Rachel's Mom

Congratulations Rachel and Adam on a fun puzzle! Rachel’s dad joined in on the fill to make finding the theme easier (her creativity and brilliance is inherited from a distinct side of her lineage). The rebus was a nice aha moment, and having the ability to text Rachel a copy of the puzzle to find my typo (in awayteam) was a kind Mother’s Day gift. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

We woke early to Rachel's text from a different time zone (cough cough) with her happy news of today's puzzle. Congrats, sweetie! My thoughts -- high school chemistry is never far from her heart; we're always glad to celebrate pride, even in April; I want the other half of the chocolate bar; she was a swimmer - her sister played soccer - so the beckham error is forgivable but noted; "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice"- and today requires 44D - so get out there and help register 10 people; and I need more coffee. @Barry - hope all is well with you!

Just popping in to thank Jack for a fun puzzle. Congrats on your debut!

Fun puzzle R&R! (Hope all wordplay folks are doing well and recovering from springing forward yesterday?). I'm trying to recall if a certain constructor played apples to apples in her formative years, but thinking poker and repeated missions to survive the Oregon Trail won out? An almost quick Monday for me but I'll attribute the longer time to a late west coast to east coast flight. Despite a fambam text letting me know the puzzle was out, I needed to wait for the coffee pot to finish. Now that I've finished with some smiles along the way, I can send R's grandma appropriate assistance for Gen__ or Millennial clues that I eked out with crosses ... And gram and malt ... lol.