tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post3996882813904946137..comments2024-03-27T07:17:39.554-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Friday, January 6, 2017, Jacob StulbergHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-68955345989812338812017-01-07T13:48:05.662-05:002017-01-07T13:48:05.662-05:00I agree about the weakness of RESOD. I also didn&...I agree about the weakness of RESOD. I also didn't love MESSY for "chaotic." Doesn't strike me as a very precise synonym. But like Colum I didn't have any trouble with the NW quadrant. Helps that Cindi and the kids love EMPIRE, maybe. What made this tough for me was the NE. CEO and DSL took awhile, that's for sure. It would've helped if I had remembered where the CAVs play sooner too. Agree on the cleverness of DCCOMICS. Effective misdirection. Loved MYPRETTY and the bowling answers. Thumbs up overall for a good, toughish Friday.englishteacher59https://www.blogger.com/profile/16790678319090827125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-54434604438445894242017-01-07T07:23:29.335-05:002017-01-07T07:23:29.335-05:00DNF
And it took me 72:12 to finally realize that I...DNF<br />And it took me 72:12 to finally realize that I was not ever going to unlock that NE corner. I wanted urL very, very badly up at 12A (I got LOVEINS off of the clue, so had the "L"), and I wanted some financial acronym for 16A (CEO). Oddly, I had CAV, but wanted fIreS instead of WICKS. AEOLIAN would have required every cross for me, and SEASNAKE and DCCOMICS would not reveal themselves. Anyway, the rest of the puzzle took only around 25 minutes, and I did enjoy myself solving it until I was mired hopelessly.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-20462851047897217372017-01-06T22:17:02.098-05:002017-01-06T22:17:02.098-05:0017:03
Funny - I found the NW corner the easiest pa...17:03<br />Funny - I found the NW corner the easiest part of the puzzle. I started with TRE and then NERD, and then EMPIRE, and then ANIONS and RESOD, and the rest fell into place pretty easily. But the exits from that corner (HANS___ and ODAM__) were opaque to me. I wanted the artist to be Hals, obviously thrown off by Hans. Not to mention Hals' first name was Frans. Oh, well.<br /><br />Actually the SE fell next. You didn't mention the mini-theme of OVERTHEMOON and UNDERTHESUN. Very nice that those match in terms of length. I still needed Cece's help to figure out the SW corner. She immediately knew MYPRETTY (somehow I had missed that clue the first time through), and then got 37A: Place of rest (CRYPT) off of that Y! Very nice.<br /><br />I finished with DCCOMICS. Very clever.Colum Amoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026647589873845732noreply@blogger.com