JANE

while it was a lot easier once i got the theme (which would've been faster if i'd just moved on from the football/soccer clue once i didn't immediately get it), i thoroughly enjoyed it. but it is more wednesday in ease than anything else. i always found (somehow) thursdays to be the hardest, along with fridays - somehow i always do quite well on saturdays but i'm used to thursdays/fridays being my longest. had to leave the puzz to make sure i was doing the right one part way through! i've never finished a thursday in under 15 til now. still loved it enough that i'm leaving a comment here for the first time!! i miss meta/themed/whatever-the-word-is puzzles like this. i wonder if there are lists of puzzles for ones that have a trick (one step beyond having a theme, say) but without specifying if it's a rebus, in the black, letter mix-ups etc cause i've seen those but they give too much away based on the category usually. better yet, a puzzle entirely of clues ending in "?" could be fun, no?