Your job is to set the solver up for success, even if that success takes slightly longer as the solver gets deeper into the week.
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And here is the deep, dark secret of how I eventually became a regular solver of those frightening, late-week grids: I became a regular solver of those frightening, late-week grids.
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From a constructor's point of view, both of these words must be terrifically useful because of their vowelly endings as much as their appeal to the solver (or this solver, at any rate).
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A print solver is generally finished for the day once the corresponding puzzle page has been completed, but an online solver has the ability to start, stop and continue many puzzles at leisure.
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"It shows he's a problem solver," Chief Majher told WSAZ.
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Running also has helped me become a better problem solver.
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Anyone can apply for the chance to be a Solver.
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Spare time is all in the eye of the solver.
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There are only two steps to becoming a better solver.
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Wednesday clues often force the solver to rely on context.
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There's a Catch-22 to becoming a good crossword solver: To be a good solver, you have to develop a certain skill set, but to develop that skill set, you have to solve crossword puzzles.
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Based on the study results, say you're a terrific problem-solver.
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"She always has been a problem solver for me," he said.
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" She continued: "But I am a problem solver, always have been.
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A Monday solver probably isn't going to finish a Wednesday puzzle.
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On Wednesday we start a new, occasional feature called Solver Stories.
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For the solver, guessing movie titles from emojis is really fun!
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As a veteran solver, I knew two things about this clue.
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This transforms you from victim of political circumstance to problem solver.
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It's solvable below, as well as in a standalone solver here.
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No promises: there may be technical obstacles a solver couldn't anticipate.
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If you are a beginning solver and are not familiar with the ALOUs, you can familiarize yourself with them in this article about sports names that are good to know in order to become a better solver.
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I'm a problem solver: I open the window and toss it out.
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I hope you enjoy the wordplay, whatever level of solver you ARRR!
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The solver will care if a crossword is filled with unnecessary obscurities.
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It's a proverbial tug of war between the constructor, editors and solver.
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In that moment, I was recast as a wingman and problem solver.
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And a Wednesday-only solver probably can't finish a Friday or Saturday.
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See how to use data analysis tools, including Goal Seek and Solver.
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This clue elevates a so-so entry by sublimely misdirecting the solver.
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They read: idfiddisoeosedukfoerravewogfofroodrztuhlczdi If you put this string of letters into anagram-solver.
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Writing the solver code took him a few nights and weekends, he said.
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In return for helping to keep the network secure, the solver receives bitcoin.
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Seldom tough enough to stump the average solver, but usually interesting and clever.
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"Should have been used for rolling paper," one solver sniffed in a comment.
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At times, they can be arranged to form images the solver must identify.
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Will his failure as a problem solver cause his supporters to abandon him?
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To add to the family connection, my father was a valuable test solver.
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"My whole career I've been a doer and a problem solver," Bloomberg said.
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If you're a creative problem solver maybe Java development is for you. 3.
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Your job, as the solver, is to figure out which part is which.
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Socially intelligent people understand that the best problem solver is a strong network.
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I hate to put it back on the solver, but it's a possibility.
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If you are a speed solver and this ruined your time, we apologize.
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The book in this Sunday's acrostic was suggested to us by a solver.
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Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — The contract between crossword puzzle and solver is a sacred one, and it consists of one basic rule: The solver reads a clue, takes his or her best guess at the answer and attempts to fill it in.
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Let's hear from Mr. Flinn: As a solver, I enjoy the occasional stacked puzzle.
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"But I'm an engineer in my heart — I am a problem solver," he said.
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The creator of Socratic just open sourced its step-by-step solver, called mathsteps.
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Creative Problem Solver: Add this one if you're good at getting unstuck, Choi says.
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Hillary is a problem-solver who will get things done, but little about what
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Sure, he's not a great problem solver, but he's certainly got the right attitude.
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All we demand is that you're a problem solver and focused on the goal.
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But this is really interesting to me, both as a constructor and a solver.
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The cost is $30/solo solver or $45/pair, which includes coffee and dessert.
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In each puzzle, the solver is misled by a well established crossword cluing convention.
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Solver Stories For Maria Janelli, solving crossword puzzles made loss bearable and love possible.
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Solver Stories Solving a puzzle together leaves an indelible mark on two young people.
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From his earliest days at Facebook, Mr. Schroepfer was viewed as a problem solver.
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So, I'll probably get battered in the solver reviews for not getting it perfect.
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This was one of the few clues that might have misled the solver today.
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You can access the Song Finder next to the Product Finder and Math Solver.
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I think that makes for a more enjoyable experience for every type of solver.
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Elementary, my dear solver, especially if you are solving online, which I highly recommend.
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Judge John Hodgman Mark writes: I am a competitive speed-solver of Rubik's cubes.
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" He called Trump a "problem-solver" and referred to himself as a "Trump-ocrat.
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Nicely done, and a very pleasant tug-of-war between puzzle maker and solver.
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SOLVER STORIES A mother advocates for her autistic child and receives her own diagnosis.
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"However," Susan said, her voice steadier now, the practical problem-solver mom taking over.
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"The rise of crossword blogs has made me a more critical solver," she said.
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Of course, the solver will immediately think of Frank Sinatra, which is the trick.
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SOLVER STORIES Resurrecting a childhood tradition enables a woman to find her chosen family.
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But many people are also held back by fear, and reaching that late week goal also involves wanting to be a late week solver so badly that you are willing to let go of your image of yourself as an early week solver.
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But this wouldn't bother me as a solver, so I felt fine rolling with it.
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Or maybe you are a veteran solver and can use them to help a beginner.
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Since 2010, Rubik's Cube speed solver Feliks Zemdegs has broken a number of world records.
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"I felt that, in many cases, food was a problem-solver for me," she says.
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Benji, scruffy solver of crimes, quasher of kidnappings, sniffer of butts, is coming to Netflix.
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The end goal is to make the puzzle as fair to the solver as possible.
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If you're a beginning solver, don't shy away from these mid-to-late week puzzles.
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And once you've become proficient as a solver, construction represents a puzzle all its own.
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The indicator tells the solver what to do with the wordplay part of the clue.
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The Problem Solver policies may face criticism from the left for not going far enough.
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FAGLIANO: There's nothing obscure, not too many proper names, everything seems fair for the solver.
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Positivity can make you a problem-solver, whereas negativity can make you a problem-finder.
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And that's pretty much all a solver can ask for on a Friday, isn't it?
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My own definition of entertaining is when a clue or an entry delights the solver.
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Let's go one further, and say that a solver even knows what state that is.
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Wait, don't tell me ... you're an expert solver and you just like to show off.
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Meanwhile, for any solver who was offended by 2-Down in today's puzzle, I apologize.
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Don't omit question marks when their presence gives the solver more of a fighting chance.
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As a solver, I like my puzzles tough and, even more, I like them tricky.
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He's a problem solver who cares deeply about America and committed to making our country better.
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If you feel the title is a giveaway, congratulations; you are probably a fairly advanced solver.
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If you're just starting out as a solver, let me hear from you in the comments.
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But once you become a regular solver, you learn that this is far from the truth.
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Joy, a problem solver, proposes that they continue having sex with others while maintaining their marriage.
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A good chunk of my constructing philosophy, in fact, comes from my experiences as a solver.
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On Monday, the approximately 40 members of the House's "Problem Solver" caucus — co-chaired by Reps.
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Welp, this is about everything the constructor and solver side of me could have wanted: 1.
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And he knew that seeming like a genteel "problem solver" was one way to get it.
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If you are a Monday and Tuesday-only solver, success today means you're ready for Wednesday.
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Solver Stories will be published every month, and payment will be issued when the story runs.
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First, as he demonstrated as an entrepreneur and a mayor, Mike is a proven problem solver.
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As a solver I love themeless puzzles with wide open spaces and lots of uncommon entries.
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In some cases, the pre-E answer is more apparent, which helps get a solver started.
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What do you envision with this "Problem Solver Caucus" and what has it done so far?
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It's not fair to the solver to have two obscure words (or clues for them) crossing.
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Once Alice (that's you, solver — you're Alice) passes through THE LOOKING GLASS, she's in backward territory.
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I'm not kidding when I say that practice makes, if not perfect, a much better solver.
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That way, the puzzle stays just as fresh for me as it does for the solver.
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In that confusion, the solver experiences what a patient with Alzheimer's disease goes through every day.
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Trained as an electrical engineer, he has a reputation among many Cubans as a plainspoken problem solver.
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"Lead with your ability to be a problem solver and see the bigger picture," Lopez says. 2.
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Harris always made sure she knew her local politicians, and she saw herself as a problem-solver.
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Or perhaps Uber, will you begin to operate as a problem solver rather than a problem child?
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Black women don't need to just get more education either, since that's not an automatic problem solver.
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Yes, it's a daunting task, but Conrad — ever the problem-solver — shared her picks exclusively with PeopleStyle.
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You're a medjay, which Origins sets up as a sort of sheriff and all-around-problem solver.
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Not anymore, thanks to this solver of a problem we only just now realized that we had.
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"Meanwhile, for any solver who was offended by 22019-Down in today's puzzle, I apologize," Shortz concluded.
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I don't like making puzzles too difficult to solve — after all, I want the solver to finish.
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Together, they're hoping to find an experienced trainer and problem solver with a flair for business communication.
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But it's not quite enough to say you're a good problem solver or a detail-oriented person.
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You need the hardcore puzzle solver, yes, but you need a visual learner, verbal communicators, and such.
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The order of the words in a clue can sometimes be altered to further challenge the solver.
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"We had no training in jewelry, but when you're an architect, you're a problem solver," she said.
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I think it's all about the clues — if they're clever, then the solver will enjoy the entry.
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Forty-two work any given performance, each at once a rule keeper, hand holder, problem solver, diplomat.
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It also explains why their clues are so straightforward; the solver will have an easier way in.
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I found an interesting article about the mental approach a solver must take, and it's really impressive.
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Solver stories Solving crossword puzzles helps a mother bond with her adult child in a new way.
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Mr. Yang pitched himself as an entrepreneurial problem solver on a quest to save America from automation.
