Matthew

On the first pass the only clues I got were ONE and ENO. Then after all the trivia lookups (they were so obscure that lookups were pretty much mandatory), I had enough to piece the rest together. It was difficult mainly because so many of the answers were so obscure, not because of the wicked wordplay of yesterday's puzzle.

That was a fun solve. The southeast corner was particularly challenging. I'm on a 54 day streak now and I swear I must have seen TSA clued in a dozen different creative ways.

Very nice puzzle. Congrats Yitzi. I like the relative shift from obscure American trivia to a greater focus on wordplay. I often find myself having to look up random Oscar winners from the 60s or some niche art deco architect, but today all the trivia was very accessible. 55A and 47D made me smile when I got them.

I love all the many wordplay features in the clues, once I finally got them. I was lucky to get the marquee answer on my first pass through so I had a good few crossing letters to hang words on. Even still, this was a tough solve. I was sure the number discovered was Euler's number, e, and I even saw the possible double-meaning way before I realised I was wrong. And PANZA in the top left was a certainty, but left me completely stumped on the first three down crossings. Other favourite wordplay clues are Returns home? for IRS, Starting line at a starting line, and Characters in LOTR.