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9 months agoThis was it! Thanks - makes much more sense now. Thanks!
coys25
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Definitely had that same mixup briefly.
TROMPE was the one that clued me in, though. Definitely love a good trompe l’oeil…
Wow, I really enjoyed that one!
Lots of great fill (spoilers)
First, the triple stacks in the NE and SW: CLEARASMUD // TORTELLINI // EARLYBIRDS and IMPRIMATUR // SPOONERISM // HERDEDCATS. I almost stood up and applauded!
The downs are great too. TROMPE l’oeil, TORPOR, CLAWFOOT (with TUB for good measure), TEDLASSO, a great bit of light misdirection in the clue for STEEPENS, RANRIOT, DEALIO.
Working in both a good Always (PADS) clue and MIRENA to get away from the usual old white guy bias? Cluing TASSEL in the burlesque sense? JET clued in relation to Ebony magazine? I’m here for all of it!
Essentially a perfect Friday for my taste. 👏👏👏
Yeah, really agree - but I was surprised by the lack of rebuses or other tricks. Seemed much more like a Wednesday? But still fun!
That was… something.
3·10 months agoYeah, I barely use quick tap. The swipe down was so intuitive, and with a bigger phone triple tapping requires you to rebalance the phone in your hand, etc.
Do you have Quick Tap enabled? I have mine set up to show notifications (I miss the old ability to swipe down on the rear fingerprint reader), but yours might be set up to play/pause media.
Yeah - it took me a minute even after finishing the puzzle but was somewhat rewarding. Hard to do a good theme on a Monday, but this was an ok one.
Thought this was a pretty normal difficulty for a Monday, but the fill seemed really clunky…
spoilers
Too many unnecessary plurals, several of which took crosswordese answers and made them worse by adding an S just because: MEDAYS, NOOKS, ROOS, RENTS (clued as a plural noun instead of a verb?), ETAS, SSNS (!), and more.
The rest wasn’t great either. USHAPED USTOO ORALB etc. Mondays are supposed to be cleaner than this…
That’s wild! I thought it was fairly easy for a Friday, but still took me 19:20 (5 minutes faster than my average, but you must have been flying!)
Yeah, I had never heard of cryptic crosswords until the post here a little while ago. I read a bit about them then, and that was the first thing that came to my mind with this puzzle!
There is !reddead@lemmy.world, but it’s pretty quiet. You could try posting there to get some of that content going. It’s a bit of a vicious cycle, though - the lack of content drives people away, leading to less content.
I will say that even in smaller communities I find that people are quite helpful here with questions, which is great.
It does seem like the post reddit boom of interaction and growth has waned, thought, and many of the communities that were starting to grow are now much quieter than they were a few weeks ago. I think that the lemmy.world downtime for so long really drove people away, which is a shame.
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With you on NAIF - the N was the last thing that I filled in. I had wAIF instead and it just wasn’t clicking. (Not knowing ILENE Chaiken made the cross harder).
Yeah that was definitely the worst of the fill… Not super fun, that one