Sean

This was awfully measly for a Monday puzzle. BOLT stumped me, and aplenty several others. I can't fund any reference to a Lake ERIE in the UK. If the revenue is to London, Ontario, the Lake Erie is is a lot closer than 150 miles. I'm scratching my head a bit here.

This was tough for a Tuesday Puzzle. This took me twice as long as usual to solve. I agree with everyone else who had issues with the clue for 71 across. I can see the cleverness in the reveal, but the clue is poorly worded. Mr. Shortz should have done a better job of editing.

Meh!

Cute puzzle, i guess. I got the revealed easily enough. Unfortunately, while the trick was obvious, the design felt random. If the letters in puzzle had all spelled out real words, it would have been a real mindbender. Even after reading the WordPlay blog, I had to go back to each of the down clues to see the pattern. When I solve a puzzle and have to reread the clues and study the puzzle to figure out the pattern, it feels more tedious than fun. On another note, I agree with those who have issue with the clue for SETI. It seems like a misfire.

The Times seems to publishing the next days puzzle earlier and earlier. Late Monday afternoon I started what I thought was Monday's puzzle. It turned out it was Tuesday's puzzle. Weekday puzzles used to be available at 7:00 p.m. Pacific time. Early this afternoon I thought I was starting Saturday's puzzle, only.to realize half way through that it was Sunday's puzzle. Sunday puzzles used to be available in the late afternoo There used to be more consistent timing of when the next day's puzzle is released. Now it seems to be whenever the hell they feel like it. Tuesday's puzzle seemed a bit meaty for a Monday puzzle. This doeant even take into account a typo in one of Tuesday's clues about Lake Erie. Sunday's puzzlewas definitely meatier than a Saturday puzzle. The haphazard timing of the publishing schedule takes a lot of the fun out of solving the puzzles. At this point, I've given up in trying to solve the Sunday puzzle. It was too much of a curve ball for a relaxing Saturday afternoon.

This was a Fun puzzle untili got to the SE corner. I've never heard of "THE FLOOR IS LAVA." And I, too, was stumped by WIT being synonymous with CARD. To me, this was a tough Wednesday puzzle.

The SW corner got me. Even searching for Jewish honorific, I couldn't get REB. And I've never heard of ECARTES. The latter must be obscure, since there was no autocorrect when I just misspelled it. I had to throw in the towel Good one!

BLAH! This is the worst TUESday puzzle I've come across yet. I might have enjoyed it on a TTHHUURRSSday. The editors should be ashamed!

I thought this was a clever puzzle, and found the revealer to be clear enough. However, I'd point out to the anti-rebus snobs who are commenting about how rebused need to make sense: The editors of the NYTimes have never been consistent with how and when rebuses should be applied.

It was a good, challenging Wednesday puzzle - a fail for me. Even after I finally found my mistake and finished the puzzle, I had to look at at it a few times to makes sense out of the theme. The puzzle us cleverly constructed, but the reveal left me cold.

This was a good, meaty puzzle for a Tuesday. The reveal felt subliminal. Cute and skillful. However, if they have draw it in for the reveal, then "meh." I still enjoyed the puzzle, though.

I figured out the IT'S, but the NE was my undoing. I'm scratching my head at 40 across. This one was clever, but got the better of me.

My hats off to Mr. King for a clever puzzle. I figured our the theme, but had some answers in before I figured out the refuses. I also figured out the revealed, even though it didn't make sense. When I read the WordPlay blog, I scratched my head, because when I looked at my completed puzzle, not all of the circles were under trees. Apparently, you can solve the puzzle with or without entering the rebuses. I completed the puzzle with only 5 out of 6 refuses. I was missing CEDAR. Now, at least, DANCOUND makes sense. This is another inconsistency by the Times. Sometimes we need the refuses. Spmetimes we don't. This one makes more sense with the rebuses. I think not requiring them stole some of the thunder from the constructor.

Was this a revus puzzle or not. I used a rebus for Mickey Mouse. That was obvious. I didn't use rebuses for any of the other clues, but still solved the puzzle I'm glad that I solved the puzzle in a reasonable time frame, but, once again, the Times has no standard for applying when and how to use rebuses when solving rebus puzzles. This takes the fun out of solving rebus puzzles, and makes this puzzle a snoozer for me. That's a disservice to the constructor.

Lurch? Did I miss an Addams Family reference? I didn't see it.