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[ManaByte]

Yes, this is real. And look at 58 across.

The author of this crossword puzzle:

 

[SJRB]

This is really out of mein Kampfert zone

 

[The Cockatrice]

lol

 

[Skyfox]

 

[Rentahamster]

Some Theme’s Missing

Ryan McCarty’s puzzle takes us on a slippery Sunday spin.

www.nytimes.com

SUNDAY PUZZLE — Ryan McCarty of Washington, D.C., is a principal consulting manager at a company specializing in data analytics for clients in the federal government. He is also a baritone in several vocal ensembles. Weekend solvers will be very familiar with his name, even though this puzzle is Ryan’s Sunday debut. This is his 23rd Times puzzle, and nearly every one has been a Saturday themeless construction.

He started this grid in the middle and worked his way out, stirring in a heap of fresh, lively vocabulary, including 20 debut entries.

I love the geometry in this puzzle — so many stair steps! — and feel that it contributes to a certain evenness in the solve.

Constructor Notes​

Thrilled to have my first Sunday puzzle in The Times! This grid features one of my favorite open middles that I’ve made as it pulls from a variety of subject areas. I had originally tried to make it work in a 15x15 grid but then decided to expand the grid out to a Sunday-size puzzle with a fun whirlpool shape. Hope you enjoy!

NYT got trolled, probably.

 

[Skyfox]

58 across - Boxcars? I don't get this reference

 

[ManaByte]

58 across - Boxcars? I don't get this reference

 

[Skyfox]

I have no idea. Sorry?

 

[Skyfox]

I'm afraid to google

 

[SJRB]

I have no idea. Sorry?

One could argue it's a Holocaust reference where the Nazis transported millions of Jews to concentration camps using boxcart trains.

 

[Skyfox]

Ok, gotcha

 

[Rentahamster]

This isn't even the first time, too. This happened before in 2017, but arguably it looks less swastikly than this one.

 

[Doom85]

 

[DeepEnigma]

The psyop is real.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Good job NYT. Cant even get a crossword right.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Miyamoto-sama has some splainin to do

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Imagine being an alien watching humans focus on a story like this.

 

[AV]

It's GOING to be a maze.

 

[RoboFu]

Miyamoto-sama has some splainin to do

Look up Manji

 

[JayK47]

No way this is a coincidence.

 

[Kadve]

Miyamoto-sama has some splainin to do

That's an normal Swastika though (in this case the Japanese version, known as Manji as stated above) as prominent in various religions. The one the Nazi used was the diagonal variation.

Can be seen for example on this Hindu shrine in Bali.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Look up Manji

That's an normal Swastika though (in this case the Japanese version, known as Manji as stated above) as prominent in various religions. The one the Nazi used was the diagonal variation.

Can be seen for example on this Hindu shrine in Bali.

(Look up jokes)

 

[lachesis]

Easy way to differentiate Manji and Swastika is how Manji’s direction flows clock wise - and Swastika flows counter clockwise. One is natural flow (Good) and the other is opposite. (Bad)

Something I learned reading a manga, Phoenix King back in 80s (about occultism and exorcism, no less). Lol

But what a oof from NY times…

 

[Mistake]

Easy way to differentiate Manji and Swastika is how Manji’s direction flows clock wise - and Swastika flows counter clockwise. One is natural flow (Good) and the other is opposite. (Bad)

Something I learned reading a manga, Phoenix King back in 80s (about occultism and exorcism, no less). Lol

But what a oof from NY times…

I’ve seen both in china at the buddhist temples. Maybe it’s more commonly one way in Japan? I don’t know. I think being diagonal is the key difference

 

[Tams]

Nah, naziing it.

 

[Tams]

Though being serious:

Easy way to differentiate Manji and Swastika is how Manji’s direction flows clock wise - and Swastika flows counter clockwise. One is natural flow (Good) and the other is opposite. (Bad)

Something I learned reading a manga, Phoenix King back in 80s (about occultism and exorcism, no less). Lol

But what a oof from NY times…

Manji and swastikas are the same thing. They can flow in both directions.

In Sanskrit, the left flowing one is bad luck, etc. and called 'aswastika'* and the clockwise one is the 'swastika'* which represents good luck, etc.

I'm unsure about it in Japanese, but they use the left flowing one for temples on maps, and they wouldn't use something meaning bad luck for that.

Here is a good article on it:

manji 卍, "Swastika" - Meaning in Anime

The swastika, or manji 卍, meaning in Japanese culture, usage examples.

www.japanesewithanime.com

*Westernised spelling

 

[Lunarorbit]

There's been way too much shit happening the last decade plus at nyt that this wasn't an accident.

 

[Kraz]

In my experience of occultism the direction of the swastika can be likened to that of apparent and true motion in astronomy.

I read somewhere that the one in some Native America traditions is a spinning log. It didn't specify direction.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[lachesis]

Though being serious:



Manji and swastikas are the same thing. They can flow in both directions.

In Sanskrit, the left flowing one is bad luck, etc. and called 'aswastika'* and the clockwise one is the 'swastika'* which represents good luck, etc.

I'm unsure about it in Japanese, but they use the left flowing one for temples on maps, and they wouldn't use something meaning bad luck for that.

Here is a good article on it:

http://[URL]https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2020/06/swastika.html?m=1

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*Westernised spelling

I see - didn't know that.
I always thought Swastikas was a modified cross (as we call it iron-cross), probably learned that from history class back in the college.
I rarely saw reverse Manji in real life though - but perhaps people were making conscious effort to use the regular Manji.
Then again, Japan was also an axis country which tends to either hide or justify their invasion of their neighbors, so....

 

[March Climber]

(Look up jokes)

Sadly, people like Kadve are necessary in today’s world for the dummies who take jokes seriously.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

One could argue it's a Holocaust reference where the Nazis transported millions of Jews to concentration camps using boxcart trains.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Sadly, people like Kadve are necessary in today’s world for the dummies who take jokes seriously.

 

[Kadve]

Sadly, people like Kadve are necessary in today’s world for the dummies who take jokes seriously.

And you know. This is a written discussion. Hard to know whether someone is being sarcastic or not without tonal shifts.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

And you know. This is a written discussion. Hard to know whether someone is being sarcastic or not without tonal shifts.

Trigger warnings for tonal shifts (or sarcasm).

 

[Nobody_Important]

What the fuck? How does this make it all the way to print with nobody raising their hand and saying "Hey guys maybe we don't print the giant Swastika?"


Also wtf at those clues.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

What the fuck? How does this make it all the way to print with nobody raising their hand and saying "Hey guys maybe we don't print the giant Swastika?"


Also wtf at those clues.

Why do you think anyone working there knows what a Swastika is? A bit elitist, eh?

 

[Spaceman292]

58 across - Boxcars? I don't get this reference

This guy probably works for NYT

 

[Nobody_Important]

58 across - Boxcars? I don't get this reference

Think very carefully about the clue in the context of the Swastika.

 

[Skyfox]

Calm your tits. I just wanted clarification on the term.

 

[LimanimaPT]

Sorry, am I missing something? I googled "boxcart" and it returned nothing about nazis and jews. Isn't this like: "vehicle that moves on tracks". "Hey, that's a nazi refence because jews were transported by train".

Sorry if I'm missing this, maybe it's a language problem...

Edit: ha!! The swastica in the puzzle!! I totally missed that!