# NY Times Crossword, Thu 16-Jun-2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 16, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755 "2011-06-16T23:01:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755/1 "2011-06-16T23:01:38Z")
I haven’t done the NY Times crosswords in a long time, well over a year, but decided to start doing them again after a recent SDMB thread reminded me how much I used to enjoy them. I started last Thursday and have finished every puzzle since then, the easier ones in 5-10 minutes and the harder ones like Thu, Fri or Sunday in 45-50 minutes (and last Saturday’s took me 1h45). So I’ve still got it, baby! 🙂 Today’s puzzle took me about 42 minutes because I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out the 39-across clue after I’d filled in all but 3 or 4 of the letters. I eventually filled in the entire puzzle without figuring it out… And what’s more, even after solving it, can’t figure out what the heck it means! (A first for me) The clue is: “Title for this puzzle… which the answers to the eight starred clues will help explain”. The six starred clues had the answers of: \*Let off some steam? - **HISS** \*\_\_\_\_ soup - **MISO** \*Not get some Z’s? - **LISP** \*Birthday secret - **WISH** \*Workshop sight, perhaps - **VISE** \*CD part - **DISC** OK so all the answers are the same length and all of them have the same two letters in the center… But I still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755/2 "2011-06-16T23:08:13Z")
Oh, and there are 11 letters in the answer to 38-across, and it filled out to be: HLMFFWVDMRV ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755/3 "2011-06-16T23:18:01Z")
[googled it for ya](http://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/2011/06/french-fauvist-dufy-thu-6-16-11-hockeys.html) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755/4 "2011-06-16T23:27:44Z")
Moved Cafe Society --\> the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755/5 "2011-06-16T23:46:47Z")
Ha, I left out 2 of the 8 clues with stars in my spoiler list too. The problem is I’m solving this on an iPhone and it’s very hard for me to make out which clues have stars, I kept seeing only 6 of them. Typing the answers isn’t super fun either but I’m not timing myself anyway. I guess this thread can actually be closed… Unless people want to make fun of how long I took to solve it or how I could have missed this one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755/6 "2011-06-17T00:43:23Z")
Wow, that is a clever puzzle. I wish I had solved it (although it’s easy to see the answer when you haven’t been staring at the same clues for hours). ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-crossword-thu-16-jun-2011/585755/7 "2011-06-17T01:46:46Z")
Don’t feel bad, **robardin** ; I totally did not get it either. But thanks to \*\*sinjin \*\*for showing me a fascinating site. mmm