Joseph P.

"Gnarly" is one word for it. Saturdays have been excruciating lately, and there hasn't been any payoff, in my opinion, in grinding through. The difficult clues haven't been clever so much as obscure. Unrelated topic: I would at this point love to see OREO banned entirely. It is far overused already, and introducing niche OREO trivia is taking things in the wrong direction.

No rebus!!!? Cancel my subscription!!!!

"Going after the big bucks, maybe?" Bwahaha, that is a great clue! Well done on the entire puzzle, gentlemen.

That was fun, and the constructor's originality is much appreciated. Thank you! It's not often a Tuesday puzzle induces concern ("...noewhe...? But APHID and these others must be right. What is going on?") resolving to delight. I'm pretty sure Ms. Bowers is going to give us an amazing Thursday at some point.

That was a lot of themestuff packed into a small grid. Thank you Mr. Katz!