Joshua Parker

This is a really, really nice puzzle.

I love Deb’s neverending encouragement to get people to try Fridays!

For people who don’t like rebuses: why don’t you just skip Thursday?

Good one! Lotta misdirection. I didn’t think I’d solve it!

Shout out to Deb for plugging the ‘walk away’ strategy. I’d love to know how and why it works but a lot of times it just does.

Weirdly hard. Nice one!

This one felt like a perfect Wednesday level. Some fun clues and I especially liked 16A. Nice job!

This is just a great puzzle. Difficult and enjoyable so that it felt like a perfect Friday.

I just read Deb’s column and I’m blown away by the revealed. Tremendous work!

That was worth the pain and I mean that in the best way.

It felt tough for a Wed but I’m ok with that :) Great puzzle!

That was wacky and great!

Great puzzle!

Great, great puzzle. I loved the * clues. So simple but tough.

As a lover of Scrabble and crosswords (I’m sure I’m the only one) I loved this puzzle! My only nitpick is that you should’ve had 7 words with the trick in it, like the 7 tiles in Scrabble.

Solid Hal Jordan and also my favorite Spice Girls song. It’s sweet.

Really nice puzzle.

I really liked this puzzle!

Brilliant theme!

Tuuuuuffffff puzzle! But I liked it.

Regarding the relative ease of this one here is my take: 1. It’s a great puzzle. Nice job! 2. The easiest clues are on the level of a Monday or Tuesday. 3. If I imagine the harder clues in a Mon or Tue that seems too hard. I’d even say they’re almost too hard for a Wed. 4. That leaves Thu, so maybe it’ 1 day off in terms of level.

That was hard!

Honest question for Deb: Do you ever not like a puzzle? I love, love, LOVE your positivity and share a lot of your columns with friends in hopes of encouraging them to try puzzles later in the week.l. I also notice that the vast majority of your columns seem to point out how great a constructor has done.

It’s funny that of the 65 (so far) comments, 54 of them are Recommended.

The ELF/ELK crosser felt intentionally tricky from a visual/trickery standpoint as opposed to a crossword-solving standpoint. I’m open to alternate viewpoints but I’m not down with it.

Brilliant theme!

Did anyone else notice the upper left also could have been blank?

I was stuck so hit the solve button and it didn’t show that I had any errors. Anyone else?