"Aslan" means "lion" in Turkish and other Turkic languages.
@Fact Boy Thanks, FB. I'll file that on my Foreign Feral Felines shelf right next to Singh.
No issues with the puzzle per se. But I’m having a hard time seeing the theme. I mean, sure, there is a loose theme here. But like, there could be so many themes that fit this revealer. Not a complaint. Ah, maybe it is. Just me. But kinda indifferent
I would have thought that the Decided in “Not yet Decided” would not be allowed for TBD. for TBC it would have been ok. Imagine KEN JENNINGS isn’t a person in your neck of the woods, TAKIS is not a brand anywhere you shop, AJA is unknown to you as are HOKA and KEGELS then you may consider this a fact loaded puzzle that is not easily solved by deduction from crosses. If you can imagine that then it was a Wednesday. Thankfully it could only be BEN or KEN and some surnames are guessable. The other K had to be run through the alphabet.
@Ιασων TBD stands for To Be Determined.
@Ιασων ...or DEN or JEN or LEN (and it's a first name crossing a brand name so these days that could be anything!).
@Ιασων My feelings too. Sometimes the US specific names, while absolutely pertinent to a US publication, can overload a puzzle, making it extra tricky for us overseas. The joy of the NYT crossword.
A tad tricky over here, what with all the US specific product/names scattered about. Before I get pelted with brickbats, yes, a US publication has every right to use the above, it’s just an extra layer of difficulty for the rest of us. Otherwise a fine puzzle, nice use of the Latin phrase. Still no rain here (the .5 mil we got Sunday did nothing) and none on the horizon. So far we’ve lost three young trees, all my blueberry plants, the raspberries and all the beans. We’ve even had huge limbs from quite ancient woodland trees come down. Good firewood but not a good sign. The water table must have shrunk massively for them to be so affected. Climate change? What climate change? Oy.
@Helen Wright Kind of the same situation here, but we’re supposed to get some good soaking rains today and tomorrow. Will try to send it your way.
@Helen Wright No rain in Paris since ??? I don’t remember. No fires here thank God but keeping those in Southwestern France and Spain in prayers.
@Helen Wright I might as well be living overseas again. I am never up on the candies, the chips, the junk food, the special coffees and teas, and the one time I ordered a POKE bowl (PF Chang's) I think the server forgot some items. Definitely no fish.
@Helen Wright if only someone had warned us about climate change. If only …
Two puzzles in a row that in my opinion work better as a light themeless. There’s what we call “tight” themes and then there’s this…unless I’m missing something? Seems like there are hundreds of general, historical or current figures that could say “I saw” “I came” or “I conquered” something. That said, despite the loose theme it makes a decent themeless. Thought the top was pretty easy but became more Wednesdayish as I headed down. So, a pleasant enough puzzle as it is although I wish there were more to the theme. Nice to see Ken Jennings referenced. It appears he has finally arrived. I’m reminded of an anecdote of a celebrity (I don’t remember who) who was excited because he was referenced in a Saturday puzzle. Someone told him, well you aren’t really famous until you are in an early week puzzle. So here’s Ken on a Wednesday, congrats, you really are a famous celebrity now!
@SP - Julius Caesar said it first and famously, in his brief report of a victory in Turkey.
Midi is impossible with a glitch. Only see one other comment complaining about it. There's some weird overlay
I thought this was a pleasant puzzle, although the theme was a bit of a stretch. Still any puzzle with NOSTRADAMUS at its heart is OK with me. I learned about NOSTRADAMUS in college from the song of the same name on Al Stewart’s album, Past, Present And Future. I was obsessed with the record and always played cuts from it on my radio show and tried to sneak quotes from the songs into my history exams. I wanted [Exhibits one of the seven deadly sins] to be adults.
@Marshall Walthew What a great song. Maybe someday he can play it at the Super Bowl halftime show.
“Pop in the Midwest” seems to be clued wrong. In the Midwest people do not say SODA, they say “pop”. I’m sure some will disagree—it’s not universally true—but where I come from (Nebraska) nobody says soda.
@Brett Same in Michigan. I was born here, but lived in various other places for many years. I knew I was back when I placed an order and the waitress asked, "You want pahp with that?"
@Brett I thought that sounded a little backwards, too—we say “soda” in NE and I thought “pop” was a Midwest thing.
