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In my defense, sometimes earrings do need to be rescued.
Someday many years from now, a Wordplay column few of us will be here to read will begin, "Today's puzzle is by Bryan Cheong, whose first puzzle was published way back in 2025 when he was just 14."
Within a ten minute walk of every MUNI line and I still put BART in first.
The puzzles aren't getting easier, I'm getting smarter. Yes, that must be it.
I appreciate having a new type of rebus to dislike.
You open a case with a statement, not an argument.
Genius-level puzzle. Well done.
@Spmm If you can tell me how to put the fireplace above my TV I'm willing to give it try.
Are party hats and balloons associated with SQUARE DANCEs and BOX SOCIALs? Are there really gatherings called CELL RECEPTIONS or is it just a play on words (uniquely, among the themed answers)?
Tolstoy would have used KAtarINA too if he had thought of it, probably.
Chewy for a Wednesday. Good stuff.
Thank you, Deb, and best wishes! I started puzzling as a distraction from the pandemic and I doubt it would have been any more than that for me without your joyful, inspiring columns. It won't be the same without you, but you got me hooked and I won't be quitting anytime soon!
Now that's a New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle! Well done!
Yes, this puzzle was too easy and lacked a certain something, that's why it took me so long.
My car is parked on NOE and I am drinking a PERSIMMON smoothie, does this still count as an unassisted solve?
Also still singular if you instead add an A at the beginning.
Down answers need to all be real words or phrases as written (just not the right answers to their clues) for this to work.
Great Tuesday puzzle. Made me work for the happy music!
A new record for me! (Slowest Saturday solve.). But no look-ups. I'll take it.
@SP Dracula isn't a bat, he's a vampire who can take the form of a bat. For him, eating a bat is no more cannibalistic than drinking human blood. And anyway there are bats that eat other bats--including a species of vampire bat.
@sue I believe reporters use it to indicate the end of a story when they submit it to their editors.
Perfect Wednesday puzzle.
@Jon <a href="mailto:nytgames@nytimes.com">nytgames@nytimes.com</a> will change your blue square to gold if you ask.
Polyphemus was not "the" cyclops, he was one of many cyclopes. But he probably did yell something like "I can't see" when he was poked in the eye by No Man/wily Odysseus. Too bad the constructor couldn't get that one "I" into "Poseidon," Polyphemus' father.
An allele can be dominant, but not a gene.
My golden-doodle resents being reduced to a caricature. But I thought it was a great puzzle.
Crediting my dog with the co-solve as walking him cleared the mental logjam.
Spent forever trying to fix answers that were correct (MAUD, NOCAP, AIT). Turns out I was DOUBLECROSSED by "DOUBLECROSSEs." Going to blame my high school German for thinking that HAsST was correct.
Nice puzzle, impressive debut. Self-driving cars have been a constant presence in my neighborhood for years and I assure you they are vastly less dangerous than human drivers, Deb.
Resisted the urge to pick up Suetonius' "Lives of the Caesars" literally sitting next to me. Ground out GALBA the hard way FTW.
Has the letter "F" been used like that before in a Times puzzle? Not complaining.
Just barely doable--my favorite kind of Saturday puzzle.
Love the early week themed puzzles, keep them coming!
"...eats crisps while using..." would have been jollier.
Great theme, thanks.
65D--not today.
"Spam" felt too right to be wrong for 48D. But sometimes you need to kill your darlings to get unstuck.
The constructor's "Bicfoot" story is like the Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum installs Flanders's new toilet next to the refrigerator because it was too heavy to lug upstairs.
EviCT looked so at home at 9A that I hesitated to [Boot] it.
The only thing I remember from my shop-class is that Evel Knievel's niece was in it.
Really wanted 35D to be BRAUHAUS.
Got hung up trying to squeeze CHICKEN NOODLE into 23D.
@Richard Hoping this inspires an Italian restaurant to create a dessert called cennoli (which apparently means "nod to them").
Another Monday banger.
Another clever early week puzzle, thank you!
Struggled with 112A. Finally got it and realized I am wearing their jersey! Is there a term for when a clue to an answer is staring you in the face?
Faster than my Sunday average but only because my first guess at an acceptable rebus format was correct. Least enjoyable crossword activity is cycling through alternative rebus formats to get the happy music.
If there was even one more answer that I had to get solely from crosses and guesses, I doubt I could have finished it unassisted. Which is to say, a perfect Saturday puzzle.