Learning Crossword Week 19 | NYT Crossword Wednesday Sept 11th, 2024

I'm learning to do the New York Times cross word I usually only do the Monday and Tuesday but I thought I would give Wednesday a try today and I'm going to not shy away from looking things up and using the Checker I'm going to try starting with just looking things up but uh yeah we'll see how this goes Wednesday is probably still above the difficulty I normally can do which is why I'm giving that disclaimer um so yeah hope you enjoy this let's go break down like oh I'm not sure overly overly is like too much um three-letter word for overly seems difficult journalist Sawyer so I am just right away I'm going to see if I can find a sawyer journalist Diane Diane Sawyer that makes sense I've heard of her much easier to remember names when you can Google all right if you don't like this that I'm looking things up right away I mean I'm happy to have that feedback um just kind about it please I I I heard that like you got to do the harder puzzles so you can kind of get an idea of what comes up a lot and what kind of tricks they like to use how they like to word things so the more I do even if I'm leaning a lot on looking things up maybe that'll help all right not now um you know what I got Diane so why don't I look at these Downs postpone delay even just having one letter often helps me a lot for yucks ooh like things you don't yucks with I would Spell yuck y CK so I'm not sure what yuck with just y UK is let's skip that for now the slightest bit a small amount um a bit no um I'm not sure about that one rookie informally newbie does not fit new something I'm not sure Talk of the Irish say H would this just be the Irish language I don't know what that would be starting with e with four letters let's look at the acrosses here type in um type in to enter okay I want oh we should look at this here swim around scare some people Ram a boat uh shark things uh Jaws jaws film no it's got something to sharks or Jaws or something but I'm not sure how we're filling that out um does in help me here for Yu not really the slightest bit at rookie is probably new something talk of the Irish um is is this Jaws it could could be as required after if if as required I get what they're saying but I don't know what word goes there or multiple words maybe all right I did okay here let's actually go back to these acrosses and see if we can get some more ins here not now later um I'm not sure blank health therapist part of a dental practice oral health let's look at these Downs now I want to really be checking these to make sure they make sense Angela's successor as German Chancellor o h i don't know who the new German Chancellor is but Google does so it's Olaf nice swim around I really want this to be Jaws but I'll I'll try to remember that maybe I'll maybe I'll pencil it I'm trying not to like really confuse myself with penciling here but I don't know what this would be word seen in 20 squares on a Scrabble board triple maybe that would make sense galute okay I'm going to look at what galute means a clumsy foolish or silly person H I don't know what word they' use there now I know what galute means Spanish Bravo Olay all right overly two I was actually going to say two but it didn't make I didn't think that would make sense o that makes sense life is this like life of Jaws but then this wouldn't be [Music] delay I'm going to hold off this doesn't have to be Jaws of course all right well that that's pretty nice what we have so far um let's look at this limit on borrowing some kind of cap um credit cap no um loan cap lend cap I'm not sure um has required a for if we looked at that good quality for a midwife and it's a um play on words yeah I'm not I'm not going to get that yet claim made Stronger by a witness okay so there's the evidence um uh backed up uh yeah I'm not sure this this whole area has been confusing all right let's keep going palindromic preposition well if it's palindromic that's an e um does does 24 down is that easy strengthen with up oh I I get what they mean like blank up and it's so it means to strengthen Shore up would be kind of what I'd say but that's that's five letters H yeah I don't know what four-letter word we'd use there usually dry steam beds this is this could be air that's the only thing I can think of I'm going to I'm going to pencil in that R though all right let's keep going some ring decisions in brief um this the gemstone the color I don't know what four letters long excuses ooh four letter for excuses I'm not sure it might end in s let's see if s makes sense for 32 down NBC stalwart yeah I don't know who that would be and that's not easily googleable right now so let's hold off on that count at the gym reps okay would this be R double e oo maybe is triple wrong I feel like triple has to be right all right we we'll keep reps in um let's