Donkey Kong

This puzzle has it all! A boring theme wedged into a gimmicky layout (with only one theme clue even a play on words, most at Monday difficulty); a boatload of cliche filler with stock cluing; completely made up words; and arbitrary spellings paralleling esoterica! I recently made a 5x5 crossword, so look, the construction is way beyond me. Appreciate the effort, but as a consumer of the content I have to call joyless when I see it.

Is “BAWLED out” the same thing as “Chewed out”? Nice puzzle.