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This was so good!!!! The puns OMG. I aspire to be able to think of stuff like this. Kudos to Rena. Really loved this crossword. There were moments where we got a bit frustrated but when we figured it out then we realised "OH THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE AND OMG NICE". A great crossword. You should be proud of yourself.

Theme was decent, but the fill was not fun except a clue here and there, and it was also full of non-fun trivia.

This was not fun at all. The theme was okay, nothing too great. Not having the rebus in the circle was weird but the indicator gave us that hint. But the fill was so UGH inducing that for the first time in 1.5 years I did not feel like even trying to complete the top right and center areas. I just clicked on reveal puzzle and didn't read the answers because I don't even want to know. That is the level of boredom I had with this puzzle.

This crossword got me angry and irritated. This activity is supposed to be fun and challenging, but not to the level that the challenge is too hard and then no fun is left. Real life provides enough quota of frustration and irritation. I do not need my recreation to evoke the same feelings. Really bad.

A lot of the trivia is just wayyy too... obscure. This crossword is like the boss level of crosswords where years and years of solving and gaining info leads up to a final moment, answer by answer. And I am definitely not on Mr. (Lord?) Byron's wavelength. When I revealed the answer for 46 years, it was a "what the actual #&₹@" moment in all senses of the phrase. Awe, surprise, excited exclamation, frustration, anger, elation, and an increase in admiration for the answer and the setter, everything everywhere all at once. For a couple more too. Another very intresting part was that a good amount of trivia was from all around the world. Awe striking again. While I got some, like HINDUGOD (see my location, duh) immediately, I was stuck at a lot of them. But after solving or revealing, I realised that a lot of it was not ungettable. I just needed some essential crosses which I couldn't today. And yeah, a mental wavelength matching. For example, yesterday was a breeze for me because I was somehow one with the grid.

Assam is in Northeastern India, not northwestern.

This was a really great grid. Solid theme with good theme entries, interesting and fun fill, and a lot of hard trivia but all the answers were mostly gettable through crosses (with a couple of forgivable exceptions). Amazing work! Looking forward to more from the setter.

This was an amazing puzzle. Enjoyed it thoroughly. The fill was interesting and fresh. Also some of the theme entries are alliterative! Great experience.

A good crossword. Loved the theme, all the theme entries, the other fill, and the theme's aptness to the Valentine week. Hall of fame 2026.

When I saw the names of Adrian and Christina, I knew that this crossword would be a treat, and it really was (not lying to anyone!). Smart clues and a flawless fill. One awkward entry here and there is fine, and the crosses were generous enough for them. Great experience!

Theme was good. But the rest of the fill was very very bad. Disappointing.

It was great, but I did not like the SKU/KAREN/ELGIN group. I cannot guess the K and N over here. Elgin is not a guessable name. Same for Sku. These were bad entries. Ruined the end for me as I had to google/reveal.

This was not a good puzzle. I did it in 23 minutes (much faster than my average) and still was not happy even a bit. I did not enjoy the random stretches the answers are doing vis-a-vis the clues. Also I think Endgame was the last movie in the saga. But it fit so I wrote that and it was correct. A lot of this happened today. Not happy at all with so many uninteresting entries. We have a had a great week. Some answers were really amazing yesterday and on Thursday. Saturday is a bore.

2026 crossword hall of fame. Loved it.

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That was a really good fill! A few red herrings here and there and some intelligent clues. Loved it.

I didn't like some parts of the fill. Too niche trivia. I hate it when I am just sitting there with no option but to google it out because even the crosses are not working. At least make the entry gettable through the crosses, which is what all good crosswors do. The theme was nice but the fill ruined it for me.

This puzzle was a treat (literally as well!). The fill was flawless and the cluing great. A good Sunday experience.

The cluing and answers were quite fun. I solved it far too quickly somehow. And after weeks of cribbing and getting irritated about Saturdays being too hard, I never thought I'd become one of those people who think that this should have been a bit harder 🤯🙉

This was fun. Quite easy for me personally, but I loved it. The fill was partly fresh and the theme entries were a good solve.

Oxes?????? Are you kidding me. Nerts! Puppy love. Oxes indeed. This puzzle was decently good but the top left section was so bad that it overshadowed everything else.

A lot of the people will be very happy with this puzzle because it is a "proper Saturday" due to the difficulty, but I did not like it. Almost half of the fill was not fun at all. It was drab. Too dry. Way too boring. A challenging puzzle can be fun as well, but this wasn't. I won't call a Saturday good just because it was hard, it also needs to have interesting entries. I did notice the METHANE crossing with TOXIC GAS, but that did not incite any joy after the juiceless grind.

A real disappointment for me was chapati being that answer and not parotta/paratha. Why force a chakla into the clue when your answer is going to be the same old bland chapati. The top entries are real smart clues, but lip for brink and beg for solicit are just frustrating as they're not quite smart but are just a stretch. After a few such needlessly confusing entries, the fun of solving is lost and when I further unravel some real smart clues, I don't feel satisfied now because I am already irritated.

No. The theme was fun, but a lot of the cross entries in order to make it were not.

Quite a few good clue - answer pairs but quite a whole lot of drab non-fun fill ruined it for me. I would have loved the trivia for some of them if I wasn't irritated by them.

UGHHHHHHH!!!