Frank Sartori

This was one of the easiest Monday crosswords that I have filled in. Normally I have to look at the answer key to figure out an answer. I spelled one entry wrong which threw me off for about 30 seconds. The bits of trivia were exciting to solve. Who knew that there is a Guinness record for assembling a Mr. Potato Head?! Overall this was an extremely fun crossword to do.

Until I read the Wordplay column, I was confused about the theme. When I read the Roman numeral part, I was like “Wait a minute. These are movie sequels!” I grew up watching Home Alone 2 and I’ve seen the sequel to Sister Act at least once. Today’s puzzle was definitely a bit trickier than Monday and Tuesday, but I still enjoyed it very much. I definitely agree with the writer of today’s article about being kind about the solving ability of others. I often have to use the answer key to fill in answers but I’m not competing in competitions. I’m doing these puzzles for fun. That’s what it’s all about: fun!

One of the easiest puzzles I have filled in. It took me half a second to understand the starred clues. When I looked at the clue about the “STONE AGE” and looked at the revealer, it all clicked. A lot of the solutions were filled in from crossing clues. Overall a very enjoyable Monday puzzle that requires no cheats from me at all.

An enjoyable and very breezy Monday puzzle! It took me a second or two to figure out the themed clues as well as the revealer. Once I did figure out the revealer, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. I thoroughly enjoyed some of the pop culture clues (I grew up playing the PlayStation 1 as well as watching The Jungle Book). I was getting to the end and I thought I’d have to look at the key, but then closely studying the last few clues got me the answers I needed! (I am referring to the bottom left hand section of the puzzle.) Hats off to today’s constructor for a breezy Monday crossword that was extremely fun to solve!

This was quite the enjoyable puzzle. I had a few “a-ha moments” when trying to figure out certain clues, such as “Wrangler on the road” clue at 19-across. Same thing with 10-Down “Cuban rum cocktail”. Incidentally I agree with the editor of today’s article. I prefer to do my puzzles on print with a pen.

Reading through a good portion of clues, I had no idea what the answers were. After I got started, I was able to use some of the letters to formulate the answers I needed. This is one of the rare puzzles where I didn’t have to look at the answer key. The theme was very clever, as I enjoyed finding the names of famous singers in the circles boxes. Once I got going this was an extremely easy and enjoyable puzzle.

This puzzle was very approachable for me to which I thoroughly enjoyed it! It took crossing entries to solve most of it. I had put it down, went to work and picked it back up after coming home. Some of the entries I literally took a guess and they ended up being right! This should’ve counted as a Monday puzzle and not a Wednesday!