Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. The NY Times CAN sop up spills just as well as paper towels or any other newspaper, though the Village Voice is free in Manhattan, so therefore cheaper and more expendable than the NY Times for Manhattanites. And you can still salvage the crossword puzzle anyway, before reserving the rest for spill sopage. And in case nothing spills, while waiting for a spill, you can look inside and see what idiocies they are spouting today.
yes but
i am suffering from Idiocy Overload
so
the NYTimes (after crossword extraction) can GTH