Fun Good one Jake Halperin Mohair is right again. I mean about Rex's silly bitching. He's too gentle, but that's why he's the blogs favorite. Thanks to Moore. Math after Eller is Mehta, is pretty darn good. And anybody else have a problem, or at least dislike clueing Ono as a peace activist?
A bit highfaultin for heexample imo. Nice puzzle! Sir Hilary, I've listened to an oboe turning the orchestra for decades without asking why, and your question prompted me to find out Anonymous's link didn't work for me.
According to the Rockfor Symphony's FAQ, the oboe became the tuning instrument because "[t]he bright, rather penetrating sound of the oboe was easy to hear, and its pitch was more stable than gut strings, so it was natural to rely on it for tuning.
I used to post daily and have my own blog in the evildoug and ACM days Still enjoy lurking and doing the puzz Grow up. You zip through puzzles that take most of us far longer. But please, show us some self-awareness. The last few hundred years would have been a better, more pleasant time if Marx and Nietzsche had had some distance from their overweening adolescent male rage.
The world of crossword puzzle blogging would likewise be a more pleasant place if you showed us more distance from yours in your writing. Same point, applied to your relationship to Will and the NYT puzzle.
Please grow up from "You're so mediocre, Dad. The motes in his eye as an editor would be planks in yours--in particular, he has a remarkable clue-by-clue creative flair that in my judgment is simply not there in your own constructions--mine, and pretty much any one else's in the world.
Same point, applied to politics. Political passion is all v. Thank you very, very much! You are that good as an insta-writer for me to dream you could be even better You have enriched my life, not least with your flaws, and to you, and to them, I am grateful. You really have to know from the start that I don't think I could randomly fill in letters as fast as the solving times most of you report.
I find it most effective to time myself with a sun dial. So--consider the source, but I really liked this puzzle. Sounded like a game to me. Lots of fun, as a game-themed puzzle ought to be. Typical Wednesday time for me: eleven degrees. Hey All! Happy Rex called it Med-Challenging, cause I was getting stuck all over the place. Thought Rex would say "This puz was the easiest ever", so happy he didn't. Actually had to Reveal Word on that, as the G and N were pretty much non-inferrible.
And OEUF? Crossed with the "? Had to ESC that section with another Reveal cheat. I thought I was just tired from last night.
ALAS, not so. I think I should patent that word! I woke up in the middle of the night dreaming of this crossword puzzle, trying to solve it. I was a little disappointed the the puzzle in today's paper was not the one in m dreams.
A perfect Weds puzzle I thought. I would guess that orchestras tune to an oboe because it is a reed instrument whose pitch does not vary or waver with the force of the player's breath -- there is only a single right sound and the player knows it. Essentially the only way to change the pitch is to alter the length of the instrument.
Plus you do not have multiple corrections to make as you must do with any stringed instrument. At least that's my supposition. Actual players, please chime in. Off topic and late but: A good friend and world-renowned vet recommended the following for my dog who was terrified of storms, fireworks, gunfire, etc.
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Those of us in this man's circle of friends kiss his feet after every storm. I found this hard but doable. Liked this puzzle a lot. Of course,I am not trying to fly through it just to get it out of the way like Michael Sharp. I love it when I have to work at it, come back to clues when I have added, maybe, one letter from a cross and then the light bulb comes on. Never the right ones in his opinion.
I'm waiting to work one of HIS puzzles in the Times Never mind. I really, really, really enjoyed this puzzle. It was harder than a usual Wednesday but what really delighted me was that the fill was very fresh and new, and where it wasn't, the cluing was. No acne, no Latin verbs, no Roman numerals those should be banned. Rex had some valid points and it did take a bit for me to see past GOON to GO ON, but overall I thought this a very fresh, new, lively, interesting puzzle and am excited to see more from this new constructor.
Very nicely done, Jake Halperin! You have a fan in me! Rex, Old Stick! How can a game that is 2, years old not be "classic"? The puzzle seemed hard at the beginning but I finished close to my average time. As an avid board gamer myself, I agree with Rex. If you ask a board gamer to list classic games, they almost certainly would not mention go or chess.
If people recognized Go immediately as a classic board game, you would not have so many people reading it as GOON. Another Anon. I couldn't get the link to open. Here are a few cents' worth of answer to the question: The tone of the oboe is distinctively penetrating and focused and this makes it very easy for all the other kinds of instruments to hear the oboist's reference note while playing their own against it.
The timbre tone quality is also strongly focused on the fundamental pitch. The oboists usually sit in the center of the orchestra and can be heard equally well across the stage.
The oboist can sustain a single pitch longer than any other wind or brass instrument due to the extreme resistance to the breath that the instrument presents - also the reason oboists have a shorter average life expectancy than other musicians. Yep,tough Wed.
