>game has a puzzle that is impossible to complete without being a member of a club

>>714830534 (OP)
2 down is venti.

>>714830534 (OP)
58 down is god

Shit like this is why crosswords suck so hard. The "hints" are always like 2 words long.

>>714830534 (OP)
OI where'd you get that puzzle? You're not part of the club!

>>714830534 (OP)
42 horizontal is jizz

now here's a crossword with some chest hair

>>714831128
LA times crossword isn't so bad. monday/tuesday/wednesday are quite basic, it's not until thursday/friday that the difficulty gets amped up. saturday is mean and sunday is just big, but mostly monday~wednesday difficulty. most of the difficulty comes from figuring out the editor/writer in how they structure the clues and what they mean. stuff like abbreviations in a clue lead to abbreviations in the answer, question marks denote puns or other diagonal thought processes, asterisks tend to denote a theme throughout the current crossword, capital letters of words often denote proper nouns.
don't get me wrong, there will be a bunch of answers that you straight up will not know until you look it up (proper knowns, boomer trivia, etc) or solve it via crosswords. but oftentimes they'll use that word or name often enough that you'll remember it in the future. there's also lots of jewish cultural references (food, holidays, names) in LA times crossword (and probably NYT, but I haven't done one of those in a while), so be prepared for that.

as a reference, OP's crossword is pretty obtuse even as someone who does them every single day. I legitimately have to agree with OP's greentext in this regard since LA times doesn't feel nearly as bizarre. but maybe boomer crosswords were just on a different level compared to the recent trend. however, there was an editor change in LA times crossword a number of years ago and that marked a noticeable nerf in difficulty from previous years. but there's a bigger gulf in difference between the easiest and the hardest so it's mostly a wash when you average it out.

>>714830534 (OP)
solved it. super easy.

>>714832154
I should add that my favorite crossword clue is:
Where the Sun and the Sky collide, for short?
_ _ _ _

WNBA
it's my favorite because it combines several the elements I alluded to in my post about reading the clue: capital letters, question mark, and a marked notation for the answer being abbreviated. I thought it was very clever, but it is definitely obtuse compared to 99% of the normal crossword clues that show up in LA times.

alright, maybe this one is a little easier

>>714833081
it's sonic!

>>714833081

>>714832837
yeah that's clever but no one knows wnba teams
>>714833081
pikachu!

17 hor pest?
14 vert length?
11 hor mu?
27 hor in?

come on guys, anyone gonna do these? I think they make something surprising

>>714834880
34 vert as
45 vert adv
this is really hard as an ESL
>>714835356
crosswords are better

>>714833081
Old man jerking off.
>>714835356
Woman with her legs spread?

>22 Best part of a crotch

>>714835463
17 vert posterior?

>>714830534 (OP)
i'm so out of it i thought the secret was that if you turn the grid upside down it looks like a cool skeleton guy

>>714835463
1 is "scatological"

>>714835615
penis

men only puzzle sorry

>>714837137
thanks, that would have been impossible for me. half of what I wrote down is probably wrong

What in the name of shill threads is this?

>>714837560
2 down is cunt

>>714837870
>everything i'm too retarded to understand is a shill

>>714838096
Stfu off my vidya board, shill.

>>714838085
updated, also I think 22 hor is cooch and 8 vert is thinks and 27 is obviously wrong
I have to go to sleep so do something about your thread faggot OP

>>714835356

>>714838658
>CRITICAL HIT!

>>714838341
you are indian

>>714837870

>>714839870
>Everyone who isn't posting at my le ebin pronzz xddd slide thread on the video games board is indian

>>714840027
I'm literally white you fucking retard

>>714833081

>>714840685
>I'm literally no manches white you pinche puta cabron

>>714840685
jeet hands typed this post

>>714840793
>I'm gonna, I'm gonna...I'M SLIIIIIIIIDING

>come back to see if someone solved another word
>subhumans spamming incoherent shit
where can I post crosswords? /bant/? doubt /tg/ allows them

>>714841013
I'm genuinely sorry. Let's continue

>>714840880
using an avatar is against the rules

Sage in all fields.

>>714841013
I'm genuinely sorry

>>714830534 (OP)
>Black ------
>Tha' no good -----

>>714841187
Umm.... oookaaaay?

>>714832154
I actually got interested when I heard nytimes had a crossword. I thought if you didn't get the hint there would be a link to an article that contained the word but that wasn't the case. Feels like such a missed opportunity for news agencies.

>ERIN

>>714840793
these hermitos have soul

>>714838658
>>714840734
great job puzzleheads you're doing amazing

>>714832837
My favorite of all time is the NYT for the day of the 96 election and they managed to get all the vertical clues to work for two answers for the big horizontal being "The lead story in tomorrows paper"

>>714842893
Now this, this is art