Elijamin

Becauss of my crossings i really thought 27D was ANISE, because yeah, star anise is a cluster of pods, that makes so much sense, and i didnt know what EDT was nor have i watched good dinosaur yet.

I find it quite fun that Madam Edebiri shows up in both themeless puzzle for this week. Im not surprised she has shown up 4 times this year alone!

I really thought you meant Yogi Bear! he has a hat AND a tie, and i kept switching between those two up until the last few words!

The parallel of AINTITFUN and DONTSPEAK really gives me the impression that at some point DONTSPEAK was clued as pop hit by No Doubt, making two parallel pop rock hits. I love both songs!

The trivia strewn throughout feels so catered to me as a early genZ / late millenial, ive never solved a saturday so fast before! its cool to see tchotchke and KNICKKNACK flipped because i swear tchotchke was the answer and knickknack was the clue a year ago. now im gonna have GALBI for dinner thanks for that

as far my flipper, i thought it would be flipping patties; i kept trying to fit grill, cause it fit the i in the crossing

I've called it spawn for so long from playing online games that i totally forgot its short for spawn point. i kept trying to force checkpoint or startpoint into it