Sean

What a fun puzzle! I was so proud that I not only figured out the theme but also the trick of the rebuses (rebii?) as they traveled around the puzzle. Even better, this was No. 999 in a row for me … my last hurdle to 1,000 in a row. Monday, here I come!

Today I learned that double and TRIPLE have the same number of letters and it took me embarrassingly long to realize that I had the wrong one in the grid. Fun Sunday puzzle especially after a back breaking few days!

I had just gotten finished muttering “Well, there’s no TUE” when, lo and behold, there was TUESDAY. A tip of the hat for a fun little theme.

This was an amazing Saturday - lots of great clueing and misdirection (I was trying to make FLY work for FLU for far too long). Well done!

This was an amazing Thursday. I’m so preconditioned to looking for swaps in the answers that it did not immediately occur to me to think about a swap in the clues. Added to that is the fact that the first theme revealer made a certain amount of sense if you squinted, so it took me a good beat to catch what the theme was trying to do. And the revealer at the end! Loved it!

One of these days, I will remember it’s CAPN CRUNCH, not CAPT CRUNCH. Today was not that day. 🤨

As I sit here on Saturday morning thanking anyone who will listen that I escaped this puzzle with my 900+ day streak intact, all I can say is dkeienfijrjfjkeels. My brain hurts. All the cluing was fair in hindsight but boy was that a tough one.

This was an amazing construction and a fun puzzle! I had REAGAN in 87A until the very end and only in my fourth time trying to find my error did I catch SEATAC. To be fair, AGIT at 81D sounds like it *should* be a word. 🤣

It’s a fun trifle for an April Fool’s Monday! Thankful that they didn’t go the way of Connections and give us only emojis for clues!

I’m square in the middle of my Pixar phase with my daughters, so the boxed set itself fell into place fairly easily - once I sorted out which clues needed them. I appreciated that added twist of difficulty on what was a fairly straightforward theme. Well done!

I come to quibble with ON A PAR and CARBOLOADS (I’ve always said carb loads) but praise GOOBER and the cluing on COMMA (had MOVIE for an embarrassingly long time) so I’ll call it even. All in all a good Friday!

I got the revealer early and figured out the rebus pattern, but it wasn’t until I read the column that I saw the fourth ‘u’ trick. Great construction on this!

Had this displayed properly, it would have been a fantastic puzzle. I’m sorry the creators were cheated from that by tech. It’s really unfortunate that these app issues persist when the vast majority of sol Wes are doing so online.

This was a fun one - and it felt like when Jessica Fletcher would show up on Magnum. Crossover city! it took me a little while to realize the answers were not straight Connections phrases (fun fact: STORE FRONTS and TYPE OF STORE have the same number of letters!) and there were enough chewy ones to make this a worthy Sunday indeed.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the themes on all the NYT puzzles today, especially this! I caught it pretty early and was delighted by its phonetic approach to the words. It was a bit light for a Thursday, but isn’t that what holidays are for? Well done!

Had a few lookups but not unexpected for a Sunday. Loved the multiplication—especially the a-ha moment when I sorted it out. My one quibble is I wish there hadn’t been the puzzle note. I think finding out the squares had to be filled with digits was pretty gettable and could have been another layer of discovery. Ah, well.

Didn't love it - the circled letters seemed like one trick too many, especially as it spelled out another clue already found in the puzzle. All the care given to the construction was a bit undermined by that for me, and the stranded Y -- why??

I tied myself in absolute knots thinking the reverses were on the down clues, not the across. I had to read the column to figure out that I’d doubled back in the double reverse, which made me … triple? quadruple? … turned around. But the cluing was fair and the theme was very clever.

This was a perfect Tuesday puzzle — a bit of a theme and a big, meaty laugh. Loved it!

This was just amazing. I had NATIONAL PARK in 69A for the longest time because THE SOUTHEAST didn’t jive with OLD FAITHFUL. But I kept picking at it and picking at it and then had a few head-slapping a-has. A marvel of construction and clueing. Calling it now: Puzzle of the Year.

Needed lookups and peeks at the column on this one and finished way over my average. If my sore throat turns into a real sickness, I’m blaming the stress of this puzzle.

This was a ton of fun! A quick solve for me but a lot of delightful cluing even beyond the smart trick in the theme. I especially liked “Top of the order?” - I was so sure it was ABCDE and I got a good snort when I sorted it out.

I’m staring at 61A and cannot figure out what SRO means. I had SEO there for the longest time and eventually peeked at the key after I was way, way over my average time. Anyone have any insight?

Like Deb, I thought the answer lay in the black boxes — the CIA clue led me down that dead end. I ended up finishing in good time but not really knowing why until I read the column. If I had caught it, I would have whooped with joy. But I didn’t, which is just where my head is today, so all I’ll say is I’ll be watching next time.