Ari knows marine biology! But not Broadway 💡- Monday NYT Crossword - 10-30-23

it's Monday and we're going to solve the puzzle are you ready yeah you everybody know who this is just in case you're new to the channel Ari is going to tell you his name what's your name I and my name is Steve very good and we are the solvers that's right we're going to be the solvers today now Ari has been in the puzzle oh by the way we're going to solve the New York Times crossw puzzle Ari a r i we named him that way because he shows up in so many crossword puzzles true story false false story but you have been in the puzzle a couple times in the past few days so I wonder if you're going to be there again if you are that'll be pretty cool yes uh and AR was pointing out that uh what were we pointing out just a minute ago uh one across is four letters is isn't it one across right there is four letters what do you think it is H I saw one down was three you one down one down I think that also fits four letters so what do you think these fourl words are do you know a lot of four-letter words no you don't know a lot of fourl words okay oh here we go we're solving the puzzle we forgot to say Kenneth Cortez is the solver and stepen AR are the are the no kenth Cortez is the uh Constructor Stephen Ari are the solvers all right wait yeah why is it gray that's a good question I see what Happ when I type a letter r is going to type a letter nothing changes nothing changes it's not all gray okay so those are the important words those are the important words or is everything so typically I don't know what's going on there important letters important letters in there not difficult at all in Ling all right so any of these accompanyment for Tory TI seeing I dog any of these uh words that you know or so should we go through them little by little a little more systematically St from one across you know Otis uh whoops you know Otis writing her wrot sitting on the morning sun I'll be sorry waiting on the morning sun I'll be waiting when the even comes watching the ships roll in then I watching roll away again everybody so I'm just going to sit on the Dock of the Bay you know that one watching the ti roll away okay what what' you get what was lava oh Earth Day yeah Earth Day is in April also your birthday birthday and Earth Day they rhyme what was uh 14 across sorry oh what Magnum becom becomes interrupted yeah so the way to do is even if I'm seeing it feel free to narrate so people know what you're doing okay yeah it's better that way garum blank Indian spice blend oh you don't know that one oh it's good uh I would do espresso but no espresso so you know espresso doesn't fit you're right espresso is not chocolatey but espresso with coffee in yeah that's delicious M okay blank Baba and the 40 thieves do you know that from the Arabian Knights yeah the only reason I know that cu the only reason you know that is cuz you read it in a book yeah okay you got to finish your sentences dude all right cool sounding body part uh do you know this I do it's an old version of of hip actually before before cool things were hip and sometimes people say this is really hip like that's a really cool thing to do and there's a wonderful song called what is hip what is hip tell me tell me do you think I know what is hip and if it's really hip ask you let it show I feel like it's making the screen grayer you see making the screen grayer as we go I don't know gunky residue yeah this was like completely white now it's well now it has the letter i in it oh yeah oh yeah huh I don't know all right what else we got you know a gunky residue some you get some in your eyelid no all right let's try another one key between control and command on a Mac of course Mac we don't have this is not a Mac this is a uh what are we use ASN stand for FN is the function key operation FN is function that I don't know control and command on a Mac oh let's try another one what else what else what else what else gam oh you don't know this one should I tell you yeah yeah aara Masala m a s a l a it's spicy and delicious you should try some you would not like it weeping willow or Quaking Aspen yeah those are trees all right so Ari is doing all the typing and he's doing movie and the cursor but he's not big on narrating so I will narrate for everybody accompanyment for a t tortilla chip uh salsa something salsa something I agree it seems seems reasonable yeah yeah I wonder what maybe this is related to the uh to the theme I don't know I don't know um phrase on gravestones what do they write in gra on a gravestone H I don't know can you do capital on a crossboard they all the letters are capital and crossword although maybe there's like some theme where they use lowercase instead of capital but traditionally all the all the letters are crosswords no even with Rebus you just you can try it yeah see B it's all the capitals so sorry dude yeah all right you want to go where you have Crossings can you turn off Reus Qui quick clicking re yeah there you go all right so what maybe one two or three down you know those we can