NYT Spelling Bee

[Langue_doc]

Good morning!

QB yesterday. Well above genius today with the pangram. Haven't checked to see if there's another one somewhere in there.

Easy two-fer, when I wasn't even awake!

cathwen, enjoy your vacation.

Thanks for the good wishes, all--cathwen, my eyes do need to be "cleared up" in every sense of the word/expression.

Happy solving, all!

ETA. Need a second pangram and a couple more words.

[ciao_yall]

QB - newish word needed a Wordplay definition oleic, as well as a few nudges to finish. And noel which I always think of as capitalized.

LB - ambiguous- and couldn't for the life of me see survey until I got a definition. I think because the u was way on the other side of the the square, and vey isn't a common letter combination. Plenty of 3fers: ambiguous-savior-rye, gravy-yea-ambiguous, ego-obvious-smarmy, maybes-savior-rug.

Oy vey.

Happy solving!

[ciao_yall]

GN4L with 2 pangrams, 2fer with a word I didn't think would take but it did.

Okay, now for the quest for QB...

[cathwen]

Good morning!

Checking in from our vacation spot...

I am at Amazing with both pangrams today.  Will I get any further?  Doubtful, but who knows—it's a gray day with the threat of rain, so if we have to stay in, perhaps I will.

Last night I got to QB, with online being my last word (with a nudge from Shunn).

LB:  Yesterday I had the "official" ambiguous-survey.  I got a 2fer today right away!  It's so odd how sometimes the answers just pop out, and sometime they just don't! 

Langue_doc, my husband's vision from his cataract surgery in July is still a little blurry.  The doctor said that he would do a "quick laser" thing in September if that was still the case (and seemed to think this was not unusual). Your problem sounds a little different, and I hope that it gets resolved! 

Happy solving!

[ab_grp]

Good morning/afternoon!

We had a slow start today but finally got going.  I got to GN4L with one pangram and then made some more progress and finally figured out the second pangram at the end of coffee break #1 and got to Alpha.  I'm sure the remaining words will take a while.  I think some of my final words were xenon, cocoon yesterday.

Also got the schmofficial solution yesterday.  I hope today's comes as quickly! Congrats on your 2fers today, Langue_doc and cathwen!

Still struggling a bit on the crossword.  I have the vast majority, but there are a couple crosses that are tricky for me, as I am completely unfamiliar with either entry.  Argh.

Cathwen, if you do have to deal with some rain, then hopefully the puzzles will bring some sun to your day.  :-)

Happy solving!

[Langue_doc]

Turns out that I had the second pangram all along.

QB, all familiar words.

The crossword is still giving me grief--it's just one word, I think.

cathwen, thanks for the info about your husband's eye. Mine is blurry too, which is surprising as the blurriness is recent, weeks after the surgery. The blurriness comes and goes, so I'm hoping it isn't too serious.

[ab_grp]

Congrats on the QB, Langue_doc! Good luck finishing up the crossword.  I had to get my husband's input on one down answer, and that cleared up the across I needed as well.  I helped him with some other entries.  And continued good wishes for your eye.  I hope that if your eye doc thought the blurriness were serious, he (I think you said he before) would have brought you in sooner rather than later.

Did get to QBABM, and so did husband, but no progress on LB so far and have failed medium sudoku twice.  :-(  Third time's a charm!

[ab_grp]

Got a 2fer! I was being a little dumb about it at first, but then realized an alternative.  And I managed to conquer medium sudoku, finally, so maybe I can get hard suduko done before a long conference call this afternoon. 

[Langue_doc]

Woohoo, ab_grp!

Found the crossword error at last--for some strange reason I had associated cedars with Nebraska! Aaargh! My brain must have been truly dead this morning.

I suspect the eye surgeon is on vacation these couple of weeks. When I checked his availability on Zocdoc last week, the earliest slot was for the week after next. At least they moved my appointment to Saturday from Monday next week.

[ab_grp]

Langue_doc, my error was in the same area.  I didn't know the John Wayne film and also put Nebraska! Husband's help with the film solved it for me, but that was a tough region since I also didn't know who the NPR person was.  I had most of the letters for each of those answers but just had no idea.  There is only one John Wayne film I remember seeing numerous times in the crossword (Hatari), so now I have learned this one and one with a similar title from husband.  Maybe they will come in handy someday!

I guess eye surgeons are allowed to have vacations, too.  Ha.  But I'm sorry it came at the time it did, and yes at least Saturday is better than Monday.  And I had not heard of Zocdoc, but that is so cool and handy! Unfortunately, my PCP is not on there.  I did want to try to schedule an appt with him for next week.  But I will check for my other ones!

[Langue_doc]

ab_grp, I don't use Zocdoc for appointments but have used it to find providers and also to see the reviews on the physicians I consult, especially if I'm seeing them for the first time. I found my OB/GYN through Zocdoc, I think, and have been quite happy with her. The only time I tried to schedule an appointment with her through Zocdoc, the practice called the following Monday to let me know that the slot was no longer available. I think it takes a couple of days for the program to access the physician's schedules by which time the physician is fully booked. I've found it useful though as I checked out the eye surgeon there (he was a referral from my regular eye doctor).

As for John Wayne, I'm familiar with the names of several of his films, but not this one. I like the locales of his films as these are areas that I wouldn't be able to visit in person, and which probably don't exist anymore. So much gun-slinging history in the wild west!

[ab_grp]

Langue_doc, that Zocdoc still sounds like a great resource, so thanks for sharing.  I have a couple specialists to find, and I hadn't seen the reviews there, so it may really help.  The Wild West does seem like a pretty neat place.  We have some areas around here in which some of the historical gunslinger stuff happened, which is very strange and exotic to me as an east coast native.  Of course, there we had all the Revolutionary War stuff, none of that here. 

[ciao_yall]

QB with Wordplay. Those darn suffixes.

And my LB solution appears to be unique as so far I'm the only one on the Wordplay thread who has gotten it. So, probably not schmofficial. But it's mine.

[Parasaurolophus]

No QB, but got to genius and found the pangrams.

[Langue_doc]

Good morning!

Amazing with the pangram.

excite/encouraged

I'm going to be out and about today, so might not get to the puzzles until later this afternoon.

ab_grp, try healthgrades as well--not as comprehensive as Zocdoc, but good as a backup/second opinion. Hope you managed to show Sudoku who's the boss.

Happy solving, all!