tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post983627291374426812..comments2024-03-29T07:26:22.640-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Sunday, March 29, 2020, Ricky CruzHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-54169907880874452512020-04-14T07:59:39.295-04:002020-04-14T07:59:39.295-04:00I like that way of saying it - that you know what ...I like that way of saying it - that you know what it is but don't know what it's called. I'll have to remember that at work.Horace Fawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-75467305335103877362020-04-13T20:52:13.511-04:002020-04-13T20:52:13.511-04:00For what it's worth, Ricky Cruz commented on a...For what it's worth, Ricky Cruz commented on another blog that he constructed the puzzle WITHOUT the circles. Apparently, Shortz added them in editing. The thing would indeed have been so much cooler if solvers had to "spot the difference" between the two shaded areas themselves and then "kept the changes" and placed them into the unchecked squares. Huygens, as I like to say to my ACT students (about other topics, of course), you know what a LEXEME is, you just don't know that it's called a lexeme.englishteacher59https://www.blogger.com/profile/16790678319090827125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-17107526661410111692020-04-01T02:39:15.229-04:002020-04-01T02:39:15.229-04:00You never know what people will find familiar. LEX...You never know what people will find familiar. LEXEMES I got off a letter or two, and although I did spend some time pondering scalpels or the like until I had some crosses, a BONESAW is a familiar concept to me. On the other hand, DISTURNIA? Needed all the crosses, and even then it was more of a "sounds plausible" than any sort of familiarity.Jim Kingdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01857308320156877253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-22610572876426170682020-03-30T08:04:25.597-04:002020-03-30T08:04:25.597-04:0023:04
I found it a bit easy for a Sunday regarding...23:04<br />I found it a bit easy for a Sunday regarding fill, but LEXEMES is something with which I'm unfamiliar (don't SCOLD, ET59!), and I tried Legal before LICIT fell in via crosses, but nothing RUBS me the wrong way too much. I don't know of this DOBBY, but I thought it was nice to see SUSAN in the grid.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-31014683612649935582020-03-29T18:08:24.327-04:002020-03-29T18:08:24.327-04:00Interesting that it didn't catch your interest...Interesting that it didn't catch your interest the way it caught mine. I loved the SPOTTHEDIFFERENCE idea. Not entirely clear why BLACK and WHITE, though.Colum Amoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026647589873845732noreply@blogger.com