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you can turn the crossword timer off in the settings

mookieproof, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:05 (seven months ago) link

Leee do you do the crossword on the computer or on the app?

, Thursday, 12 October 2023 11:56 (seven months ago) link

If I'm in bed, I'm using the app, but usually I'm on a desktop, especially if I'm solving for speed.

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Thursday, 12 October 2023 14:36 (seven months ago) link

I use a laptop, not the app, and haven't found a way to turn off the time stats on the main page using the settings.

I try doing the crossword using the app on my iPad when I'm traveling, but it's always a mess for me

Dan S, Thursday, 12 October 2023 23:18 (seven months ago) link

if by laptop you mean 'on the nyt website', uncheck this

https://i.imgur.com/IhzossD.jpg

(i also hate the running timer)

mookieproof, Friday, 13 October 2023 23:54 (seven months ago) link

thank you mookieproof

Dan S, Saturday, 14 October 2023 00:06 (seven months ago) link

Themed puzzle today. NE was incredibly hard for me to get into until I took a few chances.

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Saturday, 14 October 2023 15:42 (seven months ago) link

i found the one a few thursdays ago very difficult - the one about black ops maybe it was just because i hadn’t done one in a couple of months? felt more like a friday or even saturday tbh. v enjoyable tho

Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:25 (six months ago) link

one month passes...

Is anyone else having problems playing the NYT Xword on a desktop browser? It's not letting me log in, and so I have to play on mobile.

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:01 (five months ago) link

Clever puzzle today.

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Sunday, 17 December 2023 15:51 (five months ago) link

I liked it too but had the (frequent) sensation that I would solve it completely and correctly, and only get the theme later. Which is what happened.

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 17 December 2023 15:56 (five months ago) link

I’m gonna stream some crossword solving on twitch in about half an hour

https://twitch.tv/silby89

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 22 December 2023 21:29 (five months ago) link

very angered at ROLF on wednesday's xw

flopson, Friday, 22 December 2023 23:51 (five months ago) link

40-down in today’s NYT is wholly new to me

donna rouge, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 20:33 (four months ago) link

I think I'd heard the word before, but couldn't tell you what it meant.

The revealer is a 5/5 groaner.

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:07 (four months ago) link

yeah good puzzle today!

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 23:03 (four months ago) link

40-down is the name of a character in dune messiah iirc

, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:28 (four months ago) link

wow

i guess you no longer need the weirding module

mookieproof, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:30 (four months ago) link

three months pass...

Tomorrow's NYT theme is reminiscent of a puzzle I submitted to them 15 years ago, which was rejected.

Mine:

Full-grown frontiersman?: FOX CARSON
Full-grown rock musician?: KOALA RAMONE
Full-grown inventor?: SAMUEL HORSE
Full-grown actor?: RYAN GOOSE

NYT, 4/16/24:

*Actor who played Oscar Wilde in "Wilde" [fish]: STEPHEN FRY
*Inventor who patented the first revolver [stallion]: SAMUEL COLT
*English essayist who wrote "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once" [ram]: CHARLES LAMB
*Mouseketeer peer of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake [gander]: RYAN GOSLING
*Certain immature adult … with a hint to both halves of the answers to each starred clue: MAN BABY

Today's puzzle is admittedly better, conceptually -- but it's funny now to remember that one of the reasons I was given for why my puzzle was rejected was that Ryan Gosling wasn't famous enough.

jaymc, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:36 (one month ago) link

three weeks pass...

Cute theme today, which I didn't notice until I'd solved it.

The Mandymoorian (Leee), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:35 (one week ago) link

Clever theme today.

Bottom Cruise (Leee), Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:58 (yesterday) link

I didn't love it because there's two ways to fill it in, one of which leads to writing down some non-words. Which, when I put it like that...

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:13 (yesterday) link


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