Mos

What a weirdly maddening Tuesday!

I’m not sure why this community seems to gripe so much when a day’s puzzles vary in difficulty from week to week. There’s no objective metric by which to measure difficulty as perceived by every solver, and even if there were, there isn’t always going to be a puzzle available to run that hits that imaginary target. Just solve the puzzle, man! I thought this one was fun and lively, personally.

Jeez, BWANA crossing NEMEA left me guessing consonants - at least now I’ve got two more answers in my pocket for next time. Tough one for sure!

Very hard to break into, but this didn’t feel unfair. I eventually managed to conquer the SE unaided without having the faintest clue on “meno mosso”, so I wouldn’t rush to cry natick. Glad I stuck it out. Great puzzle!

I mean it as the highest compliment when I say that I would like to fight Sam Ezersky in the street … I for one thought this was a great puzzle

Fun Sunday! Because this is sort of my wheelhouse I am going to have to be *that guy*, however, and point out that Auto-Tune is the name of the music software in question, which would be described as a pitch correction tool - an “auto tuner” is, unfortunately, not really a thing, at least in this context. Consider my occasional nit picked!

“Functions without awareness?” is a particularly good alternative for that spanner - kudos for that one. Pretty breezy but a lot of fun!

Friday PR by a mile - first time cracking 7 minutes. Agreed with some others that FAJITA struck me as unusual in the singular but it’s not ungrammatical; apparently it refers to a strip of meat, or a little taco made with it, instead of the whole dish that many might picture. I shan’t complain!

Fun puzzle! Not even a quibble per se, but is “mescal” really the NYT’s preferred spelling of “mezcal”? I’ve worked at agave-focused bars for years and never seen that spelling in my life

Boy, sounds like I might be in the minority having found this one easier than yesterday. “Green suit” is an all-timer!