Scott

Great theme, well-executed. A fun Wednesday puzzle.

In general, the puzzles edited by Joel Fagliano have just a little too much punning/obscure clueing for me. If that’s your jam, more power to you, but for how my brain works I prefer Will’s puzzles. Will’s clever clues depend more on a good knowledge of literature. Joel’s seem to depend more on reading his mind, which I don’t do very well. At any rate I hope Mr. Shortz is getting better.

A good Wednesday puzzle.

Just once, I’d like to finish a puzzle in record time (as I did today), and see other puzzlers commenting how hard it was. :) Fun puzzle today. Like others, never heard of Arctics but pretty easy to solve around it.

Like everyone else, I loved this puzzle. I’m still smiling, and shaking my head in awe at the effort it took to construct it. Hands down the best Monday ever that I’ve done, and one of the best, period. Bravo! Encore, encore!

Maybe someone else dealt with this in one of the hundreds of comments below, but can someone please explain 22D—“pair of accessories”—CEES?

The answer to 33A is just not a word.

I very much liked the puzzle, except for 106 down. That poorly-clued answer cost me at least 5 minutes.

Can someone explain to me what the relationship between “De-centers” and CORES is? (A sincere request.)

An enjoyable Friday puzzle with clever clueing and some “aha” moments. To those complaining “this isn’t as hard as it should be. When I was young we solved puzzles twice as hard while walking to school uphill both ways”, Friday is as Friday does.

I loved today’s puzzle as much as I disliked Sunday’s. When I realized the theme, I said aloud, “Brilliant.” This was a perfect Thursday puzzle.