Sean

That was cute, but was fairly meaty for a Monday. I'm guessing someone will now post stats going back to the beginning of time to argue that this was somehow the perfect Monday puzzle.

Easy solve. The annoying recurring pop up telling me how to solve the puzzleprobably added a minute to solving.

Cute puzzle theme. Some of the puns make sense. Some went over my head. Aria kidding left me scratching my head. Aside from that, I had ADO inst of DIN, which threw that corner off

OLEO must be a regional thing. Margarine was just margarine when i was growing up. Cross that with an obscure HALLEYBOPP, and the section became a slog for me. I'll echo what everyone else said about NOES. The puzzle was clever, but the execution could use some polishing.

I had to read Mr. McGowan's explanation 3 times to make any sense out of the theme. I was able to guess some of the answers, but this one is much ado aboit nothing. It's overly complicated and lands with a thud. My hats off to Mr. Woodford for pulling it off. However, this is another in a flood of recent puzzles where the constructors are going overboard and throwing everything they can at us. It's not very subtle or nuanced. Meg!

This wasn't a difficult puzzle. The nonsensical answers were easy enough to fill in. I had to back to study the puzzle to make any sense of it after reading the Wordplay blog. Even at that point, it was a "look I get it" moment that landed with more of a thud and an aha. Hats off to anyone who can construct a times crossword puzzle. However, when I have to study the puzzle to get the revealed, and go down the sides in order to see hofits together, together, it leaves me cold. It was fun enough without needing to be cute.

Cute theme, but overall not a fan of this one. Antifa is just the start.

I've never hears of a shower beer. Why the heck would I drink a beer in a shower? Functional lcoholism rules, I guess. I have no clue what peripeteia, other than the apparebtly means the stated clue for such. I found no personality in this puzzle, despite Mr. McGowan's claim that the constructor's personality was all over the puzzle. I'll politely assume that he didn't mean that the constructors is conceited. I love Friday crosswords, but this one left me cold.

A lot of skill went into making an underwhelming puzzle. Easy enough to solve, but too gimmicky.

I had to laugh at 52 down. I didn't know that any personal jets had familiar names. I guess I'm guess I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd.

This was challenging, but I figured out whay was going on. My peeve is with the execution in the app. Since I dont run around with a notepad, and don't want to reconstruct the entire puzzle in a notepad app, it would have been a he'll of a lot easier if we were able to place the dark letters in rhe puzzle. Keeping track of which dark letters were where took up a third of my time when solving it. Kudos to the idea and execution by Mr. Gulczynski. There needs to be, or should have been, a way to track track the dark letters in the games app. As usually, little thought goes into the execution by the editors or the app developers.

I don't mind tricks or twists in a puzzle. However when literally nothing fits, then I figure "what's the point?" Once I gave up and read the Wordplay blog to make sense of the puzzle, it became easy. But, if I have to cheat to make sense of it, again, "what's the point? " Usually, even a Thursday puzzle has at least a few clues that are trick free. Those clues help me fill in parts of the puzzle until a pattern emerges. I'm sure anyone who quickly solved this puzzle will say it was easy or fun or clever. All I can is "meh!" This really felt more like a vanity exercise than anything else. I'm sure there was some sense of satisfaction for the constructor. If every Thursday puzzle was like this one, I'd cancel my Times subscription and find other forms of entertainment.

This was a clever puzzle, but a bit complicated to enter. With my big thumbs, it's easy to make typos. With such a complicated grid to fill in, it was hard to find the typos, so I had to check the puzzle to figure it out. Oh well.

Fridays have become my favorite puzzle. I'm enjoying these themeless puzzles more and more as the themed revelers have gotten cluttered of late. I enjoyed this one. It wasn't overly difficult. I just took some patience to solve.

Short snd sweet. MOUE threw me. That's a new one for me. My mind went to MOPE.

This was clever without being gimmicky. No overkill, like alotofrexent puzzles. I enjoyed this one. It took a moment for the theme to click.

The puzzlewas easy. The theme was a dud. Once again, much ado about nothing.

I appreciate the effort and construction, but these complicated fills make it near impossible when I'm looking for typos. Meh!

