Saturday March 9th 2019, NY Times Crossword

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Time: 30:20
Saturday Average: 36:22
Best Saturday: 10:34

Good morning from Singapore where I’m enjoying a long-awaited free day and looking forward to the journey home tomorrow night. I DECLARE that there’s a lot of food here that I can’t wait to taste (I did just recently watch Crazy Rich Asians, after all), but I went with delivery pizza last night and felt great about that decision.

I had a rough initial run through this puzzle getting just BURKINI, which felt like a gimme, and ELLEN Page. TESS Trueheart and X-MEN were of course automatic for me, so I just built from there.

I’d never heard of DRAWMEN, but apparently they’re workers who draw precut plastic materials to desired shapes in a hand or power press. That crossing with the vaguely inferable MG MIDGET was brutal but, damn, now that I’ve googled the midget, I absolutely need that car.

It’s 80 degrees but feels like 102, according to my weather app, which boggles my mind and means that I likely won’t venture out until AFTER SIX, when I can wear my cocktail dress, apparently.

The final bit to fall for me was my mistake in placing oH I SEE instead of AH I SEE, which gave me the correct-looking but obviously incorrect THE CONGo for “Party goers may get a kick out of it.” 

Comments

  1. KateMarch 10, 2019 at 1:31 PM

    So it turns out that the NYT puzzle in the newspaper is not the same one you are doing online? What gives? I have questions and am apparently alone with my paper-based puzzles...

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    1. QuillMarch 14, 2019 at 4:58 AM

      Wait, what? Maybe the dates are different? Because that shouldn't be...

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  2. AnonymousMarch 10, 2019 at 4:58 PM

    I hope i get to see you in a cocktail dress before i die.

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