Let's be a Crossword Puzzle

I am a ewer

I am “GPS in England.”

I am SATNAV.

I am a lea

I am the Otoes

I'm ecru

I am a four-letter clue for a city in Oklahoma.

I’m a three-letter clue for the actress who plays the middle Brady sister.

I’m the question mark following a clue, hinting that the answer is a pun.

R6, I was born in that city and till I started doing the NYT crossword last year I had no idea how often they trot it out.

Hi Enid!

I’m a four letter college town in Iowa.

I’m “yes” for Pedro.

During downtime, I was playing a game with a co-worker where we had to name a city or state on the basis of the last letter of the prior entry. My colleague, a Southern transplant was running through all the Southern towns ending with “ville.” I hadn’t known they were so prevalent. By this time, I had - I thought - exhausted all my go-to “E” cities & cried uncle. Then another co-worker through me a lifeline: “A 4-letter city in Oklahoma.” So disappointed in myself, I yelled out an anguished, “Enid.”

I get progressively more difficult throughout the week, culminating in my Saturday offering. Many think that my Sunday grid is the most challenging, but Sunday’s degree of difficulty is generally regarded to be the equal of what I offer on Wednesday.

I’m ZaSu Pitts.

I’m the 575th clue for “Oreo”

I’m a Pennsylvania lake port town. Can you guess?

I’m “abysm.”

I’m very controversial.

I'm Lena Olin.

I'm Idi Amin.

I'm oleo

I'm the opposite of SSW or conversely, the opposite of NNE.

I’m the music producer of Bowie, Talking Heads & U2

I'm the convenient Roman numeral trotted out to fill space.

I'm an ETUI!

Put your pins in me!

I'm an OBI!

Wrap your kimono with me!

I'm Fred Ebb

I am a flightless bird

I’m an asp 🐍

I'm an epee

I’m bereaved Beatle widow 😱

It’s hard to make a living constructing crosswords, but you’ll manage to eke it out!

I’m the editor, trying to come up with novel ways to describe “OREO” and “EL AL,” as they are legally required to appear in every goddamned puzzle.

I’m “no” for Pierre.

I'm Golden Girl ___ Arthur.

I’m a Swedish pop palindrome

I'm APE

I’m two across.

I am priestly garb or camelhair fabric.

I'm the impossible clue to get, and you think "do people really know this or am I a moron?"

I'm eel and olé.

I’m the New York Times crossword. I’m not for the likes of you.

I'm Mel OTT, the ALOU brothers, and other baseball greats with short surnames that are remembered by countless people thanks to the NYT crossword puzzle.

I'm the sound one makes when they see a mouse.

I'm I.M. Pei.

I’m a poet aka an ODE writer.

I'm a ..., or a hint to the starred clues.

I’m Ana Alicia. I’ve been replaced by Ana De Armas

[quote] I'm Mel OTT, the ALOU brothers, and other baseball greats with short surnames that are remembered by countless people thanks to the NYT crossword puzzle.

Enos Slaughter!

I'm either ALAS or AH ME. The clue's the same, so you'll have to work out another letter to know which I REALLY am.

I'm the horrific Mad Libs-esque NYT crossword experiment of August 29, 2023, and all the threatened subscription cancellations.

I;m the 576th, r16. I appeared today!

I’m a letter from the Greek alphabet.

I'm part 2 of the quote.

I truly appreciate this thread.

I'm one of the multiple-letter-squares from the Thursday puzzle that fits the theme.

R54 And I either hate you or love you.

I'm Ava Gardner. I've been replaced by Ava DuVernay. I'll be sitting over here by my pal Ada Lovelace.

I was just going to mention the Ava’s.

I'm a long and horizontal answer, which for some reason makes me easier to solve than long and vertical.

It's threads like this that make me subscribe for another month.

I’m the lovely symmetry of the black squares.

I’m a mineral deposit.

I'm spine tingling.

Nice to see that so many of us do crossword puzzles!

Had this recently... "_____ pretty" As a gay man who has performed in theatre and has many Sondheim's recordings, I felt like an idiot the next day when I learned the answer was "I FEEL"

Almost turned in my gay card!

You’ll feel even worse if you try to solve any of Sondheim’s crosswords, R66. He was brutal.

I solved the most difficult puzzle used in the American Crossword Puzzle tournament. The contestants had 30 minutes (and the vast majority did not complete it). It took me more than 90 minutes, but I did it.

Did the winner need the whole 30 minutes?

I do the NYT crossword puzzle Thurs-Sat with (usually) a goodly amount of success, but I’m largely stumped by the Saturday Newsday puzzle.

I don’t know, r69. Probably not.

I don't work the NYT crosswords on Mon-Tues as they're too easy for me now, so I do The New Yorker's crosswords on those days. Some of the same constructors the Times uses, but some of the answers can be a bit racy sometimes (not that I mind). I always enjoy Natan Last's puzzles, even though I don't often know some of the rappers or poets he mentions, so I just work around those answers until they're filled in. Educational! (Of course, I forget them immediately.)

On topic: I'm SInger Sumac.

Nothing personal, but I hate you, r18.

Hi! We’re your variant spellings, like EMEER and TIPI!

You’ll see us when your puzzlemaker needs a lazy shortcut.

I’m 24 Across: “Opposite of 13 Down”

I’m 13 Down: “Opposite of 24 Across”

We’re here to fuck up your day.

And I’m “SRTA,” the Spanish cousin of “MLLE.”

I am a common puta, because I am everywhere.

