Mary A.

Only 22 comments over two hours after the puzzle dropped? I evidently was not the only one who found it challenging. Lots of blanks, especially in the SW until I left it for a couple of hours and let my unconscious mind work on it.

This puzzle would have been less annoying if the notes had made clear that the rotation of the locks was to be done in one's head. I retyped the letters into their rotated positions and only then realized that a typo elsewhere in the puzzle was keeping the happy music from playing. I was afraid it was going to be another occasion when a weird way of entering the answers was going to break a streak even when I knew the answers. It was an impressive feat of construction, though.

The 21-across and 8-down crossing clued me to the bang or ! possibility. I hadn't thought of "bang" as a substitute for an exclamation point, but I remembered that several (maybe a lot of) years ago there was an attempt to introduce a question mark and exclamation point combo as an "interrobang."

This seemed easy for a Saturday. Maybe it was because I solved it on my PC where I can read the clues without straining my eyes and made far fewer typos than on my phone. It was interesting and fresh with distinctive cluing that made me see some words and phrases in a different light.

Enjoyable puzzle with a cute theme, but 118-A didn't resonate with me because as a person who in a former phase of my life dealt a lot with plant taxonomy, I consider "genera" to be the correct plural of "genus." It would have worked in the singular. "easy-going Mensa member" perhaps?

"PWN" looked so wrong, but it was what the crossings dictated. So TIL a new term. And "amen" to John H.'s comment on 33D.