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NYT Minimised 2023-08-14

· By kieranjboyd · Published 2023-08-14T02:29:57.293Z

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Today's NYT authors: Simon Marotte and Trenton Lee Stewart
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  • kieranjboyd constructor · 2023-08-14T02:32:30.674Z
    Note: I've had this same idea for a crossword in my handy Google Keep for months now (with the featured set of calculations), but didn't work hard enough to find a symmetric set of theme entries. Glad I could squash it into a mini grid and release the idea from my backlog!
    • Toomtam Mario 🤓2:50 · 2023-08-14T03:04:07.884Z
      I really admire your attempt. Compact fun!
      • Jon 2:31 · 2023-08-14T03:38:11.591Z
        Nice
        • seanm 🤓2:19 · 2023-08-14T14:29:03.200Z
          Love this idea! Can't believe how densely you fit all these instructions. Also--feel like I'm missing out because I don't totally get how 14A 13D etc. resolves to 6D... could someone spell it out for me?
          • rh 🤓5:14 · 2023-08-14T18:11:41.984Z
            14a 13a = gets even, or read aloud get seven.9a is plus one, so 7 + 1 = 8.3d is doublet, or double it, so 8 x 2 = 16.7a is rootfor, or root four. This is asking what number become sixteen when it is multiplied by itself 4 times, or what is x when 16 = x^4, and the answer is 2 (2^4 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16).Finally, 9a tells us to "plusone" again, 2 + 1 = 3, and 3 in italian is tres
            • seanm 🤓2:19 · 2023-08-14T21:34:11.539Z
              Ohhhh.. very cool 😎 thanks for the explanation.
          • Philip Chow 🤓2:52 · 2023-08-14T22:54:04.048Z
            NICE!! the theme density is beyond genius!... two minor things (1) italian for 3 is tre not tres... you can switch the clue to either spanish or portuguese with spanish being the more well-known option (2) 16 root 4 yields 4 different roots: 2, -2, 2i, -2i (with 2 being the principal root) but i think only math nerds will think that way 🤓
            • kieranjboyd constructor · 2023-08-15T00:31:31.152Z
              Damn my bad memory of Italian! Miss Pelosi from high school would be so disappointed. I'm going to ignore the imaginary answers, but fair point regarding -2 - I'll update that clue to be specific. Thanks! 🤓
            • Anonym00se 2:10 · 2023-08-15T09:20:08.097Z
              i got stuck for a while on 6D (perhaps because i chose to read EVERYTHING out loud and i thought that the instruction for Spanish translation was for the repetition of 9A), but this was quite fun!
              • Frisco17 🤓47s · 2023-08-15T16:29:43.782Z
                miraculous
                • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓1:22 · 2023-08-15T17:10:50.228Z
                  This is a virtuoso performance of minimized theming… can't say I got it all on my way to a complete fill but bravo!
                  • Paul Smith 🤓5:01 · 2023-08-19T10:19:52.791Z
                    i'm sad i finished it before thinking about the theme
                    1A
                    "Your point being?"
                    1
                    2
                    3
                    4
                    5
                    6
                    7
                    8
                    9
                    10
                    11
                    12
                    13
                    14
                    Across
                    1. 1A
                      "Your point being?"
                    2. 4A
                      4 or 5, but not 4.5, in programming
                    3. 7A
                      Cheer on
                    4. 9A
                      Partygoer's guest [clue taken from today's NYT crossword]
                    5. 10A
                      87-89% at MIT, for example
                    6. 11A
                      Legit
                    7. 13A
                      See 14A
                    8. 14A
                      With 13A, settles the score
                    Down
                    1. 1D
                      Jean ___, German-French abstract artist
                    2. 2D
                      Lon ___, Cambodian politician with a palindromic name
                    3. 3D
                      Close-fitting jacket worn in the 15th-17th centuries
                    4. 4D
                      Poker resignation
                    5. 5D
                      Low-class, in London
                    6. 6D
                      14A 13A, 9A, 3D, 7A, then 9A again, in Spanish (italicised references to be read aloud, and keep it real and positive!)
                    7. 8D
                      Tetris moves in which a ┻ piece is rotated quickly before being locked into place
                    8. 11D
                      Relax, with "out"
                    9. 12D
                      "Hail, Caesar!"
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