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[Apr. 11th, 2008|02:06 pm] |
Hi everyone,
I've decided to start up this blog again, but at a new site with a new name, so I'll soon be deleting this account. An opening post is up at xwordcritique.blogspot.com, but regular content will not begin until May. Hope to see y'all there. :)
Jangler |
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| Walden, NYT, Sat Apr 21st |
[Apr. 27th, 2007|01:48 am] |
Finally got around to doing last Saturday's NYT puzzle, the one that took everyone twice as long as the typical Saturday. I don't really know how long it took, since I was on an airplane and fell asleep during takeoff, but I do want to note:
( etc. etc. )
For shame, Byron; for shame, Will. |
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| Thursday's NYTimes puzzle |
[Apr. 15th, 2007|10:54 pm] |
I'm all for informed consumers. This post is to inform consumers that a certain recent grid which contains such wonderful entries as TWI, ALETA, REZA, FMS, FLENSE and NEOSHO that a grid for the same theme, without all that awkwardness and obscurity is possible. What's more, it didn't take me an inordinate amount of time to assemble this grid. Which begs the question, of course: do puzzle consumers really want entries like this in their puzzles, or do they just put up with them?
--Craig
BEAM.ADOBE.THAW
ELLA.RIVER.EAVE
DEFROCKING.STAB
.CRIB.EDU.ATALL
STENOG..MEL.ROO
IRS..EYEBALLING
DICE.TAP.ROY...
.COMEDYCENTRAL.
...ILO.OWE.EVIL
WHOLENOTES..OVA
HIC.GEN..TARGET
ARTSY.EAT.REAL.
MEAL.ORTHOPEDIC
MOVE.DUVET.DREI
ONED.ONSET.SORT
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| NY Sun Friday 1/12/07 (by BEQ) |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|12:30 pm] |
Am I the only one who thinks this is too obscure?
I solved it correctly (in 23:45!) by good guessing and general knowledge of crosswords, but had no idea what was intended by words #1-20 (ie, 20 of the clues in the 15x15 were simply #1, #2, etc, and scattered throughout the grid). I even wrote them all out in order by number, and have no idea. The title, "You Can Say That Again!" didn't help.
Finally, I put words 1-10 into Yahoo! search, and the first hit was a BBC News article that explained it. A news article from last June. Maybe you have to read the Sun every day to understand it... was this topic discussed at length in the Sun? |
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| Cruciverb |
[Oct. 5th, 2006|01:41 pm] |
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Anyone know what's up with Cruciverb? I haven't been able to log in for a few days. |
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| NY Sun crossword, 8/18 |
[Sep. 30th, 2006|05:34 pm] |
As an antidote, I've been doing some old New York Sun crosswords I'd missed, and wow, it's nice to have good crosswords. But a gripe about the 8/18 puzzle:
( Just in case it'd spoil for someone )
(On the other hand, "He might have described himself as a coated knowledge professor" is brilliant.) |
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