to me yesterday - I fucking hate reasonable answer collisions

is DANK MEMES really what we’rve come to

Yes

And why is Saturday easy now

Oh wait j. and I complained about this a year ago

Does anyone do the mini each day on the app?

https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/leaderboards/invite/fde227aa-82b8-400c-807b-6512a6cba5e6

‘no soap’

Clue: They’re usually closed at night
Answer: eyes
😊

why won’t Wednesday load on my phone arrrrrrrgh

never heard of today's 35A before

Britishism, I believe.

nobelist wiesel
nobelist wiesel
nobelist wiesel
nobelist wiesel
nobelist wiesel

yeah that was bad. making up for it with a better clue about him in today’s sunday puzzle.

today’s puzzle very fun and ambitious but - and i know i’m always wrong when i think this, but hear me out - is there an error? the answer for 92 down actually goes with the clue for 93 down. and there is no clue for 92 down. leaving the answer for 93 an orphan with no clue. annoyingly i can’t quite solve that corner. but perhaps this is one further wrinkle in this puzzle that i haven’t figured out?

i mean... i beat it but I still don't understand the connecting clues. shit makes no sense today.

there was an error in the print edition

It has been brought to our attention there is a numbering error in this weekend's @NYTmag crossword. The row with a repeat "92" should read "93, 94, 95".

This error is not related to the puzzle's mystery hunt and the digital puzzle is unaffected. https://t.co/sHrwdtyDVu

— New York Times Games (@NYTimesGames) May 23, 2020

this puzzle was laaaame

yeah i'm not sure why any of those people were 'aptly' named??

the butler was gerard, the page was ellen, the porter was cole

but yeah, was very lame

but how is that “apt”?

i thought it was fun regardless. that said i’m starting to really appreciate the wednesday puzzle. no tricks, no puns. just straight up.

ok, just revisited that corner. calling the numbering mistake 'minor' is an undersell. it's really quite something. 3 clues with the wrong number. clue 95D is answered in 94D, clue 94D is answered in 93D and clue 93D is answered in 92D. what's more, there are two 92 acrosses in the grid, but only one 92A clue.

there’s logic to it, but “apt” is a weird word choice

the digital one didn't have any of the explanation about the butler, porter, etc! I didn't know what the fuck i was looking at until i opened the magazine.

crossing oleo with olio is an absolute cry for help

the digital one didn't have any of the explanation about the butler, porter, etc! I didn't know what the fuck i was looking at until i opened the magazine.

Ah, did not know that. Thanks.

I had the same thought re:olio/oleo

The constructor wrote:

My original version was more difficult: ELLEN, MINNIE, TIKI, etc. were clued normally — with no indication that they figured into the story. The solver needed to discover the names hidden in the rooms, unlocking the rest of the mystery. (I kept other first names out of the grid — a surprisingly challenging restriction!) But after extensive testing, Will and his team decided to indicate the suspects more overtly.

That would have made the meta much more interesting.

At some point it would be nice to frey a really challenging Sunday puzzle. Sunday Extreme.

a challenge today

Yes. I did the lower half. Taking a little break.

HATE IT

Easy breezy for me, got into a groove somehow where all the down answers leapt out

Yeah I think the down clues were closer to Tuesday difficulty to adjust for the gimmick, but it led to beating my Thursday average by like a half hour

yeah it was super-easy. still hate it

Only 3/4 the number of clues as usual - I feel ripped off

I enjoyed it. I also did it at an insomniac 12:27am moment, so that might've had something to do with it. I like puzzles that make me slow down and, you know, puzzle a little more.

except the gimmick means you race through it faster, surely

I actually misunderstood the gimmick! Because of some early errant answer, I thought that the two-word answers were supposed to be broken apart in novel ways that formed other words. For example, I thought the two word answer SKI SLOPE was meant to be input as SKIS LOPE. When I figured out out the real (less interesting answer, I had a good little aha moment.

In other words I did the crossword wrong and felt smart when I got it right, even though my version was clearly more fun.

I liked saturday

Same, it was a tough but fair challenge with nice fill.

i don't wanna spoil it but the first and last across clues struck me as big "FUCK IT I BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR TWENTY YEARS AND AHMA FINALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN" energy

Yeah, that was super elegant!

1A was extremely handy for me

I had to look up a few letters in 1A. Absolutely no way of getting that. Client was good today.

on the other hand, sunday is a dud: too many proper names, crosswordese and bad cluing

The WaPo sundays are free and I think they are consistently more interesting than the Times' sundays

bottom left corner troubled me today.

I'm all for difficult solves, but I do not like today's, especially the cluing.