Friday: 43:09 (wide 16 x 15 grid, 1 Google)
Saturday: 29:40 (3 Google, many errors)
Sunday: 38:28
The Times has been breaking out of the 15 x 15 mold quite a bit lately. Thursday's puzzle was also wide. Friday had two triple-stacks of 16-letter answers. Because the 15 x 15 convention is so ingrained, I'm not sure THATSWHATSHESAID has ever been in any newspaper-published puzzle outside of a Sunday, and probably none of the other grid-spanners have either. (Actually, one of them is "Do You Want To Dance," a popular song in 1958, but also popular later on for the Beach Boys and the Ramones, who covered it as "Do You Wanna Dance," which is 15 letters and has probably been in a lot of puzzles, so kind of new but not really.)
I feel like ranting about Trump, but it just takes so much energy. There's just too much, every day, it's overwhelming, and probably not good for my health. But fuck that guy.
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