actually look at this down here Dell's say PCS this is a these are hashes hashes um their the number sign h a s if this isn't reps that would be weird h a h e hashes fits what's another word for that okay I'm going to Google words for that symbol Octor hashmark number sign pound sign square square fits but I don't like CQ yeah I okay even Google doesn't help me there we'll we'll have to hold off on that um hi dudon what does dudgeon mean let me look that up a feeling of offense or deep resentment ooh offense or resentment High resentment High offense I'm offended I'm three letters I don't know what the world's largest piggy bank holds the world's largest coins uh is this coins that doesn't fit I have no idea I mean it's it's obviously a play on words Brew Pub order ale maybe leave them rolling in the aisles cart it's plural though right leave them I'm going to put card anyway Smooth Operator singer is that seal Smooth Operator Sade s a d okay New Mexico's blank national forest all right New Mexico national forests let's take a look we've got Carson Kola Santa Fe Gila g l a that works Mills is five letters Rio uh okay I think I like that one Gila what so what's the what are these Downs fruit associated with Newton an apple oh Fig Newton okay so it's not ale it's probably IPA then then fig and then nail polish brand Pi I'm not going to look that up yet I might be able to figure out this across like problems a school teacher might deal with I don't know children turn for the worse go bad um don't know turbine Turner a generator they often use water to turn turbines is it only ever water probably um what about this down I don't know what this is shaping up to be like devoted fans um Fanatics um that's what fans means I don't know we get any of these sculp scures with moving parts for example o sculptures with moving parts that sounds neat whoopie's Oscar winning role in ghost all right so I'm going to look up ghost on IMDb and we'll see what weird it gave me no results when I Googled that but I'm just going to go to IMDb and type in ghost here all right um who did woy play Oda May Brown oh so it wouldn't be the name of the person in ghost I don't know maybe OD Brown b r o w n o no none of that fits okay we're going to hold off on that then um why don't we why don't we look at this 50 give in retract no not sure mess with let's go to 51 across heroes in LGBT plus history lgbtq Plus history um yeah it's a planned words and I have nothing so Verity's next Opera after Aida let's look at Varity operas all right list of operas after AA Don Carlo well that doesn't fit are these not in order aell that fits Chicago or Oklahoma are musicals all right let's look at these Downs jacket sleeves is a plan words um sworen statement as an oath it may come down after wheels go up it may come down after wheels go up that's quite the riddle I don't know Lazarus with a sonnet on the Statue of Liberty what let's look at 45 down ready to go all all out all I feel like this is all I don't know statement of defeat maybe like we had another very similar clue already not sure reaction to a punch o I'm going to put oof there what's 159 across jacket sleeves I don't know let's keep looking at these contacts listing like an entry like a is it like the phone number the address the I don't know smooth as unruly hair like to untangle to to brush to I don't know what word would start with T 1998 animated film set in San Central Park okay let's look it up unfortunately my Google is too specific here and it's giving me what's the crossw answer for the New York Times um so let's look at animated films from 1998 ants I didn't know that took place in Central Park Nana alternative so Nana would be grandmother right another four-letter grandmother name I don't know uh Marriott competitor the Hilton that doesn't fit um let's look at big um big hotel chains theat right the Hyatt um I like my wife and I have an inside joke of calling that H uh it may come down after the wheels go up still don't know this one Lazarus with a saet on the Statue of Liberty I don't even know what this means like I know the Statue of Liberty has that poem on it is that what they mean but what's that have to do with Lazarus is that is that who wrote it Lazarus is a mythical is an angel right Lazarus is an angel I don't know all right let's look at these new beginning play on words no idea Vietnamese celebration I'm going to hold off on Googling that one I feel like that would give me crossword clue answers um can I figure out this one yet number number number # hashtag hashtag I have no idea what this is saying darn it I could have some letters wrong I guess all right what do we go back to um I think we should just go through all the Downs make sure we didn't miss any parks whose cookbook Brave tart won the James Beard award okay so I can look that up so brave tart Stella Parks