Played right at my average Friday time. Got stuck in the northwest to start. But overall a good Friday puzzle I thought.
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Highlights:
- HOMEALONE was nicely clued, I thought
- Enjoyed the puns on MOTHERSUPERIOR and PATERNITY TESTS
- Wonder if this is the first time that BITTORRENT has made it into the crossword?
- The MASH reference for CPL helped to amp up the difficulty on a piece of crosswordese while adding a little more flair
- ONTIPPYTOE was sort of fun
Not much to nitpick
- Had a hard time with YEAHWHYNOT. At various times had WELLWHYNOT, SUREWHYNOT, OKAYWHYNOT. Definitely contributed to my difficulty getting a foothold in the northwest.
- NODEAR was pretty bland, both as an answer and in the cluing
- Pretty sure that it was the WWF, not the WWE, when Triple H and the Ultimate Warrior were wrestling, at least at their peaks. Made it hard to get 6 down until I finally gave in and entered the “wrong” (anachronistic) acronym.
4 minutes over average on this one. Not a bad puzzle overall, though.
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Had BUGS bunny in there for the longest time which really tripped me up. PATERNITYTESTS was pretty funny. I thought that BitTorrent was just a client for torrenting, but apparently it’s a protocol as well!
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Yeah BUGS threw me off for a while as well. I immediately thought “Huh that’s a bit easy for a Friday”. Lola didn’t come to mind until after I checked the puzzle for errors.
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I just knew it couldnt be BUGS because I’d gotten PHEW right off the bat, and a descending line of
PB
HU
EG
WSDid not seem right to me.
Mini crossword link (free to play, account not mandatory): https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini
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0:22 today!
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Q: Do we really need spoiler tags here? Are people entering these discussion threads not having finished the puzzle?
Great question. We don’t have any rule regarding it – so far it’s just out of courtesy. I think it’s reasonable to not have to spoiler tag comments discussing answers.
If people have an issue with it, it can be discussed in the future.