Mini #33 - You Had One Job

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• SporcleMirror constructor · 15 days ago

  Today's New Yorker puzzle has NUVA

  7D___Ring (birth control brand)[----]

  crossing UNIT

  10AMeter or mile[----]

  ... 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.

  • Brian Callahan 🤓58s · 14 days ago

    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.

    • SporcleMirror constructor · 14 days ago

      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

      7D___Ring (birth control brand)[----]

      , there's a pretty nasty stack of names (one of which crosses NUVA

      7D___Ring (birth control brand)[----]

      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

      7D___Ring (birth control brand)[----]

      stacked with the partial AJET. Come on.

      • Brian Callahan 🤓58s · 14 days ago

        I guess I don't mind NUVA

        7D___Ring (birth control brand)[----]

        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.
• Jon 🤓1:13 · 14 days ago

  Nice.