that's pretty nifty all right well can I get any of these acrosses now breakdown with an S I don't know not now with a t still don't know device with Alexa Echo I still feel like this is life of Jaws but what could be DF instead of of delay anyway we'll we'll we'll hold off on that um limit on borrowing is is probably the Lend cap I'm going to pencil that in it's lend cap or lone cap I actually I I don't know I don't know which one it would be so we're not even going to pencil that good quality for a midwife that's a plan on Words claim made Stronger by a witness Alibi got it that's pretty nifty probably so cool that's cool I'm going to I'm going to put in cool here and I'm going to put in Lone cap I always forget I think it's right arrow lone cap is there a button that just toggles between apparently not I just want a button that toggles between these two without using the Mouse um like problems a school teacher might deal with I don't know still don't know the Midwife joke oh wow that's a long word for only uh with a B here no clue okay we're going to keep going the Downs four yucks I'm going to look up yuck now see if that actually is a thing slang term used in jokes to refer to a loud laugh okay so it's like it's like a laugh it's also a brand of Footwear in joke I'm GNA pencil an in joke because I really do think this is Jaws um the slightest bit ATA it's it's probably like a o a tad okay I I do like Jaws here I like joke here y k all right I kind of like joke there I don't know if this is like newie or what as required after it oo I don't know what that Talk of the Irish okay I'm going to look up Irish language gaic definitely doesn't fit s s an alternative name for the goidelic language I'm butchering that all right so it is air so what is going on here I'm going to erase joke I think that's confusing me as required after if I don't know let's hold off um I did got a here only don't know that one yet singer Herd on give piece a chance that I can look up John lennin oh you probably Yoko Ono this is life of Jaws okay maybe delay is wrong then postpone de defer defer oh okay and this is NE need as required if needed if need if need be and it's Noob oh okay um ingest for Yu ingest I like that can I figure this out good quality for midlife flow no not flowers um I'm getting there still don't quite have it okay so we got inest what's after that only just sex um I don't know un a usual sorry usually dry steam beds stream beds I read that as Steam beds last time usually dry stream beds getting rid of this R strengthen with up this area I I feel like I don't know like counts are reps like I don't even know what else they would put there and this PC was right so I'm confused by something else I don't see how triple could be wrong at this point but we're just going to keep going um we'll come back sculptures with moving parts for example I still don't know what that means nonprofit URL ending org call as a poker bet isn't that to call to give the same you know the same bet um some ring descriptions in brief about this one 36 hi dudgeon the This was um H okay dudgeon was like something that offends you right High something that's very really offensive with an r in the middle three letters I don't know darn what the world's largest piggy bank holds okay we're going to look we're going to keep looking at Downs here [Music] um call NBC stalwart let's see if I can get this letter NBC anchors maybe should I look up um s blank a scrolling through a list of NBC anchors here or these are just SBC personalities that's a long list in in Wikipedia yeah this isn't enough um yeah I'm not going to search NBC stalwart that feels too cheaty all right we'll we'll skip this for now yes continue all right um I still don't know what we're doing for this one there's three of them does that matter more evidence that reps is wrong but nail polish brand okay nail polish brands uh Opie world's largest pig Bank holds don't know make craft is too long don't know what else would work there like devoted fans could water be wrong I I'm getting the the sense that water's wrong so what turns turbines water steam air or combustion maybe it's steam I don't know if that helped me uh what down was I on call poker bet stall War does this make any more sense stash stash uh State still doesn't make sense to me I don't know maybe steam is wrong too make devoted fans ready to go all all out all I thought of that before I'm still not sure part of a club um a member is this not ants You' be a member of a club H whoopie's Oscar winning rle in ghost we have two a's now give in don't know statement of defeat still don't know mess with it may come down after the wheels go up wheels go up something comes down the are we talking about like a a ramp or I don't know Trey Lazarus with AET I'm going to look up Statue of Liberty Lazarus Emma okay let's look at who