Answers to This Week's 'Metropolitan Diary' Puzzle

Did you finish this week’s New York Times Metropolitan Diary puzzle yet? It’s a tricky and conceptual set of quizzes this week. Here is the answer key for the five puzzles it contains. Don’t cheat if you haven’t solved it yet!

1. Lonely woman drops thing in disgusting, dangerous spot, cannot get to thing, waits sadly for thing, no one will retrieve thing. Where is my thing, lonely woman has to wonder. It is right there, before me, and I cannot have it. Four days later, lonely woman returns to the site of the dropped thing, and it has been retrieved for her, and she smears it all over the keratinized stratified squamous epithelium of her face.

2. KIDS SAYS DARNDEST THING.

3. I OVERHEARD SOMETHING.

4. [Nonsensical; no answer.]

5. It’s sad being poor and/or old.