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President Trump called himself a "problem solver" on Monday during his address on the war in Afghanistan.
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The only way Donald Trump can consider himself a problem solver is if he stops creating problems.
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It's every solver for themselves today, but here are a few selected tough ones: ■ 24A: Wordplay alert!
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A solver might be able to pencil in LENS immediately off that, and maybe HARD as well.
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Aquarius is one the most logical and friendly signs in the zodiac, and it's an excellent problem solver.
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Naret said there had to be more than one problem-solver, as there were experts from various fields.
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He's a great problem solver and we're solving problems as we speak-- as the model changes and shifts.
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Problem-solver Kat (Aisha Dee) wisely suggests a call to her gynecologist to rule out any medical issues.
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It made those around Mr Trump, a self-declared straight-shooter and problem-solver, appear phoney and incompetent.
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He said what Schultz needs to do is position himself as a problem-solver, the former governor said.
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If you are a print solver, however, you will see a bonus theme feature, which I discuss below.
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Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din : It means being deemed a quote-unquote "solver" with the MIT and UN community.
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You're a great addition to any team, Leo; you have brilliant leadership abilities and are a problem-solver.
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Think about it this way: An average solver won't care if there's one or two more black squares.
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Mr. Poliquin rejected that characterization and depicted himself as a practical problem-solver, but it was not enough.
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In the 19th District, Mr. Faso, the Republican incumbent, tried to portray himself as a bipartisan problem-solver.
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As I said in my latest article on crosswords, keeping the solver in mind is what matters most.
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PAOLO: As a longtime Glutton For Pun solver, I am overjoyed to be collaborating with Erik Agard himself.
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I have been a word puzzle fan and occasional crossword solver for as long as I can remember.
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It feels less claustrophobic to me as a solver, and the longer entries feel like open, welcoming arms.
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He won a reputation as a pragmatic problem-solver, tackling Tehran's acute infrastructure crisis and improving public transport.
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"I offer myself as a doer and a problem solver, not a talker" he said in his statement.
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WEINTRAUB: The fact that this is a shortened version of "vacuum" needs to get communicated to the solver.
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But the only way you'll prove to yourself what a good puzzle solver you are is to try.
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Mr. Forbes included some lovely obfuscation in a few cases, playing with cryptic "lingo" to misdirect the solver.
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Sam: Talk about goals: Once upon a time, I was an avid solver absolutely obsessed with Byron's work.
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While Clinton is a pragmatic problem-solver, they argue, Sanders could never get elected in a general election race.
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Her background is in computer programming and consulting, which she says has trained her to be a problem solver.
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Obama heralded the late senator as a "problem-solver" rather than a partisan whose nonproliferation efforts increased global safety.
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He played Joe Patroni, the mechanic and problem solver who was the one constant in the 1970s "Airport" movies.
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The presumptive Republican nominee answers a yearning for an aggressive problem solver who is not queasy about his methods.
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This was a smooth and fun Monday outing, perfect for a beginning solver because the cluing is very straightforward.
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The company is releasing an open-source solver to help researchers tackle optimization problems at higher levels of abstraction.
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If a Monday, would a novice solver know what STIPPLE means (much less understand a clever clue for it)?
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The "Problem Solver" proposal would raise that number so it only applied to businesses with more than 500 employees.
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They suggested a tweak to a more solver-friendly cross, which resulted in the final grid you see here.
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Solver Stories A mother of a toddler loses her grip on words until crossword puzzles helped bring them back.
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As a cryptic solver, I confess to having an inkling here, but these strings of letters are certifiable nonsense.
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If you are just joining us as a solver, you have picked an excellent puzzle with which to start.
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Bill Scheft — television writer, author and former stand-up comedian — is the perfect solver to write about today's puzzle.
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There were a few gotchas in this grid to slow a solver down ("alia" or ALII; "yap" or YAK).
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And even if you are a beginning solver, didn't you get into puzzles because you wanted to be challenged?
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In general, it does this by presenting the solver with clues that read in an almost sentence-like way.
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Andrew Yang has pitched himself to voters as an entrepreneurial problem solver on quest to save America from automation.
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Of course, if you're just starting out as a solver, you wouldn't want to begin with a Saturday puzzle.
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It's not easy if you're just starting as a solver, but it is clever and something to work on.
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Is that a deal breaker for you as a solver, or is it just the cost of doing business?
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For Michael Ferro – a true believer in technology as a solver of business woe – such gambits offer a twofer.
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SOLVER STORIES For the writer Dan Avery, crossword puzzles provide a comforting shield from the painful parts of life.
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How you talk to your spouse matters Being a decisive, results-oriented problem solver may underpin your career success.
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Saying you're a 'problem-solver' is about as helpful as explaining your preference for chocolate croissants over regular croissants.
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Alas, work never ceases for Poirot, the central mystery-solver of the Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express.
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Josh Brolin plays the fixer, Eddie Mannix, based on a real MGM producer and problem solver of the same name.
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Reports on a standoff in Oregon, a cliff crisis in California, and a robotic puzzle-solver round out today's show.
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"He's a great problem solver and we're solving problems as we speak — as the model changes and shifts," Ubben said.
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There is a good probability that, after solving X number of puzzles, a solver will see an improvement in skills.
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Cohen's signature is the sign of an amateur at work and belies his claim to be Trump's best problem solver.
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He is known for his willingness to work across party lines and is considered to be a 'moderate problem-solver.
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The film, based on a 2016 spin-off game, recasts the most popular Pokémon species as an amateur crime-solver.
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Clinton portrayed herself during the debate as a pragmatic problem-solver, saying Sanders's ideas were light on details and unrealistic.
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Solver Stories A mother teaches her son how to tackle problems, and finds the strength to follow her own advice.
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And thanks as always to my fellow constructors, especially Jacob (congratulations again on getting married!), and to you, the solver.
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So even in our hardest puzzles, we try to provide plenty of straight definitions for the solver to work with.
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For now, his problem solver is Dr. Saad Salih, a surgeon who counts members of Mosul's wealthiest families as friends.
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You might think that the key to becoming a Friday-level solver is having a large vocabulary, but it's not.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — This puzzle by Zhouqin Burnikel was a delightful battle between solver and constructor, backed up by the editors.
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Brad and Robyn write that the goal is to set the solver up for success, but that's only partly true.
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So even on our hardest puzzles, we try to provide plenty of straight definitions for the solver to work with.
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This week's solver stumper is a great example of how a crossword puzzle entry can be "freshened" for new generations.
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Since its founding in 2002, it has served as a problem-solver for tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Uber.
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Pro tip: The key to becoming a decent crossword solver is understanding what the clues are asking you to do.
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The thought came out of nowhere: What if a crossword puzzle performed a series of magic tricks for the solver?
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Unfortunately, this meant the inclusion of lots of short (three-letter) entries, which aren't generally very exciting for the solver.
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Bloomberg, a moderate who entered the race in November, has cast himself as a problem solver on the campaign trail.
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Bloomberg, whose wealth was amassed from a media empire, has cast himself as a problem solver on the campaign trail.
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"I'm a problem solver," he said in an interview after a town hall-style meeting here near the Idaho border.
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The theme clues had to be biographical nuggets unique and interesting so that the solver didn't know them right away.
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SATURDAY PUZZLE — Grids at the end of the week are devised to challenge the solver, as we're all painfully aware.
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In each of these examples, we're directing the solver to the first letter of the respective "F" word (sorry, kids).
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" Andrea Ching of New York City agreed: "I am almost exclusively an app solver, whereas before I used the paper.
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I've known Corker for some years, I consider him a friend, I've publicly admired him as somebody who's a problem-solver.
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You're as much of a problem-solver as Jupiter in Virgo, but you simply go about it in a different way.
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This facilitates what we call an "Aha!" moment, when the solver finally sees the hidden thread that ties the theme together.
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" — zoidberg214 A Problem Solver"It's prom night my junior year, and I have on a slinky glitter bomb of a dress.
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But, one way or another, these problems will be solved -- I'm a problem solver -- and, in the end, we will win.
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"To me [education] is the biggest solver of problems going forward — if we can elevate the quality of education in America."
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Many Americans raised on pop culture view Trump as a no-nonsense problem solver in the heroic tradition of John Wayne.
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With a bit of stick-to-it-iveness, this is a puzzle that almost any solver could sink their teeth into.
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He embraces crises of his own making, using them to cast political blame and to promote himself as a problem-solver.
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" He also wants a candidate to serve for only one term "as a care-taker problem-solver for this messy moment.
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The Casual Solver approach was just dismissed as sloppy thinking, and the Mapmaking approach was seen as too individualistic or imprecise.
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The capital letter in the brand name Canyon is hidden at the beginning of the clue sentence to trick the solver.
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This theme is a bit more accessible but still academic, deviously clever and demanding of a nimble mind from its solver.
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She is a longtime solver who has appeared on Wordplay before and has even made a celebrity crossword with Patrick Merrell.
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I liked the solver having to work more for the "aha!" moment, but that might have been a bit too cerebral.
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Consider this my love letter to the fallen BuzzFeed Crossword, which I miss dearly as both a solver and a constructor.
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The editor wants to be sure that the solver gets enough filled in to be able to see the theme trick.
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That can be frustrating to a solver, but hopefully the payoff of a humorous quip makes up for the extra hunting.
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In return, the crossword promises to play fair and make the answer to the clue something within reach of the solver.
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Problem-solver and unlikely striver/achiever extraordinaire, with approaches, thinking (and tragic flaws) that ~100 years on deserve a deeper look.
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To take it one step further, show that you're a problem solver by recognizing areas of the organization that need improvement.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — If the name Fraser Simpson sounds familiar, you are most likely a solver of British-style cryptic crosswords.
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He was an avid Times crossword solver for many years and was my inspiration to begin constructing crosswords several years back.
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Palmer Mebane, 27, a web developer in San Diego, was the top American solver, finishing in fourth place with 6,384 points.
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This was my first time being a "regular" solver, and I would often get stuck on a Tuesday or Wednesday puzzle.
