tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post6836932467083913675..comments2024-03-29T03:05:05.578-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Thursday, December 1, 2016, Timothy PolinHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-89630521525149796662016-12-02T13:04:47.104-05:002016-12-02T13:04:47.104-05:0015:54
Great theme. WETKISS (7A Sloppy smooch) is p...15:54<br />Great theme. WETKISS (7A Sloppy smooch) is pretty funny, and was my first confident answer. AXIAL also went right in, as did LORAX and, really, a bunch of other stuff. I thought I had a pretty good time. I knew that there was something funky going on, and tried to enter a rebus with ANNEOFGREENGABLES thus: ANNEOFG[REEN]GABLES, but ZI[REEN]E didn't seem quite right. Fun Thursday, even though it ended with the unfortunate plural SKEETS.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-70786072953645839022016-12-01T19:52:28.758-05:002016-12-01T19:52:28.758-05:0011:15
I put in my last letter (maybe the C in CIN...11:15<br /><br />I put in my last letter (maybe the C in CINE) without understanding what was going on, and it took a several seconds for me to find the dips. When I saw the dashes I fixated on the idea that the black square would play some role, by hiding various letters or whatever. When I got BEANDIP I was too close to the end to mess around trying to figure it out. Luckily, everything was right!<br /><br />PELAGIC reminds me that I still haven't taken Ancient Greek, and I think that SCAD (54D: Slew) is really only used in the plural to mean "a lot." I might even go so far as to say it's wrong in the singular.<br /><br />But aside from that, I enjoyed the puzzle. LAMAZE (Labor day class?) was funny, and I, too, was stumped for way too long on IMAC. Hah!Horace Fawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.com