Mini #33 - You Had One Job

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• SporcleMirror constructor · 2023-03-14T19:05:39.120Z

  Today's New Yorker puzzle has NUVA crossing UNIT... which is totally baffling because it can just be changed to NOVA/ON IT, especially since (unlike in this mini) there are no other ONs in the grid. Easily fixable crossings like these (luckily it wasn't a Natick) sometimes drive me mad.

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  • Brian Callahan 🤓58s · 2023-03-14T21:18:22.947Z

    I haven't done the New Yorker crossword yet so I can't comment on it specifically, but if there's another "IT" in the grid somewhere then maybe that's the reason? I guess since the New Yorker has the more difficult crosswords earlier in the week, that may be why that crossing was chosen.

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    • SporcleMirror constructor · 2023-03-14T22:57:17.824Z

      No ITs anywhere.

      I'd much rather have a tough clue for NOVA than some random 4-letter entry that has showed up only once in the NYT. Not to mention that right above NUVA, there's a pretty nasty stack of names (one of which crosses NUVA at the N, but the N is pretty gettable if you have everything else).

      That one NYT puzzle is a Friday from 2010 that has NUVA stacked with the partial AJET. Come on.

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      • Brian Callahan 🤓58s · 2023-03-15T00:48:07.899Z

        I guess I don't mind NUVA as much, because I'm familiar with the brand name. Now if they put the non-brand name "Ethinylestradiol" in the puzzle, I'd take issue with it.

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• Jon 🤓1:13 · 2023-03-15T03:53:38.168Z

  Nice.

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