Screen capture from the Boswords tournament standings, with me 1 position behind Erik Agard, editor of Apple's crosswords after holding that position for USA Today.
Geez, he's got to be solving downs-only or something; no way this makes sense otherwise.
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Week 4: clean score (rhyme time)
clear time was over 10 minutes but that puzzle was difficult to me! I'm just glad I didn't give up.
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Oof, I wonder how many folks in the #Boswords #WinterWonderSolve lost their perfect game on the last puzzle's 25/29 intersection. Not saying there are two right answers, but the wrong one looks awful right!
Clean in 11:37 for the week 9 "Championship" #Boswords puzzle. Honestly was expecting Paolo Pasco to make me cry here as he would regularly do so late in the week on the Atlantic minis.
Clean in 7:09 for #Boswords week 8. Not exactly saying the stormy clues were easy, but there wasn't a whole lot of friction.
Still, that means we're ending with Paolo Pasco next week and I'm expecting that to kick my ass.
Clean in 13:13 for #Boswords week 7. Tricky!
Clean in 8:44 (stormy) for #Boswords week 6. Pretty decent.
Clean in 8:03 (Stormy) for #Boswords week 5, and, honestly, smooth enough that I wondered if I was on the right difficulty level at times.
Clean in 13:35 (Stormy) for #boswords week 4. NE took a bit.
Pretty decent - clean solve on Stormy in 11:18 for #Boswords week 3, pretty dang smooth although the NE required some fiddling.
Better - clean solve in 11:49 for #Boswords week 2, the last couple minutes getting the SW corner right.
Oof, 2 letters/3 words wrong during #Boswords week 1, and how I did groan when I saw them.
I missed the top 10 by 5 points, but I finished at a very respectable 11th out of 90 in-person solvers with ZERO mistakes (which was my goal). Thanks, @boswords.bsky.social for another great tournament!!
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The top of a white clipboard branded with The Boston Globe Games Boswords.
Spending my Sunday afternoon solving puzzles with some fabulous humans. #Boswords #Crosswords. 🧵
#Boswords spring themeless league week nine/"championship" - clean solve in 10:21 using "stormy" clues. No errors, and all told, about 54th place out of roughly 300 during the regular season, which is much better than I usually manage!
#Boswords spring themeless league week eight - clean solve in 8:31 using "stormy" clues. I believe this is my first error-free "regular season"!
Very late with #Boswords spring themeless league week seven (week eight is tonight) - clean solve in 10:43 using "stormy" clues. Still no errors, so hopefully it counts!
#Boswords spring themeless league week six - clean solve in 9:01 using "stormy" clues. Slow start but still no errors!
#Boswords spring themeless league week five - clean solve in 8:00 using "stormy" clues. Had to cross my fingers a bit on the very center square.
#Boswords spring themeless league week four - clean solve in 9:55 using "stormy" clues. No errors yet!
#Boswords spring themeless league week three - clean solve in 8:30 using "stormy" clues. Still got my asterisk!
#Boswords spring themeless league week two - clean solve in 12:46 using "stormy" clues. Maybe a little less tense when you're solving at 10:30pm after a movie than right with everyone else, or maybe this was just a smooth puzzle.
#Boswords spring themeless league week one - clean solve in 9:59 using "stormy" clues. Very nearly let a wrong answer through, though!
Ugh, 11:45, one error on #Boswords #Winterwondersolve puzzle #4 (Blizzard Clues), and, look, I can't be expected to know/care about a football coach's name.
12:28, no errors for #Boswords #WinterWondersolve puzzle #3 (almost Sunday-sized); round 2 standings have me at about top 25%, which is my usual/ceiling.
5:57, no errors for #Boswords #WinterWondersolve puzzle #2!
6 minutes, no errors for the first puzzle in the #Boswords #WinterWondersolve!
Aw, nuts. No errors in #Boswords through eight weeks, three wrong letters/five wrong words for tonight's championship puzzle.
Arrived late for #Boswords Week One, but still got a clean finish in 8:50 to watch the rest of the stream.
Just completed my first #crossword tournament at #boswords. What a journey it has been since last year when I discovered the joy in solving those puzzles. A huge thank you to all the organizers and puzzle constructors for putting this together!