Gen. Bradley 4 letters.

Lot's wife

I'm Merl, crossword puzzle constructor extraordinare.

I’m Thursday’s NYT puzzle within a puzzle crossword that makes people lose their minds when they have to use the REBUS key.

I'm Spelling Bee, the crossword puzzle's redheaded cousin. I reject perfectly legitimate "problematic" words like "whore," as well as widely used scientific terms that are liberally sprinkled throughout the crossword puzzles.

Also -- I'm "Icee" and Eugene T. Maleska.

I’m for whom Argentina is not to cry.

I'm Patti LuPone

I'm Candy Bergen

[quote]Hi! We’re your variant spellings, like EMEER and TIPI!

I'm your French friend... Amee

I’m Egad, I was replaced by “Oh Fuck” about 100 years ago

I am "stoat"

*giggle*

I’m ent

I’m Esau, bow bitches! I lived in another era eons ago.

Eat my Esau, I’m in more puzzles and I have more Oscars than you could ever dream of

Eat my ass Esau*

😱 I killed another thread

I’m the cryptic crossword, with no need for all of these Will Shortz nonsense words.

I’m “___ Maria.”

[quote]I'm APE

But never as a primate!

Always as either "copy" or "imitate."

I’m that young star you don’t know from that show you don’t watch.

I'm an aper, meaning I imitate people

I suffer from boredom. I'm ENNUI.

I’m all the Star Wars & Star Trek references

Chalcedony

I'm Tbilisi.

Will Shortz is reading all this and planning his revenge

I'm a "oner" -- a virtually unused word that was the eel, the aper, the rhea, and the Icee of yesteryear when my father did the puzzle.

I’m Estee Lauder. My first name is more popular in crosswords than it ever was in real life.

I’m a creel.

I am Miss Lindsey _ _ _ _ _ _.

^I think when it’s a girl, it’s spelled with an “a”.

I am a dwarf buffalo.

I do my runway up and down sheer alpine mountains? ⛰️

^^ Not to be confused with the holly genus.

Fuck all of U and U can all lick my balls

Ibex?

I'm ades. Not to be confused with AIDS. I really look forward to those warm summer evenings, when I go on the porch and enjoy some lemonade, limeade, and my other favorite ades.

Dang R80 beat me to it, but yes, the anxiety of the Thursday puzzle…rebus or won’t they…and the cranky NYT commenters in either case.

I’m the Saturday NYT. Sunday may be the biggest, but I’m the most difficult. You’ll never see me coming.

r113 I'm "Words With Friends" and you are not an acceptable word around here.

Nyah..... nyah..... nyah.....

You are me, R82?!

I'm LSD, which pops up with alarming regularity.

[quote] I’m the Saturday NYT. Sunday may be the biggest, but I’m the most difficult. You’ll never see me coming.

[quote] I get progressively more difficult throughout the week, culminating in my Saturday offering. Many think that my Sunday grid is the most challenging, but Sunday’s degree of difficulty is generally regarded to be the equal of what I offer on Wednesday.

I’m the puzzle from 1996 in the archives that Boomers love to solve because there’s no clues about Disney movies or Game of Thrones.

^ Heaven

OREO

OLEO

I am “Direction from Cedar Rapids to Sioux City,” some other pair of minor cities that inevitably ends up as NNE…or sometimes SSE.

I suck.

I gave you stupid bitches a few fill-ins so you wouldn’t pull your hair out. NO MORE … for many eons

I’m a generational portmanteau.

*Kealoa

I’m the easy S on the plural clues.

^ 😍🥰😘

I’m today’s NYT puzzle’s TWO references to menstrual products.

One was more than enough.

Careful, r128

Menses

ARIES

I'm the crossword puzzle app on your phone. I'm lovely because I tell you right away if you put in a wrong answer.

^^^wrong LETTER, that is.

I’m Nick and Nora’s dog

I'm the clue "Nick at ____"

Aloha! I’m “Mauna ___”.

Most of the time, it’s “Loa,” but sometimes it’s “Kea,” ‘cuz I’m unpredictable.

I'm the answer to a clue that is comprised of the answers of two other clues.

I'm the smug satisfaction you get when you solve a clue that spans the entire width of the grid.

I hate all cross-referenced clues. Apparently constructors and/or editors think they’re cute.

I hate the 'spoken' clues like, "It's unclear" or "That being said..." One NYTimes puzzle within the last year had seven of them. "Bah ______."

r139 I'm the intense dislike for these types of clues.

I’m the comparison “er” and “est” clues that make solvers happy. I’m aiming to end with “ing” which creates euphoria.

I’m “earlap” because “earflap” wouldn’t fit.

I'm a four-letter word for an aftershave your grandfather used but is barely on the shelves anymore.

You'll see me in the NYT Crossword clues at least twice a week.

I'm a Ute!

I'm the "var." at the end of clue. You may know WHAT I am, but you've no idea how to SPELL me.

I’m the favorite instrument in the orchestra. At least in crosswords. I’m the lowly OBOE.

I’m foreign languages. I’m brought in when the puzzle maker finds himself in a k-hole. I come in on the Trojan horse of being sophisticated & worldly.

Put 2 or 3 of me in the same corner and it’s lights out except for Vaitst the Arkitek

Agra here, checking in.

Ural crazy

I’m Stiller’s comedy pal.

I’m useful when you need to pack three vowels into five letters.

I’m Esai Morales.

I’m your Google Newsfeed getting all confused by your NYT clue searches.

I’m Woody’s ex.