Wes

I signed into this website for the first time just so I could comment on how bad this puzzle is to me. I am not an aficionado of crosswords by any means, but I am FAR from a simpleton, and this puzzle strikes me as designed by someone with an old point-and-click designer’s seventh-dimensional thought process. Nearly half of the clues I had to look up and learning the solutions invariably made me furious, either because the logic required to reach the conclusion was entirely alien to me, bewilderingly vague, or, as in the case of one very strikingly recurring answer throughout this comment section, positively ancient in origin. If I have to pay for puzzles of this caliber, I shan’t continue to do so for much longer.