was that Emma Lazarus born 1849 in New York City um sa faric Jewish descent the poet who wrote The New Colossus the new New Colossus not like the Brazen giant of Greek Fame with conquering limbs arride from land to land here at our seawash to Sunset Gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch whose flame is the imprisoned lightning and her name mother of Exiles from her Beacon hand glows worldwide welcome her mild eyes command the air bridged Harbor that Twin Cities frame keep ancient lands your storied pump cries she with Silent Lips give me your tired your poor your huddle masses yearning to breathe free The Wretched refuse of your teeming Shore send these the homeless Tempest tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door so yeah she was the one who wrote the poem that's at the Statue of Liberty nice all right um Emma good name to to know all right soup container in three letters a cup I'm not sure a bowl a cup that's usually where soup goes a tin a can maybe can let's try can does that make sense for these new beginning um the a makes me think this is ants and member's wrong I'm going to get rid of member I'm going to put ants back cuz I looked that up ending and Z though is crazy meth with mess with Buzz or fuzz or something like that jacket sleeves arm something this is try then uh smooth as unruly hair Tam tame tames you replace Smooths with tames you tame UNR here statement of defeat I lost two words always um ready to go all set okay this is coming together arms of coat oh instead of coat of arms it's arms of coat oh the theme is of something of something but normally the phrase is swapped so coat of arms and jaws of life right the jaws of life are what firemen use to like get car doors open to save people um so this is going to be of and it's it's like labor of love love of labors for the good quality midli that's really funny so this is going to have of somewhere in it um maybe here but I'm not sure oh beef strength beef up y so this is the of what is this one usually usually dry stream beds this I don't know but what would be a swapped thing for what the world's largest piggy bank holds of foe this I don't have enough Downs for yet but okay that's really funny how about this one heroes in lgbtq history this might be Lions I don't know why Loi um Lio just makes me think lion but I don't know what that would have to do would the of go here part of a club yeah so it's not member obviously how can I get any of these last word before blast off one oops I typed a three there um new beginning is it just it can't be new it's a play on words but I don't get it I mean new beginning makes me think we're supposed to be like the first letter of new right so n but that's not that's not it um or NE e something like that this something's wrong here is it still ant no a an is correct it's got to be ants what is this mess with mut UTS futs one of those I think it's futs and I think this is where of f I'm not quite I'm not quite there to figure out this joke this the swapped ofs I feel like we're getting there though all right um what what Downs haven't I looked at yet oh was that the that wasn't the last down was it that was the last down how about these ones uh make like Dev voted fans I don't know how we're doing DT there maybe oh whoa I hit back I'm sorry and that went to strands sorry uh we're back um I I hit the back button on my Mouse um DT I I think I might delete steam cuz steam can can turn a turbine so can water and we don't know which one it is so we need to get a Crossing sculptures with moving Parts let me look up what what you won an Oscar for in Ghost just look up whoopy Goldberg Oscars best supporting actress in 91 sorry for some reason I didn't say for what 91 hold on that's that's wrong whoopy Goldberg one for ghost to 1990 so best supporting actress how would that fit here I I don't know what they want there I'm it's frustrating for me give in no I refuse let's see statement of defeat oh wait did I lose a bunch of letters I I swear I had I lost fill out here um yeah I lost stuff darn it the back button made me lose things what was this love of labors darn it I have to like redo some of this um um shoot this was of how much did I lose this was try oh yeah and this was AR uh this was code of arms member was wrong oh my gosh code of arms soup container was a can last word it was one I don't know what the new beginning one was I think this is ants this was futs and we're going to do of here okay this was all set tames okay I think I F I don't know I I I lost stuff and I'm not going to be able to recover it um some ring okay well let's just go back through all of the clues and see if I can figure any of these down figure any these out um I was reading breakdown while I was trying to finish my last sentence breakdown s can I figure out the the something cool here that's pretty