Wspd

“I regret that I have but one like to give for my crossword.” Nice debut! Was so relieved that “Booboo” turned out to be the bear rather than that atrocious reality show star.

Triple oof! As evidenced by a time that was more than triple my average. That was the hardest one in months!

Oof! TIL “tittle” and SEISM. Never heard of an AXOLOTL either. Chalk another one up to trial and error.

Nice one! A good challenge, in which I believe that you had to get the gimmick in order to solve it. Knowing “the San Francisco treat” is probably dating yourself. Hope it was not too obscure for the non-boomers.

Oof! Even cracking the gimmick (gimcrack?) didn’t do it. TAEBO/ABU was a natick for me It took me a long time to make sense out of FLUSTRAIN, so I began to wonder if LUST was the correct “feeling.” Good puzzle!

Oof! A post-Xmas Nutcracker. Took almost an hour longer than my Friday average. All parts were tough, but the SW corner was nearly my Waterloo. SHINEON was new to me, so took forever to get HIRE/FIRE, which should have been easy.

Oof! Diabolical. A lot of non-typical words and clues. Congrats to those that breezed through, b/c I found about 1/3 of this quite hard to crack. Things were looking very grim for a while. Great job by the constructor!

Double oof! Good one!

Triple oof! Almost 1/2 hour over my Sat average. I didn’t feel that any words or clues were unreasonable. Nice job by the constructor!