knock out that corner Frozen snowman Do you want to build a snowman come on let's go and play I hardly see you anymore I'm out the door it's like you gone away bone blank Indie Rockman it's not Bon Joi Bon Joi is not indie Rockman they're very very very famous but this one if you want to be like a real hip hipster be like oh I listen to bands that are not famous I listen to bone and You' be like oh yeah e e r yeah bony ver is how it's pronounced oh I listen to bony ver uh figure skating jump is an axle very good and a cab is a you don't know a cab I just kiding okay there a taxi yeah and kit with bandages and antiseptic is a first aid kit very good gunky residue is crud yes it is uh not difficult at all in slang I don't know what that is but uh on the downward key between control and command on a Mac of course this is not a Mac so you can't look at our keyboard it would be nice to have a Mac yeah sorry dude we don't have a Mac huh Wonder What word could be there it it is a treat key like control and command that it doesn't do anything by itself but it use it in conjunction with other Keys uh command is also known as the uh it's like I think it's called the Splat there's like this this symbol uh oh was that the open Apple key control shift alt control shift alt load makes the screen spin around whoa hey if you're on a Chromebook right now try it what was it control shift all and reload control shift all and reload if you're on a Chromebook try it and then write in the in the comments how cool that was thanks Ari all right let's let's move let's move on this is not a Chromebook am my work on computer we don't have a Reload button oh F5 is reload you want to try control shift alt reload they might reload the page they might mess up our page it might mess up our puzzle okay yeah we'll do it after the puz we'll do it after the puzzle we'll tell everybody how well it went yeah okay all right anyway uh let's go somewhere else let's do some uh some let's go maybe over here multi-tools have many of these things things doesn't fit all right how about this one durable wood from the tropics now what where are you going okay I guess I'll just do this puzzle without he seems to have disappeared he's back okay Mr comedy man I'm like the straight man I'm he's Abbott and I'm Costello or maybe I'm Abbott and he's C which one is the is the straight man for ab and Castell I have no idea what you're talking about see what I have to work with folks but I love them all right fetal development sites do you know where a fetus develops do you know what a fetus is all right so fetal is the adjective form of the word fetus fetus is the name for a baby before the baby is born when it is living inside the mother's uterus the plural of uterus because it ends in us and it's a Latin word is I I yeah so uter i u t r i there you go all right colorful Marine invertebrate oh you got to go in colorful Marine invertebrate we don't know 90 Dees on a compass you know that one it is in fact East right North is zero and then of from your point of view so North East and then South is 180 West is 270 all right here we go um Co Scottish aisle and stargazing Local app oh that's a clever clever key what are you doing kid D dude the people can't read if you you keep going switch back and forth and people can't read the words this happens too fast you got to think of the viewer all you're out of it am I am I taking over no cuz I will if I need to all right all right all right so you don't know the aisle uh the Scottish aisle okay multi-tools have many of these no no okay durable wood from the tropics do you know any uh any anything there no okay not difficult at all in slang it's not really a nice thing to say but it is something people say that was so not difficult it was no okay um enraged not that I have ever been enraged yes and a good adjective in describing some angry but that it does have five letters but doesn't fit R in the yes well okay okay folk singer Guthrie do you know him no all right word before link or reaction no nothing all right moving things on seeing eye dog no how about dressy parties NOA no idea freshwater eel of Japanese Cuisine you like Japanese Cuisine no phrase on gravestones we don't know let's go over here Beast cited in the Rockies say snake but could be a snake but not enough words for not enough letters for snake do you know the singer of the song Royals Royals I put it but no shall I put it in yeah her name is Lord L O R D e that's how she spells it uh newspaper stand place place yeah I don't know about that Beast cited in the Rockies three-letter it's a real Beast it's not like a Yeti or or a although some say the yeti is also a real but it's an actual actual animal okay me in Paris big foot's real so some say Bigfoot's real that's right no idea you know idea how to say me on France bull in Spanish you know how to say Bull in espanol no oh man Investments that aren't stocks you can purchase stocks you can also invest in no you don't know that one all right this is a tough one for you time to cut a cake for a short party party doesn't fit