nifty so cool I just don't see how SS works that's the problem two s's in a row not now okay like problems a school teacher might deal with have it maybe I can get this one only one this is Alibi right it's got to be is this not cart is this qu is that how you spell it I'm going to look that up yeah I think this is quitus leave them rolling in the aisles and it's not a cart I don't know then it is I I thought it had to be plural so I should have realized I'm going to look up dry steam stream bed also know as a Dry Creek bed a Royo this was air I just and it's or royos um I'm thinking this is Lions cuz what else would go there but what would be something of lions something of lions can't think of it so Lions being the heroes Lions of pride pride of lions lions of Pride got it that's fun all right figure that one out did I figure this one out yet the piggy bank no I did not I think I had this of filled and I lost that too anyway wouldn't have helped me I don't know what an a Royo is well now I do it's a dry stream bed but what are we leave leaving rolling in the aisles no clue the NBC stall work I still don't know uh turn for the worst turn for the worse can I get this part of a club om mat part of a club om at um that's all getting me Club member omat there's an there are omat clubs it's not telling me what okay I don't know um is it like Mom like a mom club like Mom Mom at or Mom I don't know Mom I don't know can I get this word it's the hashtags sculptures moving Parts okay I'm just going to go through everything I said I was going to go through them again breakdown don't know not now don't know some ring decisions in brief no idea excuses that s is a guess but I can't think what what that would be hi dudon this was the you're offended high you're offended a lot you're I don't know what the world's largest piggy bank holds and it's a swapped of yeah like Queen I don't know leave them rolling in the aisles turn for the worst turbine Turner now what what looks better water or steam water Eda hold on what was what was IMDB Ghost will be Goldberg play Oda May Brown Oda May okay so it's not steam or water so what is turning a turbine keeps telling me to give in um relax no re like devoted fans I don't know contacts in Mama um Nana alternative Gran Vietnamese celebration okay let's look at Vietnamese celebrations public holidays in Vietnam uh tet I think that's been an answer before uh give in relent ending an o r is weird I still think it might be water and they I don't know did they mess up Oda who knows I don't think they would mess that up uh sculptures of moving parts for example animatronic how do you spell that I don't think that fits at all um art some kind of art contacts listing aim game same team lame Fame name name like to voted fans ring adoring fans okay I can't figure out what this word is c a g can I get any of these Downs yet sculpturist moving Parts a motor turine Turner Turner is a motor okay I don't know if I agree with that um stamps why are those stamps CT maybe it's not stamps what is going on here CTA SLS oh no something's wrong what is this etic art K kinetic art kinetic art TKO hi Doon IR of [Music] Katan change this is this is change so change of Fortune instead it's Fortune of change so what is going on with shamps so what's wrong all the acrosses seem good reps Fortune of change Smooth Operator singer was s did I let me just make sure I I I got that right oh no what just happened okay hopefully nothing bad um Smooth Operator sad D okay I don't know I'm going to look up shamps shamps plural of shamp a surname this can't be right is it two words like amps like I don't see how be two words rotor Sharps ah Sharps like in music and it's rotor turns the turbine okay I told you I disagreed with motor what's this down call your see the BET t koos I'm going to look that up cuz I'm not sure what that is other than technical Knockouts oh it is technical Knockouts ring decisions as in the boxing ring okay I kept thinking of rings like like like a wedding ring like you're picking out a wedding ring or something part of a club omat still don't know what this omat thing is we're we're getting there this is even with looking stuff up this has been very difficult for me can I figure this out yet like problems a school teacher might deal with have a roll have I really hope something's not wrong only gone bet done a done bet not now I still feel like I have something wrong excuses new beginning make even I don't know leave them rolling leave them rolling in the Isles why why are we why are we putting um like that what is that hinting at SN is interesting NBC stalwart SN NBC SN SNL okay we're talking about a show not a person no wonder I didn't see a person leave them rolling in the aisles slay a EA make earn you earn money you make money turn for the worst rot part of a club tomato and then Neo New