With 56A, the surface read of "move to the beat" would be dancing, as you say, but the answer, PULSATE, refers to what arteries do - they move to the heartbeat.
NYT needs to work on how auto check feature works with rebuses. It accepted what the rebus should be with a single letter instead of the intended letter combination and that made parts of my puzzle make no sense.
As frustrating as seeing the same gimmes over and over, I get that they are just needed to make the fill, but I would really like it if the editor would make some kind of effort to make sure we're not getting the same non-fill answer multiple times in a week. I swear XMAN was in a puzzle just a few days ago. It seems like it is happening more and more. Maybe it's just me bothered by this, but if I'm giving the same answer several times in a row, it really makes these puzzles less fun.
I'm always disheartened that there are endless Americanisms that I have never heard of - today's was jonesing something. I have never encountered that in the UK nor noticed it in US programmes but I've stopped watching those now. I've been waiting for a while now for sledge to come up in the NYT crossword but on checking Merriam Webster it seems that Americans only use SLED. Sledging is even a cricketing term in the UK - meaning the verbal abuse of a batsman by the opposing side to put him off his game.
With 56A, the surface read of "move to the beat" would be dancing, as you say, but the answer, PULSATE, refers to what arteries do - they move to the heartbeat.
this is like the 3rd time ive ever solved a puzzle with rebus in it lol i was actually so hyped i got it ^.^ !!
I struggle with rebuses as well but it's so fun when it clicks!
Nice solve. As usual, anything past Tuesday is beyond my patience. I learned a few things. Rebus multiplies difficulty.
NYT needs to work on how auto check feature works with rebuses. It accepted what the rebus should be with a single letter instead of the intended letter combination and that made parts of my puzzle make no sense.
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FYI. Sine Qua Non = without which, nothing. Mean8n something absolutely required.
As frustrating as seeing the same gimmes over and over, I get that they are just needed to make the fill, but I would really like it if the editor would make some kind of effort to make sure we're not getting the same non-fill answer multiple times in a week. I swear XMAN was in a puzzle just a few days ago. It seems like it is happening more and more. Maybe it's just me bothered by this, but if I'm giving the same answer several times in a row, it really makes these puzzles less fun.
I'm always disheartened that there are endless Americanisms that I have never heard of - today's was jonesing something. I have never encountered that in the UK nor noticed it in US programmes but I've stopped watching those now.
I've been waiting for a while now for sledge to come up in the NYT crossword but on checking Merriam Webster it seems that Americans only use SLED.
Sledging is even a cricketing term in the UK - meaning the verbal abuse of a batsman by the opposing side to put him off his game.