Abby Carr

Theme was very disappointing. I copped onto the pig latin from the title alone. But the answers? Good grief I feel like the theme couldn't decide if it wanted to be a straight or meta. The straight answers weren't in pig latin, some of them fit the clue some of them didn't. And the meta answers were hardly in pig latin, some of them fit the clue some of them didn't. My (extremely amateur) opinion is that the theme lacked clairvoyance. It's almost impossible to know what to do until you have the correct letter string in front of you, and even then there's a leap in logic. Most people can't do a crossy downs only, how would one ever arrive at that string? to then even start solving the puzzle? I get that this setter likes really tough puzzles, and I'm definitely a Monday/Tuseday sort of person. But a good, hard, puzzle, leaves you feeling good even when you reveal it. This one doesn't land even knowing the answers. Next time I go shopping online I guess I'll buy a jumbotron for dinner and get a promotion for smoking. Until next time.

Awesome puzzle, loved the letter variety (in fact I thought it was a pangram right up until the very end!) Trickiest answer for me was "Snarf", as being an Irish person (and not very interested in yoga) the first thought I had was "Scarf", as was the case in quite a few recent puzzles. I've made a scant few crosswords myself, mostly for fun, and sometimes I include the phrase ', but not that one' as an indicator to help smooth out ambiguity in tough clues crossed with names. I don't know if that's a setting faux pas, but I like the idea for rare words and phrases. (For example, cluing "Roti" as 'Indian flatbread, but not that one')