I'm still a little wtf over this Tausig one from the other day (I'm working through his book). The clue is "Good Buddy" and the answer is "CBER". I assume it's CB radio, but still doesn't quite make sense to me?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
cockblocker?
I'm guessing that someone who uses CB radio is a CBer, in the same way that Tausig uses the clue "Recipient of 'You've got mail' message" for AOLER.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
just "CBer," as in one who does CB? seems ok to me
xpost dang it
― n/a, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/movies/full/31/317347.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah guys, I know that CBer is one who does CB, but how do you get that from "good buddy"?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
that is CB slang, they say stuff like "ten-four, good buddy."
― n/a, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/1977/posters/smokey_and_the_bandit.jpg
Across Lite is the program that you use to enjoy .puz files, and you can get it from the NYTimes website, and they distribute their puzzles to online subscribers in that format. Someone you know might have a year's worth of such .puz files, but he has perhaps already worked through them all.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, you're supposed to have no more than [a certain number] of black squares if you hope to get published by the big-leagues, and certain black-square formations are frowned upon (full 90 degree right angles -- basically anything Tetris-y).
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it's 17% black squares, or 40 squares in a 15x15 puzzle. Though Tausig had one that was 46 recently.
certain black-square formations are frowned upon (full 90 degree right angles -- basically anything Tetris-y).
I didn't know this.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure it's as hard-and-fast a rule as the percentage one, but on those rare occasions when I see such a puzzle, I'm always a little startled by it. I dunno, I should flip through one of my NYTimes books to make sure I'm not fooling myself about it.
Diagramless puzzles, of course, are all about that.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cruciverb.com/index.php/articles/htmlpages/120
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
A++ for "Paris's friend," Jaymc -- actually took me a while, with excellent payoff
― nabisco, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Total pro-level theme on that one, too!
Ha, I sort of wrote that one with you in mind, N!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
The "Paris's friend" clue, I mean.
I had to look that one up after I got the answer, I don't watch that show.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
At first I thought it was going to be some Trojan warrior. But I saw the show out of the corner of my eye enough when my wife was watching it to figure it out.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I alread e-mailed this to jaymc:
Haha, on your crossword, I initially had CLASH OF THE TITS (crossing with CUTS DOWN)! I know it's CLASH OF THE TANS and GUNS DOWN now. It works with the theme, though!
― Jordan, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Derived from CLASH OF THE TITITS?
― nabisco, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Suddenly I feel like Jordan knows some way of spelling "titties" that I don't
Ha. Well, that was the first theme answer I got and I thought the theme was maybe just removing two letters.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it does kind of work both ways! If only there were an old book about fashion trends and female body shapes, entitled CLASH OF THE "IT" TITS
― nabisco, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Just finished this week's Ink Well puzzle. Jordan, let me know when you've done it, because I want to complain. :)
― jaymc, Thursday, 3 January 2008 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you guys do the Harper's crossword puzzle too? Cause I always look at that thing in wonder.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 3 January 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
That's on the other thread The official bored-at-work cryptic crossword pass it on thread.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Also just found this in the archives Favorite Oldschool NY TImes Crossword Clues
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Was I drunk that day? How did I miss that thread. Gah.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Maleska thought he was making the world a better place by getting people familiar with variant spellings of AERIE. If he didn't preserve such knowledge, who would?
― Casuistry, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
eagles
― nabisco, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Don Henle y
Yesterday's NYT theme was gay.
― Jordan, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I did a new puzzle and put it in Across Lite (.puz) format. I think it's pretty tight. I can e-mail it to anyone who's interested. Download Across Lite here first, if you don't already have it.
― jaymc, Monday, 7 January 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Or I can put it up on Flickr, too -- just give me a day or two.
― jaymc, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
E-mail it to me! My first name, then my last name, then @gmail.com. Or whatever address you have for me.
― Casuistry, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Generally assume you can/should e-mail them to me.
Sent.
― jaymc, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
All I can recall from my crosswording era is that any clue regarding sea eagles has the answer: erne.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Aimless, see the link about a dozen posts up.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
The local syndicated easy one has the classic "fruity drinks" clue every other day.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I spent the last few days of being sick solving a book of dumbed-down xwords that the man got for me from the dollar store. Perfect way to pass the time without really having to think.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude but now looking at the other thread it had hell of ASTA and ESAU solutions. And some four-letter word for a water pitcher that started with EW but never bothered to look at the finished word once I'd filled in all the other clues. Another frequent one: tipple = SOT.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
EWER.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
A lot of the crosswords I'm like, "I couldn't do 1/7 of these clues had I not known the bible so well as a youth." Then they throw some "Desperate Housewives" clue at me and fuck if I don't feel like an old, old, old person.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel totally lame, jaymc, for having a hard time making my own Jumble puzzles after reading yr breezy description of how you throw together a themed crossword.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
We forgot "case=E---" on the other thread.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that ETUI?
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I tried to play that in Scrabble recently, except I think I thought it was EPUI.
I can't find EPUI in an English or French dictionary, but you do get quite a few google hits for it.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
you can turn the crossword timer off in the settings
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:05 (five months ago) link
Leee do you do the crossword on the computer or on the app?
― 龜, Thursday, 12 October 2023 11:56 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
thank you mookieproof
― Dan S, Saturday, 14 October 2023 00:06 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
Clever puzzle today.
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Sunday, 17 December 2023 15:51 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
very angered at ROLF on wednesday's xw
― flopson, Friday, 22 December 2023 23:51 (three months ago) link
40-down in today’s NYT is wholly new to me
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 20:33 (three 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 (three months ago) link
yeah good puzzle today!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 23:03 (three months ago) link
40-down is the name of a character in dune messiah iirc
― 龜, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:28 (three months ago) link
wow
i guess you no longer need the weirding module
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:30 (three months ago) link