This is the crossword puzzle thread

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

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.

Clever puzzle today.

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.

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

https://twitch.tv/silby89

very angered at ROLF on wednesday's xw

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

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

The revealer is a 5/5 groaner.

yeah good puzzle today!

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

wow

i guess you no longer need the weirding module

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.