jprfrog

It was a struggle but this was my 1000.

Bravo to the puzzlers! The clues (especially the "Noah's Ark") gave me and my wife good laughs. And since they were lengthy and filled up many squares we broke our own time record, recording 24 minutes and change.

I was right about the puns and colors but wrong about the rebuses. It took an extra fifteen minutes to figure it out and fix it. Seems unfair that we were not allowed to actually put the color names in --- so the puzzle was really typographical rather than logical.

We laughed hard at some of the themed answers --- the clues alone were great.

Please explain "silenta" to me.

More accurately, a coset is usually not a subgroup. They come in clusters, and one of them is actually a subgroup but most of them are not.