I hit grandmaster on this one (Crosswords)

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This came from my livestream on August 16th, 2021. Follow me to catch me live every weekday from 11AM-4PM: / northernlion
Little known fact -- I love crossword puzzles! They're kind of like trivia questions plus words, which are two of the only things I am half decent at. Check it out!

[@azmatiq3078]

Baby cameo was pog this episode, she put her hand on NL's shoulder like an Italian mobster lmao

[@skuubs]

An offer NL can’t refuse: repeated plosives

[@GKinWor]

they wacked his hair or something

[@TacoSnipezZ]

“We got 10 minutes to run one back” *25 minutes left in video* Never change, egg.

[@acampinglamp]

I love when people carry babies in those things and it looks like the baby is controlling a mech

[@MehYam2112]

This madman figured out the DNAlecule pretty fast

[@jozokrstanovic9040]

And then it took him 5 million years and he still didnt get the deMOLEssons

[@baconpool_3749]

I mean he got the biology degree, putting it to good use

[@frame-perfectadskip9159]

But not "Three letters starts with S rhymes with glad"

[@theoneandonlyflexo]

My favorite was kgb mole e

[@FirstWizardZorander]

I put "Jesus" for "Take the wheel" when I did it and wondered why nothing fit

[@RickyRatte]

I mean, that dude lived 2000 years ago, I doubt he has a drivers license. So letting him take the wheel seems like a bad idea anyways.

[@kinkajoulegend9989]

@@RickyRatte I'm sure he's also too drunk on wine to drive straight

[@RickyRatte]

@@kinkajoulegend9989 well, at least after weddings or celebrations with his friends

[@digitalunity]

NL's channel is basically just Dadcore content at this point. Weird Metal Band thumbnails all over the place, nerdy card and board game type of content, trying to understand what kids are into these days, doing crosswords, obscure trivia... NL has literally become Egg Dad after all these years of joking about it

[@Gijjers]

Just yelled out “DEMO LESSON” at my desk, the pogs are real with this series

[@TheHutcharmy]

I did the same but added an expletive to the end lol. Pogged out of my gourd with this series

[@Donovarkhallum]

I was yelling out hotpot lol

[@Johnny-uy4iu]

For those wondering, the answers were DNA (MOLE)CULE, KGB (MOLE), and the one he severely missed DE(MO LE)SSON

[@Bspammer]

@@Johnny-uy4iu and the puzzle was called bop it because of whack a mole.

[@torgor_]

DRESSER ITS DRESSER

[@GilroyIronheart]

He’s been tripped up at least a dozen times by not knowing any Spanish

[@CaptainSilmar]

NL's inability to guess "sad" as the inapt rhyme had me fuming at my screen tbh

[@nealhuffman7523]

I think he was thinking inept which is why he guessed sat because it almost rhymes. I had to google inapt because I didn't know what it meant lol

[@kloaf1131]

@@nealhuffman7523 thats how I took it as well. but I kept thinking thats not right.

[@coled82595]

Someone make a crossword BR so we can finally see NL fully ascend from plebian Northernlion to actual E-Sport Legend Northern.

[@SuperKnogga]

This one actually drove me insane i was sitting ther for 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell a dnaecule is before i finally understood the clue

[@GustavVik]

I still don't understand the clue. How am I supposed to interpret "includes [MOL]" to mean "you have to remove [MOL]". If it had said "EXCLUDES part of..." I might have got it. And what does Bop It have to do with anything.

[@LeeLekCheong]

@@GustavVik the word is mole. NL mentioned that bop it might be reference to 'whack'a mole.

[@antoniosoares9273]

@@GustavVik "Includes part of 4-Down" (molehills) means that you read it with 4-Down. Instead of thinking of the answer as a straight line, think of it as an upside-down T: M O L DNA ECULE

[@RydenDaniel]

@@GustavVik dna mole cule -> dna molecule

[@iabervon]

@@GustavVik You have to hit the MOLEs that are sticking up with a padded mallet to squish the whole words into the across clues at their bottoms.

[@khclupus]

NL instantly guessing bald for worn tire just pogged me right out of my gourds.

[@PhenomAnon08]

Like many people I’ve started playing along and man it makes me mad how good NL is at these bad boys

[@totalmetaljacket789]

He makes me feel like an idiot when he figures out a 9 letter clue with one letter.

[@thonk7611]

god sometimes its like he cant get "deadline" and other times he just knows every trivia fact in the known universe

[@NearoC]

NL on 99% of words: genius NL on the 1% that I get immediately: no idea at all

[@matttondr9282]

@@thonk7611 He’s built different okay?

[@FickleWid]

I liked this content so much I started doing the crossword puzzles daily and it subsequently took away the magic of the content itself.

