tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post3811082320710247393..comments2024-03-29T07:26:22.640-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Saturday, May 20, 2017, Paolo Pasco and David SteinbergHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-59629780463475421332017-05-22T12:21:59.083-04:002017-05-22T12:21:59.083-04:0029:09 (FWOE)
AIRACES/DAB, where I'd entered an...29:09 (FWOE)<br />AIRACES/DAB, where I'd entered an "i" because a bit of space ice could probably make a shooting star, no? Anyway, the rest went fine, and pretty quickly for a Saturday. NOFAIR is where I broke in, too. I never heard of BECHDELTEST, but all crosses were fair, and I wanted "hop" at the end of DUSTMOP, but slowly figured that one out. IVORIES is good.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-24203596255579944332017-05-21T08:35:44.809-04:002017-05-21T08:35:44.809-04:0032:31 (FWOE)
I got you by a few seconds yesterday...32:31 (FWOE)<br /><br />I got you by a few seconds yesterday, but you more than made up for that today! My error came over in DIREWOLF, which I had never heard before. I know it was at the cross with PROW, but I can no longer remember what I guessed there. Definitely wasn't thinking nautically.<br /><br />Being a drinking photographer helped a lot in the NW, where I dropped in SAZERAC and RIIS immediately, and I thought things were going to fly right along.. but BAHIA and AIRACES in the opposite corner were the death of me. (And being something of a Luddite, I had never heard of FACESWAP!)<br /><br />A few clues didn't seem quite perfect, as you mention, and there were some pretty obscure entries (ODETS, BAHIA, SOREL, BECHDELTEST) but hey, it's Saturday, and all's fair.Horace Fawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.com