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"He was a problem solver unequaled," Peter C. Sarnak, a colleague of Dr. Bourgain's at the institute, said in an interview.
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This is a great exercise for any solver, making your way with only the constraints of the edges of the grid.
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But, one way or another, these problems will be solved — I'm a problem solver — and, in the end, we will win.
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For example, the clue "Song for a crossword solver?" for PUZZLE PIECE reworks the original meaning of the phrase to funny effect.
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For more information about how you can attend the event or become a solver yourself, go to their website for more info.
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Now Mr. Percoco, the problem-solver, could hobble both the administration and the legacy of the man who was everything to him.
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White House officials talked up Kushner's expanding role to The Hill this week, casting him as the president's go-to problem solver.
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My hope is that for at least one solver (or team) out there, this is the first Sunday puzzle they successfully complete.
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You are...A strategic problem solver and negotiator who understands clients' needs and always figures out a way to make it work.
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His messaging would have stressed Mr. Bloomberg's identity as a self-made man and a problem solver not beholden to either party.
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"He is a problem solver and I am very confident we will come together with solutions for Syria," Shanahan added of Graham.
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The Ohio governor has identified his niche in the race: he casts himself as a positive problem-solver every chance he gets.
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Sometimes it helps to have a vague idea of what you're looking for as an entry, although a solver can get misled.
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I've been very, very lucky to meet people in the overlapping constructor and solver communities who have been supportive and kind. 5.
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I do wonder whether the average solver cares about stuff like this, or if it's just something crossword blogs pick up on.
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He had hoped to bring his reputation as a corporate problem solver — including helping introduce the 787 Dreamliner — to the Defense Department.
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On the day of the breakfast, Ms. Peterson, friendly and unflappable, was a jack-of-all-trades — decision maker, problem solver, farmer.
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Solver Stories A talent for strategy and puzzle solving helps a young woman find her place in the world of video gaming.
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Crossword jokes are never going to be high comedy, but they should still make the solver smile when they uncover each example.
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At first I was a terrible solver, but I was fascinated by the mysterious "Alice in Wonderland" language of cryptic crossword clues.
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My own summer project has been to become a better cryptic crossword solver, in case anyone wants to solve those with me.
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A solid theme in which all the theme entries get the solver from the clue to the answer without too much struggle.
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At the core of Leap 2 is D-Wave's new hybrid solver that can handle complex problems with up to 10,000 variables.
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I am by no means an expert Rubik's Cube solver, but just as there is crossword speed solving, there is apparently speedcubing.
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Ms. Maymudes created today's puzzle with her father, a senior staff software engineer at Google and test solver for his daughter's grids.
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He is back with a nice, straightforward Monday puzzle that would make a great point of entry for any new solver. 63A.
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That being said, I would never want a solver to be hurt by an entry or clue; crosswords should ultimately uplift solvers.
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"Try to position yourself as entrepreneurial and a problem solver that doesn't always need to be told what to do," said Chamberlain.
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At GCHQ, Turing is now seen as a genius— "a problem-solver who was not afraid to think differently and radically," Hannigan said.
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His nearly lifelong therapy was an immense help to him but also made him a fantastic listener and problem-solver for his friends.
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Goggles became a Sudoku solver, a translation tool, and a barcode scanner, all to give people more reasons to return to the app.
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It was my first inkling of how things were going to go at SXSWestworld and my first encounter with a Westworld puzzle-solver.
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When Tillerson was first offered the mantle of the world's top problem-solver -- aka, being Donald Trump's Secretary of State -- he seemed torn.
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"I've been called a problem-solver by independent groups and ranked as one of the most bipartisan senators," she says in her ad.
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You're a problem solver, but some things can only be healed by inaction, sitting with your feelings and accepting each part of yourself.
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What's more, Shine had a reputation as being Ailes's problem solver at Fox, a job he could reprise with his new boss Trump.
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He had hoped to bring his reputation as a corporate problem solver — including helping to introduce the 787 Dreamliner — to the Defense Department.
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I originally clued it as [Alternate title for Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (honestly!)] to give a bit of a parenthetical hint to the solver.
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Eleanor might eat too much shrimp cocktail and drink herself silly, but in Season 2 she proved to be an effective problem solver.
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The fact that this professional solver is not very bright, and I depend on pop culture in the puzzle to an embarrassing extent.
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"Jacky is a tireless, trusted problem-solver and a champion for Nevada's middle class families — we are proud to endorse her campaign," Sen.
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I have been an occasional solver of Times puzzles since my adolescence, and at some point Anne [Daniel's older sister] started joining me.
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Other grids are less open, yet their longer answers are much flashier and thus allow the solver to overlook any dull, shorter fill.
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I believe that with enough exposure to different types of clues, a solver can learn to look at them in a different way.
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During World War II, while Raytheon was working on improving radar technology for Allied forces, Spencer was the company's go-to problem solver.
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But for Williams, she also wanted her line to act as a problem solver, "particularly for women who are 40 and up," she says.
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Kopser describes himself as a problem solver and says he wants to "build new Democratic coalitions to make things work again" if he's elected.
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What's cool about that is that the theme will become apparent only after the solver has filled in a couple of the theme answers.
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To the puzzle-solver this is a difference not in kind, but in mien, like what strictly, biblically differentiates an angel from a demon.
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If you are just starting out as a solver, here's a tip: When I see something like that, I go looking for a revealer.
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As an eternal optimist and problem-solver, your instinct on that investment will be based more on gut feelings than facts and financial projections.
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So, a quantum annealer is more a kind of a quantum optimizer or quantum solver than what we usually think of as a computer.
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We achieved a 40x speedup by using techniques such as temporal subsampling, decoupling of motion parameters, and using Google Research's custom linear solver, GLOP.
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That strategy is to cast yourself as a centrist problem solver and peel off just enough moderates and Republicans to win a general election.
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MONDAY PUZZLE — I'm curious about something: Hand up if you are a newish solver and if revealers tend to help you with the theme.
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It seems odd, today, because as a longtime solver I have come to really relish certain constructors' styles, and look forward to their creations.
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At 51A, the answer to "Small talk" is CHITTER CHATTER, which you, smart solver that you are, have already written in as CHI/ATTER.
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But what really impresses me about Buttigieg is that he's campaigning as a moderate Midwest problem-solver in a field full of coastal ideologues.
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Another solver might feel their scales are balanced if there was some glue but, over all, the theme was fun and held their attention.
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"Rick's a problem-solver," said Gail Grimmett, a travel industry executive who previously managed operations in the New York area for Delta Air Lines.
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I feel that I only stand to lose solver trust if the puzzle strives to be anything more than a fun form of entertainment.
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As a solver, I am reminded of a Tuesday grid of hers from last year that was similarly endearing (it revolved around gluteal references).
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There's no reason someone who is just starting out as a solver wouldn't be charmed by discovering the commonality in this sort of thing.
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Words to Know Learn the difference between LENTO and LEGATO in this latest list of words you should know to become a better solver.
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In fact, it's expected that the solver will have a tug-of-war with the constructor and editor, and I very much enjoyed mine.
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Will & Co. edited a bucketful of clues, as you'd expect, tightening things up, eliminating wordiness, and relieving the solver of my inclination toward obscurity.
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And she took care not to have two unfamiliar words cross each other, so a solver could figure out a strange word by default.
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Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower.
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The answer incorporates all of these scrumptious items, in analog form, and requires the solver to define "diner" as a place rather than a person.
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Within the group, Amol Sainwar — the founder of HOPE, a nonprofit that works on rural development and children's rights — is a go-to problem solver.
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This Rubik's Cube solver, or this hypnotic ball contraption, for example, give you an idea of just how technical some of these projects can be.
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Benji, scruffy solver of crimes, quasher of kidnappings, sniffer of butts, is coming to Netflix, so it's time to rewatch the original before it drops.
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I also learned that the person you might think would be a natural leader isn't always the best puzzle solver, while wallflowers can suddenly shine.
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He or she may serve in other important roles as well, from media spokesperson to conference speaker to customer-facing deal-closer and problem-solver.
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Let's meet Mr. Toth and hear from Ms. Burnikel: Ron Toth: Though not a great solver, I've been a puzzle enthusiast for a long time.
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"I think the point is the president's a problem solver," McDaniel said on CBS's "Face the Nation" when asked about the message of the ad.
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Here's why it's good to know a little something about everything, especially if you want to improve your skills as a crossword solver.
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I imagine this puzzle will play a little easier than the average Sunday puzzle, which would be fine with me since I'm a lousy solver.
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Angela Olsen Halsted, of Arlington, Va., is not only a dedicated solver but has also had four crossword puzzles published in The New York Times.
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Zuckerberg is the Silicon Valley engineer, the builder and problem solver who has had to teach himself how to better interact and communicate with others.
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It almost ran in late 2014, but a a test solver realized that a similar puzzle by Andrew Reynolds had run on April 1, 2014.
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There will be classes on how to become a better solver, how to construct puzzles, why the English language is so weird and much more.
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Solver enjoyment is also a vital consideration, and as such I steer away from "downer" entries that relate to death, disease, terrorism and so forth.
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Simple. Massive amounts of cash being spent on well-produced campaign ads that paint the former New York City mayor as a problem solver extraordinaire.
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At the agency, Turing is now seen as a genius — "a problem solver who was not afraid to think differently and radically," Mr. Hannigan said.
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I hope it isn't lost on the solver that the letters X and O do not appear in this grid at all outside the theme.
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Some of the nontheme fill might be a bit beyond a new solver, but once you solve the theme, the rest should fall into place.
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President Clinton, famously, is an accomplished crossword solver, "always" doing the Sunday Times puzzle, as well as the Thursday through Saturday puzzles when he can.
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While you're solving — and I felt this was on the easy side for a Wednesday, so if you're a Monday-Tuesday solver, have at it!
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As a solver, I'm not certain that I would like struggling with a Saturday New York Times puzzle, only to uncover swaths of ho-hum.
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This is a lively, well-filled grid with a minimum of junk, clever cluing and just enough tug-of-war to keep this solver happy.
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Of course, your choices will be inherently different from each of our choices, and that's how your particular aesthetic will shine through to the solver.
