Learning Crossword Week 17 | NYT Crossword Tuesday Aug 27th, 2024

hello I'm learning to do the big New York Times crossword today is Tuesday August 27th I still have not done too well on most of the Tuesdays um but I did do pretty well yesterday on the Monday so big difficulty jump between Monday and Tuesday I think I need like a muse day puzzle but anyway we'll see how I do usually I end up having to use the Checker near the end and looking some stuff up but uh you never know let's find out let's go campy Rock campy Rock sub genre of the early 1970s hm what would have been a campy Rock genre of the70s Prague Rock maybe I'm going to pencil that in because I'm not entirely sure dance in single file like a line dance that doesn't really like uh oh I don't know totally smitten smitten like in love like you have a crush um I'm not sure social activity that one tries to get out of and it's a play on words we do have some kind of theme going on here with these gray cells we'll find out what that is super blank I mean if it's not Superman I'm not sure I have no idea mathematician benoi Queener of the word fractal ooh um is it could it be that there's a fractal named after him um I'm going to need some crosses but I think I should be able to get that one the only fractal I can think of right now is the Julia set um shelter that's pitched a tent you pitch a tent I think that's pretty good so 10 I wonder if we have numbers here interesting Take the Wheel Jesus uh Drive I I'm not sure what they're going for Take the Wheel uh conscript like a soldier uh I don't like the I don't like the downs for that one um and a what what do they call those um enlisted no it doesn't work all right I'm not sure you're the one that I want for One a song I guess rank above viz count what's viz count I know what a discount is rank above Viscount no idea philosophically non-committal no idea well this is this is rough I think the theme will help I think it's going to be numbers but I don't know which numbers to put former capital of Japan oh ooh I'm blanking on it yeah uh shoot it'll come to me or I'll get across lead into algebra or calculus like just math like early math I don't know oh pre like pre-algebra pre-cal okay I get it I I was thinking lead in like the class you would take before that but they just mean like what you would the letters you put before that um blank naous between us is this French cornmeal cake in Colombian cuisine I think we've had this exact clue before and I couldn't remember um I don't remember what it was epigram or elegy so something you would write when someone dies I don't know set straight is this all gray it's all gray weird Okay opposed to against but it doesn't fit this is rough fizzy drinks sodas fits okay incorporate as a hyperlink. how would we do do com incorporate as a hyperlink okay so I'm not thinking about this right so you incorporate it into the page as a hyperlink you embed okay sitcom narrator Mosby Mosby I'm not sure I tip blank to you I whoa what would you fill in that I tip blank to you nada I don't know fashion designer in The Incredibles Ed Edna Edna Ed uh something like that start of a texter two cents in my humble opinion storm relief organization oh the I can never remember things when I try to do crosswords um I need I need letters give On's two cents oh we just had that clue um I'm not sure Noel Peace Prize winner Sadat I don't know covid-19 slingly there's a slang for covid-19 I don't know copywriters handbook I don't know hankering messy end to a relationship with a hint to this puzzle shaded squares so I think the Shaded squares are numbers although I only have one of them so I can't know for sure um what's a messy enter relationship that might involve numbers I'm not sure jeez I hope the downs I can get some stuff Asian Cuisine of choice let's just take an entire continent Cuisine and pick one of them that's four letters long I don't know Su it's not Sushi um I don't know it's rice maybe is rice considered a Cuisine I don't know I'm going to pencil that in okay blank salts Epsom sea salt epep Epsom is is that is that Epsom I'm going to pencil in Epsom we'll see slander lies okay precious stones I'm going to end it with s uh future JD's exam um the MCAT maybe let's get rid of Prague then skin Affliction acne o double C worked with what's available can I get any of these now um campy Rock sub genre not ringing a bell social activity that one tries to get out of not sure Matha yeah that doesn't help enough precious stones gems maybe see GMA I like the rest of these but GMA I'm concerned but take the wheel steer Ste steer I can't actually I don't actually know if it's double I think dou e looks better worked with what's available I'm not sure all right next down animation frame that's not just called a frame um I'm not sure Celestial body the sun I going a pencil in Sun I don't know if they want a spec they don't say per like a a an example though they want a replacement for Celestial body huh so I don't think it's Sun but water water everywhere but I thought it was but not a drop to drink but but any drop to drink oh nor nor any drop to drink I've always heard