I manged ro power my way through this one. MEWL threw me. Never heard of a BETATRON. On another note, what's up with the mini Puzzle today? I get GOLDENGATE, but the graphic doesn't make any sense.

I haven't finished the crossword. I finished the midi don't get "as literally seen in this clue?" There's a theme, but i don't get it.

Meh! Crash blossom? Sounds like fake news. This puzzle was well stacked, but left me cold.

The puzzle was enjoyable. The revealed was a groaned. This feels like every other puzzle of late. There's too much going on with the theme, especially for a Monday. What ever happened to subtlety?

I like Friday puzzles. This was anything easy if enjoyable one. Good work on the stacked grid spanners.

The puzzle was easy enough, but the revealed landed like a thud. I figured out there was a shift involved without knowing what the shift was. Since thetr was not the usual visual clue or shading to tie the revealed to the shifts, I just took my shots in the dark. Kudos to the constructor, but I never enjoy puzzles that force me to go back and study them after the fact in order to understand the trick. Once again this was much ado about nothing.

This puzzle wasn't too difficult. Hiwever, it felt overly ambitious for a Monday puzzle.

Are we supposed to count the number of answers that are missing T's? I love Thursday puzzles, but this was the most tedious slog of unenjoyable puzzle that I've done in weeks. Great job of construction, but this one offered no enjoyment. I feel like a wasted an hour by force if will to finish it and call it a day.

Puzzle was appropriately challenging for a Wednesday. The theme easy, at least as far REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE are concerned. The rest of the theme felt like a kitchen sink approach with a lot of everything thrown in. It feels like overkill. I enjoyed the puzzle, but gave up on trying to make sense of all of the highlighted and circled squares. Even the explanation in the Wordplay blog felt overly complicated. Maybe this is all like missing the humor of an inside joke.

The puzzle was fun enough. However, it feels like another "everything but the kitchen sink" puzzle after the fact. I'm sure there was a lot Skill that went into constructing the puzzle, but there have been a lot of recent puzzles where the constructorsare trying to do too much.

Fun. Almost adourable.

This was anything easy solved, and a cute theme. My only nit pick here is that plus would have made more sense than plus sign, since the answer is equal, and not equal sign. Open paren and question mark make sense. Otherwise, a fun solve.

Clever, I guess, but not a fan. The visual clue for 42 across was a total bust. How the raised font in the games app is supposed to equate to MINI evades me. I get how the fits the these, but the clue is a stretch.

It was a fast enough solve, but the nuances i tended by the ci structorwhen over my head. I still don't get it, even after reading the blog. I'll just scratch my head in ignorance.

This one was pretty straightforward. However, im scratching my cap overthr midi, which went straight over me head.

This felt more like a Monday puzzle.

It was an easy puzzle for a Wednesday. I admit the theme went over my head. Even after reading the Wordplay blog, I had to look up the move titles on IMDB to make sense of it. Still fun.

I can only call this one tedious. Even after looking up "c-store" I'm still clueless about the answer. That set the tone for me for this puzzle.

Finally, a straightforward puzzle without gimmicks. Funny that one the answers in today's Puzzle is apparently banned for use in this forum. Using it when commenting on a puzzle earlier this week stopped my comment from being approved. Pointing it out earlier today stopped my comment from being published. I'd love to hear Barry's comments on that subject. (Hopefully this one isn't banned.)

Just chaĺlenging enough. One person had an issue with overarching. Ive never heard the term used, but, sure enough, the definition is overhand. Fair enough. I've also never heard of, or perhaps forget hearing of, a viol. And I'm totally unfamiliar with lothario. So that small section was for me the toughest. The rest were easy to plod through.

Easy solve, but the theme doesn't make sense.

Meh!

Going through the puzzle after the fact, I found some enjoyable intersections. However, while working through, it felt to me that this was another tedious puzzle in a week of tedious puzzles. I'm not throwing shade at the constructors, but this week I felt like I had to slog my way through all of the puzzles. I'll see what this weekend brings and hope that for a reset next week.

Cute enough. Much ado about nothing.

Meh!