![]() ![]() Had never known before that a corporal was an NCO.įirst off, thanks to everybody here who helped raise the 35,000 euros or dollars or whatever to get me out of jail in Switzerland. ![]() No complaint that the i in ILE has an accent circumflex, while the I in TACONIC does not? :) The highest natural element is number 92, uranium, so that was easy if one remembers one's chemistry. Further, when I took chemistry, we used the metric system, but "1,000 large calories" wasn't called a "therm,", it was simply called "1,000 kilocalories."Īlso never heard the word URANIC before, but OK, what else could pertaining to element 92 be about. Yes, the puzzle definition is legit according to Google, but in the United States, Con Edison's definition is by far the most used. The puzzle writer's therms have enough energy to heat up 1,000 kilograms of water 1 degree Celsius, or about 1/25th of Con Edison's therms. And their therms are 100,000 BTUs, where a BTU is enough energy to increase the temperature of a pound of water a degree Fahrenheit. My Con Edison gas bill charges me for each therm of gas I use. *apparently the title is a pun on "mass hysteria," which, you know, doesn't really work, 'cause if you had that lisp you'd say "math hythteria," but OKĪn unnecessarily obscure definition for THERM. Read about recent puzzles here / Subscribe here. Also, if you aren't a subscriber to Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest (a weekly meta-crossword of varying degrees of difficulty), you are very much missing out on the fun (and occasional self-loathing). Matt Gaffney’s current puzzle will alternate weeks with selections from the archives." Matt is a prolific and meticulous constructor, so this is very good news. Here's the promo copy: "The New York Crossword is finally online, appearing each Sunday night at /crossword. New puzzle alert! Well, not new, but newly available online: Matt Gaffney's New York magazine crossword puzzle is now available for your solving pleasure. Which leads to the question: Is anyone actually Editing these? For cleanness, I mean? I get that the Theme is the Thing, but the Rest of the Puzzle should not be a Drag. Now I haven't checked to see if this version duplicates answers (or answer parts) somewhere else in the grid, but the point is that you can scare up another version, just as clean, with very little effort. just why? Why is it? Why not PENT? Is "stop" somewhere else in the grid? How in the world do you decide to go with a foreign name *part* over a normal word? There are so so so many ways to ditch 1. OPA? SCALER? ECOL? STATOR? DERALTE? URANIC? OME!?! I'm at a loss. When you're hitting the *erstwhile* Brazilian national airlines, you know you've got a problem. the fill in this one is too often stale and weak. It's also terrible fill, so ditch it for that reason alone.Īnd then ELA HIFIVE VARIG. ![]() It will never not evoke American parody of Japanese speech. And " AH, SO"!?!?!? How is this answer not dead and buried for all eternity. POETESS? And you don't even mark it as "dated" or "quaint" or "bygone" or "gendered" or anything? Sappho was a poet. And why is "hysteria" in the title, by the way?* What is "hysterical" about this? "Hyster-" means "uterus," which is ironic given how much this is a boy puzzle for boys. Gotta love a theme that requires explanation. Why do I care? The "x" in x^2 = 666 is the *SQUARE* ROOT OF ALL EVIL, isn't it? Sorry if I'm not up on my mathematical annotation, which I haven't thought about in three decades. x - y = x - y = SAME DIFFERENCE? Anything = Anything = SAME ANYTHING. L x A = LOS ANGELES TIMES? How? LOS TIMES ANGELES, maybe, but if you're gonna go all "math hysteria" on me, your equations better be on point, not merely adjacent to point. From the title to the themers to the fill (which is shockingly dated and weak), this one is so caught up in its own imagined cleverness that it never really becomes an enjoyable *puzzle*. ![]()
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