tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post8025918910332892722..comments2024-03-27T07:17:39.554-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Saturday, December 5, 2015, David J. KahnHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-33828954998319483622015-12-06T06:28:12.299-05:002015-12-06T06:28:12.299-05:0035:54
Good time for me for a Saturday. I thought I...35:54<br />Good time for me for a Saturday. I thought I was on the wrong path when I had the RF of RFKSTADIUM entered through the crosses, but it turns out otherwise. BLUELINE went in immediately, and JOETORRE with only a few crosses (SONAR, ARMENIA and HENNER). Like Frannie, I knew MOREY and HENNER right away, but needed a cross to get MARYS. PINOCCHIO went in off of the ____HIO which let to JIMINYCRICKET. UMATHURMAN (nice to see the whole name) went in slowly since I never heard of the movie referenced. I wanted Oahu at 6D, but when I entered SANEST I knew it must be the often-seen ATTU. I suppose it's unlikely that I'll ever visit that island. I guessed MINARET immediately off of the clue, and NEPTUNE (37D Triton's locale) was a no-brainer, but CAPABLE had a clue that took me a while to understand properly, so CONAN didn't go in too quickly. LANCELOT was a gimme, although I've never seen Gere's version, either. The IRS record label is not known to me.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-17511668166503887412015-12-05T10:55:42.990-05:002015-12-05T10:55:42.990-05:00good point.good point.Horace Fawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-54980568184489784982015-12-05T09:59:34.739-05:002015-12-05T09:59:34.739-05:00P.S. I don't know about the clue for SHOTPAR. ...P.S. I don't know about the clue for SHOTPAR. Anybody who finishes a round of golf will be "consistently in the hole," no matter what they shoot. Colum Amoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026647589873845732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-87293296501089946372015-12-05T09:55:41.776-05:002015-12-05T09:55:41.776-05:0019:37
For a long time I had a fair amount in all t...19:37<br />For a long time I had a fair amount in all the corners without any connections between them. It was when I replaced baRED with AIRED at 22A: Not kept secret, that I finally connected everything. After that everything went pretty quickly. It's amazing how one wrong answer corrected can be the lynchpin for an entire grid. My entree into the puzzle was SONAR/JOETORRE, and like you, BLUELINE was my first answer in the SW.<br /><br />I'm going to call out APRILS as weird, seeing it twice in two days. Before that, the last time was in 2010, pre-Horace & Frances. Also, the veritable boom in appearances of SLO. Colum Amoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026647589873845732noreply@blogger.com