@Brett I think it’s meant to be parsed the other way around - “pop” in the Midwest means “soda”, while it doesn’t have that meaning in some other areas
@Brett Everyone says SODA in St. Louis but pop is common in other parts of the state. As a kid we were in southern Missouri town diner and I asked for a soda. The server asked what kind to which I replied rootbeer. I remember being delightfully surprised when she returned with a rootbeer ice cream float.
@Brett Milwaukeean here, we said soda when I growing up.
A Natick sighting in the wild! Yesterday I was reading an NYT story about a couple of journalists who sued various arms of Ebay and its executives after they were viciously stalked and harrassed for writing stories that displeased the tech enterprise. They have now gained a settlement for tens of millions of dollars. And they live in Natick! Full gen here for free: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/ebay-settles-stalking-case.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.BBo0.zVMoXc-xdhG0&smid=url-share" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/ebay-settles-stalking-case.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.BBo0.zVMoXc-xdhG0&smid=url-share</a>
@SBK in TO A good read, thanks for highlighting it.
I rarely complain about puzzles but this was not my favorite. The clues were very Monday/Tuesday and not a single one made me smile or frown. I found it a mechanical exercise. Still, I appreciate the constructors' efforts. I know I couldn't do what they do.
@VN If you work enough puzzles, sooner or later your brain gets into a tilted groove, and answers can come easily. This wasn't a hard puzzle, but it had some nice cluing, a few red herrings, a couple of aha's (granted, mild), and it wasn't easy for everyone who tried to solve it. Finding the exact, perfect puzzle balance between the days of the week can never happen. There are idioms in the entries that some of our foreign friends might find baffling, and some names (AJA?) that I've never heard of, but it you knew every one of them without even trying, that's not a reason to complain. It just means you found it easier than you wanted it to be. This puzzle is entertaining, and very likely it was difficult enough for a lot of people in our host of solvers, who found it just right.
@VN - So, you came, you saw, you conquered.
They should have swapped this one for yesterday’s puzzle. This was too easy for Wednesday.
Cute. Fun. Liked the theme. I also veni vidi vici’d
It flew right over my head – twice. The theme answers began with “I came”, “I saw”, and “I conquered”, yet when I came to the revealer, not having read its clue, VENI VIDI VICI never entered my mind. When I finally read the revealer’s clue, starting with “Classic quotation”, and revealed the first two letters *then* the phrase hit me with a flash and a boom. But the English translation in the theme answer clues still hadn’t registered, and thus, when I reread those clues, there came boom number two -- and so for me this was a kapow puzzle. That pair of booms nixed any nits I might have otherwise had. I’m a believer. Little lifts along the way. The mention of challah evoked its marvelous-to-me look, aroma, and taste. The contradictory PuzzPair©️ of KEN JENNINGS and DENSE. Those three-, four-, and five-letter palindromes (AJA, NOON, RADAR). And the answer AMOR, which backwards adds to the theme VIBE. Ergo, this was, for me, a splendid outing. Thank you, Emily and Sala!
@Lewis I was STYMIED for a bit by wanting GIBE or JIBE instead of VIBE (which still doesn't quite ring for me.)
Fine puzzle. Does anyone else panic when they see this name in a puzzle: a_a or a_ _ a. I'm sure I've seen all of them multiple times solved by crosses, but I can't keep them straight. I can't even remember the names of my children...
Some will complain about KEN JENNINGS as the go-to choice for conqueror, but the world would definitely be a pleasanter, more peaceful place if all conquerors had Ken's non-confrontational personality. I could complain about choosing as your theme answers two specific people -- along with a no-name like PARTY CRASHER. But I guess I don't care all that much. You? My nomination for most inappropriate "!" of the year (!-O-Y?) can be found at 48A. I'm just not all that thrilled when you "roll the TAPE." I'm just not. Sorry. For me, EIRE/ERIN is a kealoa. I never know which is the one the puzzle wants. In the way it's clued, VIBE,JIBE was another kealoa for me today. I need VENI, VIDI, VICI to figure it out. It may not be perfectly wrought, but this puzzle provided me with enough Wed-level puzzlement to keep me happy.
@Nancy 48A: You (unsurprisingly) must not watch many sports reports. 66A: EIRE is the official Gaelic name for Ireland. ERIN is a poetic (and Anglicized) name for same. Usually, the clue gives you some indication of the latter.
