And yeah, rebus+app=not a good look
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 July 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
::SPOILERS:: (sort of)Tracer, re:82 across. No, afaik that is NOT a thing here. Maybe it's some bougie molecular gastronomy thing?
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 18 July 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
It’s definitely bougie but how is the clue spelled? In my paper it’s “palette”.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 July 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
Ha! Guess they fixed it for the app.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 18 July 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Yeah there's a note in the blog.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
At first I thought “ooh clever” and went down a rabbit hole. Some kind of solvent? You do “courses” of bricks when building a wall and you might use a palette for your mortar. What do you clean that with? Etc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
What blog?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
I guess what is meant is Wordplay:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/crosswords/daily-puzzle-2020-07-19.html
I always thought the 82A between courses things was French. It's not common here but it's a good idea and I welcome it when I chance across it.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
I get that palette was plainly an error. As the tired stock clerk at the art supply once said, "I can't palate another pallet of pallettes!"
But the culinary practice is right in the dictionary definition
SPOILER ALERT
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorbet
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
Haven't done today's puzzle- yet! Meanwhile, back to the original purpose of this threadDELE PELE TELE UELE
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
Also I see there is something called the Universal Crossword on Amy R's blog. Not sure what that is but the one I just tried was not bad.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
BAST HAST OAST NAST
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
Maybe people hate XWORDESE because every piece of such they haven't committed to their already extensive Rolodex of such slows down their speed solving a microsecond and gives the advantage to the competitition with an even more extensive internal database?
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
OFAN OLAN OMAN ONAN ORAN and, real old school OBAN.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
OBIEMS and ENS
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Speaking of LOA/KEA, I just died on the peak of OSSA/ETNA
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
Have I ever told you the full jeremaid of my dabbling in competitive speed solving and subsequent burnout? If not, would you like to know?
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
Aargh,there's no MAID in JEREMIAD, sorry (the latter of which appeared in a lucky seven Maleska puzzles, but not since)
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
I want you to tell us the story James Redd. Of how you flew too close to THESUN.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 July 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Heh, exactly, those SUN puzzles were my favorites for a while.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
Also, Auden's poem about Breughel's Icarus or the painting itself often seem to come up in Learned League
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
is my weather being borked by EL NIÑO or LA NIÑA
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 July 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
IDUNNO might ASWELL THROW DARTS ATA BOARD
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
Okay, finished the NYT and the rest of today's puzzles and am reading the blog post at Wordplay now. Really like this blogger, Caitlin Lovinger, who I had never heard of until today. My solve experience was very similar to hers.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
ABUTATOPABED
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Exactly
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
I didn't know there were pictures of some of these people: https://www.xwordinfo.com/Cards?select=topcons
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
ALBA ALMA ALVA ELBA
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
Not to mention ELLA OLLA ELEA
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
My times for today's puzzles were awful by my old standards. Did tomorrow's in 3:46 which is not competitive but okay for me.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Trying to turn my rise and fall in competitive solving into some kind of Behind The Music saga but it ain’t happening.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
Nutshell comes back to: slowly got hooked on competitive solving, despite my wariness of it, did lots of puzzles got somewhat faster every year until one year I finished 77th, then the next year my friend stopped going with me to the tournament, my rank dropped, couldn't go to the next year's tournament because my daughter had a concert that weekendl and in the end got so burned out anyway that I couldn't even enjoy non-speed solving anymore, the thrill was gone. Still liked doing cryptics though, although hadn't done too many recently. Just did Patrick Berry's easy one in The New Yorker.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWN-adiDNtM
got kinda bogged down by today’s Sunday NYT - cluing just vague enough throughout that I kept putting in wrong answers. theme was whatever. i really need to fill my days with other puzzles.
― donna rouge, Monday, 20 July 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
Jeff Chen’s rundown gives a little history of that type of theme.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
The last Across answer in today's New Yorker crossword is DRNO
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
:)
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
So is this the new default cruciverbalist thread? If so, kudos to redd
― I pity the foo fighter (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
there's another Crossword Puzzle Thread
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
I thought the other was the default thread, I just started this thread for the xwordese.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Why is it so bad and hated?
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
SME R I NE
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
yeah, fuck that
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
My heart briefly leapt that they might've meant Cork.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
what are some abandoned crosswordese words? i heard that before will shortz became nyt xword editor, INEE was common fill.
― wasdnous (abanana), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Good question
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
struggling to work out a clue for that...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 August 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
Arrow poisonCurare cousin
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
wow. okay
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
Did you think maybe it had something to do with bellybuttons?
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link