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Tomorrow I'm interviewing for my dream job (an appellate public defender!), so what fun and fortuitous timing to open the puzzle today and see that the clever creator holds that job! I felt it was a harbinger of good luck, especially as a fellow mom to a young child who can very much relate to Ms. Morris's Worlde woes. I will take all the good vibes I can get!
So much fun! I’m a grammar nerd and former editor. I think 45A was my favorite! So clever!
This was a real challenge! I had to finally give in and look up the proper nouns and the theme just did not click for me until the very end. But now I see how much easier it could have been if I’d figured it out sooner.
@HeathieJ Omg! The 500. I didn’t even think of the way. Soooo clever. I loved this puzzle.
I didn’t love the misspellings, but I did love the theme. I was hoping FOXMULDER might pop up!
I LOVED this one. I’ve been struggling the last few days and this one got me back in the game! So many super unique answers and super clever wordplay. I had to look up the whale in Pinocchio because I was struggling with that southwest corner, but otherwise it was a hint free play! Lovely, fun puzzle! It’s also fun when you can get nooner into a crossword.
Very fun puzzle! I rode the MARC for many years so that was a fun one to see.
@Pax Ahimsa Gethen agree on 11D! I stared at it for so long and then googled the word “stanthony” hahaha. So disappointed in myself because my mom has been invoking St. Anthony my entire life!
The theme really made me chuckle! Very clever.
This was so much fun! Wednesdays can really go either way and I thought this one was perfect.
What a fun puzzle! This is one of my favorite movies - my family even visited the prison in Mansfield, Ohio where it was filmed - and such a clever theme through and through (the tunnels).
@Nom De Plume those where the corners I was stuck on, too! I had to give in a Google a few. But they were definitely satisfying answers once I saw them!
Finally my degree in intelligence came in handy with microdot!
@Keith I’m sorry you’ve never attended a carnival! A balloon hat is a real and true thing of joy (and staticky hair).
@Nancy iPads have replaced cash registers in many stores these days as most people pay with cards instead of cash.
I finished this one before I got the theme! I was like - what the heck does this mean?? But once I filled the whole puzzle it clicked for me! What’s so silly is that I had one of the top row answers filled in correctly at the start and then changed it as it stopped working for try rest of the answers. STILL it didn’t click. But, such a clever idea even though it went right over my head!
@Margrethe So weird. In the print edition this was a totally different clue: “kind of radiation”.
@Eric Hougland AH!! I got this by surrounding clues and couldn’t figure it out. Sooo clever.
@Jester of Xanadu to took me way too long to figure out the correct vowel here.
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate… said 5 times, but “repeated” 4? This is a distinction that’s never occurred to me! Is that right or did the clue get it wrong?
@HeathieJ I am! But I’m always happy for an excuse to watch it again!!
@HeathieJ This is a beautiful version, but have you see the original? I think when you look up “the 90s” in a dictionary it just sends you here. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_vVKcVYbo&pp=ygUkZGF2aWQgZHVjaG92bnkgd2h5IGRvbid0IHlvdSBsb3ZlIG1l" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_vVKcVYbo&pp=ygUkZGF2aWQgZHVjaG92bnkgd2h5IGRvbid0IHlvdSBsb3ZlIG1l</a>
@Prof. Toru Tanaka Same! This is the second time hon has showed up in a recent puzzle and it makes my Baltimore heart happy.
@Bill in Yokohama I agree on Beemer. I don’t know why, but I also automatically spelled it that way and it sounds outrageous that it’s actually spelled “bimmer”?? Odd. I also had BOZO until the very end until I couldn’t figure out what the heck and AZOBE was. 😂
Such a fun puzzle! I do it in the paper and the connect the dots was such a fun twist!
@Gomer I started doing them regularly several months ago. I used to only be able to do the Mondays and Tuesdays and now I can usually solve the whole week (with a few googles near the end of the week). It’s so fun to watch your progression over time.
This was such a fun puzzle. I love when I can breeze through a Monday on my lunch break.
Loved this one, and I solve all my puzzles in newsprint in my daily paper. There’s no better way!
@Lauritz I thought the same re: ETTA. I loved the originality of that!
@Sam I guess technically a twist is a long zest. I agree on George though. I waited until I had another across letter to get that one because I couldn’t decide who to choose.
@Cindy this is the one I remember!
@Flamingo I had UPNOSE for way too long 😂
@MFSTEVE I had the same because I didn’t know 4D. I do it on the paper so I only saw I was wrong when I read the column!
@Virginia I checked this after and it seems that -iest is an excepted variation.
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