Peter M

Nice clues that made me think a little for a Monday. Surprised I remembered a certain newspaper comic strip that I haven't thought about in years. I managed to beat my Monday average by 50 whole seconds. Also, today I finished up every NYT Crossword since January 1st, 2020 through the present and am that much closer to doing the full online archives. Cheers all & happy solving!

Shout out to D'Aulaire's Greek Mythology for making sure I will always know how to spell the various kinds of nymphs needed to get a Y or a few consecutive vowels in there.

Had a chuckle with the intersecting clues "Cry from Miss Piggy"/"Cry from Miss Piggy?" down in the bottom-right corner. Really good clues today and bonus points for getting some NYT crossword frequent-flier words in there without some of the obvious cluing that usually comes with them.

i got "Kenya's second-largest city" right away from playing so much Halo in my youth. nice clues kept this from feeling like a monday, and the bottom-left corner is a case study in layered cleverness.

Really loved this one, especially the cluing around the theme & sub-theme entries. The center section was pretty tough until I got the recycled clues about Scots, but the rest flowed on from there. Final solve time was a tad slower than usual but this puzzle was so satisfying to solve that I don't mind.

nice & chewy for a friday, had a lot of fun with this one (even if i solve crosswords like i have never seen a single movie or know anyone who would ever be in one). in other news, i finally hit 2400 NYT Crosswords officially Solved this week! so it's just onward & upward to 3000 from here. cheers & happy solving!

as for hitting PB's: i got a 4:33 today which is only 15 seconds off from my all-time best Friday solve time. huge beaming smile broke out on my face when i solved 28D. great stuff, 10/10, no notes.