Today's #NYTMiniCrossword (May 7, 2025) featured clues about pop culture, literature, and general knowledge. Key answers included Alex (Ovechkin who broke Gretzky’s goal record), Proxy (stand-in), Adbiz (industry for marketing professionals), and Poet (Poe, Pope, or Pound).
#Crossword #Puzzle #PopCulture #Literature #Wordplay #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/nyt-mini-crossword-may-7-2025-answers-clues/
Hell hath no fury like a woman's corns
#wordplay
I can't be the first one to wryly read between the lines of this NPR headline: "Sovereignty won the Kentucky Derby on a rain-soaked track on Saturday, beating out Journalism, the favorite to win the race. #Commentary #WordPlay "https://www.npr.org/2025/05/03/nx-s1-5385847/sovereignty-winner-kentucky-derby-journalism?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20250505&utm_term=10124192&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=48257243&orgid=305&uniquet=xj9PK4EBJkgephcd1JRG7A&utm_att1=
@Gaolaitch So many times I've thought this. Glad I@m not the only one.
Also, I've had aubergine, but I'm a bit worried about the haupt-gine and auberstabs-gine.
Courgette implies the existence of a courge.
I’ve seen courgettes big enough that I don’t want to meet a courge, especially late at night when I’m alone on the allotment.
Today I learned that refractory is not related in any way to refract, or even refractor. (A trap for the unwary.)
Refract = to deflect the rays of (usually light). It comes from the Latin frangere = to break.
Refractory = stubborn, unruly, unmanageable, and comes from the Latin refractarius = stubborn, so it’s a direct import. I imagine it was first used by Oxbridge-educated men as a way of exhibiting their erudition (see what I did there? I mean ‘as a way of showing off what they knew’.)
"Grapeful for you," pun art. Wall art that looks great on fabulous products, too! Non-sappy Mother's Day gift idea.
ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/grapeful-for-you-wordplay-rachel-league.html
"Olive You" fun pun art. Wall art that looks great on fabulous products, too! Non-sappy Mother's Day gift idea.
ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/olive-you-wordplay-rachel-league.html
Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.
Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!
Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters
#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom
Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!
Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.
Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.
Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.
Hint: restraint
Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape
Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.
Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!
Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters
#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom
Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!
Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.
Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.
Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.
Hint: no dilly dally
Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape
Honestly, I was honestly waiting to honestly ask my wife her honest reason to move the Honest shampoo. 
Speaking of confidence … is that the only thing AI has going for it? It’s not funny – that’s for sure. For @aftermath.site, Riley Macleod writes about how you can ask Google’s AI search to define any made-up idiom, and it will go ahead and make something up. Some that people have tried include, “you can’t lick a badger twice,” “don’t touch my mother’s goats” and “two cars short of a Winnebago.” It’s very silly, but, says Macleod, that doesn’t mean we should laugh at it.
It’s quite easy to mistakenly write lead (element Pb) instead of led, because they sound the same. I see this all the time. But it never seems to happen that people write read (past tense) instead of red, yet the two situations seem similar.
I guess it has to do with the relative common-ness of led and red, and the fact that we learn red much earlier than led.
