NYS Nits

[rhu]

Today it's the NYSun's turn to feel my wrath. (Ok, maybe just my minor irritation.)

Mon, 12D: {Make amends for} for ATONE -- shouldn't that be {Make amends (for)}?

Mon, 38D: {Part of NIMBY} for NOTIN --- The partial doesn't bother me, but I'd feel better if it were {Parts of NIMBY} (Hmmm... "The Rats of NIMBY"?)

Wed, 71A: {Undergrad MIT degrees} for BSS. No, no, no, no, no! They are SB degrees, because MIT insists on using Latin for two things: the name of the degree and the school motto. This is not the first time Peter has made this mistake. [Yes, I have an SB in Humanities. Ironic, no?]


I wonder (but not in a snarky way, in a "I'm curious about how things work" way): who edits and fact-checks Ogden Porter's puzzles?

Comments

[qaqaq.livejournal.com]

The "part" one doesn't bother me. I suppose you could say that NIMBY is made up of five individual "parts", but you could also just think of "part" in the more general sense of "section" or "segment", which could be any length. (1415 is part of the decimal expansion of pi, for example.) I don't see anything unnatural about that.

I agree about ATONE and didn't know about the MIT-inappropriateness of the other. (And no, I'm not one of the testers/checkers.)

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I know that "part of NIMBY" is defensible, I just didn't care for it. Had it been the only issue I had with the cluing on that puzzle, I probably wouldn't have even circled it.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Any idea why he would pick MIT of all places? Why specify one of the few places that makes the clue wrong? (I haven't seen the puzzle, so maybe it's part of the theme.) But, yeah, as a fellow MIT SB-in-Humanities ... -ite? ... I would've screamed, too.

[ennienyc.livejournal.com]

Peter went to MIT.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Perhaps I'll drop him a line asking why, then.