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You won't be able to avoid every possible trigger for every solver, but keeping in mind the escapist nature of puzzles goes a long way.
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I'm gratified that they see me as a vessel and a problem solver that can make their lives better when I'm the next governor of Georgia.
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"Mike is a problem-solver with a long track record of delivering results, and I'm proud to stand with him today," Raimondo said in the statement.
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Michael Bloomberg endorses Clinton, calls Trump a 'dangerous demagogue' "I believe we need a president who is a problem-solver, not a bomb-thrower," said Bloomberg.
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It lists the numbers one through 19 in a particular order, leaving the riddle-solver to determine what order the last five numbers should go in.
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"Quite honestly, I think you are watering down and dumbing down your problem solver label when you bestow it on someone like Donald Trump," he said.
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People tend to respond in one of three ways: The Casual Solver sees this as a subtraction problem, and notices the two values $1.10 and $1.00.
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One of my favorite varieties of clue is the hidden word, but they're scarce in hard cryptics (too much confidence-building spoils the solver, I guess).
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In broad scope, the Problem Solver plan resembles other proposed fixes to the ACA, like one released by the Center for American Progress to increase reinsurance.
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I thought the different terms for paperiness made things easier and more clever as a solver, but it had to have been a challenge to construct.
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But I will say that these works are important parts of our culture, and even if you are a younger solver, you should know about them.
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Although that reformulation significantly reduced my options for theme entries, it created a much tighter theme and (I hope) a stronger "Aha!" moment for the solver.
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The trick to becoming a consistent and successful solver is not about memorizing a dictionary; it's about understanding what the clues are asking you to do.
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Affleck plays Christian Wolff, a meticulous mathematical problem solver who leads an isolated life due to autism in "The Accountant," out in U.S. theaters on Friday.
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" Vicki Eastus, a puzzle solver in Brooklyn, put it this way: "The more hectic life is, the more calming I find filling in those little boxes.
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"I feel klutzy while I'm doing it," said Sharon Weinstein, a Times puzzle solver from North Potomac, Md. "But afterward there's a great sensation of satisfaction."
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The challenge for the solver, then, is finding the long answers for those three theme clues, all of which I did find tricky to various degrees.
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My hope is that this will help take the pressure off you as a solver to be "perfect" — or even to find it easy at first.
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The practical applications of a Rubik's Cube-solving robot might seem limited at best, but the Ishikawa Senoo Lab's approach isn't focused on speed with this solver.
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After receiving more positive feedback through their own clinical trials, the duo updated the packaging to market it as a problem-solver, not just a topical treatment.
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And Buttigieg has spent the last few months positioning himself as a sensible problem-solver -- attempting to draw a contrast with the likes of Warren and Sanders.
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Anyway, I wasn't making a lot of progress with Rich Silvestri's cryptic, so I put my brain together with a veteran solver and worked out the answers.
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Foxlin also sees it as a device couples can use (long-distance relationship-solver), a tool to help connect with autistic children and a potential eldercare device.
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Mr Altmaier, a clubbable, multilingual problem-solver whose dinner parties are the stuff of Berlin political legend, typifies this Saarländisch mix of conviviality and down-to-earthness.
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"I'm a problem solver at the core," New York City Innovation Director Jeff Merritt told me following a talk at the Smart Cities NYC conference last week.
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The system is driven by a state of the art fluid solver able to process in real time the forces and constraints the shape is subjected to.
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Lee beat other Carlyle insiders for the top job thanks to his reputation as a problem solver, having helped rebuilt Carlyle's credit investing business after several missteps.
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This has helped lead Dr. Price to develop a reputation for being a tireless problem solver and go-to expert on healthcare policy and financing in Congress.
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But in the end, it felt like it was going to be inconsistent for the solver to encounter some theme answers with extraneous words and others without.
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It amounted to serving as chief problem solver for Donald J. Trump, offering Mr. Cohen an unusually up-close view of his boss's personal and professional lives.
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As a mediocre solver, this is exactly why I will take my chances on a typical Friday puzzle any time over a Tricksday (Thursday) puzzle like this.
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On the other, the pragmatic problem solver will never have the grass roots passion that is needed to take on a president with such an animated base.
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The second was cluing the theme: how to best indicate the chain (with each word overlapping in two different phrases) and the looping aspect to the solver?
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The Consummate Problem-Solver, Under A Sheer Bodysuit A sheer, Swiss-dot bodysuit presents as much opportunity as it does bafflement: What do you even wear underneath?
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Maybe cluing an entry like that as "One of many in orientation?" might be more fun, because it can also misdirect a solver to a school orientation.
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At stake now not just the validity of this message, but the UK's place in the world as a problem-solver, rather than a catalyst for drama.
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Brevity is not only kind to the solver but to the editor as well, with line length and spacing at issue in both print and electronic formats.
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This is why any solver who is not pulling a prank on you will tell you to start with the Monday crosswords, which are the most straightforward.
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Zemdegs holds numerous cubing records, but he is best known as the most consistently swift solver of the 3 by 3: the canonical three-layered, Mondrian-colored cube.
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A long-time solver, I started constructing several years ago after attending a workshop given by Andrea Carla Michaels at the late, great Silicon Valley Puzzle Days event.
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On the one hand, it's nice for the solver who has cottoned onto the theme to have some idea of what the following theme answers will look like.
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For my money, though, themes are bonus content that not only present a challenge to the puzzle maker, but are also a leg up to the crossword solver.
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The irreverently titled "America's Problem Solver," an assemblage piece by Riddle from 1970, combines pieces of metal to form the shape of a rifle scope or gun barrel.
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"Contrariwise, one" is NA — "an," or one, turned contrary — and "oddly true," rather than cuing the solver to use the odd letters (rather than even ones), is TURE.
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As some of you know, a Natick in puzzle solving is when two obscure proper nouns cross each other with little hope of the solver getting either one.
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While lively, fresh vocabulary is what makes a grid sing on its own, sometimes clues can come in and turn otherwise normal entries into highlights for the solver.
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Hopefully, the different categories of work allow for at least one of the answers not to be in the wheelhouse of the solver, so that some challenge remains.
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I think this greatly enhanced the puzzle; in effect, it became a puzzle within a puzzle, giving the solver the task of deciphering the interactive word/definition chain.
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"Jobs creator, leader, servant & problem solver," Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, a key black Democrat in the state and also a co-chair of Bloomberg's campaign, tweeted in November.
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So far this month, Bloomberg's digital ads have depicted him as a staunch advocate for gun control and a problem solver when he was mayor of New York.
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If he runs, he'll have to face a lot of these new questions from the centrist problem-solver lane the former vice president could carve out for himself.
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And his profile -- a moderate, pragmatic problem-solver -- might not play well in a Democratic Party that seems to want politicians willing to throw a punch or 10.
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Something Kalanick said he hoped would not be quoted is him comparing his job as a problem solver to being a math professor or an emergency room doctor.
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Try one of our topical articles, "10 Sports Names That Will Help You Become a Better Crossword Solver" under the "Words to Know" tab on Wordplay's main page.
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And Ms. Paff keeps Alice's warmth and critical intelligence — she is the problem-solver of the family — in lovely equilibrium, even as illness would seem to threaten both.
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I have to say — as gratifying as the "aha moment" can be as a solver, it's nothing compared to the moment when a tricky construction crystallizes into a reality.
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Next to Sheryl, there's a reference to a classic fictional character whose clue might be a little tricky, if the solver doesn't know "To Kill a Mockingbird" — SCOUT FINCH.
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When I graduated college and entered the working world, my first boss was a dedicated New York Times crossword solver and he challenged me to solve competitively with him.
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I gave absolutely no thought to the possibility that the clue "Kind of classic rock?" could be referring to music, because I am a professional solver and know better.
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"Lacking hormones, say" might misdirect a solver to think about human hormones, but this clue was hinting at the kind of hormones that are added to poultry, for example.
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I like them as a solver, because they make me feel like I can cover large swaths of the grid before I have to go elsewhere in the puzzle.
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I loved that there was this extra challenge, and if you are a new solver, give yourself a pat on the back if you got it on your own.
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Solver Stories welcomes submissions of personal essays about an issue the writer has faced in life, and how solving puzzles (of any kind) has helped them resolve that issue.
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As a self-made man, an entrepreneur and three-term mayor of the biggest city in America, Bloomberg has proved himself to be an effective leader and problem solver.
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But they were the kind of subtle touches that make the end of the week satisfying to solve, and make the solver appreciate the craft in a puzzle's construction.
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I'm delighted and honored to make my New York Times debut today, after having leapt from solver to constructor just so I'd have puzzles I could solve for sure.
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Be a problem solver Showing your ability to work independently and being open to solve problems in new and creative ways can help get your foot in the door.
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One day I was down the rabbit hole of attempting to fill a themeless grid — my favorite kind of puzzle to do as both a constructor and a solver.
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When the puzzle was done, the solver was asked to take 10 designated five-letter answers in the grid and arrange them in a 5x5 square in the middle.
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Dr. Nilsson worked with another researcher, Richard Fikes, to develop an algorithm to do higher-level planning, or reasoning, known as the Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver, or Strips.
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TRINE has attracted attention from the likes of the WWF Climate Solver and COP 20153, in Marrakech in November, where they were invited to give a talk about the venture.
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That kind of thing will shake the confidence of even a veteran solver, but we have a lot of new solvers joining us every day, so let's talk about it.
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Although Ossoff was heavily funded by liberal donors outside the state, he never cast himself as a progressive warrior -- instead putting himself in the mold of a centrist problem solver.
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I was not a great solver at all back then, but we sat in our respective offices, solved the puzzle — I got paid for this — and compared times and answers.
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I had finally gotten to the point where I was feeling like a champion acrostic solver, when the puzzles started to feel like they were just out of my reach.
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It should take a little more than one theme answer for the solver to realize that each set of shaded squares represents a type of water course that flows downhill.
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My hope was that, in doing this, you (the solver) might be misled enough on an initial pass through the puzzle so that the revealer could offer an "aha" moment.
