r/NYTCrossword

Is >!26A a sneaky fourth theme!< clue?

Today's blue grouping on connections is >! things that are orange. The problem is five of the options are orange, and one of them is FAMOUSLY orange! The flyers mascot, Gritty, is one of if not the most famous mascot in professional sports and he's BRIGHT ORANGE! Why is he not in the things that are orange category???!<

Anyways rant over, It just frustrated me

Simply, 17 across is not in the category of 66 across.

I finish, I feel confident I understood all the clues and their answers, yet something’s amiss. Makes me a little dizzy to have to scroll through each word in that huge grid and I just don’t really care about streaks or anything.

My wife and I do the Mini and Midi at the same time to “race” each other. Today’s clue for 8 across on MY puzzle was “Stale and old”. My wife’s Clue was just “Stale”.
Clearly based on the answer mine was some a typo or glitch that got through. Anyone else have this? I screen shot it but didn’t want to spoil it for anyone.

A clue has the answer included in the clue. Pretty sloppy!

Do you ever jump to a specific spot to get the super-repeat clues? Where are they for a Sunday puzzle?

never thought i’d need to turn contrast on for the new york times app! you should have seen me looking at my phone like it was glitching out reading “this, on the beach”

over
and
over
and
over again.

low contrast sensitivity friends i feel for you we’re in this together

Can someone help me understand the italicized clue thing from Wednesday?! I solved the puzzle but still couldn't comprehend what the pattern exactly was with that... thanks in advance 😄

Is it just me, or has anyone else been struggling to enjoy the daily crossword puzzle as of late? I’ve been solving daily for over 3 years now and over the past few weeks, I feel like I’ve sensed a noticeable shift in the puzzles that I can’t quite put into words other than saying they’ve personally become far less enjoyable to solve. I’m not finding the “clever” clues to be all that clever, themed puzzles have left me largely unfulfilled (bar the Mario puzzle), and completing a puzzle feels more like a chore than a reward most days.

It very well could just be a case of solving fatigue, but I can’t shake the feeling that something about the puzzles have changed (whether it be editorial decisions, puzzle submissions selection criteria change, or even something like using new software to evaluate puzzles worthy of publication).

I feel like most people here on here do it in the app or on the site. I tend to prefer printing and doing it that way. Are there any other printers here?

Speaking of, has anyone noticed that you can only print the newspaper version now? I miss the clean version.