[@frame-perfectadskip9159]

In what way?

[@moddedsoul677]

Look NL here's the thing. I'll say it again. A pun is a pun. But a joke could be anything. It could even be a pun. So don't get demotivated.

[@kloaf1131]

What I love about this is it shows different thought processes. theres random trivia I have no clue on. But I saw things like tips, rio, phd, and a few others immediately.

[@robsmith5434]

Bruh... 13 minute completion time on that first one is genius level. Well done man.

[@geckogeico2212]

His newer vids have a sub 8 min crossword

[@coolfool183]

Isaac, Slay the Spire, crosswords, and react court?? this is a blessed time

[@ppathirana54]

16:35 had me ROLLING

[@Kindersonde]

glad NL struggled a bit with the second one in this video, that one gave me some trouble but it was really good. sad he missed "slanted column?" = oped, i thought that was super clever

[@andrewmaltz1081]

Love the unbridled confidence in his Chipotle answer only to spell it wrong

[@Gohmenasai]

NL is the world's first Crossword AND Chess GM

[@ashburn9121]

21:18 "DO YOU FEEL IN CHARGE, BABA?"

[@P3dotme]

"Model lesson" broke me

[@addison_reilly5904]

. ➡ M | O | L D E ⤴ E S S O N =Demolesson =Demo Lesson, part of a teacher's interview

[@P3dotme]

@@addison_reilly5904 Oh no, I totally got that. I was "broken" by the fact that NL said "model lesson" which makes absolutely zero sense.

[@holden_tld]

in the first one, when it says includes part of another clue, you have to include part of the other clue, eg 20 across is "DNA MOLECULE", 69 across is "KGB MOLE", 43 across is "DEMO LESSON"

[@trdl23]

Why is this series so satisfying? Why is it so fun?

[@midas8877]

I told my mom I liked these and she said it was impossible

[@kilik706]

First puzzle theme was finding the “mole” in other hints. Was kind of cool

[@squorsh]

19:43 NL has that based sigma grindset

[@ellebrach9123]

rolling my eyes at dad, ace, and deadline when i missed so many of the others

[@kenthemaster]

You know it's gonna be a great one when NL goes "cooked with cubes... iced!"

[@WaDTTThEHecK]

Spellcracker absolutely sent me my god never change NL

[@Octoshark19]

you'll always be grandmaster in my heart

[@huckthatdish]

Seems like he could’ve used a few tips on that last one

[@mike2]

alternate universe where they play bop-a-mol

[@schulte5000]

may the Luna appearance arc never cease

[@SilverionX]

The baby is a big plus to all these episodes. I like the crosswords too.

[@KevinSmile]

I love listening to these crossword puzzle videos while I'm washing dishes. It's the best chill content.

[@samgomez9942]

Him interacting with his baby was so cute man

[@TJPancakes]

Baby really said googoo

[@TJPancakes]

So brave

[@HackionSTx]

Poor Rebecca Goldstein, got bullied. She put some Moles in there huh? This made me think that game where you hammer some animals may have something to do with Bop it and moles (not a native English speaker).

[@laanadepina85]

It was “bop-it” like whack-a-MOLE. MOLEhills, dnaMOLEcule, deMO LEsson, guacaMOLE, kgb MOLE. I screamed when I figured it out. Stupendously bad hint.

[@Thisnameisnottakenjk]

I think the theme the author of this CW was going for was that there was the word "mole" in several of the down clue answers and then in the across clue answers they removed the letters "mol" from what would be the correct answer. For example "DNAmolecule" became "DNAecule", "KGBmole" became "KGBe," etc.

[@Dancyspartan]

Love the Crosswords, any way to reduce the sound of the client? :O It makes falling asleep to your sultry tones all that more difficult.

[@OscarGilFerrer]

Btw, takes the wrong way is robs because it's similar to "rubs the wrong way" aside from the literal meaning

[@85TITZ]

the beginning of the second puzzle had me screaming at my screen, but i know i will never be able to solve a crossword puzzle unless half the words are filled in beforehand.

[@YashBudhiraja]

just binged all the other crossword vids, this is great timing lol

[@James-ip5gz]

I've never felt dumber in my life since I started watching these videos

[@Omoplata183]

I love these, and now you've got me doing daily crosswords too lol. I'm sure you've been asked whether you are interested in doing the NY Times crosswords before but I'm curious if you have any interest in that. They start out easy on Monday and get insanely hard by Sunday.

[@PieMan061]

I played the Bop It puzzle the day it came out and the “Demo Lesson” answer made me furious. I really didn’t like the style of the theme

[@calinguga]

as a spelunky player i concur

[@g7parsh]

Watching baby call and response is great!

[@frame-perfectadskip9159]

"Three letters, starts with S and rhymes with glad...must be sat." This one pissed me off a little.

