Thursday: When You ALMOST Ace the Theme - 22 June 2023 New York Times Crossword

I caught on to most of today's theme fairly quickly, thanks to a helpful clue, but it took some time to really nail it down! How'd you manage with this crossword? Join me for the solve. - If you'd like to directly support this channel, consider signing up to my Patreon to receive exclusive bonus content: / dailysolve
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[@kathleenquinn955]

The irony of one down, stabbing into 22 across!

[@scaredyfish]

This is the first crossword I've done with a rebus in it. Luckily, I did know they existed because of the one a couple of weeks ago with the numbers. I still found this one really hard, and had to break my 5 day streak to find the one letter I had wrong. I thought it was "(shush) the baby, I'm asleep" crossed with "I'm out". Frustrating to get caught out like that. Still, that's my longest streak so far, and these videos are definitely helping understand the particular quirks of the NYT crossword, and learn a bunch of new words (and American brands).

[@everybodyloveshigh5s]

I think the "SHH" being small works because they called it a "whispered admonishment." So you whisper "shh" to say "the baby is alseep"

[@stephengiblin4684]

The Bucks are the Milwaukee NBA team. En banc is the term to describe when the entire group of judges in a particular Federal circuit hear an appeal instead of just a three-judge panel. Your mistake was that you assumed an S would go at the end of 62D and didn’t change it when you got MIA. The key word in the revealer in my mind was “admonition.” So you are admonishing someone to be quiet so as not to wake the baby by saying SHH. Finally, you never went back to 26D - a USB connection.

[@timegentleman]

I don't think you realised or at least mentioned this, apologies if I missed it, but the misdirection in the clue for NAMES is that "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" is the name of a 1969 movie starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, and Dyan Cannon. (It was later adapted into a 1973 tv series.)

[@IAmWilltoo]

Chris, love your cheeky remarks. Apologies for the wittiness on my part. Great job! 👍

[@Asterism_Desmos]

I could have sworn “USDA” was meant to be “PETA” but I was wrong!

[@raffishrabbit]

24:57 The first time I watched Peep Show I was going through a phase where I would get terrible second-hand embarrassment. I remember having to pause episodes to go pace around before I could continue, but I feel like that ultimately added to the experience. What a show

[@scaredyfish]

That's kind of the reason I never got into the show. It's just slightly uncomfortable to watch, and while I enjoyed what little I did watch, I had this hesitation about it and never felt 'in the mood' to watch it.

[@fmrhodes01]

I think the “Name” reference in 66 across is because Mach is the last name of Ernst Mach, an Austrian physicist in whose honor the “Mach number” is named (the ratio of an objects speed to the speed of sound).

[@BrianSpurrier]

VRBO is pronounced like “Ver-Bow”

[@aloneitan3819]

Bow maybe isn't the best word to use to indicate pronunciation lol. Bow like beau or bow like bough?

[@seanahan]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_banc - It took me until watching you solve it to remember that I have heard this term in the news quite a bit.