Deb Amlen
@debamlen
Humor writer, former New York Times Games columnist (Ret.) I may have helped you with the crossword.
Let’s see what happens when a retired crossword columnist with a grudge against LLMs tries to mess up a crossword -constructing AI by giving it insanely bad advice.
BATIKCRATIC: A society whose economic system is based on the exchange of wax-resistant dyed clothing.
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry, but I’m going to get out my popcorn and watch this go down.
OK, I’ll say it. I love the new portrait of the Obamas The artist, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, is immensely gifted. And maybe this is just the way I see things, but I truly wish she had placed the tree a few inches over so that I’m not focused on what looks like antlers on the president’s head.
Crosswordese Through the Ages: AGORA. Agora ruins just outside the Acropolis in Athens.
Crosswordese Through the Ages: The world’s first ETUIs. Knossos Architectural Museum
A brief and fairly negative Japanese restaurant review as written by Wyna Liu, editor of the NYT game Connections.
It’s just gone eight o’clock and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode.
When a scam text exchange turns into a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
GOATVALET: A person whose job it is to take your goat from you as you enter an establishment.
News headlines as written by Wyna Liu, editor of the NYT game Connections: “Cheese Calloway Arms Pepperoni” Subhead: “Brother of Iconic Musician Arrested For Selling Weapons to Pizza Topping Terrorist Organization”
News headlines as written by Wyna Liu, editor of the NYT game Connections: “Sticks, Glazes Punch Kiln” Subhead: Multiple injuries noted as fight breaks out among pottery supplies