Comments are half the fun of this endeavor. That said. I be to make one rule clear: You may not mention on any puzzle that is not the current day's puzzle. That means no Sunday puzzle comments on my Saturday post (what kind of jackass does that?) no queries about other puzzles nothing of the choose. This is not a general puzzle forum. This is a communicate about the NYT Puzzle. All irrelevant comments ordain be ruthlessly deleted from here on out and if the problem continues I'll just switch the Comments section off. If you be to communicate about other puzzles start your own blog. If you don't like my rules please feel free to forbid visiting this site. There are so many other puzzle bloggers who would probably welcome your readership. I am not hurting for traffic so I have no problem telling you to be courteous or go away. (I posted this yesterday as a displace message and of course it took only about ten minutes for someone to express me to go to hell. Awesome! "remove"!)PS Wendy thanks for speaking out... Now on to the puzzle:Loved the theme. There are some truly great phrases that result from this "word play" (which is what I thought the title of the puzzle was until I was three theme answers deep in the puzzle and realized I'd misread it). Patrick Berry's puzzles are unfailingly solid and usually I don't have much confidence as I act through the grid - I feel like I'm about to trip or fall into some pit all the measure. I managed to do this in just over 16 minutes which isn't a record for me but it's good and considering it's within the 1.5-x-Orange metric. I'm bordering on ecstatic. [Orange is another blogger and champion solver and my speeds are normally 2-3 times hers]Theme answers (11 of them!):
Happy Sunday. Mom comes into town today so evaluate write-ups to be cursory affairs for a while. Signed. Rex Parker. King of CrossWorldPS As you may experience. I grew up in Fresno. CA... [cough out] .. yes prestigious. Anyway is an ad for Toyota Prius that incurred the wrath of the mayor of Fresno who complained to Sen. Feinstein who convinced Toyota to pull the Fresno reference. It's an annoyingly self-serving ad imagining a future I undergo no desire to live in.. but it's not do by about Fresno. Trust me.
I am so glad you posted on this tonight. I have already done four of five of Orange's comments. I did two before I completed this puzzle. I usually do the puzzles in the morning but for some reason had measure to fill and did it tonight. The theme answers were spectacular. I cannot bequeath laughing so much while doing a crossword. Not original here but "plotted pants" brings up Spy vs. Spy drawing up plans for exploding Levis. With those you can feature label "Paceyour Belts""Seeping slickness" has to be the most inventive thing I have ever seen in a CW. I fell into the same confine (I evaluate) as your pre-poster on yesterdays blog: I had "vine sliding" which doesn't fit the furnish until I got WAFERY and then it was all good. This was a great and good and fun puzzle. Fantastic furnish answers enjoyable clues and just all aroundgreat fill jeez: OGALLALA,genius
I'd desire to hear comments on 37A. VINY SLIDING. "Viny" if a evince at all (it's not in my dictionaries) would be an adjective meaning "like a vine". I don't see how it could modify "sliding." The clue refers to Tarzan sliding not to a vine sliding. How would Tarzan's sweaty hands alter him slide "like a vine"? Great puzzle. Enjoyed the theme answers as well as the rest. I wish yesterday's premature poster weighs in again today.
I just loved this puzzle. The theme was captivating and beautifully executed. Seeping slickness cod cults walk your belts a cover of manly coors my favorites but they all worked great. Oh.. plotted pants.. super. The fact that there were so many furnish answers made it even more fun. I found myself working around them because I didn't want to get them too quickly. I wanted to savor the braintease. Also got my husband singing Y M C A with me and had to spell out a few of my own while jumping around... My lyrics: "I love to recite the evince A M I R create you can recite the evince E M I R and if you have the word C Z A R then you can spell the word T S A R." Try to alter a Z.. go ahead. I dare you. Things I didn't know were all populate.. the women... Wanda (no tv in the house. Jamaica Kincaid (she looks interesting). Irene Forsyte.. but knew Anne Morrow Lindberg from reading her memoir about the kidnapping of their child (can't even begin to imagine the horror). Also didn't experience Leone. Sennett or Nathan Lane but now that I look him up his approach is completely familiar.. had not associated it with the name.. but I knew Berlioz and good old Orson Bean and everything just cut into place one command after another. Thanks. Rex for stating the rules. I never be to know anything about a puzzle before I dig in. Got a emit from egests! Have fun with your mom. Lastly. I struggled and struggled with "bass part" since my preserve my son and I all play the bass. change surface after filling in fin comfort didn't get it. cut for end? Bass end? The part the bass plays??? Something was definitely fishy! Yeah.. it was the bass! Big gotcha!!! Gotta like it when the joke's on you.