is there a short word of party that has four letters what kind of party traditionally has a cake birday and is there a short way to write birthday bday yeah bday it's bday uh now do you know what you can buy there stocks and there's also no yeah oh how about bonds you know you ever heard that stocks and bonds kind of kind of yeah got to learn about Finance got to learn about Finance uh we still don't know bull in Spanish crispy plantain chips those are delicious can I put it in yeah toones I like Tostitos um no Tostitos are just tortilla is a brand of tortilla chips yeah toston are like plantain chips they're like they're fried fried plantains they're good goes to as a movie if you're going to go yeah C is a movie good I by the I'm typing now moving things a little faster because this boy is uh yeah know all right like this Clue's number even yeah very good using ketchup on steak at a fancy Steakhouse for example not good not good I don't think that fits is there a a shortened way to say it's not good you're right though nope could be good all right let's see what we have here common sign off in a letter love love Dad when I write a letter to you mid leg what is the mid leg no I don't well it's between your the upper leg and the lower leg look at your leg what's in between the upper knee so I think that nope is not right but I like the even and the C's let's see KNE that's how we spell knee right what I can be silly too you know okay wait what did I just do fixing this ah get over here that's okay and what happened up here Tren no we didn't know these did we oh that was tree okay back to here do we know 55 down daughter's counterparts Sons yeah Sons no you non no the sons with an O get it okay no no using ketchup on steak at a fancy Ste that's a no no why it's you're not supposed to do it all right Suns of some breakfast oh there's Sons with you sons of some breakfasts egg Yol egg yolks what kind of breakfast has the sun has the egg Yol has the sun uh I'm not no no not but sunny side up eggs when you have the eggs and they're sunny side up that's when the the yolk is like the Yellow Part on the white background all right tidy like your room just like your room sure sure our your room is very 49 across no it's not uh render null and void delete delete would fit except if it weren't egg yolks if it were L yolks or Egle yolks that would work but I don't know about that enrages what's with the anger in this cross word Kenneth Cortez are you okay are you in a dark place right now it's okay if you are and you're writing all these angry Clues you know sometimes you just need to do that it's okay I support you man all right this kid he's got a lot of fake anger let's see some more fake anger look at this all right uh home for Adam and Eve Eden Eden yes that's right uh cleric's house yeah non-reactive as the noble gases oh chemistry you know something that does not react is called it's called inert although the noble gases are are not completely inert they used to be called inert gases as many know but it is possible to get them to react some of them under extreme circumstances okay once blank Blue Moon we just got a halfway yeah we got halfway once in a once in a blue moon you can get a noble gas to react a blue moon yeah maybe you know what a blue moon is what the second moon full moon the month this kid knows this stuff it's rarest in February not on Lea years o on right right yeah that that makes sense cuz there has to be a full moon on the 1 and then a full moon on the 28th yeah M all right actor Robins or Robinson I don't know actors you don't know actors yeah especially adult actors that are not uh in kid movies stroke of Genius or the theme of this puzzle okay that's the theme of but that's the theme that's showing well that's not the themer that's the uh here we go it's a themer it's also the revealer but why does it show the yellow thing because blue overtakes green and I blue overtakes gray and white oh it doesn't show the other ones in yellow yeah you're right often that happens when I guess sometimes they didn't put it in that way good question New York Times why don't the other ones show up in yellow all right back to the puzzle um game in which one might shout ready or not here I come hide and seek yes it's also the name of a book it's also the name of a book hide and seek okay um okay so now we see interesting uh blank Kebab M I like this chicken chicken kebab would fit chicken kebab is a type of Kebab but it does not fit the original Kebab from uh I don't know Central Asian Cuisine Persian Cuisine I guess is we have never made this cuz it's made with the real one is made with lamb we make Chicken Kebabs uh but the real one made with lamb is shish kebab and it is delicious uh a ballet Bend do you know this one uh no it's a good cross word word it's also a good dance word is PA so when you bend down at the knees but you keep your body up so like the knees go like that yeah all right counterpart to cones oh and an eye do you know what the receptors the light receptors in your eye are called no there's cones and there's