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Word ladders are puzzles that have a beginning and an ending word, and the solver is challenged to change one letter at a time to arrive at the ending word.
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In the image — which the Daily Mail reports has been floating around Facebook since December — the problem challenges the solver to determine the numeric value of each image of fruit.
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An audible gasp arose when a C division solver missed having a clean puzzle by one letter, and the entire room cheered whenever a finalist signaled that they were done.
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The most important aspect of this process is remembering the solver throughout; the puzzle should not just check the boxes for its creator, but be enjoyable for its target audience.
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He said he came to regret the contribution as he watched Mr. Trump seize on the label to sell himself as something he was not — a solver of complicated problems.
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"He was giving me problems that were unambiguous, as in there was one and only one correct answer," Mr. Pace said, explaining how this appealed to his problem-solver personality.
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If it's not in either of our overlapping spheres of knowledge, then perhaps that's not something the average solver will know and not something we want to test them on.
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You have to be a strong problem solver, and you have to be somebody who demonstrates empathy and gritty skills and can basically build those types of connections with clients.
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This aspect — a wide-open grid, it's called, with fewer long words and black boxes — manifests itself in difficulty for the solver, yes, but is also supremely challenging to construct.
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BEIJING — He presented himself as a candidate of the people, a folksy problem-solver who would rid garbage-strewn streets of dog waste and put an end to illegal parking.
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But that is not all there is to me as a person or as a solver, so I'm always baffled by those who look down on pop culture in crosswords.
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Christina Iverson is a mom of one, soon to be two, who lives in Iowa and claims to be new to the game as a solver, let alone a constructor.
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If you are just getting started as a solver, it's the kind of thing you might want to take note of; I believe it truly increases one's puzzle-solving enjoyment.
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The original meaning is not where the humor lies, but the constructor's job is to twist the meaning to make solvers laugh and lead the solver to the answer fairly.
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I am a wife, I am a mother, I was a caregiver [for] my mother end of life with a pre-existing condition, I'm a leader and I'm a problem-solver.
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The tragedy, as so often with Mr Trump, is that if he were only more like the pragmatic problem-solver he claims to be, he could have done some real good.
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"Mike is a problem-solver with a long track record of delivering results, and I'm proud to stand with him today," Raimondo said in a written statement provided by the campaign.
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Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times: Dead moms, stolen homes, cynical banks and earnest Bankses: That's an awful lot of complications for even a wizardly problem solver like Mary Poppins to unravel.
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For our latest list of terms to know to become a better solver, we'll be taking a trip to 10 cities around the world that frequently show up in crossword puzzles.
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But like any true problem solver, he tried to put the hair back on his head like it were a divot kicked up from a pitching wedge on a golf green.
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Diana has always been the go-to problem solver at Empirical, armed with an old-school fierceness; much of her arc on the show is about learning to ask for support.
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Clinton: Clinton, who revels in her reputation as a deliberative problem-solver, laid out a three-point plan (<-- Clinton campaign in a nutshell) to address the terrorist threat during a speech.
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It does not appear as often in The New York Times Crossword today as it did many years ago, though is still worth knowing in order to become a better solver.
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But it's a vastly different mental tug-of-war between the solver, setter and editor than the American-style crosswords I'm used to, and it's a very pleasurable break for me.
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Today, we have a puzzle that is extremely freewheeling and creative, chock-full of puns and the anagrams that help a solver along are like tricky little needles in a haystack.
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Looking from that angle, Team Cox/Rathvon has found a perfect example of a passage that explains this phenomenon while, in the context of an acrostic, demonstrating it to the solver.
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One of the most difficult things to learn as a puzzle solver is how to shift your mind to other possibilities when the answer you assume is right is proven wrong.
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Putting the revealer at the bottom serves as that punch line, and it's an effective way to pull the theme together or at least send the solver off with a smile.
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A search for that gimme — that crucial way into a Friday crossword that will determine the rest of the solve — by a professional solver, if there is such a thing. 2.
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That comment inspired me to try to write clues that, say, reward the solver for listening to the song rather than for learning that LOLA is the showgirl in the song.
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I like to think that the "knives out" phrasing in this clue is a nod to the director Rian Johnson, who is also a New York Times Crossword solver. 231A./259D.
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A solver might reasonably try NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, and reject it as too long; the actual answer, the slangy NONE OF YOUR BEESWAX, is too — but in the right way.
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"Article 59 of the Constitution (referendum ) is a deadlock breaker ... and could be a problem-solver at any junction," the semi-official news agency ILNA quoted Rouhani as saying late on Saturday.
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"I think of myself a problem solver," he says, describing how he troubleshoots challenges by sketching concepts and exchanging them with colleagues and athletes, sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning.
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McGrath is running the kind of campaign a lot of Democrats are trying to execute in traditionally red districts: She's billing herself as a tough problem solver, independent from political party demands.
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We're looking for a highly motivated problem solver who can multitask and is willing to ideate together with our team to pitch, plan and execute successful marketing campaigns for CNBC's Primetime Programming.
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These kinds of puzzles are among my favorites, since they baffle the straight-ahead, "keep your head down and calculate" approach, and encourage the problem solver to consider what's really going on.
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Here's Laura with two problems that may surprise even the most experienced puzzle-solver: These two problems have always been linked in my mind since I first heard them many years ago.
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As a solver, I'm always excited to see this multiple Orca nominee's byline on a puzzle, so it's an honor for me to join him for his 43rd New York Times crossword.
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Four came to mind: F.B.I., D.E.A., N.S.A., and C.I.A. Since each of these three-letter agencies hide themselves, I thought I could hide them in a crossword and "wiretap" the puzzle solver.
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Gifted at languages, Baluchi was also tech-obsessed and a problem solver, so in addition to his job at a Dubai electronics company, he had a side business helping friends with logistics.
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For our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver, we'll be visiting a "crossword library," taking a closer look at authors that frequently show up in puzzles.
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For our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver, we'll be visiting a "crossword zoo," taking a closer look at animals that frequently show up in puzzles.
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I love crossing spans in a four-corner construction like this, because they unify the whole thing and make it less likely that a solver will get stranded in one whole quadrant.
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Eight years later, fresh off saving the troubled Salt Lake City Olympic Games, Romney cast himself as a non-ideological outsider and problem-solver in the tradition of Massachusetts' moderate GOP governors.
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It's a prophetic follow up to "19703 Baseball Terms That Will Make You a Better Crossword Solver," the first in a new Wordplay series designed to help solvers with topical weak spots.
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So my theme ideas keep springing from whatever strange dreams I've had in the night, but when it comes to turning themes into enjoyable puzzles for the solver, that's where I struggle.
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As a solver, I really enjoyed wrestling with the vast expanses of white space, and as a constructor, I had become fond of working with themeless grids heavy on 7-letter entries.
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Xochitl Torres Small, a 240-year-old water rights lawyer, won by carefully calibrating her message as a problem-solver, like several other moderate Democrats who flipped House seats nationwide last year.
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That Sunday morning I was up North with weak Wi-Fi and it took me about 30 euphoria-tinged minutes to load the crossword blogs and read the reviews and solver comments.
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" One solver who agreed with Ms. Brinck was Rachel Fabi of Syracuse, N.Y.: "I've also joined the online crossword community, which has been the greatest joy of the past couple of years.
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SOLVER STORIES As the 2010s come to an end, we're interested in your opinions on what, if anything, has changed over the past 10 years in New York Times Crosswords and Games.
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He brands himself a practical problem-solver, capable of bringing both parties together to deliver on progressive goals such as universal health care and reductions in the carbon emissions that cause climate change.
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If I can walk away feeling like I have been treated just like any other solver, without having to sit through a slew of "boys' club" jokes, then that's an even better day.
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An experienced solver can tell just looking at the grid that we were up to something difficult, since there are not many long answers and the top corners are very simple in design.
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And when you look closely at each constructor's work, you will eventually be able to hear their voice in the puzzle, making the connection between puzzle maker and puzzle solver that much stronger.
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I know there are times when someone has to come to me to solve a problem, but the big thing is that you're a problem solver, that you take initiative, that you're confident.
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As a solver who is a woman, I appreciated seeing Ayaan Hirsi ALI — regardless of what you might think of her political views — in the puzzle as opposed to the usual Muhammad ALI.
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Next, the problem solver could have calculated the ratio 56/45, or about 1.244 and then looked up the closest entry on the table, which is line 11, which lists the ratio 1.25.
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It's not clear that any other nation has the ability or willingness to embrace America's traditional role as international problem-solver of last resort on challenges including security, public health or humanitarian relief.
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I'm sure we all have strong and weak subjects, and I'm also pretty sure that the chances of any passage being familiar (as in, already read) by the average solver are pretty slim.
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The co-chairmen of the bipartisan No Labels organization said Monday that Americans are hungry for government cooperation, praising the six White House hopefuls so far who have taken their problem-solver promise.
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As a solver, I especially love the extra gimmicks in the Thursday puzzles, and I was inspired to try something fun with the black blocks, although in this case it was only one.
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This focus on the novice solver guides my choices for Crosswords With Friends puzzles too, where the editors, Amy Reynaldo and Trip Payne, are rigorous in their enforcement of impeccably clean, accessible fill.
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I hope today's puzzle is a bit more solver-friendly than some of my previous efforts, because of the long intersecting across and down entries that run through the center of the grid.
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Mr. Herrick, according to Will Shortz's print introduction, works in communications for a nonprofit that funds diabetes research, and Christopher Adams is a pro constructor and solver who lives in Iowa City (see 71A).
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Getting ahead isn't always about being the smartest person in the room or being a problem-solver; sometimes, it's about outfoxing others or learning what makes others tick and playing to their dark sides.
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In an era of nonstop politics-as-entertainment media, there's something appealing about a celebrity candidate known for being an inspirational problem solver on television, who makes us feel like great things are possible.
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But it was his work on the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that helped burnish his credentials with Republicans there and his reputation as a problem solver.
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Times Insider The actress and writer, a dedicated solver who calls the crossword "a great joy in my life," put together a puzzle of her own with help from the Wordplay columnist Deb Amlen.
