This is the crossword puzzle thread

have no idea what TOS stands for

lotsa SW words show up as fill with some regularity (REN, LEIA, SITH, SOLO). hate ARTOO whenever i see it

The Original Series

JEDI has been in there 42 times
YODA 56 times
HAN SOLO 22 times, not to mention the related partials

HANSOLO, I meant

ARTOO 53 times!

:)

And then of course there is ENDOR. 29 Shortz Era appearances, 143 total, although of course it is sometimes clued as, especially in the Before Times, “Home of a Biblical witch.”

Tomorrow’s puzzle okay, but not as good as today’s.

James Redd +tB is posting from the future

(Psst, puzzle drops at 10PM on weekdays, earlier on the weekend)

Yeah and that has messed up my streak sometimes. Late in the evening, I go to what I think is current - and by default it gives me tomorrow's puzzle. Unless I check carefully, this means that I might not get credit (in this particular arbitrary and probably stupid niche-world) for today.

With a halfway-decent time machine I bet I could kick all your asses at Wordle. Anyhow carry on

I hate how much the NYT crossword leans on Star Wars shit

agreed, but at least i mostly know the star wars shit -- the harry potter shit, however

feeling that post

Me too. Feel like it don't see it that often but when I do it I get a litle antsy.

Should have capitalized that: ANTSY.

oh yeah, ugh @ HP stuff in xwords

knowing the bare basics of all fandom is a wise research topic
though tbf i would better spend my time learning basic geography

Ha, mistakenly thought there was a Star Trek TOS reference just now.

Wondering if I should come back into the fold and subscribe to Fireball once more

I re-upped last year, jr+tb, and the quality level of Fireball is still strong.

Thanks!

Tomorrow’s puzzle seems to be late.

Oh wait, just showed up as I was typing that.

Anyone going?
https://crosswordtournament.com/info/brochure.htm

I've been getting AVCX puzzles via email but don't know how to open them in any of the android apps I've tried (alphacross and Shortyz), any help would be appreciated.

Have you emailed Ben yet?

Do you need his email?

Also, friend says he uses puzzazz for those

On iPad though but surely puzzazz is on Android as well

Not on Android. :(

Really did not want to bother with today’s theme sorry.

39A was spicy here: https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=3/4/2022

lol that was a good puzzle. I like that author's note too

Okay that one was indeed a good puzzle.

'docusoap' is a no, tho

I never heard of it before and didn’t mind it myself that much but can see why you would.

Natan Last appearance today!

Seems like you are his biggest fan on this thread.

Anyway this puzzle today was indeed a good one.

always enjoy natan last's new yorker puzzles

Today’s I liked

And today. From Claire Rimkus and someone else I am unfamiliar with.

Natan Last seems like it should be a palindrome of some sort. My first thought every single time I see that name.

I mean an anagram. Either that or a palindrome.

Nast T. Anal

Thank you! That must have been what I was thinking of

Today’s puzzle was okay although I got tripped up in the Eastern Lower Center.

But really I came to say that Bob Klahn is still the greatest although I am not sure when he last published a puzzle.

I definitely fall on the Rex Parker end of the continuum and thought today's was dumb, and I'm saying that as someone who enjoys puns.

Yeah, I'm not necessarily recommending it, maybe I was just in a patient mood this morning.

Isn't this the fundamental problem with having to have an opinion about the puzzle every single day? Xwords kind of depend on crosswordese and bad puns, or so it seems to me, therefore complaining about them can seem to be beside the point, unless there is a particular egregrious example, which maybe today's was, although I was immune for whatever reason. It does seem like the Next Generation such as Erik Agard and Claire Rimkus is making some kind of progress. On the other hand sometimes even somebody like BEQ's attempts to vajazzle it up sometimes fall flat, to me anyways.

Full disclosure: Years ago I used to enjoy talking to Claire's dad, Pete, along with the rest of the Connecticut Contigent at tournaments and I set right next to Erik at Lollapuzzoola one year. Think Andy Kravis was on the other side of me.