it as water water everywhere but not a drop to drink so I don't know how this would be finished blank an e drop to drink maybe not Annie drop to drink think okay Johnny B of song I thought it was Johnny B good Johnny I don't know the National Railroad passenger Corporation familiarly oh um is that amtr I don't know if it's a c or k or I think it's C microorganisms in the digestive tract oops I didn't mean to do that I'm not sure AIDS partner what apt name for a DNA expert really Comedia Dell something what read carefully or leisurely I don't know Stark daughter on Game of Thrones Arya fits it's not Sansa it's not John oh daughter sorry it would be Arya or Sansa I I in my head it was child but it definitely says daughter so it's got to be Arya okay that's the only thing one that fits Europe's tallest active volcano in Europe probably in the Alps somewhere I don't know for sure okay oh is it in Italy Museum placard info I don't know I'm I'm wondering if song is correct phone screen array h I mean the the screen what are we talking about phone screen away a apps okay maybe bachelor party VIP the groom okay down and out I don't know but I just got some letters what's this epigram or elegy a poem maybe are all elies poems so why why is this an M I don't know down an out philosophically non-committal I tip money to you I don't know Hawaiian fish mahi mahi pretty tasty also called dolphin fish I don't understand what this is word before day or difference somay some difference maybe all right what I was on this down okay true blank podcast genre True Crime 50 minutes past the hour 10 till 102 maybe made a choice I don't know maybe I can get this across former capital of Japan ooh C oh it's Kyoto and I was right with the K Kyoto yeah Kyoto is what I was trying to think of and I couldn't um made a choice um I don't know musical staff letters the no the notes I don't know I think embed is right Capitol Hill staffer is that Aid maybe can I get this opposed to cornmeal cake sitcom n probably Ted Mosby if Eight Is Right fashion designer in The Incredibles maybe it is Edna something I just don't know her last name BD is weird musical staff letters is it just a through G in some random order I don't know made a choice I don't know Hawaiian Goose really Fallout h like radiation debris I don't know I'm going to put debris pamis is beloved in myth I don't even know who pyramis is not automatic manual at least some of these are no that's Manuel okay manual um ready for use no idea feedback session in art school for short sorry don't know ice planet in The Empire Strikes bath Hoth this is not by the way whatever I had did there largest Empire in Pre Colombian America the Incas can I get any of these acrosses covid-19 aona hankering an itch taii Cuisine okay feedback session in art school for short crit chime something give one chime in with your two cents okay um I still don't understand this clue or what any of our these are not the gray letters are not um numbers is this Edna okay what was I on not sure L Goose beloved ready for use reference site familiarly Wiki oopsie rnw probably not debris I don't know I'll keep it together in music workout units work reps reps messy end to a relationship with a hint to the puzzle shaded squares something's wrong I'm going to erase debris put that a back in because I think it is Edna Edna something made a choice posed to ah I think I already have stuff wrong is this how oh I tip my hat to you same day same difference okay I tip my hat to you down and out needy needy is the only word I can think of CD no read what would this be then oh agnostic there we go getting some of these all right I tip my hat to you pure Mrs beloved don't know who that is ready for use like warmed up hated conscript conscript maybe it's the verb conscript um to like bring someone in I'm not sure can I get any of these maybe this is like gut back it's not gut bacteria but maybe got something totally smitten super super user I don't know apt name for a DNA expert protein I don't know maybe Dena this has DNA in it totally smitten this this doesn't have to be gut I don't know though Johnny B dance in single file like what even is that social activity one tries to get out of ECC mathematician but I don't know read carefully or leisurely no idea NT oh don't no I think song might be wrong let's get rid of song You're the One That I Want For one it's a song You're the One That I Want Is a Song in Greece the musical or movie no idea animation frame this is like worse than usual musical stuff letters is in bed even right I think maybe the first thing I'll do is Checker but maybe I can figure out like what this what the gray letters are doing teni key icky ten iy hated what the heck did I spell manual wrong it looks so wrong to me I don't know why some of these I should know set straight worked with what's available made do something else wrong is gems wrong campy Rock sub genre over the early 1970s GM is this not MCAT steer feel like you're the one that I want maybe a do wet okay Museum placard info title Europe's tallest active volcano I don't know set straight I still can't figure this one out Wan goose