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Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:04 pm**

It saddens me to hear about the low ratings received on crosswordfiend for this puzzle. I thought it challenging, fair, and rewarding to solve - the precise attributes that bring me back each week. Bravo Matt!

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:06 pm**

joequavis wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:04 pm It saddens me to hear about the low ratings received on crosswordfiend for this puzzle. I thought it challenging, fair, and rewarding to solve - the precise attributes that bring me back each week. Bravo Matt!

Any bashing must be discounted for whatever varied reasons people may have. This puzzle was excellent.

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:22 pm**

Joe Ross wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:06 pm Any bashing must be discounted for whatever varied reasons people may have.

Been there, done that. Agree that the puzzle is excellent.

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:05 pm**

Popped over specifically to rate it highly. The complaints don't seem especially persuasive to me.

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:02 pm**

Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the parenthetical numbers?
I did not get a good grasp of this even after reading the write-up.

Duane

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:18 pm**

I made this a lot harder on myself by not realizing until after I submitted that the four-letter replacement words for the typos were ALL IN THE SAME ROW AS THE THEMERS. I actually brute-force tried just about every four-letter grid word into every themer until they all made sense (and backed into a few using the numbers in parentheses). Great puzzle, and pretty elegant once you see it all.

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:30 pm**

TMart wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:18 pm I made this a lot harder on myself by not realizing until after I submitted that the four-letter replacement words for the typos were ALL IN THE SAME ROW AS THE THEMERS. I actually brute-force tried just about every four-letter grid word into every themer until they all made sense (and backed into a few using the numbers in parentheses). Great puzzle, and pretty elegant once you see it all.

Same here! I had already written out all the grid answers in columns by word length, and I plugged all those 4-letter words in every time

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:30 pm**

TMart wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:18 pm I made this a lot harder on myself by not realizing until after I submitted that the four-letter replacement words for the typos were ALL IN THE SAME ROW AS THE THEMERS. I actually brute-force tried just about every four-letter grid word into every themer until they all made sense (and backed into a few using the numbers in parentheses). Great puzzle, and pretty elegant once you see it all.

I shot myself in the foot too :-) I'm not much of a pen-and-paper solver, and for metas I generally have an virtual notepad going with the theme entries and anything else that seems important. For this one I typed in all of the 4-letter words from the puzzle so that I could "easily" try out replacements, doh!

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:38 pm**

Duane Suarez wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:02 pm Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the parenthetical numbers?
I did not get a good grasp of this even after reading the write-up.

Duane

They indicate the length of the grid entry that answers the new clue obtained by fixing the typo. So 16A gets a (4) because PARISLANES clues RUES, 20A gets a (5) because SIXANDSUCH clues EVENS, etc.

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:49 pm**

ajk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:38 pm
Duane Suarez wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:02 pm Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the parenthetical numbers?
I did not get a good grasp of this even after reading the write-up.

Duane
They indicate the length of the grid entry that answers the new clue obtained by fixing the typo. So 16A gets a (4) because PARISLANES clues RUES, 20A gets a (5) because SIXANDSUCH clues EVENS, etc.

Thank you.

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:41 pm**

I might have made it easier for myself... I never even noticed that there were parentheses!

Posted: **Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:10 am**

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