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2:02. And I don’t speak Spanish so I thought that was impressive ahaha!
1min 13seconds! Hospital waiting room tension has unlocked my best yet!
1:13 and I’ve never watched Top Chef so I filled in every box except the top left and then cycled through all the letters of the alphabet in that box until the puzzle told me it was correct! :D
Loved the top chef crosses!!
Would love to see these puzzles on Autostraddle avoid the conflation of the letters N and Ñ in Spanish. They’re two different letters.
thank you for taking a minute to bring this up! while it definitely isn’t a great or even necessarily sensible practice (given that they are indeed two different letters!), conventional crossword construction doesn’t distinguish between N and Ñ, which means constructors can either make sure the crossing word also includes a(n understood, since it can’t be entered into the grid digitally) diacritic, or they can drop it, and the standard practice is to drop it in the cross. but even if both words included the diacritic, a digital solver still couldn’t enter it into the grid that way because digital platforms don’t allow for it. but having said that! i think constructors would be happy to take a stab at treating diacritical letters as distinct and static when they’re building out their word lists in the future!
Thanks for responding! I totally understand it as convention, but also I think there is so much tired convention in crosswords. Not conflating diacritics is a fairly simple way for AS to break away from mainstream crosswords and the tradition of white elitism that they often entrench. That’s one of the reasons I’m so excited about xwords at AS – I don’t have to get into white boomer brain or imagine how Paul Hollywood might pronounce a word to solve them. I know making crosswords is hard, and I believe in the team to take this one on! Thank you all again!
1:03 and I only know the celeb references from reading this site!
43 seconds! personal best!
1 minute 18 seconds! glad it was the only two top chefs i’ve ever heard of
24 seconds! i think that’s my personal best on a mini for both autostraddle and the nytimes
The first clue was so exciting to me that I entered a fugue state and finished in 30 seconds, which is abnormally fast for me. Great time!
52 seconds! Another good one
38 seconds! Duolingo Spanish came in clutch
17 seconds, i have unwittingly been training with the nyt crossword for this very moment!!!
1:22 but I had to cheat on the overlap letter in top chef lol