I agree GO seems like an outlier, but like Hartley I thought the theme was catchy and I liked the long downs. Nice debut, liked it.
I liked 'goon'! Had to stare for a while before I got it. What is and what is 'ens'. The only thing I could think of was uhf v vhf which used to in the olden days produce different signal strengths of reception on your TV dial. Show of hands. Only 74 words, so had lotsa extra long stuff. Or CAR. Have a game in my closet called CABBY, tho; it is excellent -- its rules actually sorta encourage players to "cheat"!
Plus, that nearby ENS clue was kinda "classically"? Also, contains my 2 staff weeject picks, btw. VAR also rates a friendly har. Would think GO is yer "most classic" board game entry, in this theme rodeo, btw.
Welcome to the grid. Masked Anonymo6Us p. RP: "Classic" write-up, U snarkopotamus. Goth blog! I disagree about go, and I was fine with orama. Solidly agree on the rest, glad its not just me. A few notes, wtf is "noes"? Are we just pluralizing things however we want now? And how did they get the idea that a- h- n- tests were a thing? I keep seeing this answer, but I've never seen it anywhere but a crossword.
The clue doesn't hint that there is an abbreviation, I have never seen or heard someone mention an "n-test" and searching for "n-test" doesn't come up with anything nuclear related. Did they just decide they were going to make this a thing?
Congrats on the debut, Jake! When I see your next puzzle, I'll know I'm not in for a cakewalk, no matter what day of the week it is or even if its theme IS something I care about. Yes I think n- h- and n-tests were invented solely for crosswords. I've never heard anyone refer to them that way.
Had no idea about either, so I just filled in letters until it took, but it didn't. Added a minute to my time to track that down. Lots of problems with this puzzle for me. SEND for thrill? Just no. Vague, yes, but it's a group of people making food, so I didn't think it was wrong. I knew my error was in there and came up with the IF to finish. Same initial reaction as OFL's wife, is there a game called Vacation?
I completely passed GO. Decent puzzle, I say. Wouldn't advise it. Good Wed. GO is the most classic board game in history. It is found all over China, Japan, Korea, etc. There is even a Japanese college for advanced GO players. Mao supposedly planned his takeover of China following a GO strategy as told in a book entitled "The Protracted Game". GO was the very last board game to fall to a computer opponent, whereas Chess was conquered by computer a long time ago.
I have two GO boards in my house, including one that is several inches of solid wood and uses slate stones for black and shell stones for white. It is an incredible game of strategy that is easy to learn, but can take more than a mortal lifetime to master!
I think it's both fair, and not like the others. I've never been any good at Go, though I was quite good at Go-Maku which is played on the same board, with the same pieces, but is much simpler. We are a family of gamers, but these days play mostly the new ones aimed at somewhat older audiences - Dominion not actually a board game , Carcassonne also probably not a board game , Hero Realms a board game are current favorites. I had an instructor who pronounced a word as "heighth," rhyming with "length" and "width.
What was it this time? The Asian board game GO? For 19A Gift from heaven," I thought manna, pennies, penny. Yes, cent. Even led me to 10D Cooking class? Charley, per Rex's writeup: P. I loved and laughed at DERE. How many friends do I have that simply cannot and don't care about how they pronounce the American th? And sorry, the accent is joyful to my ear and doesn't carry any racist baggage. Accents thrill me no end.
I crossed my fingers it worked, and it did.! What a wonderful name - Mrs. That held me up something fierce. I love me some MAS and have missed him no menos. I know he will always have something foodie and something musical. Speaking of RIS de eau YES TomAz In Argentina they eat them in the parrilladas they famously cook.
They melt in your moth. Too bad they are referred as "offal" and too bad so many think they are from the lower extremities of the bull like my husband Had no Googles today other than to check my answers. I thought it had two LL's. Maybe I'm old, maybe I'm a trivia dork, maybe it was a wheelhouse thing -- OK, all three -- but I sailed through this. The collection long entries are simply spectacular, with three great triple stacks and six!
Holy crap! Not today though. Every once in a while, two wrongs do make a right. Like DERE, it just sits there owning its badness. Tennis fans tend rightly to remember the US Open for age Jimmy Connors storming to the semis before tiring out against Jim Courier.
Well, Edberg absolutely destroyed Courier in the final with perhaps the most brilliant display of serve-and-volley tennis I have ever seen. I really miss players like him, but with racquet technology being what it is, those days are gone forever. Bravo, MAS!
