Saturday October 27th 2018, NY Times Crossword

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Time: 23:59
Saturday Average: 38:57
Best Saturday: 10:34

I was thrilled to sleep in all the way to 8am this morning, which I can assure you was much needed to make me feel less DEMENTED, especially since I'm staring down another 7am flight tomorrow. The only disappointing part was that, since I'm 12 hours ahead of the east coast, the Saturday crossword was unavailable. It's another day of fairs and networking, so as usual I was worried about my ability to knock out a Saturday puzzle, but after a smooth Friday I told myself that I CAN. I was pretty confident about starting out with SCHLUBBY ("Overweight and untidy"), but less so about the spelling. I'm not sure I've ever written that word.

I realized that I couldn't have defined HEURISTIC, but now I'm thinking I should consider referring to my blog as a heuristic crossword solving experiment, since my method is indeed practical , but "not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, logical, or rational, but instead sufficient for reaching an immediate goal." I wouldn't say I'm exactly a NO TALENT crossword solver, but I can't claim any King of the Crossword type TITLE. Maybe Crossword KNAVE.

I can also file POTASH under vaguely familiar but not defined in my head, but now I can say that it's "some of various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form," used for fertilizer, I suppose.

At first, I wrote in PEe ODORS instead of PET ODORS, but that's basically the same thing, right? That helped me close out the puzzle with SITCOMMY, which I'll accept for "Formulaically humorous," even if I don't think that a sitcom must be formulaic.

Finally, I'll say that YOU DA MAN for "Bro-ey shout-out" should probably further specify that it's never been said since the 90s.

So I got my Saturday puzzle and blog done already and I haven't even MISSED WORK.

And the Red Sox just SCORED in the top of the 13th, so I'm going to focus on that now. Nervous from afar. 

Comments

  1. momOctober 27, 2018 at 9:05 AM

    What a marathon game, too bad they didn’t win. I lasted til the 10th! Were you watching or listening?

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