Dave K.

IBEENHAD is not a thing. Smart TVs do not have DVRs. If someone is the PERP[etrator] in a TV show, they're probably not an extra, they'd be a main character. Overall, an unenjoyable puzzle, even after figuring out the gimmick. Just a real slog to complete, even with cheating.

ACed it!

Never heard of EPT before. I understand the joke about it after looking it up, but that's a bit of a stretch. I really hope we don't make it a habit of using astrological signs and their "definitions" that no intelligent person would ever know or even care about.

That was my 2000th puzzle. ISNTTHATSPECIAL? RECKONSO.

This has got to be one of the most clever puzzles EYE have ever seen here.

Not a fan. The revealer was very unclear, I was mentally trying to get ENDS to work with the clues, rather than BOOK. I did better then my Tuesday average, but as others suggested, this seemed more complicated than a typical Tuesday. Maybe the clueing just wasn't clear enough today.

Chuck Norris solved this puzzle on Thursday.

My FURSONA is a POLLIWOG who hangs out in the HOTELPOOL.

This puzzle wasn't too diphphicult phor a Thursday, once I phigured out the rebus.

Like others said, something about this puzzle just seemed off. Not that it was extremely hard, which it was, but that's fine for Saturday. It was something else, like the answers to the clues were too vague or could've been a dozen other answers. And often the crosses were the same, or somewhere unknowable, so they were no help. I couldn't even finish this one without Check Puzzle a few times, something I almost never have to do. Lost my gold star streak on this one.

Extremely frustrating that actually putting LINE in the answers, to complete the words, was incorrect. If it hadn't been for those, I'd have finished the puzzle without cheating. Thanks for ruining my golden streak on a gimmick.

Did this puz, I done.

Jus barely bea my average time. I go stuck on the top lef corner for too long. Grea theme and a solid Thursday puzzle.

SPOONERISM is the religious belief in using a LADLE to eat ice cream or soup.

If Sunday puzzles are supposed to be embiggened Wednesday puzzles, this was far too difficult. This was more like a hard Saturday puzzle.

ixnaY on this uzzlepaY Painful and slow.

I give this puzzle a THUMBSUP! Get it? THELIKESOFYOU? I'll see myself out.

SOONERORLATER, we're going to see if this DETENTE with Iran holds, or if one side exclaims WEHADADEAL while the other side WREAKS havoc on the global economy. We will not be able to RESTEASY until this MESS is all sorted out. For now, we'll just have to HANGTIGHT. IMFORIT, but the ODDS are not in favor of lasting peace.

What kind of wood did they use in 17th century Europe for making tabletops in drinking establishments? Bar oak.

Disagree with TEENTSY spelling. Raiders org slowed me down a lot, I was sure it was NFL.

I bet my DOGWOOD enjoy this puzzle. I did.

When you don't have a runny nose, it's NOTSNOT.

Heavy science theme today. Physics, astronomy, chemistry. ASTEROID MARIE (Curie) OTTOHAHN MAJORTOM FUSION FISSION ISOMER PORTALS (if we're including sci-fi)

I think this was the first puzzle in a while that was perfectly appropriate for its day off the week. Quality Wednesday puzzle.

A feeling of PANIC AROSE when a certain couple was caught on the KISSCAM doing something SEEDY last year.

Wow, did that NW corner kill me. Besides ATT, I got exactly zero other words either across or down my first pass through, and then I stared at it forever to start filling it in.

I'm with Sam on not knowing "rowdy" could be a noun, but M-W says it is true (second definition). This was my 1800th completed puzzle.

Wow. Just wow.

I am ETERNALLY grateful that I did not have to DWELL on this puzzle for too long, nor look EXTERNALLY for answers, allowing me to DO WELL and keep my gold star streak going. XOXO

I felt that this dinkum was very fair. Probably the fairest dinkum I've ever encountered.

I bet Eddie would say he D/Un did this P/Uzz.

This puzzle was relatively easy, it did not FLUMMOX me. I did not have to FLEX my brain muscles much to complete it. However, it did let me get my NYT crossword puzzle FIX in.

I've probably never heard/seen the term Altiplano before today. Now I've seen it twice!

Several years ago, I bumped into Aly Raisman in Boston, where she lived (lives?). I just happened to randomly be in Boston again today as I'm sitting here solving this puzzle. Coincidence?

[107D]y cat, [107D]y cat They should've figured a way to work that in as a bonus.

Good golly, Miss Molly! That was an easy one.

What do you call a party animal? A FUNGI.

I was DETER[1]D to beat my average, and I did. BOOM! Not the hardest Thursday puzzle, but clever and fun.

Recoil suddenly - SHIES? [22A] To shy away from something means to avoid it, but there's nothing *sudden* about the action, per se. I think this clue was a stretch.

Geez-o-Pete, that was a strange clue! Yeesh!

I'm guessing Eddie dun did this puzz. So dun I.

Was it intentional that we have a clue about a two-cent piece, with a picture of a ROLL of pennies in the column, on the day after the US Mint produced its final batch of pennies? <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/penny-coin-legacy.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/penny-coin-legacy.html</a>

Here's my SEASHANTY: Yo Ho, as Friday's go, The answers came like a Wednesday flow.

Now 5 out of the last 6 days this week I've been faster than average. Either I suddenly got smarter, or the puzzles this week have been a bit on the easy side.

I *ted to figure it out as soon as QBERT didn't fit properly. Relatively easy once you figure out the rebus.