Calypso

Way too much obscure trivia. No thank you.

if ROAM/ROVE is in a crossword, I am certain to choose the wrong one every time

what a horrid slog of a puzzle filled with trivia instead of the fair balance of wordplay to give your solver a fighting chance -- even the revealer was trivia

A dairy farm can also be a (cow) tipping point!

Somehow I convinced myself that [Royal adversary] was TWIN because of king and queen bed size and completely missed the baseball reference

I didn’t enjoy this one. The theme was too niche and not even required for solving the grid. I expected more fun from a Sunday puzzle.

Much to my chagrin both ABEL/BASES and CAIN/ACIDS fit at 38-down and 41-across with no other letters filled in and I wasn’t sure of either pair! What a brilliant piece of construction if intended or a very fun coincidence if by accident

As someone with a RARE DISEASE, that was fun(?) to see and I knew the answer almost immediately

Very fun puzzle! Even the more obscure clues fit all my niches/generation today so I breezed through it

I kept trying to figure out if "Xing" was a Chinese app or social media site I hadn't heard of -- only at the very end did I clock it as X-ing or crossing

Surprised by the negative responses! This puzzle was challenging in a good way — really fun to figure out and watch the letters fall into place. I thought for sure that I would need a lookup, but managed to get all of the unknown trivia thanks to the crossings. I sat with this one for almost an hour today, which is nearly twice my average time! I will agree that there was some weak clueing, though — the “lunged” one mentioned in the column being the most egregious.

I listened to the Wicked soundtrack while solving this morning so Oz really through me off! I didn't catch the very important period in the clue

I’ve never heard of hair being “teased up” just “teased”

I tried to put "TOYATATHON" for the [beginning of Taurus season] :D

very rude for CORPORATE SPIES to fit in 48A (without the rebus)

A really fun puzzle to suss out! That is until the triple crossing of PANANG, GSIX, and KASBAH did me in

PRELL is a little before my time so I thought of PERT for the green shampoo bottle! Alas, a letter short it is, as YODA would say.

Not me confidently typing FREUDIAN SLIPS for the revealer clue...

Fun puzzle, but I hear (or read) "chronically" online more often

The “tricky clue” for 38D [Philippics] doesn’t actually include the answer?

I felt real fancy with COTERIES for party people, only for it to be much simpler

I'm proud of myself today for getting the "SANTA SUIT" pun with very few crosses. Also, I find it very hard to believe "PLAY ACTION" is a compelling enough phrase to warrant a duplicate word

The real "bending" in this puzzle that's frustrating is the *medium* bending...it seems like the constructor couldn't decide between books and film when setting the puzzle theme.

"TEC" is also used in the comics world, as shorthand for "Detective Comics" in which Batman stars :)

I understand the complaints about ESPIAL but I didn't even notice it because it filled in easily from the crosses...

I knew SAPIOSEXUAL immediately...I spent too much time on tumblr back in the day

I've never in my life heard PAREN but an otherwise fun puzzle. I believe we've had RE[STAR]EA recently so that's what tipped me off and assured me I wasn't crazy for thinking M*A*S*H was the most viewed television episode

Oof I didn’t like this puzzle at all. FAUX NAÏF was a stretch, PIT STAINS was gross, and now we have to know lyrics from random rappers?

I thought TANGENT crossing with GENT was a little lazy and uninspired