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Just when you think you're "all that" as a solver, along comes an entry that you believe must be a prank from Will Shortz, and then it turns out to be a real word.
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One of the things that I asked you towards the end of the interview was, as a businessman and a problem-solver, someone known for that, what are we going to do about education?
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Give us someone — any gender or race — who is a real problem solver and who has some hope of winning the presidential and congressional election and then creating the political conditions for real change.
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Even if you are not a speed solver, it's a lovely weekend with like-minded puzzleheads and you can rub elbows with your favorite crossword constructors, who usually serve as officials at the tournament.
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Mercury in Aquarius is a genius problem solver, so you'll find yourself hammering out many complicated issues during this time—everything from sex and trust to tricky financial issues, like debts, taxes, and inheritances.
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For our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver, we'll be attending a "crossword symphony," taking a closer look at basic musical notations that frequently show up in puzzles.
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But on Painted Ruins, there's a divine clarity to the architecture; you can see how Taylor exists as a problem solver, untying Gordian knots, figuring out how to let the songs breathe without wandering.
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As the head of CSAIL, she helps lead the research and the outreach, serving as chief problem solver and cheerleader for some of the most exciting research in the fields of robotics and computer science.
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But it should be noted that this development strikingly resembles President Trump's pattern with North Korea: first creating a crisis, and then using meetings as a way to present himself as a necessary problem solver.
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We here at The New York Times are suckers for a good story, so the Facebook Live staff asked me and puzzle solver Matt Negrin to recreate a Twitter exchange that went viral recently. Enjoy.
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"The idea behind that is if you're a smart problem-solver and you're good at learning, you can figure out pretty much anything that's going to be role-related knowledge on the job," says Haynes.
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As part of their research, Heule and Kullmann demonstrated an automated SAT solver that produced a 200 terabyte proof, which, as someone that's seen some shit when it comes to formal logic, makes me queasy.
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Annalise (Viola Davis) may have judged Bonnie (Liza Weil) for sleeping with the show's resident "problem solver" Frank (Charlie Weber), but it turns out that the pair's real-life relationship is a little less illicit.
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For our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver, we'll be visiting a "crossword garden," taking a closer look at edible fruits and vegetables that frequently show up in puzzles.
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Not only did I enjoy solving Fill-It-In puzzles throughout elementary school, but I was always intrigued by their construction, so there was never a real transition between being a constructor versus a solver.
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For our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver, we'll be visiting a so-called "crossword aviary," taking a closer look at 12 birds that frequently show up in puzzles.
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Structure buffs will notice that this grid is a little wider than it is tall, something that I usually gloss over as a solver unless the rest of the design strongly refers to the dimensions.
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For our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver, we'll be visiting a "crossword garage," taking a closer look at car makes and models that frequently show up in puzzles.
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There are also two columns that need to be written and filed before the end of the day, Solver Stories that need to be edited, and assorted other fires that need to be put out.
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In general, I don't think 16 three-letter words is "too many" for a freestyle, but it can become tedious for the solver when every corner of the grid is so heavily reliant on them.
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Ms. Richardson, who speaks in a forceful, rapid-fire cadence filled with dramatic pauses that can mesmerize a crowd, is either a pot stirrer or a problem solver, depending on which side she is on.
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Personally, Ms. Carroll's grids are so savory that I don't rush them, but even tactical speed-solvers must admit that until a solver gets to the revealer today, at 110A, this theme is pretty elusive.
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D-Wave launches Leap 2, the next version of its quantum cloud service At the core of Leap 2 is D-Wave's new hybrid solver that can handle complex problems with up to 10,000 variables.
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That doesn't mean I agree with all the changes, but I defer to Will's prowess as a clue maker and someone who knows better than anyone what the NY Times solver likes in their puzzles.
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In a turbulent world, Ms. Merkel's status as an undramatic but effective problem solver seems to have won over voters at home, despite what her critics say is a lack of a clear domestic agenda.
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If you're a cryptic aficionado, the title of this puzzle reads classic cryptic: "Confusion," and other words that mean chaos and disorder, tend to tip a solver off to an anagram, the reordering of letters.
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By the time you've solved your 25,000th Monday puzzle you'll also expect to cruise, friends; it's fun to see some unusual clues and a theme that was a little opaque, at least to this solver.
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WATCH THIS: Chip & Joanna Gaines: Why the 'Fixer Upper' Stars Will Always Choose Family over Fame But as a scrappy problem solver, the Detroit native always found a way to dust herself off and keep moving.
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Hickenlooper and his admirers acknowledged Monday that the tragedy also could elevate Hickenlooper — a low-polling contender in danger of being cut from the next round of debates — as a problem-solver for a national epidemic.
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I strongly suspect that at least two of those theme entries will be softballs for each of us (which ones will depend on the individual solver); once you get two, you're going to know this theme.
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The Selfish Ledger positions Google as the solver of the world's most intractable problems, fueled by a distressingly intimate degree of personal information from every user and an ease with guiding the behavior of entire populations.
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Let your daughter know that she doesn't have to become a mathematician or scientist, but that learning those things can help her in many aspects later on in life, like making her a better problem-solver.
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So I will once again violate one of the principal rules of being an "expert" on something and publicly admit that, when I was hired to take over Wordplay, I was a mediocre solver at best.
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Keeping the less savory bits to a minimum was significantly harder, but I'm pleased with how the fill turned out over all (with the exception of NATALE, which the Tuesday solver in me is grumbling about!).
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So the trick to becoming a better solver is not to go back to school and get that Ph.D. (although I am a big proponent of lifelong education), but to learn to think like a constructor.
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If you're just starting out as a solver, do take note of the people behind the grids that especially impress you; it adds a human element to the game and makes playing it a richer experience.
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I automatically filled in OMG for 62D's "Texter's 'No 63D,'" because I read it as a solver being upset because a clue was missing (something that, in past years, used to keep me up at night).
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I'm pretty confident that the hardest thing about today's grid was the theme answers because they were so blind, and the solver really needs to work the downs in order to get a puzzle like this.
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I also love all the clue echoes Will and company added — stuff like giving three entries the clue "Test" and the disparate John Hancock references adds a nice sense of cohesion for me as a solver.
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The cluing, which might be mostly the puzzle editors's work, is not only cranked up to offer a good tug-of-war between puzzle and solver, but hits a very satisfying variety of topics as well.
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Our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver turns Wordplay into a French 101 classroom, so that we can brush up on 15 French words that frequently show up in puzzles.
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As guests completed their grids, I invited them to come up and fill something in, because doesn't every recreational solver want to feel like a finalist at a crossword tournament, even if just for a moment?
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John Hickenlooper, who is running as a pragmatic problem-solver: The energy, activism and, yes, money is all coming from the mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore liberal base at the moment.
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The answer to "River of northern France" is OISE, but you can brush up on European rivers that appear frequently in the New York Times Crossword in this piece geared toward making you a better solver.
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Ever the "problem solver," Kat contacts the manufacturer, only to be told that menstruating women are more likely to become ill when utilizing virtual reality headsets because of the way their hormones change how they see images.
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"I've always been a problem-solver type of guy and I love to work in the shop," says Schultz, who admits that the project also gave him something to think about besides the loss of his leg.
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"I think he's the type of candidate who the American people could say, Republicans and Democrats, here's a problem-solver and he's someone who's going to put us, instead of his political party or self-interest, first."
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It's the only day of the week where the New York Times crossword puzzle runs with a title, and it is chosen specifically to give the solver a good hint about what to expect in the grid.
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Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — I have gone on record as being the kind of crossword solver who does not like too many cross-referenced clues in my puzzles, but today we have a puzzle that I really enjoyed.
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By the time Ekstrom was in college at North Carolina State University, while she admitted that she didn&apost have stellar grades, she did have a sense of confidence that she too could be a problem solver.
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For our latest list of terms you should know to become a better solver, we'll be visiting a "crossword garden," taking a closer look at plants, flowers and other botanical terms that frequently show up in puzzles.
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One of the features that is most special to me are our Solver Stories, which share deeply personal events in the lives of our solvers and show how puzzles or games have had an impact on them.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — One thing I try to hammer home as often as possible is that to be a good solver, you need to be able to think in terms of what other meanings a word might have.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — One thing I try to hammer home as often as possible is that to be a good solver, you need to be able to think in terms of what other meanings a word might have.
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" Another web ad shows a dashing scientist in a white lab coat: Hans Keirstead, a pioneering stem-cell researcher now running to represent California's 48th District and billing himself as the very definition of a "problem solver.
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A former mayor of Portsmouth, Mr. Marchand has drawn criticism for his previous involvement in "No Labels," a bipartisan group that has been derided on the left for naming Donald Trump a "problem solver" in early 2016.
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Personally, as a solver, I like the challenge it adds when they are not symmetrical, because you not only have to figure out the trick, but you also can't predict where they are going to pop up.
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Let's say that a solver counts those boxes or bubbles and finds that the number of letters in said state are the same — eight — which is another strong hint that we're looking to just rearrange those letters.
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A former Marine, he campaigned as a pragmatist and problem-solver, interested in "kitchen-table" issues and ignoring the liberal agenda pushed by most of his party's presidential candidates and many in the House Democratic freshman class.
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Rauner, who ran four years ago as a private-sector problem solver challenging career politicians, for months has struggled to hold even GOP support in the blue state amid conservative backlash over a string of decisions in office.
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For instance, if I hide food under one of two cups, then point to the empty cup, a dog that follows my point is a social problem solver — he wants to cooperate with me to solve the problem.
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The bank's findings come at a time when the technology industry — which sometimes tends to see itself as the solver of the world's greatest problems — has been rushing to expand Internet access through a variety of new means.
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On the one hand, putting forward the president of the United States as the problem solver to hold a summit with an adversary is usually the culmination of a considerable and rigorous diplomatic process, not the first step.
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"It has to build on what we call the Lego idea, which is the idea of being a creative problem solver, and that you can use your imagination to make an indefinite number of different things," Knudstorp said.
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Puzzle makers and solver are some of the nicest people in the world, and isn't it great that we get to indulge our love of brain twisters and make the world a better place at the same time?
