Wednesday Crossword August 28 2024

hello and welcome to data cross puzzles my name is Kevin here for solving it softly where we're going to go through the Wednesday crossword puzzle from The New York Times but before we do that let's get warmed up with the mini crossword we're going to check out the mini crossword from Tracy Bennett and uh get warmed up so looks like a fairly uh filled gri here uh just from this the silhouette here uh so it might take a bit of time I'm guessing it's going to take about a a minute and 30 seconds that's my time that's what I'm going to guess um I already accidentally um escaped into this so uh it's already starting at two seconds but let's get going with this and see what I can pull out here so tool for swabbing the deck maybe a mop uh doorbell sound would be a ding ding dong but okay maybe something else vertical lines on graphs in math are uh uh Y axis uh crept around in a weasy way or although vertical lines would be X or yeah I think Y axis if you're talking about that I'm thinking with x equal to zero uh crept around in a weasy way wrapped around in a weasy way snuck snuck around snuck it's not looking great top Turvy or maybe a mixup is a bungle situation that's what I was looking at there signs of things to come our Omen so it's not Topsy Turvy what is that oh no it's not it's not snuck it's something else bothersome is pesky uh okay Angel Hair top Topp topper uh cheese uh it' be uh spaghetti and sauce I don't know something like that skin bub assist but then what is this so it's not that it's crept around slunk slunk oops not crime uh chime a Halo is an angel hair topper if you're an angel and you have hair you got a halo over top I guess okay so uh good warmup thanks Tracy for that mini crossword okay so now let's do the bull crossword here and this puzzle comes to us from Jesse Goldberg this is Jesse's fourth puzzle uh published in the New York Times overall his second Wednesday and he has a 53% freshness score on average looking for some difficult fil maybe some fun stuff going on uh no rebuses so that's kind of a giveaway we're not going to find a Rebus here today uh because it doesn't show up in his stats um maybe that's a a downside of of previewing the um the Constructor here give gives away a bit of the puzzle but uh still in any event we'll um I'm sure this will be fun this will be a themed puzzle so let's get started with uh with this one here chicken par Maan something like that I don't know blank blank blank blank blank in fat wait why is there 1 two 3 4 five there's five letters but then like what is the parmesan in fat chicken parm something counselor on the Enterprise I didn't watch Star Trek uh really at all um so I don't know sexual attraction with the hots maybe the hots is that still a phrase um I don't know hexter qualifier maybe in my humble opinion actress Davis could be Gina Davis I guess chicken parthy chicken par I don't know this is not looking great the opposite of vertical the uh abbreviation of that would be h r horizontal I'm not saying it the other way uh so uh lover boy is Romeo oh so this has got to be the theme so we have blanks we're filling in the blanks so referring to referring tther referring to referring to the rest referring to the rest okay so you can kind of see like spaces in here where we have a blank and we have a space and we have a space so we have a t blank and then another word blank blank blank and then blank s and so it's other so that's a word that fits uh on its own so it's it's a word um and it's also broken up so it contains another word contains the and we can bookend it with an O and an r and we can make a phrase out of that okay so that's going to be the theme um not too not too tricky uh this might be a good one for beginners uh so I'm guessing chicken parm high in fat chicken parm high in fat maybe M chicken chicken part high in fat oh right because it has to be a word so chicken part high in fat oh this is very clever I didn't even notice this okay so a chicken part that's high in fat is a thigh and referring to the rest is other wow what a wow this is this is a classic already I can see this is amazing uh oh I have heard of TR TR or TW TR Troy so if you have the stage you're on so is on it's that tense and then last word at times um I don't know I don't uh last word at times the end maybe the end hurdles for Doc oral orals right the hurdles for doctoral students are orals oral exams Ogden Nash uh is I don't know what he wrote but I mean apparently he wrote a door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of interesting units of x R exposure don't know in oh oh wait a minute it's got to be radiation just in general but then I don't know if this works no because it's it's not a word in the manner of his Allah a court call could be a let referring to tennis clay figure in Jewish folklore are I guess scales textures unbelievable no okay so galum no Gollum what am I doing why did I had the a in there a Gollum is a clay figurine in Jewish folklore and shaking my head is the textures unbelievable so they're indicating um abbreviations by saying that this is what a texter would write which is kind of in a I mean isn't it a bit archaic I mean you can we're not limited but it's kind of a vestage of uh the times where you were limited to the number of characters when