Tuesday: Best Wishes, Will Shortz - 5 March 2024 New York Times Crossword

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[@XanderWhat]

Logical fallacy, Empty Space, and Pig Sty can each be called a “hole”. There’s three of them, plus the Fruit Drink (a.k.a. Punch)… Three Hole Punch

[@CorneliusThroatworthy]

yeah, this seems to be how NYT's Sam Corbin interpreted it

[@TheRedsMan11]

Yep. Perhaps calling a dirty room a hole may be a regional colloquialism. I thought it was pretty straightforward that each of those were types of holes. (If only I could get the rest half as quickly as Chris...)

[@timegentleman]

20:27 Chris gets a response to his sneaky text "quick whats that film noir remake del toro did?"

[@jamesnisly9537]

I’ve seen the “barn dance” clue come up once before. I grew up attending these and I have never heard them referred to as a barn dance. They are square dances.

[@TomCee53]

Great, as always.
Get well, Will. 😢🙏🏻

[@SethPuzzles]

Nightmare Alley is probably what you're thinking of for the Guillermo Del Toro film!

[@Chanoey333]

I believe there's also a nod to the theme in the top left and bottom middle of the grid with the three "O's" representing three holes.

[@CorneliusThroatworthy]

could the logical fallacy clue also be a reference to ∴ which is the "therefore" symbol in logic - in other words, someone (wrongly) drawing a logical conclusion?

[@anyprophet]

i think THRU is simply about shortening the word so it can be as large as possible on the sign.

[@carmerossell]

You don't need to make the subject explicit in Spanish, either. Verb conjugation is enough. Redundancy can be expressive sometimes, I guess

[@seanahan]

Yeah, I struggled with that clue briefly because I was confused by the extra yo.

[@Hookokokkokoko]

What a weird theme. I've never really associated 'PIGSTY' as a hole, even in the 'messy room' definition.