I think this is going to be a vowel just because I think this is going to be a word starting with M this isn't a word though T something t h this could be something other than not maybe rotten Okay so we've got rotten we've got icky maybe these are all just words for like not liking something I don't think this is son I'm going to get rid of it man Mand Mand BR man man Mand Mand BR there we go it came to me eventually after getting most of the letters but I still came to me Celestial body maybe an orb what is this then I don't know peruse peruse maybe an escape room ah everyone wants to get out of it that's fun but is it msat I thought it was M cat or maybe it's PSAT I don't know I don't know what this rock sub genre is it feels like gems is correct though for um precious stones I thought JD was Junior doctor is it not animation frame is a cell I thought that had two L's in it dance and single file this is orb oh the conga line Johnny B it is Johnny B good maybe there's an e at the end rank above viz count Earl maybe cons conscript drag drag in or something drag maybe not drag mic so is this gut something I'm trying here I'm really trying um AIDS partner what who's the part another Aid's partner a bet Aiden a bet I get it I was like cuz Aid is spelled like this A I D E when it's a person so how can Aid the verb be have a part but then it came to me all right totally smitten You've Got It Bad um if this was a g I don't think that that's anything totally smitten I don't know super with a bi I think it's Dena it could be Dana maybe it's Dana but then even so like what's this word I have no idea rotten icky hated I still can't come up with these words M something Li I Mal maybe oh srate is a line so malign aligning made a choice opted I don't know if this makes sense for the Grays Etna I don't know music staff letters b g d are these the let's see are these two apart so a b c d e so this would be e then G then b d and then F okay is this like entree I like I thought it might be Etna so I'll put entree in there um Hawaiian Goose nen I have no idea storm relief FMA is it FEMA I remember hearing that name over and over again when there was um Hurricane Katrina but I can't remember exactly what it was fallout damage anoir maybe copywriters handbook is some kind of guide grammar guide or something I don't know together in music some Italian word not coming to me is this not Wiki messy end to a relationship this is probably ends in up right breakup um bad breakup so uh something that's bad has been broken up rotten icky malignant like a malignant tumor hated and I don't know what this is I still don't know this person's name from myth ready for use on tap okay I think EPS EP at least EP that much is correct what's this again indecisive sound IR Wall Street acquisition did I not do these I think I did um is this I thought IPO grid iron gains maybe it's not bad breakup wait what the it works so well I feel like this would be ABS I'm so confused let's get these and come back microorganisms in the dis is it gut gut Flora there we go AA okay it's that cornmeal cake um totally smitten God it was a g super U Uber oh maybe it is it Uber and Denna okay what's this conscript draft draft in draft on I don't know I feel like this has to have DNA in it right to conscript someone is to draft in draft on draft I don't know this is tough com I I'm not going to get Comedia Dell whatever I don't understand this totally totally smitten could I could I have this wrong completely Jean Jean is the is the app's name maybe draft conscript dra drafty drafty and then your Gaga for someone okay all right I just need this stuff is it like feeb what is this n a something T something I'm not I'm not thinking of a word for bad that's like that how could it not be bad breakup cuz I feel like this is ABS grid iron gains ABS Wall Street acquisition IPO wish I knew what the copywriter handbook was is it not on tap I feel like it's got to be right ready for use on [Music] tap I feel like most of this is right I really wish I could just finish this at least give it attempt to finish it maybe nasty style guide CR iron gains yards okay lbo I I could be right fisba maybe it's not Epsom salts huh I got close I don't know what's wrong though I think probably something in this area is wrong I think I'm pretty confident in a lot of this other stuff I think maybe jamam is wrong cuz I have no idea what that is so probably msat is wrong maybe I can figure that one out is it just PSAT no um all right I'm going to use the Checker unfortunately okay I don't know what an M sat is oh this e is wrong made a choice did I have a typo in here I think I typoed that this is still wrong though I don't know another sat what's the campy Rock sub genre of early 1970s glamrock oh it's glamrock in the LSAT JD is a is a lawyer Junior Junior what okay glamrock why didn't I think of glamrock I was really close I I don't know if I would have caught this typo I'd have to go through a lot Edna Mode okay um so what was this nasty yeah nasty hated the Clue the uh Grays helped qu considerably um I almost made it that's really sad all right uh well how' you do [Music]