This past Sunday’s NYT crossword on iOS

July 9, 2020 6:57 PM

I need help figuring out how to input the fun Sunday answers! Spoilers inside.

The grey boxes get “tick” vertically and “box” horizontally but how in hell do you I put those both into the iOS app? I know about the rebus key on the keyboard, but I can’t figure out what I’m supposed to do with it.

posted by chesty_a_arthur to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (6 answers total)

Best answer: Oh I had trouble with this too! The rebus entry is just “box” in all the grey boxes- the theme answer tells you to tick the boxes, i.e. turn the boxes into ticks.
posted by MadamM at 7:06 PM on July 9, 2020 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I filled it in with “tick” as the rebus for every theme answer, figuring the “box” was represented by the grey letter square. The app also read that as correct.
posted by rabbitbookworm at 7:10 PM on July 9, 2020 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Ack awesome!! Thanks, rock stars!
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 7:11 PM on July 9, 2020

Ha! I went through and carefully typed “tick box” into all the squares and that definitely wasn’t correct!
posted by MadamM at 7:15 PM on July 9, 2020 [1 favorite]

You can use a slash to separate across and down entries. For example, this is what I did: BOX/TICK

(Apparently, you can also just use the first letters, for example B/T, but that hurts my brain so I don't do that.)
posted by rakaidan at 8:42 AM on July 10, 2020

Man I did TICK/BOX and it was a big pain and I wish I'd known I could just write one or the other
posted by babelfish at 8:49 AM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]