OT: May 5 NYTimes Crossword

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Okay, I just finished todays crossword puzzle (i know, hard to imagine how must time I’m wasting posting here and doing the crossword…)…

There were 4 “long” answers - 20, 27, 41, 47.

47 is basedon the 20, 27, 41: “what 20-,27-, and 41-Across contain, in a manner of speaking”

Answers are: (don’t peek if you’re doing it)…

20: SECONDNATURE
27: HOUSEHOLDNAME
41: UNITEDNATIONS

And

47: SPLICEDGENES

Does anyone get this? Does anyone understand how the first three all contain “spliced genes”??

Thanks…

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Your life is a living hell… :-p

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I would say “secondnature” in the sense that we’re fooling with mother nature (first) and therefore second.

“Household name” I would think they’re referring to Dolly the sheep clone. Everyone is familiar with Dolly.

And the united nations played/play a major roll in the evolution of cloning/splicing genes.

Just my take, may be way way off.

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DNA.

Ken

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After staring at this for a few minutes, each of the words contain “DNA” in the middle.

Looks like I have even more time on my hands than you!! Frightening…

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…and ‘spliced’ cause you don’t get DNA unless you put the two words together. eesh…

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who has time to write/design these damn riddles all day?

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Sunday puzzle a couple of weeks ago was entitled “Long Division”. All the themed clues spanned two consecutive answers (horizontally or vertically), with the first answer ending in “LO” and the second beginning with “NG” (“LONG” division).

The best clue I ever saw in the NYTimes puzzle was something like “headline in tomorrow’s newspaper”. The puzzle was published on Election Day 1996. You could answer either “BOBDOLEWINS” or “CLINTONWINS”, and get correct answers for all the crossing words. Very clever.

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Thanks to everyone… Makes me feel better to understand the thing…

Hardest/best clue(s) ever for me was also from a Sunday; title of puzzle was “The In Crowd.” Anywhere that the letters “i-n” appeared in succession, you put them in ONE box - “in” was “crowd” into a single square… Drove me crazy… We finally got it when we knew the answer to one clue was “SingingInTheRain” and we were 4 squares short…

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Here’s a link to a story that is cool. It seems the NYT crossword puzzle editor and a prospective groom conspired to put his marriage proposal to his girlfriend in the crossword.

http://www.s-t.com/daily/01-98/01-09-98/a04li022.htm

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the letters DNA appears in all three
.

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You rushed home from St Croix to do THIS??? :wink:

Hmmmm - beach, sun, and umbrella drinks - or ST and the NYT crossword puzzle?

decisions, decisions…

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They all contain DNA.

DougStern

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They all contain DNA.

DougStern

Don’t we all :wink:

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Will Shortz sucks (don’t worry Slowman, he doesn’t own a tri-related buisness).

I stopped doing them when Eugene Maleski died/retired (?)

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Will Shortz sucks (don’t worry Slowman, he doesn’t own a tri-related buisness).

I stopped doing them when Eugene Maleski died/retired (?)
That’s Maleska, and why does Will Shortz “suck”?

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Maleska - my bad, been a while.

I just find Shortz to be too gimicky - like using the heart symbol on valentines day in his clues.

Also found him to use two word answers (and not on the long clues) a lot.

The ‘sucks’ was a play on recent posts on this site.