NYT Minimised 2022-09-15

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• JeffsPuzzles 🤓41s · 2022-09-15T11:58:30.496Z

  Fun puzzle, with a great clue on LOWER9ACow, for one? [or what you have to do to one Down entry in this grid][-----] - and to me, the theme works better in a mini. The NYT puzzle is solid, but I felt like once I got the trick it was too much of the same thing.

  • Emma Oxford 🤓46s · 2022-09-15T14:13:39.072Z

    You are much more generous than the commenters on Crossword Fiend (https://crosswordfiend.com/2022/09/14/thursday-september-15-2022/#comments - how the heck do I get the words Crossword Fiend to link to this instead of having to put the full link in? IDK how anyone gets formatting in these comments) today. I quote, "I’ll just state the obvious: this one should never have seen the light of day."

    • kieranjboyd constructor · 2022-09-15T21:25:12.061Z

      See the "Link" section on this page.

      Ooft, those comments!
• Jon 1:27 · 2022-09-15T13:29:06.316Z

  Nice
• Emma Oxford 🤓46s · 2022-09-15T14:16:25.488Z

  4D4D"Did you hear about the guy who backflipped off a bridge in Paris? He was in _____!"[-----] cracked me up, nice one. I still don't get this theme! Why does having one letter off the grid equate to "raising" or "lowering"? The entry has just been raised or lowered off the grid? WHY???? I like this mini way better than the NYT version though because, in what might be called "Evan Birnholz style," the words that are left in the grid are meaningful entries on their one. Thumbs up to that.

  • Emma Oxford 🤓46s · 2022-09-15T15:25:46.674Z

    *their own. (Mike, where is the edit comment feature??)
  • kieranjboyd constructor · 2022-09-15T21:28:00.272Z

    As someone who's done many more variety cryptic crosswords than straight crosswords, where the former often involve convoluted entry transformations that usually result in valid grid entries, put me squarely under the "Evan Birnholz" heading!
• Maxish 🤓1:13 · 2022-09-15T14:18:48.494Z

  I like that ESTER5DThey might laugh someone out of court[-----] is still a word. TBH, I wasn't thrilled with the NYT execution (not that I could do any better)
• Mike D 🤓1:55 · 2022-09-15T22:27:39.955Z

  This was fun!
• Jewel 4:58 · 2022-09-17T19:45:53.629Z

  Lower really got me!!!