you're texting I wait id idea that terrifies theat phobes I'm GNA have to look that up I'm guessing it's somebody who's afraid of death that's so interest this is this is probably one of my favorite CR wordss in a long long time this is amazing subject for Milton fredman oh it was econ so it's not going to be end here Spanish-speaking neighborhood aario maybe and the last word could be by okay Bronx politician with a noted 2018 upset familiarly is AOC I got I said familiarly right that time I almost flubbed it right now uh Spanish speaking neighborhood is a bario onetime studio with a broadcast studio uh Broadus Tower in its logos RKO half of the couple of the iconic Rolling Stone cover of 12281 I think that's when they were both like naked like holding each other's uh private areas call or they were just like shaded um uh participants in a 140.6 mile race why is it 142 140.6 I guess Iron Men uh is it only open is it only restricted the men or is there a women's uh event as well okay so I think this is R renkins ronins uh the guy who like won a um Nobel Prize for discovering x-rays okay when your broad mind and narrow waste begin to change places per e Joseph Cosman never heard of him um but can I tease this out when you're broadminded and narrow waste begin to change places okay um um old age middle age I bet yeah I am definitely feeling that prenatal diagnostic is an amnio as amnio oh gosh what is it sen cesis or something like that uh not sure Broadway anti is anti Mame I think Mame okay another one let's see what let's see what this one is made amends for what one did made amends for what one did is atoned oh my this is so clever because of is um in in thus I don't know let me see something that can be dominant not sure let's go back to 29 cropped photo could be a pick like you cropped the word picture and uh just shortened it to be pick plac bets on both sides um hedged okay in in thus why would it be in thus I don't understand that so itsy bitsy would be small that doesn't fit though something that minent Gene right outline is uh an edge neighbor of Zambia and Namibia and we had the river for the the river named neib in previous I think the Monday crossword um so that's Angola I guess I'm not very good with uh African geography um I know roughly like the the East Coast the Northeast fairly well but nothing else on the that East Coast uh West Coast has so many smaller little countries in that in that horn there because in in that in that itsy bitsy is ensy okay edols were the famous failures of 1950s by uh the I think Ford made them a venian one lasts eight Earth months is a day go back on up to here star clling on okay so Star Trek Star Trek hang on lingo not heard on the original original series is Klingon I guess the Klingons uh appeared uh after the original series and person seems to be a star treky um I I am not but uh we're learning some stuff about it at least animal with a bugle call bugle like mating call is an elk and then up there so to speak is if you're up there in age you are old and can we do this let's see they puff no because it wouldn't be there wouldn't be any words starting with FF uh they put so it's got to end in s because it's going to be stuff right they they push some stuff I don't know I really want to get I want I want to feel clever like I want to feel like I I solved it based on on just the clue but I'm not going to get it I need the crosses I'm not going to sit here and and stare at it for 30 minutes Ivy League City surrounded by more than 150 waterfalls has to be itha if you're comfortable uh well hopefully if you're at home you are comfortable foods with names often ending in I um not sure Fury Fury is is Rage it's um something or other to account for something to something could be an account um could be a tale it could be a story a recollection of something a tale not seeing that one yet foods with names often ending in i pastas right like rotini um I guess I don't know I can't think of any other ones though maker of aspire laptops has to be Acer analyze to a fault has to be over over analyzed over something being and nothingness author don't know who that is they push maybe this is Shivers they push iers oh wait shs shovers they they push over stuff shers well push over stuff interesting make sense of is to enter enter something enter uh I don't know Fury oh maybe this is chair I thought that was sickness or illness like referring to Chia I guess that also means like Rage or Fury okay I am not going to get this corner until I get some of the other ones or that that uh I have to get the corner first before I get those those two there um H side of many wrecks has to be C going nowhere is that maybe idle lifeblood snap back I don't know um like a um a retort or something like that um just want to do these ones another word for a rascal another word for a scallywag is a rascal this is so amazing how he found these I have to read the article for for how he found all these ones venerable teachers are [Music] uh don't don't know check the IDS of carded uh sages sages are venerable teachers and a lifeblood not sure enter I don't know why I can't can't see what that is so so difficult for me casual greeting is hey there maybe or hi hi there so a lifeblood could be assets doesn't fit though overthink I'm definitely overthinking probably