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In my opinion, she took a clever enough theme for a Thursday or Sunday and presented it for a Monday solver to sink their teeth into, a nice service to beginners and post-time-change befuddled minds alike.
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Third, to restore to Russia the role it had in the Soviet era as an important actor in the Middle East and as a global problem solver, and to force respect for Mr. Putin as a world leader.
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The one that I didn't know was the final entry, at 103A; I thought it was quite cute that, after getting rebuffed from knowledge, movement and one's very existence, the solver, at the end, is ASKING FOR TROUBLE.
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It's been a while since I've columnized a Monday puzzle, although I solve them every week, and this one is lovely, intricate and challenging enough to be very gratifying to all of us, even the most jaded solver.
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Learning to think about the word "queen" in ways that don't mean royalty takes a bit of experience as a solver, and if you don't have plenty of that, now is a good time to pick it up.
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"Chairman Price, a renowned physician, has earned a reputation for being a tireless problem solver and the go-to expert on healthcare policy, making him the ideal choice to serve in this capacity," Trump said in a statement.
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Today, as an Independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem-solver, not a bomb-thrower; someone who can bring members of Congress together, to get big things done.
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When I'm not on the job, I'm not as disciplined a solver as many of you, and I often skip the beginning of the week because the rest of life on a Monday can be such a hassle.
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Accela, the nearly two decade old gov tech startup dreaming of finding new life as a problem solver for the sharing economy, brought in a new CEO to replace Maury Blackman who served as the company's anchor since 2007.
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At 17D, the clue is "Wedded mother disturbs trial (7)" The indicator word in that clue is "disturbs," and it's one of many words setters use to tell the solver that something in the clue needs to be anagrammed.
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Even if you've successfully finished, there's some interesting stats about the 200-plus solvers at the convention where this was given as a challenge, as well as the blazing fast speed of the fastest solver (who has constructed puzzles).
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The synonyms are all placed as the last words, which allows the solver to have some expectation — O.K., the next theme answer is going to involve some synonym of "song" at the end and another word at the beginning.
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Rand Paul is running for reelection (13) Lexington's Democratic Mayor Jim Gray is running as a nonpartisan problem solver, but the "(D)" next to his name may as well be an anchor around his ankle in Kentucky these days.
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For showrunner Shonda Rhimes, however, it was of utmost importance that Olivia Pope was portrayed by a Black actress — and not just because the inspiration for her character is a D.C. crisis-solver named Judy Smith, who is also Black.
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There are four theme answers in the acrosses, signified by asterisks, as well as a revealer at 64A, asking the solver to figure out what the ends of each of the themers have in common (and giving a little hint).
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He knew there would be no turning back, for the remainder of his public life, to posing as the bright young problem-solver who could claim his sexuality was just one small and somewhat incidental aspect of who he was.
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On the upside, the research found business leaders agree that exposure to the workplace is helpful as one strategy for developing soft skills – the creation of a worker who has a positive attitude, is resilient, motivated, and a problem solver.
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Mr. Azar, who worked for six years in the administration of President George W. Bush, is expected to win confirmation, with support from Republicans and perhaps a few Democrats, who view him as a pragmatic problem solver rather than an ideologue.
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For our latest list of terms to know to become a better solver, we'll be watching the first segment of this year's "Griddy Awards," which we would like to present to women in acting who frequently show up in puzzles.
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And here, the synonyms are all placed as the last words, which allows the solver to have some expectation — O.K., the next theme answer is going to involve some synonym of "song" at the end and another word at the beginning.
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Fortunately, as we mentioned above, Mr. Kingsley didn't slam us with outrageous challenges outside the theme, so with a little fortitude a solver could fill out, say, a quarter of the grid's down entries, to at least provide some hints.
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That said, we still trade thoughts about The New York Times crossword every day — when I'm at college, I make a special point of Skyping him and my mom, also a regular solver now, so we can keep this ritual going.
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One auditory pun struck me at 18A, "The heavenly Hunter O'Ryan, say," which was quite simple if you know your basic constellations and recognize that "say" is one of several cues for a solver to consider the sound of a word.
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On the campaign trail, Mr. Yang has pitched himself to voters as an entrepreneurial problem solver on a quest to save America from automation — a candidate with the ideas to ignite a movement and the business savvy to get things done.
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This seemed to me to be a constructor's puzzle — the challenge being in the rule of formation of the clues as well as the entries for the solver, which included a punny theme explanation — and there's nothing wrong with that.
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We need to make sure we don't accidentally clue the plural FILMS at 20173 Across as the singular [Movie], because that would be unfair to the solver; in some clues, we want to misdirect solvers, but we always play fair!
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Macron also needs to avoid reviving unfavorable memories of French colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa – especially in the former colonies of Algeria and Lebanon – if he wants to achieve his goal of presenting France as a diplomatic problem-solver.
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Hahn is a problem solver, with little interest in the ephemeral; his pieces — wood furniture for Ikea, a height-adjustable suspension light for Ligne Roset, bathroom fixtures for Kohler, floor and table lamps for Marset — are built to last and to wear nicely.
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Things perked up soon after, though: Whether your were dreaming sweet dreams or awake and working things out, the Moon had your back, connecting positively with problem solver Mercury at 4:10 AM and transformation-loving Pluto at 5:56 AM. Tonight's glamorous.
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There was a joy at finding all those terms lurking in my brain—landing on CAT TOY when seeing C_T_OY—but there was also joy at thinking how gratifying it might be for a nonbinary solver to see ENBY in the puzzle.
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Wordplay SPECIAL POST — There are many ways to fool a crossword puzzle solver, but solving difficulties really break down into two categories: Not understanding what a clue is asking of you, and not knowing a bit of general knowledge that might be required.
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One of the things I hope solvers take away from our solving guide is that mental flexibility is one of the important keys to becoming a good puzzle solver, and that it's possible to improve that flexibility at any time of life.
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That said, editor Sam is at least put at ease by the fact that there's still universally fun fill in TWIST TOP, ROOM TEMP, ACTED BIG and HIP-HOP, as well as a nice theme set he hopes any solver can appreciate.
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You all know I'm a cogitator rather than a speed solver: I'm as impressed as anyone when some of you bust out your sub-10-minute times in the comments on these weekend puzzles, but I don't often think about my pace.
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She's a much stronger solver, so we would do the Sunday New York Times Crossword in parallel, Jill finishing in about 30 minutes and then patiently waiting as I uttered the mumblings of a moron for three to infinity-plus-one hours more.
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"Stew, cryptically," is intended to tip off the solver to one of the most common techniques in this type of grid, the anagram, the use of which would itself ordinarily be tipped off by something like "doctor," or "novel," or "nuts" or … WILD.
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Solving crosswords day in and day out gives you insight into what is expected of you as a solver, but there's a trade-off: the "Aha!" moments are fewer and it takes more "oomph" in the entries to really float your boat.
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Years ago, when I was more of a casual crossword solver, I remember doing this alien abduction themed puzzle where several squares had "ET" in the shape of a flying saucer and then there was a bonus "COW" rebus square underneath it.
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The Brooklyn map takes the explorer from the Brooklyn Bridge into Coney Island, while the San Francisco map begins at the Golden Gate Bridge and brings the puzzle-solver through the city's streets without the trouble of climbing the city's notorious hills.
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As a solver, I dread lucking into the theme this quickly, but Mr. Paleos successfully reeled me in for the entire ride with a lot of tricky and clever cluing, as well as some samples from the candy drawer that I'd never actually heard of.
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And while we've seen updated takes on the character from time to time since the first book was published in 1930 — notably, Emma Roberts' portrayal in the 2007 movie, Nancy Drew — there hasn't been a particularly relatable iteration of the crime-solver in recent history.
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The Divergent movies keep forgetting who their protagonist, Tris Prior, is meant to be, and what her strengths are; the flexible problem-solver of the first movie becomes easily manipulated, naïve, and predictable as the series goes on, as if she's regressing instead of progressing.
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And maybe most important, the bipartisan Problem Solver Caucus, a group which forged bipartisan approaches on health care, immigration, and infrastructure last year—but has seen all of those ideas stymied by the legislative process—is interested in changing the dynamic on the Hill.
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"The Democrats and the liberal media are counting on voters to be gullible enough to swallow their selective crap about Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates so another non-leader, non-fighter and non-problem solver – Hillary Clinton – can get elected," he added.
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Our original submission was a little nastier for the solver: We simply clued what's now 28 Around as 28 Across and completely omitted the numbers in the squares now numbered 24, 32 and 50, which was the only hint that something strange was going on.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — This was a straightforward circled-answer puzzle with a good number of long clues for early in the week – potentially slow going for a new solver, but the corners used crossword standards like ASSUAGE, THANE and UPROOT that you will encounter again.
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A superb problem solver and sure shot, Snowball manages to escape and evade most of her tormentors until the final half-hour, when "The Hunt" — a movie that shows zero respect for the laws of physics, ballistics or human anatomy — goes from irritating to inane.
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As a solver, I enjoy when the mid-length entries are lively, and I felt like luck was on my side with this one — for example, 6-Down and 25-Across were both "Hm, I wonder if that would work ..." ideas that panned out.
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Ose, who represented California's Central Valley for three terms and hails from the mainstream wing of the GOP, said he viewed Trump as a problem solver and that he'd been turned off by what he described as the increasingly negative tone of Rubio's campaign.
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Kadlec — viewed by Azar as a problem-solver who was tapped to reunify separated migrant families in 2018 — also had prepared national disaster management personnel to handle pandemics by putting them through specialized training to handle infectious disease issues two years ago, said two individuals.
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Klobuchar, meanwhile, who is charting a moderate, problem-solver course, is looking for funding to put money in the Highway Trust Fund, which was created in 1956 to preserve Eisenhower's highway system and funded largely by gas taxes that have fallen short in recent years.
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Mats Valk, a Dutch Rubik's Cube speed solver, broke a world record on Sunday when he completed the puzzle in less time than it takes most people to see a link to this post, decide to click and hit play on the embedded YouTube video.
