Erin

I thought the theme was cute and was hoping to solve with just downs, but the frequency of proper nouns thwarted that effort 🤷‍♀️

AYCARAMBA, I had NINJA in place of GINSU for the longest time - and I suspect any other millennials who did not grow up in the US might also have?

This is the first music themed puzzle where I got the pieces by knowing them as opposed to solving crosses. It might be generational. I am a classical music loving millennial and had no issues with the Beethoven clue. I enjoyed HYSTERIA, MILIEU, ALGEBRA, and BITEME. Congrats on the debut!

I was suffering until I got the trick, which took way longer than it should have (any other millennials?) I hadn't heard of FIEF or NAZCA - but I thought IMAGE crossing JPEG was cute

Somehow managed a Thursday PB but not get the trick. I think they went easy on the crosses today. Wish I figured it out myself, cute theme and impressive construction. I enjoyed the AI sub-theme

I channeled my inner taco lover a little too hard in the SW corner and confidently put in CARNITAS instead of ALPASTOR, and had BUCHE instead of ASADA 🌮

I found this challenging as a STEM PhD. Hadn't heard of NOSEEUM or a neon TETRA before. An impressive number of celestial answers in there not directly included in the theme, well done!