Mark DelGiudice

Felt too trivia/vocab forward for a Tuesday, at least for me, e.g., Aslan, nerts, Chiang, Torme, Osric, Timon, ach, Carl Jung, dirges. Yipes

As a rebus and pizza lover, this has my vote for puzzle of the year

Good for nothing was a great clue

Solid puzzle. Could do without entries like HGT and IRR as clued (or at all).

Nice to have Will back

I sometimes find Saturdays more doable than Wednesdays. Not that Saturdays don’t take me forever, they do, but with persistence you can find the answer somewhere in your brain. That’s usually not possible with trivia - this was the case in the bottom left for me today.

Loved it, though that is typically what I think when an end of week puzzle is this easy.

Digital platform needs to catch up with the awesome constructors.

That was excellent.

“train trip” and “do not want” were stretches to me, people don’t talk like that.

Will must be training for the Boston Marathon with this Natick run

Good puzzle, one nit: absent the dunk/lay-in, there is no alley-oop.

Top left was absurd for a Tuesday.

Really liked this. My one nit is the redundancy of US States

The Love Yourself singer is the Biebs

CBER was not my favorite

I liked the theme, and nice to see the unbraided entries actually spelled words (this puzzle wouldn't have been possible if the constructor attempted to tie them to the theme). Only nit was abuela crossing biota & Dora - had to guess on that.

Not sure how modern GPS is as it was introduced in cars over 30 years ago. It is still used modern times but so is toilet paper.

Enjoyed the symmetry of Italian Hero / Initial Hero