Martin

This was a fun Sunday with a well executed gimmick and great cluing. I have aging eyes too, so I solved it on my laptop with my reading glasses on. You smartphone users know the joke about the man who goes to the doctor? "Doc, it hurts when I do this!" he complains, and the doctor replies "Well, don't do that!"

I have a friend who uses "kil" as an abbreviation for kilometer. The other day I asked him how tall the Texas Capitol building is and he said "About two and a half hund I think?" His daughters have taken his car keys, but they can never take his liberty.

This was like a tasting menu of fun little gimmicks. My compliments to the chef!

I too had to read the article to get the theme. It's a tough one for those of us who sing the anthem in its original Klingon.

This was a fun Sunday! I guess I'm in the minority for having put in ECOL without EVOL even occurring to me. I only took undergrad biology, but it was in the ecology courses that the concepts of fitness, populations, and evolutionary drivers played a big role, so that's where my mind went.

QDOBA sounds like one of those randomly generated Chinese brand names selling house slippers, mouse pads, and inexplicable 24x36 inch prints of a brick on Amazon.

Calculations in a crossword? I for one prefer to leave matters of arithmetic to the man who carries my purse, so I had him solve the puzzle for me as well. Saved quite a bit of time, in fact. I may have to do this again.

I thought this was a fun puzzle and did not have any trouble solving it. Writing platform-specific instructions may have been a mistake, since either or both of the obvious things (either put in a T or don't) work on every platform, and paradoxically the existence of instructions just seems to make the "tell me how to solve this" crowd even madder...

I laughed at DERATS when I finally got it. I guess it appeals to my sense of wordplay.

Can't believe Rube Goldberg never even built any of the machines he drew. They shouldn't have awarded him the patents then!