Nate

The most clever Thursday I’ve seen in a while. Speedy solve once the trick makes sense. Kudos to Jesse Goldberg. Well played.

So they day after Sam pleads for civility the Times flips the bird :-) Seriously, I’ll take more civility any place I can get it. Thank you, Sam. My current streak is 2,657 puzzles, so I haven’t been around long enough to know how hard the puzzles were in the good old days, but as a subscriber I have access to puzzles back to 1993. I can go there if I need a harder puzzle. At some stage a lot of the puzzle comes down to my wheelhouse. If I there’s a natick for me I’ll run the alphabet. More than one natick and I may just look up the answer and move on, even if it’s a Tuesday. To each their own. Enjoy the puzzles however works for you. Will and team, thanks for your hard work on these puzzles. I enjoy them and look forward to a nightly challenge.

Looked to see if somehow I missed that this was a Robyn Weintraub puzzle. High, high praise in my book. DONTPOKETHEBEAR and HEREGOESNOTHING. TAKETHAT, James McCarron. Well done!

Less than 1/2 my time for Wednesday or Thursday. With Wednesday’s rebus, my week is all messed up. 😀