Cory L

I loved today's Crossword. I'm a slower solver, so I'm not one of the ten minutes or so Friday solvers. I always enjoy when a crossword grows my vocabulary or teaches me new meanings for words that I didn't think of immediately. I will more often get clues about ancient Greco-Roman related things than I will pop trivia or baseball (it's the only sport I've not really found a team that makes me want to dive in with). Yes, I know the baseball thing is likely a sin in New York. Great puzzle!

What a fun little clue this one was. A nice start to the week on Monday. One that gets me thinking but not so hard that it's adding stress to what is already the most stressful day of the week. Thank you!

Am I the only one who doesn't get 26 across at all? I know the NoNo Rebus means yes, which I'm not a fan of but understand, but that makes 26 across rYESees. As far as I can tell, this is not a word, and it ruined part of the fun for me because I thought I had incorrectly identified what I was supposed to do when that's what I got.

Very clever puzzle. I still didn't figure out the reason the countries were in the clues, so I came here to find that out.