[@macmurfitt]

cool how all the words that had letters buried inside them for another words had the word 'mole' in them.

[@robw1571]

The way NL navigates a puzzle is dizzying.

[@YourAverageSheep]

MORE POGWORD ACTION LET'S GOOOOO0

[@kellerbrown3454]

god damn this man can crossword puzzle

[@fisheatsyourhead]

dnaecule tilted me so hard

[@omniferousswan593]

Honestly that was a fun one. Lots of relevant things.

[@xaytana]

I didn't understand the first puzzle's partial word thing, until I realized that it includes the other word where it intersects, and the intersecting letter is the clue. De(e)sson and mol(e)skines becomes demol(e)sson, kgb(e) and guacamol(e) become kgb-mol(e), and dna(e)cule and mol(e)hills becomes dnamol(e)cule. it makes sense after knowing what the creator was trying to do, but without that knowledge it doesn't make any sense at all. Maybe theme the puzzle as mole, as the theme would at least hint at what's going on, as all the shared-word clues include the 'mol(e)' portion of the word pairs, and the theme being a hint should give enough of a clue for people to figure it out beforehand when multiple words include the hint, making the shared words easier to understand.

[@sscswimmer1]

Spellcracker was tilting me for so long

[@wulfywulfynrir1296]

Ooohhh this is the first new episode since I started doing these. Can't wait to see how he does on these lmao

[@Tehfunsterman]

frog likes to hop on pop, he jumps on the pop dankadadankadadankada splish splash

[@LeeDee5]

The Lord of all the words in cross form!

[@Leauxf]

NL youre a legend, watching this before my english lecture lol

[@larsthomasdenstad9082]

You are so good at this I might never speak again.

[@wulfywulfynrir1296]

Okay, glad im not the only one who was absolutely befuddled by the logic behind "dnaecule". Feel like they were going a bit too hard with the metagame there

[@lukehamburger3659]

Inapt rhyme for glad “sat?”

[@MrJokeni]

16:35 This is gold

[@Irakli008]

“Inept rhyme for ‘glad’……….. SAT?? 😮”

[@caphryne]

the pog gourd is filled to the brim

[@ieatgarbage8771]

14:35 hardest cope ever seen on a crossword

[@georgevoknerech228]

The golden era.

[@volatilelyric6387]

NL stop talking about chipotle. I’m trying to enjoy my brake, which I would like to be a chipotle free zone. Ps (really enjoying these crosswords) 😉

[@shdwboi6186]

I think the first crossword made sense because the bop it as the title is probably a hint. Everytime something included a part of another answer it was the part mole and the bop it is probably in regards to whack a mole.

[@zWraithh]

Cutest baby I've ever seen 😭

[@FrankyOnYouTube]

the teacher one is DemoLesson

[@Oomykins]

Poggy!

[@coledorillo6685]

Honey!! Sorry I can't help with the chores right now, New Nl crossword vid just dropped

[@keenan1236]

Everyone remembers when Martha Stewart went away for taking illegal stock tids

[@phatalx]

18:01 was the wrong time to be drinking water.

[@hawkguy531]

I hope you're pleasantly surprised. I loved when you got Dad for Dad :)

[@mikedavidson6454]

No lie i thought the teacher one was going to be demolestation or something like that but also thought that seemed a bit dark for these crosswords lmao

[@wellshit9489]

2:40 this is why pride month is still a thing so don't worry about it

[@a2rhombus2]

Rio literally means river in Spanish, it wasn't talking about a specific river in Venezuela

[@anthonycannet1305]

43 across in the first puzzle is “deMO Lesson”

[@m3lahneee]

baby talk. poggers.

[@KingKafei]

15 mins into 40 minute video "10 minutes to run one back" I think it took a little more than 10 minutes lol

[@IWkris]

Would like to see him tackle some cryptic crosswords but maybe it would be too different

[@orangejuice3403]

I think the teacher one was demo lesson

[@KillItAndBurnIt]

Watching NL interact with his daughter is always so cute ^^

[@bentheswitchsportsfan06]

26:57 had me dying

[@nathano6277]

BABY EGG! BABY EGG!

[@anthonylaw691]

Please tell me you said “Got em” because you read dees 🥜😂

[@TheJacksonFaller]

5:54 nuts

[@jacksoneide9850]

Aww that made me sad people didn't like this puzzle, my favorite this week

[@omyyer]

Niche job was such a good puzzle dude.

[@silent_tsunami3855]

Love you nl

[@andehhhhhhh]

just when we doubt his power, he proves he's a god

[@T1ppy]

Let's actually frickin go

[@chupika6464]

Very excited, loving these

[@therevanite7151]

C u m. Had me dead