also um do you know this in the back of your eye is the retina and that's where the the cells that that are sensitive to light are and so the light is focused on them and they hit and some are more sensitive but not for color and some are less sensitive but they can see color that's why in low light you can't see colors very well got ah okay well maybe we'll get there all right icon for example no nothing all right planting a whoopy cushion for example is a prank you ever do that yeah I check your bad what nice you would do that oh my goodness this kid I tell you a tedious task uh sleep sleep does not fit uh counterpart the cones now do you know we have an extra letter in there um sometimes the first light yeah you know about Ros and cones in the eye no now you do okay how about this one no time to Dilly do what was that a word word run run I don't think that fits we need to get there now bird of prey it's a hawk yes it is that's my hawk sound does that sound good yeah okay Cuts as grass lawn mower lawn mower does this but we need a verb say Cuts or maybe it's a noun as Cuts but we only have four letters Snips does not fit because we have that W for Hawk unless you think Hawk is wrong no what you said that the tool is called a i no so if you use it you're doing what to the grass mowing yeah and so Cuts as grass M Ms yeah whoops mo mo uh seeing eye dog any idea no no idea okay I feel like that has something like no idea in that why would you say that word before link or reaction I don't know no no all right um I want see what happened oh wait enraged we still don't know that idea is part of the thema why would you say that check all the way what gives you that idea s check all the white Parts check all the white Parts well we don't know what's in this white part and no we don't know what's in this white part I have no idea what's in the white part and in this white part oh it does say idea how interesting I have a feeling that's an A i d i so what you can say are is pointing with his finger to the screen at the white section so if we put Ida in there any idea any idea what this is not difficult at all it's no something your friend might say all right let's put the IDE in here uh seeing eye dog for example any idea what that is do you know what seeing eye dog is uh they help people who are blind they help people who are blind yeah move that's right that's right okay um so what if we put an EA in this stroke of Genius or the theme of this puzzle um something what's he doing oh you got 46 down render n and void is negate very good very good uh the cleric's house you probably would not know this cleric being like a yeah right yeah like a priest who lives in the mans that's uh I think that's what medieval I'm not sure um and you you don't know Tim Robbins or Tim Robinson those are actors were those two guys who on Lego Masters right oh those are two guys all two different guys on Lego Masters Yeah Tim and Tim that's right we haven't watched that in a while I hope there I wonder if they're still in it I don't know we're way behind they got the we're way behind we got it we got it all DVR we haven't been watching maybe they got the golden brick that's right okay maybe it's over uh maybe the season's over I don't know stroke of Genius well it's definitely over there probably hav they might not not finished right yeah it's definitely it's okay let's let's go 20 minutes into the puzzle we got we got work to do yeah yeah let's solve this you know what the strok of Genius is no all right let's move on then let's move over here Jackson 5 hairstyles Do You Know The Jackson 5 no oh man I got to educate you a BC e one two three like me ABC one two three baby you and me go okay um boyfriend no catch dispensers in brief ATMs ATMs yeah here we go Adams Adams not genuine fake fake doesn't fit too bad phrase on gra gravestones o that's a good clue that's a good one I don't know you don't know that one worry yeah if you're worrying I might say don't worry be happy or I might say don't something else no okay group with the hits gimme gimme gimme and money money money money I don't know band money I don't know bands you don't know bands yeah okay uh let's see what else might you know here Broadway musical based on a comic strip orphan do you know this one The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun you know what what show that's from you who sings that she has red hair and she wears a red dress with a white collar she's very famous tomorrow tomorrow I love you tomorrow you don't know that one man you used to yeah Brooke used to pretend like for a while that that she was this person and you had no hair so you were Mr warbuck cuz you're a little baby with no hair and so you you you were daddy warbuck or Mr warbuck yeah cuz he was no no hair it's Annie you remember Annie oh man yeah can you have those little okay accompanyment for a tortilla chip salsa what salsa dip salsa dip does anyone ever call it salsa dip no no it's a salsa right yeah yeah I don't know I don't know about that one that's a little bit of a stretch there Kenneth