Sammy

Deb-- out of curiosity why don't they put the technical note in the "i"? They could make it flash like how they do on Sunday's. Seems like a very easy fix that can be done at any time (even now...) Incidentally I solved it without knowing there was an issue and that I just couldn't figure out the theme. Would have been so much more satisfying (and a quicker solve) to have gotten it.

Easy for a Thursday! Boy I feel bad for all the new solvers today...I hope they come back next week!

Welp broke my 55-day gold streak, and by a mile. I got like 4 answers. Not a friendly puzzle. Just to start, "Uh Oh" is two words. Argh.

Took more than 2x my average time for a Friday. Not a fan of the clues. Not fun, just difficult and vague. I wonder how many were made by looking for the biggest stretches of synonyms in the thesaurus.

I've been doing the NYT crossword obsessively for a year and a half. I only rarely stop to take a peek at the name of the constructor, and it's usually when I loved the puzzle. I hope over time I will retain some of these names after seeing them repeatedly (I'm bad with remembering names). And as for now, the only name I remember offhand is Simeon Seigel.

Fun!!! Well done!

I never understand why an app with perfectly fine UI suddenly changes. Anyway. To the devs: can you please at least put the completion times back on the crossword tiles on the Home Screen?

Good puzzle, thanks! Don't know if it was the flu, RSV, Covid, but this one made my brain hurt.

Great puzzle thanks! I also would love to have someone knit me that nifty gold-star streak hat. TIL SETTEES. I had SETTlES (lowercase L) for the longest time thinking "couches" is like "tables", which I think still doesn't make sense. Is there a term for when you try every letter in the alphabet for the final unknown box until you get it? There should be. Like, "today I ____ until I got the E in settees."

Saturday puzzle on a Thursday, not sure how that counts towards a cycle. Some difficult puzzles have challenging clues, others have sadistic ones. I'd count this as the latter. Maybe it's just me but sometimes it feels to like the puzzle maker is thinking of the solver as a foe. In my head I call it "bad faith clueing."

What a great booty call of a puzzle! Thanks!

Very PSYCHED to have solved this one. Thanks for a great puzzle!

What a delightful Monday puzzle!

The crosswordese glue is strong in the one. ERIE and EIRE, OREO, ODE, AHA, TTOP, AIDA, ADOS, TSKS, SKA, you get the point. I love creative Thursday puzzles but not when it's just a theme held together by glue, and even less-so when the glue is tried to be gussied up with new takes on the clues that would make no sense to people who have never done it before (a round sandwich??)

Very clever. Must have been diffficult to also have the special answer be another word. One nit: "accommodations" is multiple and TEPEE is singular.

Fun thanks!

Really fun puzzle, thanks!! A little pet peeve here: NIT and NeT (like a hair net) both work, and THREEPIO is really 3P0. So, if there's more than one problem area in the puzzle this can compound the issue. Sorry if oversharing. Still, really loved the puzzle so much.