Learning Crossword Week 20 | NYT Crossword Thursday Oct 10th, 2024

[@iabervon]

Clues of the form "Like many Keats works" are often looking for an obscure adjective that applies. In this case, "odic", which I've never heard of before, but presumably means "related to odes".

[@SethWilson]

You can play a washboard in a jug band, like with spoons. Think it was a theme in strands not long ago.

[@ParkerMadison]

Got confused by the w/dashboards one too. They meant a washboard like the instrument with is a literal panel

[@chazmartdesigns4308]

Official terms for morse code at dits and dahs

[@chazmartdesigns4308]

It’s pronounced E D not Eddie its short for Edith and its my beautiful wife’s name

[@auldfouter8661]

My mother was an Edith but was only ever called that.

[@chazmartdesigns4308]

@@auldfouter8661 it was the same with her namesake grandmother. It’s a disappearing name.

[@auldfouter8661]

@@chazmartdesigns4308 Mum's mother said all her family were either Lizzie , Mary , Jeanie or Maggie so she struck out and called her daughters Hilda and Edith.

[@CheeksMagee]

There are a ton of great KZbinrs who complete the NYT Crossword and the other NYT games. It is certainly a very saturated genre.