Mas, por favor! Quite the Friday workout. Regardless of age most baseball fans are likely to know of Dizzy Dean. And probably a couple older folks know Dr Dre. Though not me. Believe me, sweetbreads don't melt in your moth. Dog Lover and 70 in Nampa. My cat, Marmalade always playfully swatted our Lab, Murphy on the nose. It was the sweetest swat you ever saw. Got everything except the the SE. Was Jared Leto really an idol? She has the full support of this animal loving crowd so but out.
Perhaps think before disparaging someone. Enjoyed DERE, as in rhat dere. Perfectly acceptable. DIXIEjazzband… nope. DIXIElandband… nope. There it is! I really liked this puzzle otherwise. Hey All! Reread her post, she said the pup is trying to herd the cat. Ok puz. WONKY as clued is wonky. Not preoccupied with arcane details. That's ANAL. The word, that is.
Have to agree with the DERE opposers. Just seems off somehow. Even though there are only three X's, it seemed I kept finding them. Apart from that SE corner, managed to get the rest of puz fairly fast. The cluing on the crosses up there wasn't great either.
Weird clue. And "apotheosis" is kind of related to IDEAL, I guess, but not a close enough synonym to justify the one-word clue there, imo. Had sara and seto instead of Lara and Leto. And I found this one easy other than that one square. Needed to google for Gibbs first name and the L in Lae and that enabled me to finish. In all other respects found the puzzle challenging but enjoyable. Hartley70 - I chuckled at your last paragraph. No need to explain, not knowing makes the story better. The problem is the mocking, not the vernacular.
This puzzle, with a pretty obvious New Orleans motif, can hardly be accused of mocking. XII - Ugh. Isolated corners - Ugh. Otherwise I really liked this. I worked with a gentleman from northern Minnesota decades ago, i. Practically every TH word he spoke started with a D: da, dis, dat, dere, dose, dem, etc. Quite a pleasant Friday, thanks to MAS. Very entertaining, and you might pick up a fact or two. Oh yeah, the puzzle Another hope dashed I thought the puzzle was challenging. It took me a while to get going, but once I did get going, it went pretty smoothly.
So dere. It was an impertinence up with which she would not put. The cat is doing the swatting! Jeez, people, get a clue! I kept chipping away at it and enjoyed every second of it, but my time was abysmal.. It was a real solid grid with good cluing and I only blame myself for taking so long.
I'm trying to process what it means that someone can sincerely ask if a Dot Matrix is "apparently a kind of printer? I looked at this briefly last night and struggled and only got about 3 answers and said forget it. But this morning it was smooth and pleasant -- I wouldn't say it was easy, but it put up very little resistance. Horrible what happened to her in Egypt. Still an enjoyable struggle though. Only slightly higher than average Friday time.
I agree about DERE though Made up or racist or both. I loved to listen to him talk. That implied that the "doctor" was a PhD doctor. So doctors don't need to take them, PhD candidates need to take them to become a doctor. It doesn't have to be. It wasn't for me.
If you are a graduate student seeking a terminal degree, when the time comes to do the dissertation, make sure all of your committee members are completely informed and are in agreement and approval at every step of the way, from the initial proposal, to the research methods, and down to the final dissertation copy.
But with climate change all around, that may no longer be the case. I was once on a hiring committee where one of the other members opposed hiring a candidate I thought was excellent because, "she's a dese and dose kind of person.
So I get how it can be pejorative, but I didn't think it was here. Anyway, tough puzzle. Never noticed until now that the second version needs an additional letter.
I got RIS from the crosses without noticing. I ate it though, it wasn't bad -- and you're supposed to get organ meats in bistros, after all. I was surprised and elated to learn that there was a star athlete tennis?
Golf has an Open, but you wouldn't call it "singles," right? No relation, though. Then I come here to learned that it was really someone named "Edberg;" now my day is ruined. Alternate clue: Why did people go on the Grand Tour? Epic fail in the SE and East Central for me today. And on a MAS puzzle, one of my favorites! It's enough to make me sad for the rest of the afternoon. I had no idea. Then I began to wonder if it should be DERr.
My straw was baled and then dried. Journalist Logan was "who? Har, printers! Anon , I know it's butt not but. You try typing with paws and no opposable thumb! Hey, DERE! Older guy [ 30A. VI - II] here and I had a blast with this one. A shame, because Edburg could play. Lots of fun longer words and mischievous clues. Perfect Friday. Thanks, MA-S. Please reconsider. Well I'm the older solver and this one was brutal for me. I'm also a composer, so rather than finding glissandi "dramatic" I find them "trite", or even "boring".
I love a Gershwin tune, how about you? Yet I never heard of the eponymous "Liza". The Gibbs never did much for me, I guessed Bobby. I do know funny Anne, but I always want her last name to be Mirin. No clue about Neal Brennan; never heard of him.
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