Sailors = TARS, SALTS who SWAB the decks (and “haul in the bowline” in Dylan’s 115th Dream), BOS’Nsīig AIRPORTs: LAX (Los Angeles), SFO (San Fran), LGA (La Guardian, NYC), JFK It’s hopeless to try to learn all OSCAR or EMMY winners, but a few are more common than others:
CROSSWORD NYTIMES HINTS TV
You probably remember ’em, but worth reminding yourself: TV Catch PhrasesĪrchitect Saarinen: EERO (Some people just aren’t satisfied without double vowels in their names!)ĪRLO (Guthrie Woody’s son and creator of Alice’s Restaurant where you can get anything you want, excepting Alice) Not only a great ark builder but also a really old dude: NOAH Look for unusual cluing that could result in Adam or Eveīirthright Seller = ESAU his brother to whom he sold it: JACOB They would come in handy sometimes, but perhaps not worth memorizing them if you aren’t a fan. Winners of American Idol : I have survived this far without knowing them. Football leagues can be the NFL, the NFC or AFC - conferences in the NFL - and AL-ERs and NL-ERs are American Leagues and National League baseball leagues who are rarely referred to this way except in crossword puzzles.)Īuto-racing family name: UNSER (Is auto-racing a sport? Not sure about that!) (Cagers, in case you didn’t know, are basketball players, their league is the NBA U.S. a woman’s first name so you can begin to make a decent guess after you’ve filled in some of the squares.) Often you know whether the answer’s going to be a man vs. (Personally, I don’t know much of anything about current TV But there are certainly lots of folks who know nothin’ about sports or some other common topic. Seinfeld: ELAINE, KRAMER, FRASIER, NEWMAN I’m just adding them as they come up, NYT puzzles) (The whole list is available on Wikipedia, of course. “Start for Angel?” might be “LONG-A,” for example. 1900 is CM.Īnything with a “?” at the end is a pun or similar word play. Remember that putting a single letter of smaller denomination before a bigger means you subtract that number.
When the Times says something like “Year Pope Leo was born”, the answer is usually a roman numeral.
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CROSSWORD NYTIMES HINTS UPDATE
I’ll continue to update this page with new categories and instances as I see ’em in NY Times Crosswords.
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