Brett

Did not enjoy this puzzle at all.

Great idea ruined with a mountain of trivia and some very poor clues.

A wonderful theme that suffered from very poor clueing. Solved easily enough but I don’t even know where to start with my complaints on the clues… just not great.

Not sure where to begin with this miserable puzzle. The proper nouns and trivia ruined it for me. And that’s without mentioning things like the terrible SE corner … COT, OBELI, and GABE… basically impossible for me. Most of the three letter answers were impossibly clued as well. Sad because there were a few brilliant spots, like ANTEDATED, but the few gems were ruined by the rest, for me. Ok… cue the people who say it was too easy…

Good puzzle. But I feel like “fixing to” should have been FINNA. I wonder if that’s ever been in a puzzle?

“Pop in the Midwest” seems to be clued wrong. In the Midwest people do not say SODA, they say “pop”. I’m sure some will disagree—it’s not universally true—but where I come from (Nebraska) nobody says soda.

Fun and easy. Nice after yesterday’s slog.

Least favorite puzzle of 2026 so far. Poor clues in a lot of places.

Excellent puzzle

Worst of the year

Tough one. Proud to have finished

I guess a lot of people didn’t like it? Usually when that happens I’m with them… but not today. An enjoyable easy solve for me, which is rare for a Thursday. I guess I was vibing with the constructor. Cheers

Nice puzzle, cheers

Loved it

Very hard but was proud to finish. I think a younger me with lesser abilities would have hated it though.

For me very, very hard. But managed to solve it, and really can’t quibble with any of the clues. Well constructed.

Very cool!

Tricky little Monday

Loved this puzzle, but the SW corner ruined it for me.

Fast and easy… but I don’t understand why I didn’t like it.

Just the right amount of challenge

Very good puzzle, thanks

Wow. Fastest Saturday puzzle ever

I liked it

Everyone’s going to say ARTUR is the proper Polish spelling but well, I still take issue with using it as the answer. I was convinced I was wrong or it was a rebus for a very long time. Not a big fan of clues that go against the grain in this way. Otherwise enjoyed the puzzle.

Puzzles shouldn’t be unsolvable. Thanks anyway

I quite liked it. Challenging but fair

I really loved this puzzle… until ORAJEL crossing with JUL and SCYLLA…. Seriously crummy section that ruined it for me. There happens to be a product called ORASOL which does the same thing and once I had that locked in there was no solving this one given the impossible crosses. Just my two cents. Loved the rest of it but just couldn’t believe anyone could look at that section and find it reasonable.

I really, really liked this but can’t quite put my finger on why. Superb puzzle.

Toughie

Excellent!

SW corner took me forever

Great puzzle and not that hard, until the SE corner, which was demonic.

Tough for me but very satisfying

Very hard but fair.

Tricky. Not as good as some have said, but also not as bad. Was just ok for me.

Loved it. Clever and didn’t kill me. Many will say it was too easy. But I enjoyed it.

Got a new personal best time for Tuesday with this one

Loved it

Good puzzle except for BRAVA. Just my two cents but answers like that can ruin an otherwise nice puzzle.

I loved this one. For me it was just hard enough and super rewarding when I finally cracked the SW to finish.

Liked it. NE took me way longer than it should have though.

Piece of cake

Good one. Tricky but fair

I’m either getting better or the puzzles are getting easier. I’m hoping it’s the former. This felt challenging but the answers came quickly enough…

Easy breezy

I didn’t like BODING very much. Had TIDING for way too long.

Fun and easy