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@Lewis agreed! Thanks for your observations, this was so well put. I enjoyed the silliness of the theme entries and the satisfaction of working out the shorter entries. I almost always love the Sunday puzzle but even still, this one stood out. I join you in the praise and the thanks!

@Lewis well put and I agree, this was a super satisfying puzzle

@HeathieJ I had the almost unbelievable pleasure a few years ago of having my first name AND my husband’s first name appear in the puzzle one day. I know how fun that is!

@Francis I don’t share your pain but I can appreciate how annoying it must be to have something enjoyable turn sneakily into such a pain sometimes. I do the puzzle on my iPad Air, meaning it’s pretty easy to see the whole thing at once, even on Sundays. I’m sure it would drive me nuts trying to do it on my phone after Wednesday. On the rare occasion (no more than ten times a year) when I have a mistaken entry or two, it’s sort of fun and good temperament management to hunt it down. I don’t compete or compare with others for time scores, and i even adopted a friend’s “no down clues” challenge on mondays and tuesdays to savor the puzzle for longer. I only truly succeed at the no-downs every once in a while, there’s almost always a section that does me in. I wonder if the “pencil” feature would be helpful to you? Does the puzzle still have that? You can highlight (or maybe lowlight) “weird” crossings so you can drill down on those without truly erasing things. But I’m not sure if those pencilled entries need to be “in pen” to actually finish the puzzle.

@Jennifer thank you for sharing this evocative little story and for invoking “memory lanes” leading fun places.