tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post5474406113193347062..comments2024-03-27T07:17:39.554-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Thursday, February 16, 2017, Keith RedwineHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-1735237012681593762017-02-18T12:36:34.927-05:002017-02-18T12:36:34.927-05:0018:19
Fun puzzle, nice discussion on PRIVATES, and...18:19<br />Fun puzzle, nice discussion on PRIVATES, and interesting trivia on "The TERMINATOR." Also, the full LAKEERIE and the [BLACK]SEA are in the puzzle, which is unusual. I saw the MAMMOTH sculptures at the La Brea Tar Pits a few years back, and some SHINTO shrines more recently, both of which ELICITed nice memories. I haven't seen "Old YELLER" since grade school.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-18153668982142185652017-02-18T04:37:32.545-05:002017-02-18T04:37:32.545-05:0011:23
One more positive review from this corner. ...11:23<br /><br />One more positive review from this corner. Once you got the trick, you knew exactly where (and what) the other rebus squares were, but somehow that didn't diminish the joy of solving at all. At least not for me. <br /><br />Lots of good fill, and yet another debut puzzle! It's a good time to be doing the NYTX!<br /><br />Oh, and one more thing, your stream of consciousness discussion of PRIVATES made me LOL. It reminded me of Austin Powers talking about his "twigs and berries," and now I am imagining him saying "me grunts," instead. <br /><br />"Ooooh, right in the grunts!" ... lol hahahhahahhaaaa!<br /><br />- HoraceHorace Fawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-37668990109519726392017-02-17T14:55:02.874-05:002017-02-17T14:55:02.874-05:00This is a great theme. Plays with the conventions ...This is a great theme. Plays with the conventions of crosswords and the age old “do something with the blank squares” idea which seems to generate all kinds of new variations.<br /><br />I'm amused that a BLACKBOARD is now just found in cafés, but seems like a good call. At least, I see a lot more blackboards in bars and restaurants, but maybe that's just because I'm not in enough classrooms to say whether they are all on whiteboards now.<br /><br />Oh, and sad to say BAMBOO is found lots of places other than jungles. Such as the backyard of a house I owned in Maryland. We did eventually get rid of it, but after much digging and collateral damage to shrubs.Jim Kingdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01857308320156877253noreply@blogger.com