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PSA for crossword enthusiasts: do this puzzle
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Date: July 19th, 2018 8:43 AM Author: cracking house https://avxwords.com/#/puzzles
In the dropdown, click on July 11th, 2018 - "The Maze Ruiner"
It costs $1, but it's genuinely one of the best, most cleverly constructed puzzles I've ever done. Not for beginners, but it's fantastic. |
Date: July 19th, 2018 9:20 AM Author: cracking house Bump 4 crossword enthusiasts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36457997) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:14 AM Author: cracking house You guys really need to engage in more scholarly pursuits, e.g. crossword puzzles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458199) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:19 AM Author: wine disgusting macaca hell upload to imgur. nobody on (xo 2018) has $1 for word games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458222) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:20 AM Author: chestnut impressive coldplay fan institution agreed, screenshot and upload
it's not that i don't want to pay 1 dollar, i'm just at work and don't want to fuck around with it |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:22 AM Author: cracking house Alright u lazy cheapskates, here u go
https://imgur.com/2hpOb16 |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:22 AM Author: wine disgusting macaca hell 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458242) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:27 AM Author: chestnut impressive coldplay fan institution ty
this is gonna take a while |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:29 PM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36475151) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 7:01 AM Author: kink-friendly bipolar hissy fit resort Ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36464185) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:22 AM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire UPLOAD TO IMGUR faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458243) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:24 AM Author: cracking house no you're the faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458247) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 11:19 AM Author: cracking house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36458595) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:00 PM Author: cracking house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36459239) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:35 PM Author: cracking house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36471574) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:51 PM Author: cracking house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36475012) |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 1:10 PM Author: kink-friendly bipolar hissy fit resort FYI. I'm doing this incrementally. It's a little easy to get stuck since the opening clues wrap around each other and theres no way to confirm later horizontal rows. No clue on the meta theme yet |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 2:30 PM Author: cracking house Yeah it's very hard. But really clever, and you can kind of semi-confirm parts of the rows by estimating where some of the maze clues fall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36487952) |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 2:32 PM Author: Dull stage i only do 4-D crosswords (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36487961) |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 2:33 PM Author: cracking house Also the last two Newsday Saturday Stumpers were very good. You can get them here:
https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/extras/crossword-puzzle-1.6375288 |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 7:01 PM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire almost 1/2 done hard |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 7:21 PM Author: filthy field boltzmann this looks hard as fuck. printed it out ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36489537) |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 7:23 PM Author: filthy field boltzmann ben tausig is so kikey. ljl at row 1 2nd clue. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36489551) |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: filthy field boltzmann **********SPOILER ALERT***********
so i cheated a little with some of the proper nouns. grid is complete and i'm stuck with the maze runner's path
it's something HEDGE FUND related i think
for the maze runner's path i have
1. hush money - HE
2. adage - DG
3. reel off - EF
4. tunes in?
5. sterile? idle?
anyone? |
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Date: July 25th, 2018 10:00 AM Author: cracking house Correct!
Tunes in (might have been Tunes Into, can't remember): UN
Idle: D
So you need a "hedge fund" to repair everything, since the maze ruiner cut his way through the "hedge maze." Notice all the missing letters are at spots where he busted though the walls.
And yes Ben Tausig is a gigakike, but that's the world of shitlib crosswords for you
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Date: July 25th, 2018 11:04 AM Author: filthy field boltzmann yah, it's into not in. that's where the N comes from and that's why i was having trouble.
yeah, i figured out the theme -- hedge fund to do the repairs. crazy shit.
much of the filler was way too obscure entertainment names for me. i hate xword puzzles with tons of filler based on stupid pop cultural references like minor reality tv figures. 180 theme, but it's 120 that he needed all these garbage clues to make it work. a lot of the clues were stupid low iq shit and i dont feel bad about looking up half that shit. |
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Date: July 25th, 2018 11:05 AM Author: cracking house ?
Very little terrible crossswordese fill. A little esoterica but not much. |
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Date: July 25th, 2018 11:10 AM Author: filthy field boltzmann no, not crosswordese. puzzlers know crosswordese. it's gay but it's not a stumbling block.
it's the stupid entertainment shit: singer in fast and furious movies, social media star kicked off big brother, reinhart who plays betty on riverdale, "against interpretation" (100 yr old shitlib feminist bullshit apparently), william who wrote shrek, etc.
you cant logic any of that shit out. the grid is just dead if u dont know any of this shit.
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Date: July 25th, 2018 12:18 PM Author: cracking house ok but u should at least have heard of (again spoiler alert here) Tyrese, Tila Tequila, and William Steig
Agree that overuse of unguessable proper nouns in crosswords is generally SPS |
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Date: July 25th, 2018 1:01 PM Author: filthy field boltzmann I haven't.
Just too many of those. |
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Date: July 28th, 2018 10:15 AM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire Literally no one heard of dat shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36512502) |
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Date: July 29th, 2018 1:21 PM Author: filthy field boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36517180) |
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Date: July 28th, 2018 10:18 AM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire For tila he should have used "what nigh sued koons buick pontiac under" and i and other prestigious lawyer bros would have gotten it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36512523) |
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Date: August 15th, 2018 8:30 AM Author: kink-friendly bipolar hissy fit resort I agree. No idea who isak dinesen is. Entertainment names in general are horrible. Who the fuck wrote CDB!? I'm still stuck at the bottom because I have western as a posse flick which is wrong but there's no where to go. Bored stiff has to be wrong |
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Date: August 15th, 2018 8:32 AM Author: cracking house Yeah there's a synonym for "Western" that crossword fags tend to know because it appears in puzzles reasonably often. It's kind of a dumb word. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36619753) |
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Date: August 15th, 2018 9:08 AM Author: kink-friendly bipolar hissy fit resort I'm a neophyte but having been doing nyt daily for about a year. Still can't remember most of the oft repeated words. And struggle with every Fri and Sat Really cool puzzle though. I'm nearly done |
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Date: August 15th, 2018 9:26 AM Author: cracking house Good job brother, and glad you enjoyed it. Once you master NYT Saturday, the next level up is the Newsday Saturday Stumper. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36619851) |
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Date: July 24th, 2018 11:34 PM Author: filthy field boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36491240) |
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Date: July 28th, 2018 10:16 AM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire Got stuck had to look shit up and still didnt finish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36512514) |
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Date: July 28th, 2018 9:57 PM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire Ok finished jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36514999) |
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Date: July 29th, 2018 12:34 PM Author: cracking house Did u enjoy urself friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36516936) |
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Date: July 29th, 2018 2:00 PM Author: charismatic zippy reading party multi-billionaire Yes some of the clues were very clever, ladders, no clocks, others (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030035&forum_id=2#36517334) |