a lot of these uh SRA I guess was the being a nothingness author the philosopher interpret to make sense of oh my gosh it was just so hard to see that snap Snapback could be maybe oh wait a p could it be a p like a snap PE maybe a will figure so someone passes and they have uh things to give away um an air will end up in a will word with t tail or tight maybe tail end tight end those seem to both fit Smoothie Bar supply has to be ice snapb tell me it's not just straight up ke oh no because it's okay we're being clever um clever wording uh the back or the last letter of snap is p and so phonetically you just spell that PE like many autumn leaves are red and so the life plug is the essence okay like the proverbial milk is built Tuscan City on the Arno River Piza perhaps beg your pardon beg beg pardon is to uh okay so we're looking for a phrase but now we're also looking just for a a um a sound just go a hem yeah can I can I stop you there can I interrupt you 411 is info pictures position wait going to be ninth I already see it but positions pitcher position in the lineup historically is ninth and I think they did away with I think both do both leagues uh American League and National League now have the designated hitter option um I think that might be I think they might have changed that that rule um so now pitchers I don't think that you know or really at all Grammy winner for best rap album in 20201 May is Nas still producing hit records I guess title rooll of 1966 and 2004 I think it was Alfie is that uh the one with um Michael Kane in 66 and then I think it was Russell Brand I could be wrong on that uh energize maybe is to stimulate or stim or stir stir Tempest or Monsoon a tempest or a monsoon is an example of a storm I think that's the oh no we get one we we are treated to one more Street feature needed after a hard [Music] um Street future needed after a hard ah hard storm a drain a hard rain after a hard rain you need a drain for the street often skipped step when making rice is to rinse always rinse your rice oh and we do get one more awesome okay okay so it's it's going to be a stake it's taken on a vampire Hunt is a stake exclamation of Enlightenment is Aha and do we have Allah as well ala yeah we did as 11 down we had Aha and there's symmetry here see the Symmetry we have 11 down Allah and then 63 aha that's that's good Phil I like that uh spoil is to rot and they often mix up lyrics doctors I don't know um going places are John's slang for a toilet oh DJs often mix up lyrics so there we go that was a pretty um straightforward once I understood the theme uh even though these were like not too difficult to tease out they're very very clever uh I would give this like a definite thumbs up for if you are just getting into the crosswords maybe you've you've you've solved your Tuesdays you like you can get through some Tuesdays you maybe tried some Wednesdays but you know some of them are a little hard this one might be able to um you might be able to reason your way through some of these which is which is good for beginners because they don't have the you know big knowledge base of crossword e and and that um so the freshness definitely helps for this puzzle uh or for any puzzle with for beginners to learn um I I think I don't know I could be wrong on that I think I think freshness is good for this um so what what else did I want to look at I wanted to look at um thanatophobia does uh like psychology with uh people on their um at the end of their lives um and I guess she would be along the lines of thanatology uh she does the uh talk nerdy podcast which is great uh you can hear some great stories from scientists and uh people who have a um a expertise in a given topic so also let's see um uh what did I want to look up the word itself I think comes from Greek mythology I don't know if they mention it all right Thanos the personification of death is s Thanos is that an actual person or is it just uh death incarnate maybe it's always fun to like go back and look at the mythologies son of Nicks and brother of hypnos has no father though the ayy okay there's also another person I wanted to look up e Joseph Cosman he was an inventor from 1918 to 20 2002 so lived 84 years spud gun toys okay so he was just a just had a clever saying I guess it's like when you're broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places when they begin to swap is middle age that is definitely true it's good to keep a broad mind though still uh there's there's definitely some things you got to uh corner off and uh you know narrow your mind a bit on be a bit firm so that is the puzzle uh for Wednesday so uh let me know how you did in the comments and uh I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow on Thursday we'll warm up with the mini again tomorrow and uh work through the Thursday I'm hoping it's uh manageable uh I have a feeling that we're going to run into something really tricky though the past couple weeks the Thursdays and Fridays have been uh a little tricky for me so I will see you all tomorrow check out some other crosswords that I have done over here and YouTube thinks that you would like this video from me please click that subscribe button if you have not already would help grow this channel very much and I 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