New York Times Mini Crossword ⚔

Shocked at the Super Mario clue being so long to get tbc, put Kart originally

4m24s on Sunday 2023-05-28.

Monday’s: 1A not a word, 2D can fuck off.

50s

53s on Monday 2023-05-29.

48s

17 seconds.

33s. No idea how I got boron so quickly

48s

What is 2D?

1.44

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Ad out - it’s a shortening of advantage. Got it because of getting all the other clues, and looked it up afterwards (never heard of it before)

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Yeah had to reveal in the end because I couldn’t work enough of it out.

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never heard of it either but begrudgingly have to accept that doing ad out/ad in is quite a neat way of signifying who has the advantage

1:55, awful stuff.

2m01s on Duece-day 2023-05-30.

2D ffs

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1m20s. Not good.

I really struggled until I made some guesses and it came together without me ever really believing in what I’d put.

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1m23s on Wednesday 2023-05-31.

Thankfully got PASTA SAUCE ok, which opened things up.

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Had to reveal. Seems like they’ve been getting trickier recently?

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Yeah - quite good I think (even though it’s annoying at the time). Feels like there’s a bit more specifically US-centric stuff than before too.