34A: Onetime exam in British schools ( O LEVEL) - did not know the O LEVELs were "onetime." I've seen A LEVEL and O LEVEL several times in recent puzzles, after (or so it seems) never having seen them before.Two other hiccups today: LIMO for SEMI ( 7D: Hard-to-park vehicle) and E'ER for O'ER ( 63D: Poetic contraction). Of course on the easiest puzzle (Puzzle 1), I got so caught up in speed that I left a square blank-a horribly costly error (I'd have been close to the Top 20 overall if I'd simply filled that stupid little square in-it's not like the cross was tough I just missed it). but I ended up with the 11th best score on that puzzle (out of 650 or so solvers). I thought I was really getting beaten up by Puzzle 5 as I was solving it at the tourney. Tournament experience has taught me that in speed-solving, you are in your own world where time runs differently-what feels like epic struggle might only be 10-15 seconds. I think I got TEES ( 12D: Concert souvenirs), and then DRESS, and then tried HONDA, and when that didn't work, MAZDA, and it went down from there. Today, the place de resistance was the NE, where failure to come up with the RX-8 carmaker (HONDA? ACURA? No, MAZDA) and failure to guess quickly what followed EVENING (DRESS, it turns out), meant that that corner gave me minor fits. I rarely take the time to erase, choosing instead to scrawl new letters on top of old, leaving a strange palimpsest for the judges/computers to interpret (no problems so far). Pencil-solving allows me to see quite vividly where I struggled. THEIR A DIEU V ISIT CASTE ("His/her" alternative / Parting word / Sojourn / Social grouping).E VENINGDRESS VI VIDIMAGE SID VICIOUS (Soiree attire / Indelible picture in the mind / Bandmate of Johnny Rotten).I'm ambivalent about the theme-the double-star, double-language aspect is interesting, but those words aren't exactly hard to "hide," and the quotes are unrelated, and only one of the "hidden" words actually touches more than one word in its answer. seeing THE DIE IS CAST "hidden" in the answers to those four double-starred clues (I'd have been more impressed with a hidden ALEA IACTA EST). Hardest part was figuring out the second part of the theme, i.e. I had moments of sputtering, but overall it felt very doable-perhaps even a bit moreso than an average Wednesday. This is all to say that I don't really know how difficult this was. At any rate, I'm moving back to paper for my NYT-solving now, for the most part, which means having to get used to a whole new set of difficulty norms (on-paper times are inevitably slower).
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I learned to solve crosswords on paper, but that was long before I got very good, and well before I'd even heard of software that allowed for on-screen solving. I tend to solve on-screen because it's so much more convenient, but the mechanics of on-paper solving are completely different, and something I need to get much more used to.
Greek god who's the main villain in Wonder Woman.Type of thermometer you put in your mouth.Doctor Zhivago actress who played an activist and love interest in the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait: 2 wds.
Playground equipment that goes up and down.Peanut-butter-and-chocolate candy brand.Midnight Run actor who played the tycoon's scheming assistant in Heaven Can Wait: 2 wds.The Portland Trail Blazers' state: Abbr.Widower of Maude and Edna on The Simpsons.Red container that can hold car fuel: 2 wds.Checkout icon on many retailers' websites.Berry that is popularly used in smoothies.Soccer star who scored nearly 1 300 goals in his career.Howard's best friend on The Big Bang Theory._/Verdon (2019 miniseries about a choreographer and a dancer)._ lost track of time (Sorry to be running late).
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