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I agree with everyone today-a fun, challenging, clever puzzle. One quibble. Isn't "dagnabbit" an expression of irritation, while "by gum" is one more of resolve or determination?

A puzzle marred by tedious contemporary pop culture drivel and bland, vague cluing (lunge at = made a try?) Derriere rider derided is an example of Mr. Kugelman entertaining himself at our expense.

Network connections, digital work, subreddits, broadband connections, battletoads console, social posts, the grams--what poetic cluing.

Perfect Friday puzzle. Just challenging enough; fresh, clever ideas. Two quibbles. Don't we say "who knew" when we are surprised by some bit of information? I don't see it as a sarcastic response to the obvious. And I don't think "spicy" has the negative connotations that "salacious" does. Also, just one day without a gaming clue--please.

Now that was fun.

I thought this was a great puzzle. Challenging for a Sunday but eminently fair. Nicely balanced in its references. Clever theme. Elegant structure.

Picture perfect Friday, I thought, with fresh cluing (Eroica aside) and clever misdirects (My Word!, Simpson younger daughter and Source of Schadenfreude.) Lots of fun.

Fun puzzle (despite the requisite gaming questions). One quibble: are Old Saws "tired"? I think of Old Saws as warm, folky, clever, enduring, imbued with common sense. Cliches are tired.

I know I'm supposed to want a more difficult puzzle on a Saturday but I didn't today. This was fun. I thought "grams," heat setting" and "way out" were all pretty clever. A lot of fresh, fun word play in this puzzle.

I thought this was a fun Saturday exercise. "Math teams" my favorite. With "I hate you," "love languages" and "galentines day," would have been an appropriate puzzle 8 days ago. '

The theme wasn't hard to discover but was kind of annoying anyway and some Naticking going on in that Northwest corner.

Fun puzzle. Easy for a Friday. Refreshingly void of pop culture (it can be done) with the exception of the government mandated Star Wars clue. And a couple of sexy references to boot. What more could you ask for?

This was a fun puzzle. A little more challenging than the typical Sunday puzzle, at least for me or at least until I caught on to the gimmick. Even then the cluing wasn't as obvious as many Sundays. A cut above, I thought. Even if it does include "obvs."

Great puzzle for teenagers.

Fun puzzle. Probably too easy for a Thursday but some fun cluing (made do, noodle nuggets.). I tire, though, of the constant references to gaming in puzzles.

Is "edgy" high strung? Isn't that more being "on edge."Doesn't edgy refer more to something novel and daring? I think "songs" for singles is pretty weak too. Otherwise I agree with several who have described this as a mostly easy Saturday with a couple of gnarly spots and a few clever ideas.

Some clever cluing here but that same recurrent experience of having dwelled in the bland referential world of the gen-x mind.

Top 11 lines a breeze. Bottom 4: abject failure.

A fun puzzle with a clever theme. Nice to see Horace make an appearance. Nicer still: no Marvel comics or gaming questions.

Excellent puzzle for all the reasons stated, except for rowr, which is a little too cute and the ubiquitous Star Wars clue. Could we have a year long freeze on the latter?