![]() Yes, there's another meaning of the word "tabloid" that references sensationalistic news coverage, but the newspaper format term is what the clue is referencing here.Ĭute puzzle idea. Ergo, a tabloid is "easy to read" compared to this. While you can do that with a broadsheet, it takes up a lot of space and is awkward, so typically one opens up a broadsheet, folds it back over, and then in half to read. Tabloids just open up and read like a book. They are "easy to read" in that physically you don't have to do weird folds and contortions with the paper as you do a broadsheet. In New York, the Times is a broadsheet, and the Post and Daily News are both tabloids. They typically fold only along the side, whereas a broadsheet also has a fold down the middle (hence phrases like "above the fold" when referring to story placement in broadsheet newspapers.) Here in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times is a tabloid the Trib is a broadsheet (though they very briefly flirted with a tabloid edition in 2011). Ina Garten is a food celebrity on the Food Network, starring in her show Barefoot - A tabloid is a newspaper of a size that is smaller than a broadsheet. I'm nothing if not wrong about something.Ĩ:36 7:25. AS IF I hARE could mean something.perhaps if uttered by the victorious tortoise? Oh, well - a hOARSE is a COARSE of course of course. ![]() I started with COARSE and thought "oh, no - hOARSE is better" and it still is. ![]() I enjoyed it.I guess that's why it couldn't run on the Tuesdee, despite being much easier than yesterday's - for me anyway, and I'm betting I'm not alone.ĥ3A "Roughly speaking?" COARSE. Well, at least I found the theme rather cute and fun. You go ahead and dumb yourself down, NYT, but I will forever bristle at WOAH.Ĭlearly I'm no genius and I appreciate the fluidity of our language but why did kids in my school get slapped around when they made such mistakes and now it's just "oh, that's not a misspelling - it's modern." GTFOHWT Isn't anything ever just wrong anymore? It is very modern to not give a crap about spelling or grammar or similar "rules". That's actually a perfectly accurate description. So, I guess in a world of "alternate facts" we're simply calling misspelled words "modern" now. sigh, sure, maybe some people say that, but when two better phrases come to mind, maybe your phrase isn't really the one you should be going with. "LIKE I CARE" is definitely in-the-language. "SEE IF I CARE!" would be a Great phrase. AS IF I CARE is original but it's also just not what people say. And the fill was truly grating in many places, from the "just 'cause it's in your enormous wordlist doesn't make it good" PIECEWISE to the "that's not an exclamation, that's a chemical formula, at best" WOAH, to the always unwelcome ETAIL sitting alongside the far more unwelcome NONPC (which somehow manages to be worse than UNPC, which is itself a bogus term used by bigots who mistakenly believe they are free-speech warriors whose truth-telling the libs just can't handle!). But this one just doesn't have the zip and zing and thoughtfulness it should. I believe it's out there, the Platonic Ideal of the HEADFAKE puzzle. Constructors, please take my HEADFAKE Revealer Challenge and make a better HEADFAKE-themed puzzle. It's like you had a potentially great revealer ( HEADFAKE) and then didn't know what to do with it exactly and so ended up with this. They don't sound like actual things at all. The cluing phrases aren't good misdirection. And the DENTAL CROWN clue wasn't even a fake, really. It's just "let's try to mask the answer a little, just to add some other level to the puzzle." Are the clues supposed to be another example of a "fake"? Like a "fake-out"? Like, "haha, you thought we were talking about pancake batter, but really it's an eyelash batter. There's no pattern to the wordplay or phrasing. If you describe the theme, maybe it sounds OK, but solving it was mostly unpleasant. In front of each clue we have added its number and position on the crossword puzzle for easier navigation.Never warmed up to this one. If you are done solving this clue take a look below to the other clues found on today's puzzle in case you may need help with any of them. This clue was last seen on NYTimes MaPuzzle.
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