Anyone else from the Midwest annoyed by the soda/pop clue? (It's pop!!!)
@hpe Well I grew up in Wisconsin, which is decidedly Midwest, and we decidedly called it soda.
@hpe, In SW Missouri, we called it “pop”. In St. Louis it may have been called “soda”.
@hpe Isn't that what the clue meant? Soda in the Midwest is called pop. Pop (in the midwest) is what soda is called. It was only parsed that way to be tricky.
@hpe In Oklahoma, weirdly, "soft drink" was the most common term when I grew up there. I always thought of Oklahoma as part of the Midwest. Of the states that border it, I think it resembles Kansas the most...mostly flat, lots of farmland, conservative, kind of laconic. Pretty much everyone else considers it either part of the South, the West, or just a somehow shabbier version of Texas.
@hpe Like SP, I grew up in the Milwaukee area and it was always soda. But I did have friends from Chicago land who always called it pop. And here in Minnesota it's generally pop. Still, I'll be team soda forever.
FWIW- I have a pair of Hokas. They’re comfy. But, I *crushed* my ankle two years ago and they filled it with titanium rods and screws. Doc said I’d always have a limp. Found Oofos shoes. Game changer. Have now bought 12 pairs (only five for me) and I’m buying more. I do still have a limp, unless I’m wearing Oofos. That’s all I got. Happy hump day all!
@CCNY Is there really a shoe brand named "Oofos"? Why haven't we seen Brian or Yoko wearing them in the puzzle yet?
@CCNY Glad they've helped you, but I'm puzzled. I went to the site and looked at clogs and mules. What's different about them from the other 20 pairs I own from Skechers and other brands?
@CCNY I love the Oocloog. They're great, but I can only wear them in the house because they're too wide, and I have super narrow feet. If I try to walk at my outdoor pace, they fly off my feet! If they came in a narrow width, I'd live in them. For outdoors, I have my Birks. I can stand in the kitchen cooking and baking for hours and my feet never get tired. They're so cushy, but still offer support.
Disappointingly direct, Monday clueing, without even the merest attempt at misdirection - I only struggled with the crossing of the guy's name, the sport person, and the musical title - and a tacked-on, random-ish theme. What a let-down on a Wednesday... (I finally remembered the Jeopardy contestant from memes)
@Andrzej You should add to your personal knowledge bank that the Jeopardy contestant is now the host of the show.
Remember when Sylvester Stallone had a long-standing role starring as bAMBi? He might have won an Oscar for it even... Yeah, me neither. Har! Sometimes my cursor isn't where I think it is and I put correct letters for one clue into wrong letters for another clue. Usually I catch these quickly, but today when I didn't immediately get my gold star, I looked it back over and realized the B and I from BRAID had gotten misplaced—changing RAMBO to bAMBi! 😂 As I mentioned yesterday, I'm a bit out of sorts about some work changes that I'm not keen on, so this was a welcomed hearty guffaw! Besides that funny mistake, I also really liked the puzzle! To me, it was a cute theme that made me chuckle when I got it. Found it enjoyable all around! And this born and bred Milwaukee-ish area is solidly Team Soda! Though here in MN, I hear pop mostly, and I had a lot of Chicago-land friends growing up who were also poppers.
@HeathieJ Thanks fellow Milwaukeean. Team soda here too
Mini, Midi, Mici? Can we call the big puzzle a Mici? Just being silly. Huge shout out to Christine from NYT Customer Support who worked with me to repair my streak after my app stopped syncing (confession: I was using a 2 year old version of the app because I didn't like it when the font went from bold to not-bold (still not used to it)). I had to re-solve all the July puzzles but darn it I got it done and all my blue stars turned to gold. Yay! 😍 I know not everyone loves streaks but after 672 days I gotta keep going!
@LPR You'd have to call the little puzzle a MENI. (I have thought the main puzzle should be called the MAXI.)
@Steve L Like skirt hems. Works for me.
ken jennings you will always be famous
Well, while I was trying to remember if it was jIBE or gIBE, I forgot all about VIBE. Also, I went back a little too far and had my Manchego coming from Sheep. Easily fixed, but added a little time on my solve. Otherwise, uneventful, but I thought the theme was cute. I didn't even notice that I came, I saw, I conquered was right there in the clues until the end. I'll never complain about MonTueWed being too easy because they're supposed to be. Come Thursday, though, watch out!
