Barnyard Bundles Daily Themed Crossword (2024)

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What is the hardest day New York Times crossword puzzle clue? ›

The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty.

A bale is a bound-up bundle, usually made of hay. When you drive past a farm in the fall, you'll often see bales of hay scattered across the fields.

How to determine a crossword puzzle's theme? A crossword's theme is typically revealed in the puzzle's longest answers. Once you find some commonality, it can provide insight into other answers.

Snowball is depicted as an intellectual white pig whose leadership, dedication, and feats for Animal Farm is unparallel to any others on the farm, however he is rivaled by Napoleon who has hatred for Snowball.

The Monday crosswords are the easiest, and the puzzles get harder as the week goes on. Practice on the Mondays before pushing yourself to Tuesday puzzles. The Saturday crossword is the hardest of the week. Contrary to popular belief, Sunday puzzles have the difficulty level of a midweek crossword.

Clues should reflect the difficulty of the puzzle. Our difficulty scale increases through the week, with the easiest puzzles on Monday and hardest on Saturday.

Hayloft or haymow – Many old barns were designed to store hay or straw in an upper “loft” area for livestock housed below. Haylofts are also called haymows. In this word, “mow” rhymes with “cow” and means a pile of hay, grain, or the place where they are stored. Ladders – How do you get to the hayloft in an old barn?

The two types of alfalfa hay will look different from each other, but rest assured they are both alfalfas. Type 1 hay is characterized by bright green leaves and sprouts. It's a “fresh” hay that will look very different from Type 2 alfalfa hay. Type 2 tends to look more like dry straw than fresh alfalfa.

A windrow is a row of cut (mown) hay or small grain crop. It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled. For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mowing machine or by scythe into a row, or it may naturally form as the hay is mown.

Tackle the easiest clues first.

Scan through the clues, and knock out all the easiest ones. Not only will this give your gameplay some structure, but also it'll give you an ego boost! Typically, fill-in-the-blank clues are the easiest. For example: “___ of Oz.”

What is a whirl of water? ›

flow in a circular current, of liquids. synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirl.

Gray - Letters entered in pencil mode. Blue - Letters that have been confirmed with Check.

Eventually, a van arrives to take Boxer away for treatment, but Benjamin reads "Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler" on the side. Clover yells at Boxer to run away; Boxer tries to kick his way out but is too weak to escape.

Napoleon's fathering of the 31 piglets suggests how saturated with his image and presence the farm has become.

We are introduced to most of the farm animals: Benjamin, the cynical donkey; Boxer and Clover, two dumb, yet hard-working horses; Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer, three cunning pigs; and Jessie and Blue Bell, two dogs.

The Saturday crossword is actually the hardest puzzle of the week. Mondays have the most straightforward clues and Saturday clues are the hardest, or involve the most wordplay. Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday puzzles are midweek difficulty, not the hardest. They're just bigger.

The New York Times Crossword increases in difficulty from Monday to Saturday. The Sunday puzzle is approximately on the same difficulty level as the Wednesday or Thursday puzzle, and is larger than other daily puzzles.

Puzzle hack: Don't waste time puzzling over clues that you can't solve right away. Pick out the easier clues – what you know and fill-in-the-blanks clues – and solve those first. tl;dr: Check your answer by seeing if you can correctly fill in the other entries that cross it.

As you go, Connections should get easier. Once you've grouped one category, you have fewer words to choose from for the remaining three, and so on and so forth, until the game is over and you've won.