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I know there'll be a theme, often one so intricate and well-crafted that a solver can be forgiven for following the wrong threads for miles, since constructors like Timothy Polin here can work their creative wiles and dream up any manner of groundbreaking innovation.
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Mr. Radnor is a die-hard solver, and in 2011, not long after Mr. Shortz made a guest appearance on CBS's "How I Met Your Mother" (the series Mr. Radnor was starring in at the time), he graciously agreed to be a guest columnist.
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I often see tweets on Mondays from solvers who just finished their first New York Times crossword ever, and the last thing I want is to stymie such a would-be new solver with an even potentially-frustrating crossing, or other similar downer of a moment.
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If you are not a solver of our Variety puzzles, you might not be familiar with Split Decisions, a fun and very satisfying puzzle where you are given pairs of letter strings and have to figure out what the pairs of words are that share those letters.
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What does it say about me as a solver, nay, as a citizen of the world, that my two gimmes for today's acrostic quote by Eugenie Clark consisted of a joke from an ABBOTT and Costello routine and the memory of happy times watching "Star Trek"?
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He says the design has an "intimidating" look to it, but for me, this particular design has a downside: It constricts the entries to four quadrants and one smaller central section, which deprives the solver of those long, luxurious entries that we look forward to all week.
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Well, sometimes an "about" means simply "about," or "regarding," or in memo- (and crossword-) speak RE. The "true," here, stands for T — "not true" instructs the solver to remove a T from "Starbucks products," or "lattes," and there we get our answer: RE + LATTES — T = RELATES.
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RELATED: N.C. Rep: Women ready for 'problem solver' Trump North Korea's attack on Sony Pictures damaged a major U.S. corporation, while China is the suspected culprit behind the 2015 theft of millions of federal workers' security-related personal information in an attack on the Office of Personnel Management.
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Acne picking actually gives people a sense of accomplishment and makes our brain produce that delightful neurochemical dopamine, says Sanam Hafeez, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Columbia University Teacher's College, and that's especially true if you're someone who's a problem-solver with a desire for control.
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Each of these pair-offs have their own particular problems to solve to move the story forward, and each pairing emphasizes what the characters are made for — Uhura as a fighter and communicator, Chekov as an enthusiastic problem-solver, Sulu as a leader-in-training, and so forth.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — If you can hear me over all of the chirping, I'd like to say that today's puzzle by David Kwong is a great example of a theme that seems easy on the first pass, but which has additional gifts for the solver after the puzzle is completed.
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WORDPLAY, THE CROSSWORD COLUMN Hey, David Liben-Nowell and Victor Barocas, wait just a — SUNDAY PUZZLE — Today's grid by David Liben-Nowell and Victor Barocas presents a really innocuous layout: There are hardly any long entries, and there are multiple points of entry for a solver to make headway.
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I suppose the puzzle might appeal more to an older solver, one who remembers playing board games with his kids or leafing through the glossy crisp pages of the oversized magazine with its inky smell, but then there are a lot of us "older" solvers still out there.
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Harris James was also present as a problem-solver — he took care of paying off Lucy for good, and he planted Will's backpack under Woodard's deck — but the arrangement ended when Mr. June freed Julie and she disappeared into the night, never to see any of them again.
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As she faced a growing political threat from Mr. Sanders, who has inspired voters with his denunciations of a "rigged" economic and political system, she reshaped her political message to try to inspire voters herself by espousing empathy and presenting herself as a problem-solver for strained or suffering Americans.
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The researchers' experiments demonstrate that a special kind of quantum physics problem solver "implemented on a six-qubit superconducting quantum processor is capable of addressing molecular problems beyond period I elements," like hydrogen and helium, "up to BeH2," beryllium hydride, according to the paper published online yesterday in the journal Nature.
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Some shout outs are merited for being able to CHECK off that BOX: Specifically, thanks go to The Times's Sam Ezersky for patiently providing feedback on multiple iterations of the grid, Peter Broda for his updates to my word list and to my wife, Jessica, my forever editor and test solver.
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This week, that includes the arrival of "Love, Simon" -- a coming-out story, marking TV producer Greg Berlanti's directorial debut -- and "Instinct," an otherwise nondescript CBS crime procedural, starring Alan Cumming as a brilliant crime-solver who, in a first for that genre, just happens to be gay and married.
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I contacted Jeff last November with an idea I had been working on, which crossed two colors through a shared rebus box to equal a third "mixed result" color, but I was struggling with how to represent the mixed result color in the grid that would make sense to the solver.
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Trump is a "problem solver in a business where too many politicians don't want to solve problems all they want to do is play politics," Blagojevich continued, repeating his declaration that "I'm a Trumpocrat" but conceding that, as a convicted felon, he might not be allowed to vote for the president.
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That is why you should let me do any number of other things, not because I have better ideas, that I am a better problem solver, but because I offer this identity of innocence, which is now the, I think, big political problem that we have not identified up to this point.
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In the Charles Koch poll, Americans voiced strong support for pursuing diplomatic solutions rather than military interventions, including working with the UN. How can we reconcile broad support for U.S. international engagement and commitment to our allies, with the concurrent desire to step back from being the world's problem-solver-in-chief?
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The Problem Solver pledge states that candidates will achieve one of four goals during their first month as president: trying to create 20 million jobs over the next 85033 years, secure Social Security and Medicaid for the next 75 years, balance the federal budget by 2030 or make America energy secure by 2024.
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In 1992, again writing as M.C. Beaton, Ms. Chesney introduced a very different sort of crime solver: Agatha Raisin, a London publicist who retires to Carsely, a fictional village in the Cotswold region of England, where Ms. Chesney herself had recently moved after living in the Scottish Highlands since the mid-20163s.
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Its yoga ball-sized globs of goo hold fast-moving creatures in place while amplifying damage from other weapons, and they're also an all-purpose environmental puzzle-solver: you can shoot foam at walls to create makeshift stairs, patch fire-spitting pipes, block electrical discharges, or even fix a breach in Talos-1's hull.
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Even before the Depression hit in October 1929 and redefined Hoover's presidency, his political identity as a technocratic problem solver was evident in his inaugural address, which, unlike his predecessors' speeches, focused heavily on the practical problems of the nation and the mandate of the election, without reference to the Constitution or the nation's founding.
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Its hero, Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), is a problem-solver who has to keep several productions running smoothly: a Gene Kelly-style musical (featuring Channing Tatum), an Esther Williams-style water ballet (with Scarlett Johansson), a sophisticated romantic drama (with Ralph Fiennes), and the Biblical epic (with George Clooney) which gives the film its title.
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But reading these two entries, TWOTIMRESOLE as one, making a U-turn when we get to the end of 1-Across, we have TWO-TIME LOSER What makes this construction amazing is that RESOLE is a fine entry in its own right, so its use in completing the phrase doesn't leap out at the solver.
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As a trade-off, a constructor will usually make the clues a little easier to nail down (although I thought that today's cluing was really challenging), and you're given the option to peek at which square in the top row you start filling in your first entry, which can really help get a solver going.
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Fola gives a big speech to Karim about the beauty of making a puzzle, and the connection a puzzle maker has between the puzzle and the solver — there is no winner or loser when it comes to puzzles, there's only someone who succeeds in figuring it out, and someone who gets stuck trying to solve it.
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It's Saturday and you have nothing better to do, so why not open your New York Times to the puzzle page, fold it into the traditional thirds — in this fantasy I'm imagining that you are a print solver — and get ready to prove to yourself that you are just as smart as everyone else, if not smarter?
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Longtime acquaintances of Dr. Redfield, 68, and some who have worked with him recently, describe him as a thoughtful, diligent problem solver who, while uncomfortable being in the limelight, is working around the clock to advise the state and local response and to protect the reputation of the C.D.C. Get an informed guide to the global outbreak with our daily coronavirus
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But with an eye on her legacy, the conservative chancellor has a like-minded problem solver in place to take the helm of the EU. Oddly, Merkel abstained in a leaders' vote on nominating von der Leyen - a mark of the waning power of Europe's once dominant leader who was prevented from backing her own ally due to opposition from her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners.
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He also completely mischaracterized No Labels' role in a 85033 Colorado Senate race, in which No Labels offered a Problem Solver Seal – not an endorsement – to both Republican Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE and Democrat Sen.
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There's a 911 operator (Connie Britton), a calm problem-solver for those who are in dire need of help; there are the firefighters, led by Peter Krause, a man in recovery for alcohol addiction, who dads his way through his work relationships, particularly with Buck (Oliver Stark) a reckless young recruit; and there are police, led by Angela Bassett, an LAPD officer who has problems at home — actually, they all have problems at home.
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I also liked the way Mr. Fagliano balanced out the newer website entries with some older pop culture, like "Three's Company"'s MR. ROPER, the FONZ and "The Wizard of Oz"'s AUNTIE EM. I also liked NO BUTS, CREAM PIE, EVEN SO, OH YOU and IT'S O.K. Let's chat with Mr. Fagliano: I like to try new grid layouts for each puzzle to both challenge myself and provide something different for the solver.
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It was a pleasure to work with him on that tournament (he was always pushing to make each puzzle more interesting, fun, and the right kind of challenging for the solver — with a massive amount of work on his part to improve theme and fill and clues in all of the puzzles that he, quite characteristically, doesn't mention!), and the chance to work together in that same way on today's puzzle was a similar delight.
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Here's who YOU are: • You have been working with web technologies for 3-5 years • You have experience writing clean, maintainable, production-grade JavaScript • You're familiar with Node JS and writing server-side Javascript • You are a strong problem solver who is always looking for solutions • You value testing your code and can implement unit and functional tests • You are intimately familiar with Chrome/Firefox/Safari dev tools • You have applied experience and understanding with common software design patterns.
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Today, the riddle question is broken into two parts: 18A: WHY IS A RAVEN LIKE 23A: A WRITING DESK And the answer offered by a solver who is now lost to history is: 45A: BECAUSE POE WROTE 50A: ON BOTH OF THEM ■ 12A: Pro tip: If you see a clue that says you should be thinking about a word that is "like" something and you've never heard of that thing, odds are good that the answer will be RARE.
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