@Nancy J. I struggled in exactly those same two spots (gIBE/Sheep). At least I knew my KEGELS. Ooops! Gotta run . . .
FWIW, We thought this was a fine Wednesday puzzle.
@Michael D OK get over here and give me a hug Michael
Sala, Good news also is there was no blob covering your puzzle.
poem made from words in today’s puzzle a/ i saw 74 days into the future i saw ron howard in a french city in nevada i said (in french), ‘ron howard, d/ i love blue cheese, go shake up a bit of cheese… and may the cheese be a/ ripened!”
Nice puzzle! 20 seconds off a PB for me means it was on the easier side, but still enjoyable.
Fun puzzle today, good cluing in general and a fun theme. I didn't get until I read wordplay that each of the theme clues represented only one of "I came, I saw, I conquered" but I got KEN JENNINGS right away and other two had good crossings.
I haven't yet begun this puzzle, as my habit is to do the Mini first, an old Mini (working from the first forward, am in November 2016 now), and then do the Midi. But I can't do the Midi, for a huge blue and green thing has obscured the grid. I'd share a screen cap if I could. It can't just be me and my Google browser, can it?
HOKA seemed a bit obscure.
@Jeff P. Walk into any hospital in the US and you'd think the footwear was an epidemic.
@Jeff P. They're big with the opposite sex
@Jeff P. Walk around my neighborhood and you’ll see a lot of them. My husband swears by them. They’re really growing in popularity as a comfortable, supportive shoe, although they’re not necessarily the most attractive. And now that you know the name, I bet you’ll start noticing them, too.
@Jeff P. I bought my first pair of HOKAs (and speaking of "pair, I wanted 59D to be PANT) 15 years ago when my work had me standing for long hours. Now I'm retired and I still wear them every day. Comfy, supportive, solved my sore ankle problems. I should earn a commission.
@Jeff P. I didn't even notice that answer, since all the crosses were obvious. But now I've learned something for next time.
@Jeff P. I first heard of Hoka shoes a few years back. It was in the news when some Republicans tried to criticize Biden for wearing Hoka shoes. Since then, I have noticed Hokas on medical and caregiving staff, as teresa suggested.
I had a bad case of plantar faciatis in my left foot for about 4 months, and nothing helped. Tried steroid shots and physical therapy. It really hurt to walk. then a friend recommended Hoka shoes. I was better in 3 days!! I do buy black ones and take a black marking pen to the big white HOKA letters on the side. So I love the shoes, but don't like to pay money to do advertising for brands. I pretty much refuse to buy any clothes with a brand that shows. Sneakers are the exception, because you can't get anything without a brand name or logo.
I was thrown off when only two of the themers turned out to be proper nouns. I really wanted the third one to be, oh I don’t know, Odysseus maybe?? After all, he came uninvited in the Trojan horse... In any case, it's a me problem. My logic got derailed, that's all. But it was, overall, a pleasant solve, with interesting fill, and I enjoyed it. Nicely done, Emily and Sala! For a song, here are the Rolling Stones with "Angie"- <a href="https://youtu.be/RcZn2-bGXqQ?is=yqyleVfyHi4WqF4r" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/RcZn2-bGXqQ?is=yqyleVfyHi4WqF4r</a> (To be honest, the first song that came to mind was a José Feliciano one from the 70's with lyrics that go "ANGELA, do you really love me or is this a game you play..." Oh why oh why do I even remember songs I don’t like? Lol)
@sotto voce I had the same beef. I wanted an ID on that party crasher. Fred Karger? Tareq Salahi? Owen Wilson? Give me a name!
If anyone is concerned about whether 56D [Earthy tone] OCHRE is closer to wheat or straw or ecru or pumice or beige, they can consult Pantone, which is the Merriam-Webster of colors, (used by interior designers, etc.). By the way, Pantone says OCHRE is in the yellow family!! <a href="https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-1036-tpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqTwoHT2fDYG3MvztdiKmIg07Qhpizx7Dk5tj0HJnRF8AUvfJ4R" target="_blank">https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-1036-tpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqTwoHT2fDYG3MvztdiKmIg07Qhpizx7Dk5tj0HJnRF8AUvfJ4R</a>
@lucky13 I know it's an earthy yellow. My concern was whether it going to be OCHRE or OCHer.
