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Had "i HAd A BLAST" for 1A. Took, like, at least 20 minutes to sort out. At least that's how it felt.

Yooo I got some representation!I still kind of think its a bit disingenuous to say I "solved" the crossword if I don't also mention I looked some stuff up. But as others said I think looking up info related to the clue without going on "crossword answers" websites is not cheating, just a different way to have fun. This Monday is actually the second one me and mom solved without looking anything up, and in under 17 minutes instead of an hour this time, too! I remember the time when Minis took me staring at the grid for that long.

Kinda made me want an option to not consider the puzzle solved unless the rebuses are filled in. Missed one of the monsters and was looking forward to hunting it :(

This was my first googleless solve! I don't expect to see much more of that (except maybe other Mondays) but I don't feel like that takes away from crosswords as a way to spend time for me.

DIsliked Jackie being in the answer clued with "Jack". Also, I personally feel like the theme would've been better without two fo the asnwers being specific people.

Had P___HUB for a bit and was... concerned 😅

Instantly put in "eels" for long-bodied fish. Happy to be proven wrong!

if you happen to not be american or otherwise do not know seth meyers this grid is unsolvable. also there is not a circle on the EYE rebus until you finish the puzzle and the drawing is filled in

First Tuesday we ever solved without looking anything up!! 18 mins, too. Seems almost too easy for a Tuesday then... or maybe we're finally getting smarter

NE corner destroyed me for some reason

I didn't find it "too hard" for a Monday. Slightly harder than the trend of the past few months, but not enough to complain. If we're gonna dismiss everyone saying "how is this a Saturday, i solved in 5 seconds", we can't be going around like "how is this a Monday, it took me 5 hours".

I didn't particularly hate the puzzle, but had two issues: 1) It is far from a defining feature of PORTALS to have [Whirling visual effects]. In fact, the popular game called Portal, which is based, as the name suggests, on portals, has no whirling visual effects on them. 2) A SERIES is a sum of infinitely many terms. What we have here is a (finite) sequence which is not added up. Also, it's called a geometric sequence (or series, if you're adding up all the infinitely many terms of a geometric sequence), not a "multipication" one.

1d, 2d, 3d all being trivia was mean :< i guess 1d would maybe be more known among americans, but still feels annoying when a corner becomes almost completely across entries because the downs give you nothing

I dislike ARO being listed under "gender identities and sexual orientations". it is, as the name suggest, a romantic orientation; one can be aromantic and hetero- or homosexual (as I am!)

A sphere is not a solid. A sphere is a surface, and the solid it encloses is called a ball.

I'm fairly certain the pitch that the EAR is catching is, in fact, the pitch of a sound. Unrelated: I had SeverED TOES for 3D for a while. I have no idea how that came to my mind.

I'll be honest, I like Mondays getting easier for beginners, but am not sure how I feel about this one. It feels like it might've even worked as a Tuesday (or is the theme a bit too weird for that?)

I don't think much of the word understands "crossword" to mean what "cryptic crossword" means in the US. Maybe English speakers, but, for example, Germans and Russians definitely don't.

I completely got the theme once i had the revealer, but had three theme answers filled in by that point... Couldn't break through the NE corner until I looked up the two vertical names there. It's a clever theme, but unlike shenanigans with answers often do, felt like I was completely in the dark until the revealer came.