tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post8942530900886348011..comments2024-03-29T07:26:22.640-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Thursday, May 23, 2019, Alex VratsanosHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-46312698862556720802019-05-31T15:31:43.124-04:002019-05-31T15:31:43.124-04:0033:48
Nothing was too difficult for me with this o...33:48<br />Nothing was too difficult for me with this one, but you'd never know it from my time! It was slow-going, but steady. It's so long ago now, that I don't recall any of my thought processes, but regardless, now that I look it over, I vaguely remember thinking of a Seinfeld episode with DEARGOD, and that OXEYE is becoming easier for me to get through repetition.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-48141891905317002432019-05-23T22:27:25.613-04:002019-05-23T22:27:25.613-04:00I was solving away, noticing there were w bunch of...I was solving away, noticing there were w bunch of themers and they didn't seem to be in any obvious parts of the grid. Got the theme not super late but it took not only PLOT[POINT] (which I too wanted to be PLOT[twist]) but a few others before it fit into place. Only a while after that I got the rest of the revealer and then it was like Oh my gosh no wonder it seemed like a lot, there are 14 of the darn things!<br /><br />Approve of the ambition and the themers didn't strike me as particularly forced. The fill probably did suffer, though, I didn't know SWAGS and CLU and CHEATDAY and a few others.<br /><br />Finished with two errors (TeT in place of TNT, somehow thinking of "carbon tet[rachloride]" not that it really makes sense here; a typo on U?TERI which I must have just fat fingered).Jim Kingdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01857308320156877253noreply@blogger.com