Hi, @lucky13! As I filled in the clue, I thought of you, and our discussion of color terminology. Many of our more traditional color terms are actually the terms for the pigments used to produce them--for instance, "azure" is actually the color produced by ground lapis lazuli, which was a very costly pigment. "Ochre" refers to a whole family of pigments, and thus shades, based on clays, with varying degrees of iron-rich minerals--limonite, goethite, hematite. There are variants on pigments which have been roasted ("burnt ochre") or not ("raw ochre"). Some are named for the locales where the clays were mined--umber (Umbria), and sienna. So, more complex than our crayola 64-pack would lead us to believe! And the whole argument whether ochre is "yellow" or "brown" returns us to our basic color terms, and the vague boundaries between them!
@lucky13 At that site, you can pay $19 to get a large paper swatch, and you'll get it in a few days. Or you can send the page to your printer, and go to Lowe's for your paint today. Interesting.
@lucky13 Dirt comes in an amazing variety of colors.
So did Tuesday and Wednesday’s puzzles get accidentally switched around? Slightly too tough yesterday. Slightly too easy today.
@DW Only if you know what Takis is or who Ken Jennings, Aja is etc. not a puzzle which can be solved - you have to know the trivia.
@DW, Could be. Yesterday’s Wednesday-ish puzzle could have been purposely run on a Tuesday (ahchoo-sday) to fit the sneezing theme. (Forget who mentioned this yesterday in the comments, but I’ll repeat it since now we’ve seen the Tuesday-ish Wednesday counterpart.)
Great puzzle and it was going so well for me…until I couldn’t find the error. Spelling Nostradamus “NostradamAs” was a fluke.
@Gregg It sounds like you FLaKEd on FLUKE.
A very breezy puzzle and a new personal record for a Wednesday. Many thanks!
Same issue as others with Midi as others. Too bad bc extra puzzle makes up for sometimes too easy cw solves. Posting here bc “feedback” and “report a bug” links also don’t work. Assuming the coding meant to capture user data is not appreciated by my VPN.
I dunno about this being a Wednesday, but I did enjoy it. 13 seconds off my Wednesday record.
Random thoughts No problem with the Midi by the time I got there. Thought it was well done and any puzzle with FLEETWOOD Mac and Sam NEILL (RIP) is okay by me. The main puzzle was fine. Though apparently I'm an English woman from an earlier era, having never gotten the memo that the S had been dropped from LYON. How does one say SNES? Rocky or RAMBO? Gotta wait for one of the crosses. An aside to Sam in her column. In general, are the puzzles really rife with Latin? :) I leave you Carly ASEA performing You're So VAIN. <a href="https://youtu.be/M8uU_4XBugA?si=Bpj3l6Tzb66lnvui" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/M8uU_4XBugA?si=Bpj3l6Tzb66lnvui</a>
@Vaer The SNES was a little before my time, but it's usually pronounced as just the letters S N E S or "sness"
@Vaer Gee, all the cruises I've ever been on have had some lame magician or a lounge lizard...
@Steve L And she had a small string section with her, no less. There were two Queen Mary concerts way back in 2005.
Pretty easy Wednesday, but enjoyable nevertheless. I'm not from the US, so got stuck a bit on the jeopardy answer. 38 down continues to infuriate me. I know the puzzle caters to the US, but when they use trivia specific to it, must they use 'names' that are unguessable?
@Hitch It's a name with African origins though.
@Hitch A'JA Wilson was named for the Steely Dan song and album, Aja. The name in the song was taken from a Korean woman one of the band members knew. You can look it up. And I did.
Found the theme very weak and painfully obvious. Not at all a Wednesday puzzle thematically. KEGELS/HOKA struck me as being somewhere in SE Massachusetts, if not quite in Natick itself. (I knew KEGELS, but HOKA was an unknown.) "Name inside of a libretto?" for BRETT was especially grating (to me). Both obvious and yet somehow profoundly annoying at the same time. Solved this one easily enough, but (as you might have guessed) can't say I liked it.
@Xword Junkie Lady BRETT Ashley is out of style now... HOKAs are the brand you are steered to for plantar fasciitis ...and they cost more than my first year of college, so no wonder I'd never heard of them....until I did.
