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Synonamess Botch posted:Its basically not worth doing before Wednesday There's a meta-puzzle this week, Mon-Sat, and if you get it right you get a free year
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Crosswords suck if you get a book of crosswords because the clues are all super-old and it's like, "1974 Rock Hudson Vehicle" and I'm like who the gently caress cares about some 70s action movie, no one can get that clue. Also, "80s Comedienne Boozler" is the most common clue in history because ELAINE has like infinity vowels to make the puzzles work.
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Oct 21, 2014 19:13
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Today' sis really fun, even though it's not that hard
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Nov 23, 2014 18:47
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Can we talk about cryptic crosswords? I enjoy working on those more than regular ol crosswords, but it's pretty rare that I finish one! They sure are hard. I think the Financial Times might have my favorite clues, usually
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Nov 23, 2014 19:15
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A bunch of my friends do a cryptic once a day at lunchtime, and I dislike it, because they just guess wacky things and justify them somehow, and somehow these stupid things are right.
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Nov 23, 2014 19:22
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so are you going to post a crossword or what!
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Nov 23, 2014 19:22
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We're all doing the NYT crossword, which is illegal to distribute.
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Nov 23, 2014 19:28
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fronz posted:A bunch of my friends do a cryptic once a day at lunchtime, and I dislike it, because they just guess wacky things and justify them somehow, and somehow these stupid things are right. Like with regular crosswords I expect there's a standard set of tics and tricks that occur regularly and you sort of build up a vocabulary. Although when I first read about cryptics several months ago my impression was "what the gently caress?"
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Nov 23, 2014 19:30
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fronz posted:We're all doing the NYT crossword, which is illegal to distribute. oh well gently caress that
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Nov 23, 2014 19:45
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fronz posted:Today' sis really fun, even though it's not that hard there are many good and cute/fun clues today, none of which i will share, because it is illegal to share crossword clues.
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Nov 23, 2014 19:56
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Discount Viscount posted:Like with regular crosswords I expect there's a standard set of tics and tricks that occur regularly and you sort of build up a vocabulary. this is exactly it, except i'll say that when they do start to click, it makes you feel clever as hell
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Nov 24, 2014 02:16
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You people aren't clever. You're diseased
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Nov 24, 2014 02:30
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But yes you are free to talk about cryptics in this theread
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Nov 24, 2014 02:30
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Hello Imp Zone, this is Will Shortz. Please don't distribute crosswords, I will answer any of your crossword-related questions.
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Nov 24, 2014 05:30
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Pablo Gigante posted:Hello Imp Zone, this is Will Shortz. Please don't distribute crosswords, I will answer any of your crossword-related questions. will anything ever top this one? 
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Nov 24, 2014 05:58
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Discount Viscount posted:will anything ever top this one?
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Nov 24, 2014 06:06
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Discount Viscount posted:will anything ever top this one? okay that's actually pretty loving incredible
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Nov 24, 2014 06:40
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Mach2 posted:okay that's actually pretty loving incredible 42 down makes it all work 
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Nov 24, 2014 06:49
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today's was not bad, it had some cute clues like "It's been shortening since 1911" crisco and "group of jerks" spasm were a couple of my favorites. a bunch of lovely crossword clues too but eh. i thought the layout was interesting tho
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Dec 8, 2014 02:18
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i think you're being too hard on it. the fillery stuff wasnt actually bad and there wans't very much of it, and the longer clues were a lot of fun. the only complaint i'd really levy is that it was too easy.
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i told my dad to make me a copy of the Sunday Times crossword and he started doing so last week, which was a pretty tough one. this week i got a lot done in 30 minutes, including one of the theme clues as well as the puzzle's theme itself atlas
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