#Devices in atomic clocks nyt crossword full

#Devices in atomic clocks nyt crossword full

Oh well, lucked out on a couple of guesses, so wouldn't have been full value for the victory anyway. Didn't know TAIKA, so just failed to pick up on the errant 'i' in my quick proof read. Was trying to think of an African country ending in 'i', and when I finally twigged on the desert, it ended up being SAHARi. Got interrupted by a grocery delivery, so no idea what my time was seemed a bit tougher than most Sundays. Thx Stephen, lots of fun with this one loved the theme, but didn't fully grok it! :) Defiance in the face of this common complaint from experienced solvers, and then doubling down, smacks of tin god despotism. clearly are not bound by long-standing tradition, but now it's as if we're being constantly pelted with dupes. Why don't these people ever take my perspective into consideration?Įven *I* found IM OK and IS IT OK another egregious break from the gradually-becoming-extinct-no-dupes-'rule'. Just a mean PPP cross at ROEG/RAE, especially since I never heard of either. It'd probably spark a renewed, refreshed, and reinvigorated crying jag, however. Yeah, he always goes by his last name first, but it's just to distract you from his complexion.ĭONT BE SAD is the kid brother of 'calm down' but not as infuriating, I'm guessing. The fill had some good stuff, but it really seemed like they went overboard on the Care to do the maths? No I don't.Įven though I grokked the mini-rebus, PPP-drenched theme once 3D and 7D were entered (thereby heading to the 70A revealer and knowing they'd both be rebused there - I can not be alone on this -), I did enjoy this overall. Shades (more like mini blinds) of the classic BOB DOLE/CLINTON crossword of 11/5/96, but I wonder if most people feel that strongly about their STAR WARS/STAR TREK preference. Good day.Īm I the only one who considers 'social media star' oxymoronic? No? If I am still misunderstanding this clue, please don't bother to fill me in, as I no longer care. I think of LOCUS as one point, but it seems that in math it can mean all the points 'satisfying a particular equation of the relation between coordinates'-so a parabola, for instance, can be a LOCUS. The other thing that baffled me was the LOCUS clue ( 31A: Points all around?). Here's University of Michigan English Professor Anne Curzan (with whom I went to grad school) explaining the curious history of the 'shimmy' / 'shinny' confusion. Or perhaps no longer a mistake, but an accepted conflation. I would've said you SHIMMY up a pole, but that's apparently a famous mistake ( 72A: Climb (up) = SHINNY). I had TRUISM (?) before THEISM (59A: Capital-B Belief) and CORER before PARER (4D: Apple device), and I needed some crosses to get ANDERS (32A: Celsius of the Celsius scale), but otherwise I just flew through this. I am doomed never to remember what MASERS are, but luckily crosses bailed me out there as well. Some names that meant nothing to me (a 'social media star' (:/), a 'Gossip Girl' actor), but the crosses were so easy I barely noticed them. Masers are used as the timekeeping device in atomic clocks, and as extremely low-noise microwave amplifiers in radio telescopes and deep space spacecraft communication ground stations. Townes, Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov were awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical work leading to the maser. Word of the Day: MASERS ( 98D: Devices in atomic clocks) -Ī maser ( / ˈ m eɪ z ər/, an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation ) is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through amplification by stimulated emission. HAN SOLO (38A: Major role in 70-Across).THE FEDERATION (115A: Good side in 70-Across).REBEL ALLIANCE (25A: Good side in 70-Across).'SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER' (17D: Memorable quote from 70-Across).'DO OR DO NOT, THERE IS NO TRY' 3D: Memorable quote from 70-Across).THEME: Sci-fi Showdown: theme pivots on an apparent single answer to a question: 70A: The better of two major sci-fi film franchises, but it's a Schrödinger's Puzzle where both ' STAR WARS' and ' STAR TREK' work with the crosses also there is random symmetrical 'SW' and 'ST' content, sigh: