Nyt Puzzle Rex Parker (2024)

FAQs

What are unusual meat courses crossword? ›

Some “Unusual meat courses” (23A) are called SWEETBREADS, even though they aren't SWEET and there is no BREAD involved.

The “Mathematician Noether” is EMMY, who makes her debut in the New York Times Crossword. Ms. Noether is new to me, but she contributed to algebraic theory in the early 20th century and was considered a genius by Albert Einstein.

Food that fills both blanks of "___ce of ___"

The answer is pie.

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty.

Mystery meat is a disparaging term for meat products that have an unidentifiable source, typically ground or otherwise ultra-processed foods such as burger patties, chicken nuggets, Salisbury steaks, sausages and hot dogs.

9 Letters: CARPACCIO.

The “clutch” in this clue is a handbag, not a part of the transmission. “What a clutch lacks” is a STRAP.

What waste may go to” solves to a COMPOST BIN. Kitchen “waste” goes there and becomes “black gold,” which you can use to charge up your garden. 64A. “Tony and Grammy winner Mitchell” solves to ANAÏS, who created “Hadestown,” the acclaimed musical.

Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss is known as the queen of mathematics because she founded the number theory. Explanation: One of mathematics' greatest minds, Carl Friedrich Gauss, is credited as saying: "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics."

The most famous Schrödinger puzzle, and maybe the most famous crossword puzzle in American history, was published on the morning of Election Day in 1996. The clue for the two central entries read “Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!).” A bold clue indeed!

What are the black boxes in crosswords called? ›

Crossword grids containing black squares are known as blocked. Their counterpart, barred grids, have no black squares, and divisions between words are indicated by thick lines. In barred grids, every square is white, so that it requires entry of a letter by a solver.

You were supposed to laugh there, since the repeated clue and answer breaks a firm crossword rule that the same word can't appear twice in a grid. This rule is mostly there for the sake of elegance and aesthetics, and there are some gray areas.

They make it easier to unwind

Although it is tempting to unwind by watching the television or by reading on a tablet, the body should avoid screen time before bed. Puzzles provide a much better opportunity to relax, making it easier to fall asleep and properly switch off.

Mondays have the most straightforward clues and Saturday clues are the hardest, or involve the most wordplay. Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday puzzles are midweek difficulty, not the hardest. They're just bigger. A typical Monday clue will be very straightforward and drive you almost directly to the answer.

What a little bird told me? The answer is tweet.

Spoo is a meat based food product produced by the Centauri Republic and is a staple of the average Centauri diet. It is a favourite of Londo Mollari. Cherished by the Centauri, it can be quite expensive, costing the average non-wholesale customer as much as 10 credits an ounce outside the Republic.

A puzzle within a puzzle

At first glance, a cryptic crossword looks the same as a normal crossword. But there's one major difference – the clues are puzzles too. Cryptic crosswords follow certain rules – but they also use a lot of word play and often some humour too.