Cortez and the New York Times team but we'll let it go cuz shorts and will shorts right who was the lead editor right right right uh let's see night light on a nightstand you have one your night standand has yeah lamp yeah all right oh three4 done okay what the number of spots on a ladybug represents in a common misconcept it's age you don't think that's true no it doesn't like grow a new spot every year no if trees can grow a new ring why can't ladybugs grow a new spot because ladybugs are born with their spots trees aren't born with aren't made well then they're born with their age if a ladybug is three years old it's born with three spots makes perfect sense to me anyway blank city computer game old old computer game but they have different version okay Old City not Old City no dressy parties do you know this one yet are Galas all right you're all right we got to get you done we got to get you in bed okay freshwater eel is unagi uh I don't I've never had that but it shows up in crosswords a lot so vowels now y got a lot of vowels Y no idea okay uh do you know this the phrase on gravestones in blank Noh okay let's see um theater Awards in close it's it's the Latin version of in memorium which is Latin for in memory or in memory of s oh Sim City Sim City yeah you ever heard of it is it a city simulator it's a city simulator yeah exactly very good and then they made Sim Earth and then they had the Sims which is like people simulator yeah is that fun I never played it I don't know I imagine it's fun all right let's see what else we got here um yeah you wouldn't know that one you wouldn't know that one not genuine I don't know if you know any of these uh the theater awards for the Broadway shows are called the Tony you heard of them yeah but for the Off Broadway it's named after OB for Off Broadway they're called the obies so seriously that's that's what they're called they're called the obies um not genuine now do you know anything no okay uh stroke of Genius or the theme of this puzzle you mentioned there's ideas but what do you notice about all those ideas they're in words they're in words yes they're white as opposed to the rest of it which is gray so what might be oh what a stroke of Genius that's a idea great great doesn't fit amazing amazing also doesn't fit thoughtful but no all thoughtful also doesn't fit notice it's in white not gray what's the difference between white and gray gray is a little bit darker light get it get it no bright idea that's pretty good right yeah that's a good one no good one Kenneth Cortez yeah yeah we we both agreed that was very funny well done yes Ari is a little bit more shy than I am about showing praise but that's okay no all right not genuine just yeah not genuine you know what that is now it's bogus oh okay um if you worry it's also a part of the guitar fret fret yeah um group you might not know now do you know any hair styles that would fit in this no oh man um do you know a word for boyfriend it's a French sounding word I don't know the word for boyfriend is Bow and the word for the hairstyles they had were afro you know what an afro is no oh I'll show you a picture of Jacki with afro it's awesome we're also going to try control shift all and we're try control shift all what is it reload or F5 okay and so ABBA is the group with money money money money money and many other hits all right uh let's see features of rotary oh we missed this one rotary phones you know this one those old phones you go and then dials yeah they have dials right you di your phone enrage now that we have the eye oh eight I rate that's right I've never been this kid got it he's got the got the energy Scottish Isle you still don't know that let's see colorful Marine invertebrate oh wow this is a that's a good word the Double A's in there yeah multi-tools have many uses uses very good depending on the multi tool depending on the multitool well it wouldn't be a multitool if it didn't have many uses and some have more than others only have two right otherwise it's the tool uni tool I don't know a tool oh yes a tool all right durable wood from the tropics have you heard it's called te nope and the aisle in the in the Scottish aisle off the coast of Scotland is the aisle of Sky s ye some people are also named Sky the dog in uh Paw Patrol was named Sky which dog SK it's about the one that flies the plane that's why her name is Sky yeah um let's see isn't isn't uh isn't miles's sister name Sky yeah yeah he know Sky all right colorful Marine in vertebrae it's C something do you know this one C anony oh you know how to pronounce it too I thought you were going to say C animon I thought maybe you read about it but it is the C anemon that's right it's very clear to me I am a c anemon okay um word before it's that's it's a song chain re the song is actually My Own Worst Enemy but every time I hear it I think I see anemy I don't know the rest of the words Chain Reaction Chain Reaction or chain link like a chain link chain reaction is also a game show chain reaction is also a game show yes you're right no time to Dilly doy