Friday's New York Times crossword is mine

[Puzzler]

My 86th in the NYT. It’ll be on line Thursday 10pm Eastern Time


Cheers,

-Puzzler (AKA Martin Ashwood-Smith)

[Phoenix61]

1. That is so cool!!

The only thing harder than solving a crossword puzzle is making one.

[iluvtennis]

7. Ditto.

[dhol82]

2. Neat!

Congratulations.

[secondwind]

3. So cool! congrats

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I love puzzles of all types, especially crosswords. However, the

ones that throw me are those with a lot of celebrity names. I'm not into pop culture.

[broiles]

5. The Friday crossword is really hard.

I think that composing it is even harder than competing it.

[George II]

6. I used to do the daily puzzle every day for years, and.....

.....was able to do about 3/4 of the Sunday puzzle each week. Only ONCE was I able to do the entire Sunday puzzle.

That was back when Will Weng was the crossword editor.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Coolest thing on DU today!

Congratulations! That puzzle is how other puzzles are judged, they are the best!

[Puzzler]

14. Thanks

-P

[mopinko]

9. boy, i feel like i might have to take a stab at it.

my mom was fantastic at crosswords. i grew up doing the local paper one, which was mostly pop culture. mom got to do the sunday one. i used to do chgo trib one when i was younger.
havent done one in years.
didnt realize till mom was gone how smart she really was. my dad got the credit for the brains that got passed down. but mom had an amazing memory, and was raised in a doting family.

i'll let you know.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Are you serious ?? Wow...my favorite thing to do!!!

Bravo!!! Can't wait

[Wounded Bear]

11. My local paper has the NYT puzzle every day...

but I'm not sure they get it same day it is released by the Times.

But I do the puzzle every day. Well, almost every day. They get pretty hard come Fri/Sat.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Puzzler]

13. Your paper probably has the Monday-Saturday puzzles

printed 5 weeks later.

Cheers,

-Puzzler

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. I love the NYT puzzles.

Congratulations!

I'm also very partial to cryptic crosswords.

[chwaliszewski]

15. I started doing crosswords in 1985 while in the Navy...

and two of my favorite answers at the time (I actually didn't know what they were at first) were:

1. food scrap for Fido: ORT
2. sunken fence: HA-HA

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Sunken fence?

[chwaliszewski]

19. Correct!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha

[mountain grammy]

16. Now that's pretty darn cool..

Thanks for sharing.

[lunamagica]

17. Wow. I'm impressed