A bunch of unusual entries in this one. Turns out that corners with crossing 6s/7s are hard, especially when paired with the middle triple stack. Hopefully the crossings are all fair.
This grid just so happens to have MOBRULEin the exact same spot as the NYT themeless from yesterday. I swear I only looked at the NYT puzzle after I finished building this.
ALSO: "Pique-nique" is just "picnic", and it's where the word comes from. I had no idea that it was a French word until I saw it in a clue from Friday's LAT crossword.
Nice! The symmetrical onomatopoeia entries are fun, and the middle stack is modern. I think it would've been more unlikely if you'd've seen the NYT MOBRULE and decided to build a whole crossword around that!
Really smooth and enjoyable grid, though I'm feeling just a bit uneasy after HEAT DEATH, MOB RULE (esp. given what tomorrow is), AND FIREARMS (ditto). BOO HOO!
Larry Edelstein 🤓5:43 · 2022-11-08T05:31:34.889Z
Hey, I think that the proper analog for the ARPANET is the Internet, rather than the WWW. While the definitions of what is exactly each is and isn’t might be a little ambiguous, both ARPANET and the Internet are (forgive me if I’m covering ground you’re familiar with) systems that let you send data from computer to computer, and don’t themselves specify the format or meaning of the data. The WWW is an application built on top of the Internet, consisting of a bunch of technologies, like browsers, HTML, web servers, etc, that’s there so people can see and do stuff on their browsers. It’s higher level than the Internet. So I think Internet is the right analog.