Beginning Neo oh it's at the you put Neo at the beginning of a word to mean new I don't get part of a club oh part of a club sandwich a tomato okay we're getting there I just got to figure out this top left and what I messed up here or like what the heck's going on have it could Alibi be wrong let me look at this clue again claim made Stronger by a witness Alibi it's got to be what can I do here like problems a school teacher might deal with I can't I can't make this make sense in my head it's obviously more than one word I don't know where the words are splitting up like I want to put oral here for example but have I oral no only that's pretty nifty so cool I want to put so cool we looked up Stella breakdown what can I do here what's like even look up excuses I'm going to I'm going to um look at a thesaurus on excuse and see if that helps so thesaurus excuse oops I spelled it wrong yes I didn't mean that interesting Alibi is also an excuse um apology justification pretext rationalization substitute trick nothing's three letters long cop cop out um fish story strong matches clean up cover plea yes I am I am playing excuses yeah it's not like a direct um thesaurus entry here wise no okay I might have to check her cuz I'm I'm yeah I am going to check her cuz I if I'm going to struggle if one of these letters is wrong I think they're all right everything is right so far so I'm just struggling because I don't understand what's happening rather than messing with myself here um what if I fed so cool is that is that even reasonable not now SS what breakdown SS see it doesn't make sense now we're talking about breaking down like you your car breaks down right it's it damages or or breaking down a box right you're sorting it you're splitting it into pieces I don't know flattening like I I don't know what breakdown or or are we dancing we're breaking it down um oh boy um is this like done bet only I don't see how that means only yeah so I don't know what to look up here so the options are a direct crossword clue lookup which I could do or abuse of the Checker are the only things I can think of this teacher thing is really messing with my head like problem a school teacher might deal with have a I don't know what goes between this i and r viral vital but like a a vital I'm thinking this is a is on its own and then we're like something like vitol I think vitol is with an O like VI I something r a l a and then what would this be it's the only thing I can think of that's pretty nifty so cool like so cool just makes so much sense but I don't know what SS would do here break down only okay what do I do in the comments let me know what I should do at this point like the options I can think of again are to do a direct crossword answer site and just get the answer to something um I can check her abuse which I think is the worst op option um a checker abuse meaning like turn on auto check and just try letters until one locks in I can just keep flipping between them I feel like that's a bad option because I'm just wasting a bunch of your time so and I tried thesaurus excuses I don't understand the school teacher problem VI something r i could like do a um Scrabble Word Finder like a a word on Scrambler and put in v r a l with a blank and see what we get so I'm going to try that I guess and see if my theory is correct that it's a VI something so I'll use the Scrabble Word Finder site usually let's see so we've got VI something R Rivals but that doesn't make sense uh it's going to be a one two three sixlet word so the only sixlet word is Rivals and that's scrambled so it it that can't be right so what am I what am I messing up with that AAL no that doesn't make sense so what if I fill in blank blank ha a v i blank r a l um it only gave me two blanks out of that arch rival um archival no I don't think this is a good option what are some sixlet words that show up starting with v no that's not going to work arrivals right see that does none of that makes sense okay which one's going to help the most I I I just I need to know what this is like problems of school teacher might deal with I'm just going to look up the answer to that one behavioral it was a single word breakdown soab not now oh oh cool not now then n none excuses are outs okay solved I had I had to look up behavioral I could not think of that word that was that was hard okay so what what is this not none none but only none but I'm going to look that up oh it's it's two it's just two words none but like what would be a sentence for that I have none but the blah I don't know not now then then that's nasty for that one oh cool not so cool and then SOB break down as break down crying I didn't think of that definition I don't know if I would have come up with SOB for that though okay well um I'm learning I don't know this is a very long video uh but yeah cool how' you do [Music]