@Xword Junkie If you didn't like the BRETT clue, you should probably keep your distance from British or Cryptic crosswords. Each clue has wordplay of some type, often this kind of construction called a 'container' clue.
People throw the tern "Natick" around lightly, for the intersection of two entries they don't know, when, in fact, the phonotactics of English will limit the options to four or five letters, with one being the most likely. (Case in point--a couple days ago we had Mt. El[B]ert crossing [B] . . . (I don't remember); I knew neither, but B was the most likely letter.) Not being a trendy, athletic new mom, 21D/29A was a genuine natick for me--any consonant would have worked. I wondered whether a 19th c. German idealist philosopher had a second career as an obstetrician. In the end, I ran the QWERTY (which I find more ergonomic than A-Z), until I got the Happy Music.
Bill, KEGELS are not just for new moms... <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/mens-health/in-depth/kegel-exercises-for-men/art-20045074" target="_blank">https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/mens-health/in-depth/kegel-exercises-for-men/art-20045074</a>
@Bill Bodybuilder here. Wednesdays are Kegel days!
@Bill I'm neither a mom nor trendy, but I knew both HOKA and KEGELS immediately. I see HOKAs on other people's feet all the time, and KEGELS are a well-known exercise to strengthen the pelvic floor.
@BA Hi, Barry! Yesterday, I did do Friday, December 28, 2018's puzzle, by David Steinberg, from the archives; and, you're right, it *was* much more difficult than the following Saturday's, by Robyn Weintraub. Only my lust for high-end Italian fashion and design got me through it. To all, may I recommend both: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2018/12/28" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2018/12/28</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2018/12/29" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2018/12/29</a>
@Bill It crossed with BOWSER'S CASTLE. Not necessarily obvious if you know nothing about the Mario universe.
Once I stopped trying to keep the three in a group, the light dawned... for which I'm grateful, because lately the puzzles have been Just Not For The Likes of Me. I fell for all the traps: ROCKY, TBA, ANGRY, LET'S GO, SHEEP, OCHRE, plus what in heck are TAKIS? (We have yet to see a single Trader Joe's in this state. However, I am chuffed to announce that a LEGO store is coming to a neighboring suburb! Hah! Take that!) Okay, gonna hit the road before too long...woo hoo... uh... not really an exciting trip, but in this state resources can be scarce. At least we can do it all in one day and be back home to sleep in our own beds. All y'all watch the heat index and stay safe!
MOL, TAKIS are [Wed Mar 4, 2026,19A] a Spicy chip brand (Wayne Bergman) and [Sat Sep 13, 2025, 30A} a Rolled chip brand from Mexico (Alex Jiang).
@Mean Old Lady You may not have any Trader Joe's in MS, but the internet tells me that TAKIS are sold there.
Did anyone else have issues with the midi today? I opened it and just got that blurry b question mark I’ve been getting a lot.
Typical long Wednesday workout for me, but a cute theme. Nice 'aha' moment when I finally tumbled to the trick. And my puzzle find today - a Monday from November 21, 1994 by Norman S. Wizer. Some theme clues and answers: "SCRAM" MAKETRACKS "SPLIT" HEADFORTHEHILLS "BEAT IT" HITTHEROAD "VAMOOSE" SKEDADDLE "SKIDDOO" TAKEAHIKE Here's that link: <a href="https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=11/21/1994&h=63a" target="_blank">https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=11/21/1994&h=63a</a> Hasta manana. .....
This is the kind of Wednesday puzzle I can sink my teeth into. Well, okay, no, I didn't actually bite my laptop. But I didn't look anything up either. I went through it carefully, with about a quarter of the across answers first. PARTY CRASHER came right away, but the others didn't fall until I did the second across walk. (Hmm... acrosswalk... sounds like a crossword answer...but. I digress) Enough chitchat. I enjoyed this puzzle. It was punchy enough for a Wednesday without making me feel inadequate, or like it was too easy. And I barely had any coffee today, which means I am due for a good cuppa. Anyone want to join me?
@Marlene Gladly. It's afternoon coffee break time here at the moment. Italian Roast, black, in a mug.
This was lots of fun, and it took me a bit of time to see what was going on with the theme. Very Wednesday-ish :-) Thanks Sala and Emily. Looking forward to some more collabs.