Comments on: Friday, 6/4/10

By: Amy Reynaldo

Amy Reynaldo — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:45:34 +0000

Joan, I’ve been closing comments on posts that are more than 5 weeks old (and thus cover NYT puzzles that have appeared in syndication). Once I got to the point of having more than 200 spam comments a day to clear out of the filter, I had to start closing comments on a rolling basis. Pesky spammers!

By: Joan macon

Joan macon — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:26:26 +0000

Amy, lately I don’t get a spot like this. Am I doing something wrong? I know my remarks are always late, but I love thinking I am contacting someone out there.

By: John Haber

John Haber — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:54:49 +0000

My hard spots were CBS/BRET/SCOTIA, where I guessed right thankfully, since SCOTIA looked so much like a word after Nova Scotia, and ALD_/D_H, where I didn’t. The connection of Fox to the Simpsons was lost on me, and ALD_ made me think of Alan Alda. I did see the movie but didn’t care whether I remembered the actor. Tarantino has gone into utter self-involvement anyway.

I liked the grid a lot, as well as the curious reversal that for once it was the long clues that gave me a foothold. It was the short central sections of north, east, and south that annoyed me.

By: ktd

ktd — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:17:18 +0000

Amy, no mention of White SOX? Shout out to the South Side!

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:56:45 +0000

To Dr. Ken Phifer:

Mea culpa on my “Malaria clue” error. Good catch, and stupid mistake on my part.

All I can do is quote 19-Across from my NYT puzzle today, and say “D’oh!”

-Martin Ashwood-Smith

By: Cole

Cole — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:58:35 +0000

It’s from a poem:

A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:

A Pope “An Essay on Criticism”

By: Evad

Evad — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:48:23 +0000

Agree the middle was the toughest area of today’s NYT…I had FRANK before FRANZ, so missed BOOZEUP. Also had RAMA for KAMA, so couldn’t see PEKOE. Other than that, got it all, tho I find A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE to be more in-the-language for “Dangerous thing.”