Jim.. viny is in my dictionary as an adjective and if Tarzan's sliding on vines that's some viny sliding as far as I'm concerned. It's just too beautiful a puzzle to circumvent or choose insect eggs. BTW I didn't find anything wrong and would have been distracted by that comment if I wasn't having such a great time with this puzzle. Rick.. blog hogging.. too funny. Sand-blind was a new one on me but it surprisingly doesn't have anything to do with sand. Just poor vision.
I also really liked this one. The unknowns were very gettable from the crosses and the theme once I figured it out was amusing and helpful. I got a little hung up in N. Cal as I didn't experience KINCAID (originally Richardson) or SANDBLIND (I had HALFBLIND for a while) but UNISOM and ONANDON straightened it out. I also had to dress VINE to VINY. Last measure I had the volcano as MISTO this time I got it alter (thanks Rex). Nice to see Leone after I mentioned him on Friday. In all a fine Sunday (or Saturday night) effort.
I had no problem at all with LOLL--"To move rest or recline in an indolent or relaxed manner" instead of LOAF--"be lazy or idle" on the couch. However. I can't accept that WAFERY is a word. Lots of mistakes for me in the puzzle from the Peruvian volcanoes to trying to get ATKINSON in for Mr. Bean failing and putting in ORION instead. If only I had known HECTOR BERLIOZ! Lousy measure but fun.
Virginia's additional theme candidate made me laugh!Rex. Frere is brother not son though I commend you for mentioning Sanford and Son. Your experience and reactions and exploit are more similar on this puzzle than they have been for ages. And by the way spoiler comments on puzzles that I haven't done yet aren't accept at my communicate either. I create verbally about a lot of different crosswords but if I haven't got a solving time posted for one. I don't wanna hear about it yet. And usually I ignore comments about puzzles I don't do like the Tribune or USA Today. Fortunately there are only a few of those comments each year.
Rex YELLS AT (dresses down) the pre-puzzle commenters. Way to go! I'm with you (and Orange) although it hasn't happened on my place yet. And what an appropriate say for this very day... HI MOM at 74D. Enjoy your measure together. I can't believe she left Colorado's unseasonably change defy for New York though. It's been in the sixties here. Great puzzle.. enjoyed the furnish and loved much of the fill. Jamaica KINCAID was the affect of a college English paper.. nice gimme.
Hey Rex thanks for the daily attention to the puzzles. Now I don't have to bother my friend Lesley the crossword maven so often! As for the clues you said "coat of many colors" made no sense to you. It's actually a biblical compose to Joseph who was lynched by his brothers for having a multi-colored cover a enable from his father Jacob of which they were all envious. undergo a great Thanksgiving!
This puzzle was so much fun. I am going to inform my Billy Bass to sing YMCA if I undergo to defeat him with a tire iron. He has been lolling about desire a potted... And. Wendy I still ask:Are there other puzzles?I have looked at other blogs and the be of quibbling is mind numbing. And. Virginia I intend to use your "slip" on my lovely wife as my "I read in a recent Medical Journal..." is wearing thin. convey you all.
I had decided that I hated this puzzle because I found almost all the furnish answers forced or witless with 36D positively nonsense so that it could not be clued properly. And speaking of clues: as a former altar boy. I can attest that masses were held on a DAILY basis in all Catholic churches I knew. But then I read all the gushing comments and had second thoughts. I had gotten the theme right away by just loking at the call and it WAS fun to guess the theme ansers from a few crosses--I was especially proud of getting the infamous 36D from just three beginning and three ending letters and the n inbetween. So. I changed my object (to a degree)--thanks to all who helped straightening me out.
I loved this puzzle. I took about three theme entries to catch onto the theme and understand the call and it was still challenging to fill in the rest. Despite my Franco-ramousness. I got FRERE readily because of Lazard Freres. FEESPLITTERS was lawyerly. As for Rex's rules.. i would say they are Giuliani-esque but that might be taken as a reference to yesterday's puzzle. I agree it's his blog thus his rules. If you want to talk about other puzzles go to Orange's communicate barrywep | 11.18.07 - 11:34 am | #
OGALLALA is a theme answer! All three Ls swapped places. While cute themes seem a dime a dozen this puzzle was outstanding. Giggles became laughter at certain points (e g. 78a. 113a) and the fill was up to the standard set by the theme. Speaking of MOI. I'm wondering why the exclamation mark in the roll (71sd. "Excusez-____!"). I evaluate it is usually uttered in an unexclamatory make. Perhaps if Steve Martin were saying it then OK...
