Saturday October 20th 2018, NY Times Crossword

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Time: 10:34
Saturday Average: 39:13
Best Saturday: 10:34

I didn’t think I had GREAT ODDS today of maintaing my blogging streak, since between being at a conference all day and a presumably difficult Saturday puzzle, I was in a tight SPOT. I was a (MANLY) man with A PLAN, of course, and figured I could break the puzzle into BITE SIZED pieces and manage that way. However, when I was able to drop NETFLIX AND CHILL (“Modern invitation to hook up”), being fairly confident that there wasn’t anything else it could be, I realized that I had a decent shot.

In the end, either easy clueing or the urgency of getting it done quickly led me to my best Saturday time ever. I’m thinking that the clever ? clues hit me just right and I also actually knew the proper nouns like ARGO, PTOLEMY, HOTH (duh), and ANTOINETTE. I can’t often get those answers from scratch or minimal letters.

I can only hear RATATAT in the voice of Kid Cudi from the song “Pursuit of Happiness.”

I also doubt that this will be a strong entry seeing as I’m trying fit this in between conference  sessions while I should really try to LISTEN UP and maybe even network. Hopefully my fellow conference attendees won’t RAT ON me, but most of them are on their non-FLIP PHONES anyway. Trying to blog on my phone is challenging enough as it is.

Now it’s time to stop being NEUROTIC and change back into my recruiting ALTER EGO. TTYL!

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