Sean

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.