Tuesday: Is That What I Think It Is? - 1 October 2024 New York Times Crossword
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Love the Santa Monica Pier! Haven’t been there in quite a while.
The full Taylor Swift lyric is "And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I shake it off, I shake it off." So, not exhortation but reportage!
"Exaggeration" might be in order ... they seldom more than hate, hate, or hate, hate, hate at the very worst....🙂
I do wish the NYT Crossword Blog was more careful with the titles and subtitles of their posts. Today's completely gave away the theme (at least to me). It sits right under the puzzle so it's hard to not see it.
Zōh-ah-logist not zoo-ah-logist
This was a flawed construction, in my opinion. If the gray areas were meant to contain typos of mythological monsters--well, okay. But the NYT Crossword Blog says they were meant to be homonyms. YEDI is not a precise homonym of YETI, and BICFOOT isn’t a homonym of BIG FOOT, period. I said to myself, “That can’t be right.” I assumed I was missing something. This was the first time I ever filled the last square and was displeased to hear the jingle.
I don't typically read the crossword blog; but from the times I've read it, it's my impression that what isn't explicitly in the constructor notes is written by someone who has solved the puzzle and inferred the meanings of things for themselves, and not the official explanation by the creators or editors. I'd take their explanations with a grain of salt.
Rather than precise homonyms; I reckon they're intended as words that at first glance might appear/sound similar to the beasts in question, but upon closer examination turn out not to be. False sightings, if you will.
@@SebbeDK Even if that's the intention, it's still a very, VERY weak excuse. This is simply a very poorly constructed gimmick.
They certainly aren't homonyms. They could be fairly close to homophones, depending how you pronounce them.
@@SebbeDK “False sightings” was good. Kevin Curry said his wife suggested it would be fun to hide Bigfoot in a crossword puzzle. He admitted to having execution issues until Jeff Chen came up with CUBIC FOOT. I’ll concede a closer match may not be available, but BICFOOT is still abominable.
@@RayGrantTZMS👍🏻as is Yedi.