Christopher

Things may have clicked earlier for me if it read "Cluedo" but I eventually twigged when I saw the capital C in "Clue" and remembered that's what they called the game in the US. Coincidentally, I'm currently staying away in our newly purchased pop up camper (a 1980 Viscount) that because of it external paint colour we've nicknamed "Colonel Mustard".

I figured out the other theme clues before I could guess the theme key. I enjoyed the theme from this Wednesday! I struggled the most with the South West corner. I'm a very new crossword puzzler (since) mid 2023, being attracted to them from the NYT games app from playing Wordle. Initially, I struggled and could only complete them with autocheck when stuck. Then eventually I started getting some GOLD star completions and I totally agree and concur with your assessment of the happy jingle @Sam. I can't miss a day now and eagerly await for 2PM to come around for my daily fix (time the daily is released here) and I equally look forward to your Wordplay column and the comments. One thing that irks me though is the consistent amount of Spanish clues and/or answers required for an English crossword. Sometimes the mind bending required in my only fluent language (regrettably) is enough without having to deal with obscurities from another language.

Pretty difficult for a Tuesday considering the whole theme with a lot of entries revolves around one author. I've never heard of the author and I got some answers from crosses then googled the name to fill in the rest of the titles.

Geez. Probably my worst Thursday (or any day) in a long time. I feel like you would have to have studied American Literature at university to have any chance at this. Unknown poem from an unknown poet for me plus plenty of obscure trivia.

I figured out the other theme clues before I could guess the theme key. I enjoyed the theme from this Wednesday! I struggled the most with the South West corner. I'm a very new crossword puzzler (since) mid 2023, being attracted to them from the NYT games app from playing Wordle. Initially, I struggled and could only complete them with autocheck when stuck. Then eventually I started getting some GOLD star completions and I totally agree and concur with your assessment of the happy jingle @Sam. I can't miss a day now and eagerly await for 2PM to come around for my daily fix (time the daily is released here) and I equally look forward to your Wordplay column and the comments. One thing that irks me though is the consistent amount of Spanish clues and/or answers required for an English crossword. Sometimes the mind bending required in my only fluent language (regrettably) is enough without having to deal with obscurities from another language.

I struggled with this one and thought the revealer was looking for a name of a theme park. I eventually turned on autocorrection which locks in correct letter entries and even after googling could not figure out what THE SORTH EAST was and immediately thought it was an error. I was completely clueless until reading the blog.