[Ads-l] [ADS-M] The ADS in the NYT crossword

Andy Bach afbach at GMAIL.COM
Tue Nov 7 23:16:11 UTC 2017


> Is the puzzle online (unsolved) anywhere?  Or do you have to have a NYT
subscription?

https://www.nytimes.com/svc/crosswords/v2/puzzle/print/Nov0617.pdf

and an on-line/app version
https://www.nytimes.com/svc/crosswords/v2/puzzle/daily-2017-11-06.puz

from the xwordinfo.com link above, er, below.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 12:22 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> Is the puzzle online (unsolved) anywhere?  Or do you have to have a NYT
> subscription?
>
> Here is a solved version, with author comments:
>
> https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=11/7/2017
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Ben Zimmer
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2017 7:37 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [ADS-M] The ADS in the NYT crossword
> >
>
> >
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Thanks, Walt. And in case you missed it, Tom McCoy had a
> grammatical-diversity-themed puzzle in the Times back in March.
> >
> > http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31827
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/crosswords/police-
> operation-ngram-rubber-grammarian.html
> > https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=3/27/2017
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Walt Wolfram <wolfram at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Wonderful, Ben, and kudos. I feel like we're beginning a multi-venued
> > > approach to increasing awareness to and appreciation for language
> > > diversity. Thanks for your part.
> > >
> > > Walt
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> The American Dialect Society gets a nice shout-out in Tuesday's New
> > >> York Times crossword by Greg Poulos. More than a shout-out, actually:
> > >> the puzzle is actually ADS-themed.
> > >>
> > >> After you've solved it, you can read my commentary in the NYT's
> > >> Wordplay column. (Or just skip to the column if you don't mind the
> > >> spoilers.)
> > >>
> > >> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/crosswords/daily-puzzle-2
> > >> 017-11-07.html
> > >>
> > >> --bgz
> > >>
> > >>
>
>
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