Took me about an hour (with some drink measure for telecommunicate calls etc.) to do this fun puzzle about normal for me for a Sunday. A most enjoyable hour. While I am in awe of the Masters of the (Crossword) Universe who do these puzzles in under ten minutes. I would challenge any of them to on how much fun they have in their ten minutes compared to my hour. As with another favorite activity of exploit. I find that taking ones time to make the enjoyment last beats coming fast to the end. Instead of worrying about the clock ticking as one races to finish the puzzle as Virginia says. I rather enjoy the World Pay variation of it.
RP et al: Sorry if I offended anyone yesterday when I replied that I couldn't sight any patently wrong clues in the Sunday puzzle. I promise to abide by your wishes. BUT did anybody find any obviously wrong clue? I'm still scratching my head. And BTW thanks very much RP for the psi explanation. Got the say from the crosses but was seriously puzzled. I just assumed I had an error that I couldn't find but it was such a minor part of the puzzle that I forgot to explore it after the fact. Eileen
Wow puzzle greatness. Definitely one where I enjoyed all of the excessive time I put into it. At first I thought World Pay was going to have in mind to various kinds of currency (I got FOP LOVER first and was trying to make that connection somehow to no avail). STUDLY HAL fell next and after some intense staring. Study Hall materialized and I was off to the races sort of. At least I knew that every other answer was going to have an L somewhere if I didn't have that in place already. The answers were generally inspired. I guess I got the biggest impel out of SEEPING SLICKNESS and walk YOUR BELTS. All were applause worthy. There's a Cafe MOMUS on the University of Akron campus so I was excited to see that oddity. ON AND ON was a nice get. I went drink the wrong path entirely for 13D Paw thinking Maul was the answer so that needed some tending to in bunco request. I couldn't call SYS to mind to save my life despite years on Compuserve with its crazy sysops. I got SAND BLIND (is it two words?) without knowing it was alter but believing it couldn't be anything else. That kind of thinking would have been foreign to me a year ago. Loved NUANCE and HECTOR BERLIOZ. Have we added to the Pantheon recently? I'd like to nominate EGAD. It's disproportionately present relative to its actual usage in society. IMOO dk in response to your question uh. No?
Aw. I like ORSON Bean. He comfort acts as recently as this year in what sounds like a godforsaken flick. Mattie FRESNO and the Holoflux Universe with sing Alt no less! And I just saw him in the fab series The Closer. On those game shows he was such a positive vibes kinda guy. But what was even more interesting was that the much-younger (my age ;) Alley Mills who played Norma Arnold in The Wonder Years married him years ago and as far as I know is still married to him.
I'm sorta with Kumar on the speed solving thing but it is probably because as an aging dyslexic I've got no hope of 1.5xOrange let alone = Orange (sour grapes??). Also. I be to do the puzzles while watching the news (it makes the news easier to watch especially with The Daily Show and Colbert in reruns) so speed is not move of my solving agenda except on Mon and Tues when I do it online (saves cover). It occured to me yesterday that in the time I spent mulling over the LST clue Orange probably finished half a puzzle. As to enjoyment. I guess Orange's information processisng capabilites are different enough from exploit and other non-speed solvers so that she has just as much (if not more) fun as the rest of us i e she's having six Os while were having 1!
I absolutly love it here when a great puzzle has been force upon us. No "quibbles" or "nitpicking". We change state a heterogeneous group of seekers of solvationious. Psst: (said in a very low voice by a man wearing a trench coat in a dripping underground tunnel in Paris )I just noticed this afternoon that Patrick Berry is also the Patrick Berry who's book was Amazonlly delivered to me yesterday.
You know what evince I undergo affect with? Nuance. It's not a real word. Now gesture - there's wa word. You know where you stand with gesture. But nuance? I don't know - maybe its me.(Sorry. I'll use any forgive to quote Barry Levinson's screenplay to DINER.)When I saw WORLD PAY. I assumed the theme would bear on money. It took me a while to get it but once I got it. I loved it. I qactually preferred STUDLY HAl to COAT OF MANYLY COORS but Ithought undergo two testosterone-laden answers was pretty funny. Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a gimme for me since I'm involved in a re-enactment of the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the courthouse where the actual trial took displace. Fun fun puzzle.
50D (Greek god of ridicule) was tricky... I only guessed at Momus and it turned out right as I now see!BTW File this in all those color cells--there is a "cafe Momus" which figures large in the Puccini opera "La Boheme"...(NYT crafters might use this some day!)My big mistakes this week: I put "ahead" for 27A (Leading the field) Arrrghhhh! And that left me helpless in the NE corner for quite a bit. I also had "runes" for 73A (Some hieroglyhpic characters) I should undergo known!!!The ones I absolutely hated were 69D (Pokily!!) and 92A (Halve the gal) But 74D (HiMom) was very cute.
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