App of the Day: NYTimes Crossword
SPANISH THEME 43D language that uses the letter ñ DESCRIPTION.
Word of the day Erinna 49D Greek poet who wrote the distaff Erinna r n ɪ ə; Greek Ἤριννα was an ancient Greek poet biographical details of his life are uncertain, it is generally to have lived in the first half of the fourth century BC, although some ancient traditions as have contemporary of Sappho; Telos is generally regarded as the place of the most likely birth but Tenos Teos Rhodes and Lesvos are also mentioned by ancient sources as its Erinna house is known for his long poem, the distaff A lament hexameters Three hundred line for his friend to 'Baucis child, who had died shortly after the wedding A large fragment of the poem was discovered in 1928 in Egypt with Behnasa are known distaff three epigrams attributed to Erinna, preserved in the Greek Anthology wikipedia.
This is one of those Hey I have a Great Idea ideas that probably sounded much better in my head than it appears on paper it's cute crosswordy premise here, we all know, and many have complained that ANO YEAR and are totally different words, but the crossword New York Times happily through N Ñ as there is no difference, which means that Spanish anuses were invading our puzzles for decades now we have real ns in the grid, working in both directions, first five times all it is is pretty boring PEÑA NIETO 18A Mexican President Enrique is the only themer interesting here and the only one I completely Blanked on the rest are, as you know, words filling suffering terribly because that dathunk when you themers passage cram into your corners, corners No love so much that I knew that things would be rough to INANET frowny-face I sava is not, however, they would get so bad that I lack INANET If the corner is poster child for Bad Decisions It is quite difficult to fill a corner like that with two themers in there but gets you three Three and Erinna Erinna need to do any manufacturer worth salt their smash their gate with a sledgehammer and start over again the only happy with Erinna I say is poor little INAT which is like Yay Nobody's looking at me This concept is much better when you spread love diacritical around so Ñ a cross, a cross of Ø É a cross, etc. I saw do it this way, I'm not quite sure, therefore, to summarize nonono.
I knew Bassos was Bassos B but my wife does not know you pluralized this way and went with BASS and since the vowel cross ago Dikembe MUTOMBO and for years 90 great men are not exactly his specialty, she LOW MUTOMBE Seems plausible mistake I had trouble with the second vowel MUTOMBO Other than that, I had no trouble, except when it came to remember the name of PEÑA NIETO I always think of Vincente Fox as president, even if it hasn t been true for 11 years ends in a fast time, which means that it was very easy, since the grid 16 across should even have made a puzzle medium difficulty in the long term.
THEME PINOCCH IO 58A Disney character refers to the encircled letters square circles contain letters N, O, S, E, which stretch further, as sequence, each subsequent theme responses.
NO SE rvice 17A What zero bars on a cell phone shows.
N ATI O NAL PA S TIM E 46A Baseball, America.
Word of the Day O n the beach 51D On beach heroin on the beach is a 1959 American drama film post-apocalyptic fiction United Artists produced and directed by Stanley Kramer that stars Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner Fred Astaire Anthony Perkins the black- and white film is based on the novel by Nevil Shute 1957 same name, following a nuclear war Unlike the novel, no blame is placed on who started the war; is alluded to in the film as the threat of annihilation could be born from an accident or wikipedia misjudgment.
Hello darkness, my old friend Sorry, did I say the dark I meant squares surrounded themes-nonconsecutive The NOSE stretching, OK, cute, but there should have been some level of elegance added to construction which is concerned the expansion NOSE, by which I think minimally extensions should all involved keep NOSE letters symmetrical third iteration, the neuroscientists is GRID-ment due to loppedness NOSE Press a square and E you something, but it is wobbly and therefore filling anomalously is mostly dull NYT standard with not much interest unless you follow the school of thought that some interference Xs and Js in your grid makes intrinsically more interesting than it would be otherwise.
The concept of NOSE done to get them very easy theme to responses after the first two themers were set, I just came in both NOSE themers, but this was somewhat offset by the ease remaining few difficult moments.
34D recreational device which holds 35 down 34 35D View down SCUBA AIR side by side cross-reference indexes in a very narrow space difficult to suss out quickly, especially as recreational device is not a term I for internal use and specifically sCUBA diving -y nothing about it.
38D SCANS Reads carefully for the millionth time, most people use this word to say the opposite of what the index says.
24D modern prefix with skeptical EURO - nice and modern, but very difficult to come up with no more crosses.
36D Imitate MIMETIC Had the first letters and wanted a version of MIMIC I guess the answer is, at some level, but MIMETIC is very unusual and in my mind, in particular literary.
51D on heroin beach Moira is the most absurd idea of the day which is on the beach and since when is it famous enough for me to know the name of her heroine, I see it is an old novel and a non-that- famous movie if you as the stars of famous people, but really, heroin Come back to earth.
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