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The remaining fill teetered between near wordplay and TV Guide trivia.īirds and chickens and the like PECK AT - when people aren’t hungry they pick AT. I’m 50-50 - I usually base themeless puzzles on the longs - which this one fails miserably on.
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Handsome grid layout - agree with Rex that it doesn’t look like a typical free flowing Friday.
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Our rent is low because we’re responsible for most home maintenance and minor repairs, so soon I’ll be learning how to install roof flashing (landlord covers materials at least). Basically, they’ve gotten just a bit too comfortable with us given the readily available food source. I wish I could just give in to the squirrels, but my landlord cut a LOT of corners on the house when he renovated it, and so we don’t have mesh on the chimney and the squirrels have taken to gnawing on the roof edges to try and get in and nest.
Re: SquirrelGate - thanks all for the tips. Basically, IMO, keep kvetching and crowing, kvetchers and crowers. There are as many wheelhouses as there are people in the world. I’m trying for speed at this stage I may not in the future. How I rate a puzzle is never meant to be an implicit judgment of how others experience it, or what their priorities are in doing puzzles.
Part of what keeps it fun for me is trying to get better - and since past a certain point solving ease is so subjective, I can only truly judge my current self against my self of past weeks, months, and eventually years. I assume that most of us come here to discuss crosswords with friendly internet strangers because we want to geek out with others with others with similar levels of passion for words and puzzles (and to spare our loved ones in many cases, I imagine 🙃). And, for the record in response to some commentary yesterday critiquing those who might congratulate ourselves or be publicly proud of a personal best, etc, I’m always delighted to read folks’ varying experiences of difficulty and yes, that includes bragging. I felt… verrrry sheepish when I finally looked it up, making it a DNF for me.Īll in all, I’d say this puzzle was easy-medium. So I had BRADY for too long, and got myself into a mess thinking that it *had* to be a person’s last name, even though I had most of the crosses and neighbors (but blanked on TACO BAR and THROE). My father’s name is Wayne, which means I tend to pay attention to famous Waynes. I tend to think of GAY ICONS as people who are not only beloved by queer communities but are also LGBTQ+ identified themselves, but I think I’m in the minority on that one. Lots of other biology trivia - I’m curious whether folks will see this puzzle as being too PPP-laden. Ie, the botanical definition of AREOLA (google STOMATA for another nerdy bit of leafy science). Clever cluing in places, clever alternate meanings in others. That said, I appreciated that they seemed to balance it out with some cluing aimed at different generations.Īnd in general, I liked this puzzle a lot. OK, google tells me:įrequently, with puzzles that seem by-and-for millennials and Zoomers, I feel both a bit relieved because it balances out some of the old guard tendencies in NYT cluing, *and* a bit bored because terms like NO MAKEUP MAKEUP and CONTENT CREATOR are very far from what I find most interesting about current and recent cultural trivia. It's make-up still, right? Is it just that you don't look like a clown? Or are there just no obvious non-face elements (like blue, or glitter)? I've never dated / married people who wore much make-up, so you got me here. Is it make-up that is supposed to make you look like you aren't wearing any? If so, that. I want to love NO-MAKEUP MAKEUP, but I don't know what it is ( 13A: Discreet look?). But back to my original point-the fill runs short today, with very few marquee answers, and the only marquee answer I really loved was SNEAKERHEAD (22A: One who collects just for kicks?) ("kicks" are another word for "shoes"). "There's no theme." There, that's better. If they are, hoo boy did I miss the theme. I had a momentary "no, not a theme, not on my precious themeless Friday!" panic attack and so quickly jumped to the next long Across, saw it had a regular, non-"?" clue, and breathed a sigh of relief. This had me thinking that the puzzle was themed at first, especially since the first two long Acrosses both get "?" clues, the way wacky theme clues might. That is, there are only four (!) answers of eight letters or longer, and they all run Across, in what is conventionally a themed-puzzle pattern. I think this may be due to the fact that there just aren't that many flow corridors (or "flow-idors". This is a solid puzzle, though it didn't provide the whooshy flow that I love to see on Friday.
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