come on yeah come on Ari oh you got it yeah oh where are we going AR's taking over what are you doing oh he's reising some no no punctuation in the puzzle unless it's part of the theme which that could be like a Thursday is thing get rid of that apostrophe no yes okay all right now do you seeing ey dog mm okay um do you know icon for example um no do you know what an icon is yeah it's the thing you click on right yeah yeah so nothing there all righty uh oh do you know uh yeah do you know where are we pick the newspaper stand is a kyosk yes and we can look at The Crossings there a bull in F in Spanish is tal and me in Paris is mAh is French for me Mah and the Beast cited in the Rockies is an elk all right so I think beasts why not they're not beasts what are they animals animals or beasts Beast means animal well animals right no Beast is singular beasts are animals we're animals what we're animals we are animals yes we are beasts it's true all right we're almost done let's let's knock this thing out not difficult to at all it is stupid easy stupid easy it's so it's stupid easy that's a phrase yes uh all right you know I now the key between uh control and command optical illusion optical illusion doesn't fit but option does the singer's name is Arlo Guthrie and seeing ey dog is a guide yeah guide animal or a guide Beast guide Beast oh there's one last one an icon is what letter fits in there to make it a word yeah an image all right we got to check out uh so all right so in case you missed it the theme is bright idea and that's why everything is gray except for the word idea because and compared to gray the white squares are dark not dark oh bright bright and so it's a bright idea it's very clever I like that you a bright idea how do I turn that into a puzzle well done well done I would say that it's a good Monday puzzle but it's not stupid easy it's appropriately uh easy relative to other days of the week okay uh we're going to zoom out a little bit because we want to look at the Jackson 5 I need to educate this boy on what an afro is and so you get to see that you get to see the Jackson 5 and Jackson Jacksonville Jaguars Jackson momes Jackson Brown Jackson Pollock Jackson State Jackson Five there they are those aren't really I mean those are afro but I I when I think afro I think like way out there but that is indeed an afro um the idea is in the 1960s and70s uh African-American culture began to say you know what our hair is is Curly and it can be as as curly and and Lively as we want to be we don't have to force it to look any way and so there's this idea that black is beautiful and just the pride of wearing a a a a a hair that is just something that that other people can't have I guess became an issue of Pride so you'll see it's not as popular anymore but you'll see that that is an afro uh AR is going to show us something cool what are we not work on yaho okay yeah it doesn't work on this does it has on Google it works oh you search for dog on Google and what happens you there's a thing here that you can click and then you can um put bense yeah sorry but so in case I I mention this every time and then I just because Google's taking over the Universe I stop stop stop because Google is taking over the Universe I have uh set it up so that Google's not the default search engine even though I'm using Chrome just because you know I have now instead of the Universe I have the universe minus one and it's like my way of resisting all right anyway uh you wanted to try uh go ahead can I do it yeah so it's control control shift Control Alt shift shift F5 F5 okay R is pressing F5 doesn't look like anything happened wait are we still here we're not backwards or anything oh yeah we didn't get uh sent to another dimension okay good actually maybe we another dimension of real life maybe maybe was like the Multiverse we just shifted into another one that we haven't noticed the difference yet it's very similar to our current universe but it's a little different me yeah I don't know maybe in this one cross word puzzle I don't know I got nothing I was going to say something funny but I couldn't think of anything you got anything maybe in this one crossword puzzles are easier maybe except no one knows how to solve them oh so we'll be like we'll be like magicians they be like oh great wizard who knows how to solve a cross word puzzle and your dad too cross puzzle you get a dollar for you get a dollar for solving a cross puzzle yeah Ching but no one knows how to solve them but no one knows how to solve them except us yeah yeah maybe in this alternate universe you're the dad and I'm the son all right it's enough it's time for this we got to hold on hold on we go to the big screen before we go by okay now we go bye everyone we forgot to tell everybody they should subscribe and like and comment and share share share yes all your friends on social media also uh click the Bell on the Subscribe thing click the Bell on the Subscribe thing so you get notified so you get notified and then you'll know every time I do a new one like the one you see bye