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
― 龜, 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
Tomorrow's NYT theme is reminiscent of a puzzle I submitted to them 15 years ago, which was rejected.
Mine:
Full-grown frontiersman?: FOX CARSONFull-grown rock musician?: KOALA RAMONEFull-grown inventor?: SAMUEL HORSEFull-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 week ago) link