Rick

Ugh. I sat with eNact (____ change) and eNtices (arouses) for a long time, and could not find my problem. Despite my issues, this was a great puzzle. I had a Spanish teacher who used to say that Ashtray was the only word we borrowed from Pig Latin.

Big shout to SESAME PLACE, our favorite family vacation. The kids aged out of it too quickly, but my wife and I would gladly recommend.

Just want to add my voice to the praise this puzzle is receiving. Next time NYT puts together a pack of rebus puzzles or a book of Thursdays, this should be first in line. Great work!

Lost a couple minutes for misspelling artisInal, and lImp didn’t stand out as a mistake. Great puzzle!

Finished within 15s of my average, but didn’t much care for it if I’m honest. It was too cute by half: a revealer split top middle, top right, bottom right, if you think about EVERYTHING as ALL, you can replace those letters with various currencies that you might trivially know and these fills will become other recognizable phrases that don’t relate to anything… I don’t mean to be a grump. There was some good fill and cluing. I just felt jumbled by the theme.

It genuinely took me until the animation to realize the theme, which went from completely impenetrable to astoundingly obvious in a moment. Always fun to go back and recognize a theme after the fact, and this was a doozy. Great work!

I had muLes crossing with smiLe rather than asSes crossing amuSe and stumped myself for an extra minute today. Good puzzle!

I enjoyed it, though I would have appreciated a cryptic reference to the themes, like “Chatted online with a video game princess” or “Investigate a crummy car in detail”. I’ll grant that’s harder to do with pear and mango.

UMACTUALLY must have started life as a Mike Trapp/Ify Nwadiwe clue, right? A quick, fun fill for me today, where each answer unlocked boxes for the other direction. I definitely stared for a while at •••••DOOIL before the OIL separated out.

ABLAUT time someone built a puzzle like this! If it’s been done before, nice REDUPLICATION of their efforts, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, and I loved it! Great work, Mr. Schiff! Looking forward to your next one!

PR for a Sunday at 31 flat. Great puzzle and a great start before a day I’ll spend shoveling snow.

I spent too long with MINUS at 4D trying to find the acrosses. I finally moved on and yelled at myself when I saw the symbol come up six more times.

Any mnemonics or other ways people remember the difference between Daylight and Standard times? I had EPOsE for a long time and didn’t know the correct word to notice the error.

I very confidently had JAMBAND for [Casual music project]. Otherwise, quick fill and fun revealer!

Not bad! I stumbled by filling in SaylEsS rather than SparEuS and bAA for mAA, but it all worked out in the end.

I can’t be the only one who lost time by confidently filling 64A with CHarcuterie, can I?

38A/D I had COMETO and CURL… Needless to say, the SE kept me out of it for a long while. Good puzzle today! Center section was a good run!