I love watching you solve hard puzzles because I would have given up after 10 minutes and deemed it as „impossible“ but somehow you prevail and manage to solve it all. Simply amazing!
Good lord this was hard--I think the most difficult puzzle I've ever solved. I would be embarrassed to admit how long it took me. Crikey. Note: I was able to get GALOPS because as an opera fan, I know that the piece from Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers commonly called the Cancan is actually titled "Le Galop infernal." Pretty obscure.
My solve started promisingly in the NW corner, which came together nicely, but I had many of the same problems you did, including ENSILO. And I had to watch this video to discover that my last mistake was also ZTILE. Given enough time, maybe I would’ve figured it out, but I dunno.
Rangsk sometimes does the easy clued version of the Friday crossword. Not sure where he finds them but it would be interesting to see if they were tougher than usual as well.
I love watching you solve hard puzzles because I would have given up after 10 minutes and deemed it as „impossible“ but somehow you prevail and manage to solve it all. Simply amazing!
The cascade of success started by IS BIG and INQUIRY at @32:30 was satisfying to watch!
What a stinker!! I would have never gotten it without!
yeah, I agree with you that this was truly grueling. Think this week's Saturday Stumper from Newsday was far easier.
This puzzle was downright Shortzian. Noticeably harder than other Saturdays.
Very tough! Well done
A gnu will indeed not fly 😂
Good lord this was hard--I think the most difficult puzzle I've ever solved. I would be embarrassed to admit how long it took me. Crikey.
Note: I was able to get GALOPS because as an opera fan, I know that the piece from Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers commonly called the Cancan is actually titled "Le Galop infernal." Pretty obscure.
ASSISTS is a basketball stat for passing the ball to a teammate who scores
Or in Football/Soccer
Ines vs Inez got me
My solve started promisingly in the NW corner, which came together nicely, but I had many of the same problems you did, including ENSILO. And I had to watch this video to discover that my last mistake was also ZTILE. Given enough time, maybe I would’ve figured it out, but I dunno.
It was a hard, hard puzzle - but as a retired farmer I got ensile OK. Quite a few others I needed a "Remo reason" to understand.
Took me 7 hours. He does it 34 min and it was a “tough”’puzzle for him. Lol.
Rangsk sometimes does the easy clued version of the Friday crossword. Not sure where he finds them but it would be interesting to see if they were tougher than usual as well.
If they'd referred to shell suit instead of joggers, you would've gotten it right away
I had to look up several things, but aside from those this puzzle really wasn't that bad.
No shade, but any puzzle is going to be much easier if you look things up.