Today’s big Sunday puzzle featured an excellent theme with a bonus step at the end that was significantly hampered by a very silly technical choice on the NYT solving software. Join me for this frustrated solve! – If you’d like to directly support this channel, consider signing up to my Patreon to receive exclusive bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/dailysolve
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This is the New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, 1 May 2022:
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00:00 Introduction
01:52 Today’s solve
51:39 Puzzle recap
54:26 Yesterday’s clues
59:15 Epilogue
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Great puzzle… until the end. I would never think to use punctuation like this.
The disappearing Chris thing at the end was pretty crazy, too.
You forgot to go back and look at the clue that was stumping you, after getting it with crosses: "Parts of many skyscrapers", for which the answer was IBARS. One of those odd moments where you can't bring to mind an answer which you have immediately leapt to many times previously!
Well done on a tough solve, even if we probably do need to get you a mug saying "check the crosses, check the title, check the clue, check your spelling" for when you're having an off-day 😉
Suggested alternative to 'obscenicon': 'verboticon' (verboten + emoticon).
The mention of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's superhit WAP (Wet Ass P***y) and CASUAL SEX makes today's puzzle the most risqué I've seen in NYT history.
There was an identical technical problem in a puzzle of Thursday March 18, 2021, in which some cells were revealed to be blank, but nevertheless had to be filled in in a weird way to complete the crossword. At that time, the NYT comments section erupted with frustrated comments: but did they take notice and make changes? Nope. The comments section today is full of people who've lost their streaks having to deal with this nonsense once again.
I’ll say as an American I have never heard entree referring to a main dish. I always thought it was the meal before
Happily the android app version worked as expected and validated while the blank cells were empty. I would never have figured out to put punctuation in. It’s an odd one and I guess these weird validation setups throw the dev team a little challenge when they come up.
On iOS, I was able to just leave the squares blank and it worked… either they updated, or a difference from the web version?
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Don’t worry about complaining. I streamed this puzzle and one of my viewers had to go to Twitter to look up the solution. I ranted for a good 10 minutes. This was ridiculous. Ruined a good puzzle.
Any crossword solve followed immediately by “Aw, give me a break!” is a good one. Sorry for your frustration, but I had a grand time watching you solve this. I don’t mind a longer video anyway. I was on the edge of my seat as you added letters to the blank spaces as if it were no problem at all! Lol.
If it hadn't been for this video my (now 301 day) streak would have been broken, so I'm very grateful for your explanation of the ridiculous technical requirement! What an irritating snag in an otherwise enjoyable and well constructed grid.
In other news, I often find it interesting which non English words are correctly pluralised in the NYT crossword and which aren't. Words like "celli" (as opposed to cellos) show up quite frequently, but then the plural of risotto should technically be risotti, (as opposed to risottos, as it appears in this grid). I assume it's as much to do with trying to make certain letters fit onto the grid as much as anything else, but then again maybe Will Shortz just knows more about orchestral music than he does about Italian food 🙂
Lassi would be better pronounced with an "uh" sound so "lussy" would be closer to correct.
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I don't think you mentioned it, but this puzzle is also bigger than the standard Sunday puzzle. It is 23 by 23 instead of the usual 21 by 21.
i was so disapointed that he didn’t know WAP
Chris, have you ever considered adding the day of the week to your crossword video titles? As a less experienced solver, I stick to the beginning of the week, so being able to identify and search for that content in particular would be helpful. Thanks!
Huh, it showed it solved for me without the dash.
I used the rebus feature to insert the spaces into the grid.
Chris, I think if you had NED correct (I also had ROUNDER first!) the blank spaces would have triggered the win. (Unless you tried this and it was edited out.) This is how it worked on the iPhone app.
Came here to figure out how to get the website to recognize that I had finished the puzzle!!! Thank you
another fun miss – 27 across: 2020 #1 hit for Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion is WAP 😉
At first I thought there was something going on with all the three-letter words everywhere—there seemed to be way more than usual. But when I got to Good Eats, I finally figured out the theme. It really should have let you solve it with the filled-in letters!
Did anyone say "stir" means prison? It's a Romany word, quite well known in the UK. My mind says it's short for "stiripen". But the dictionaries don't say any of that so I could be wrong.
i was barely paying attention, the quiet voice talking about words and stuff was so nice to listen to as i meal prepped this morning
23:55 and today IS actually eid al-fitr! Eid mubarak to those who celebrate 😀
The problem was that unless you filled in all the blanks, you wouldn’t trigger the “something’s wrong” message. The blanks did work on my ipad, catching any errors without the error message was the main difficulty. It was unfair that you couldn’t fill in the blank spaces for completion, that should have been acceptable.
I would've never guessed the ending either! I thought the secret message with the blank spaces was the best ending a puzzle could have
I know this video is old but I solved it by putting "X" into the blank spaces. Seems to be multiple solutions for those spaces.
Writing too small! Thsnks