Sunday: "From the Astronaut's Logbook" - 5 May 2024 New York Times Crossword

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[@SethWilson]

Shoutout to William Shatner’s cover of ROCKETMAN :)

[@BrianSpurrier]

I think the reason you didn’t immediately see “Gather-ing” was because you might have been thinking of the Ingenuity helicopter that was attached to the Perseverance rover.

[@timegentleman]

From Wikipedia: Sega was established by two American businessmen in Hawaii in 1946 as Service Games, providing coin-op games to military bases. After the US government outlawed slot machines in its territories in 1952, they established Service Games of Japan in Tokyo. A couple of years later, they first used the name Sega, an abbreviation of Service Games, on a slot machine.

[@stephengiblin4684]

74A - DEAN - the Temple referred to in the clue is Temple University located in Philadelphia, not a religious building.

[@bluji1250]

54-across: it was a crossed-over speaker emoji!

[@timegentleman]

Terrible choice of image there, I could barely tell what it was on my 65" telly!

[@PassingSeagull]

@@timegentleman They must have updated the emoji, Chris's looked awful but the one in mine was perfectly reasonable

[@spiltcoffee7093]

I shocked myself with this one, did pretty well for a sunday

[@chazmartdesigns4308]

I didn’t see the sequential story aspect.

[@parkerschneeberger2324]

True disc golfers never call them frisbees

[@xntriq]

31:07 Chris.exe stopped working 😅

[@cookingforsingles]

Did Chris mention that the puzzle is rocket shaped? It jumped out at me because I wasn't wearing my glasses 😳

[@timegentleman]

Yes, at 21:20.

[@SerbiaMapper-yh7gq]

First😂