Me.

@Isabeau that nonsensical crochet clue had me utterly stumped until I remembered that it's 2025 and apparently words no longer have meaning, especially wrt fabric. As a knitter and weaver, I've recently been baffled to find that even clothing manufacturers seem to be using those words interchangeably. One company keeps referring to their athletic fabrics as "woven," when, of course, they're knits. Knits stretch and move with the body, so they're great for athletic clothing. I don't want woven panel on the sides of my leggings - it won't move right. I think they've decided that "woven" is classier, but it's just misleading and wrong. As someone who thinks about fabric and materials quite a lot, it's baffling to find I live in a world where even clothing merchants don't!

@Neil honestly, this Yank can't keep em all straight either. I get em on the crosses.

@Vaer at various times, the puzzle has erased all my work after I've filled it in, telling me that I've not done the puzzle at all. I fill it in again and then it tells me that my new record time for a Saturday is the three minutes it took me to write the answers in. I've decided that the times when I fall asleep and end up with a nine or ten hour puzzle are the universe's way of balancing out the 3 minute Saturdays! Nature is healing! :D

@HeathieJ completely agree wrt 35 down. The system has not designed to post any of my comments pointing out the disingenuousness of their originality argument (very easy to think of other words that started as something innocent but today are utterly verboten), and I think less of everybody involved for both the fill and the refusal to post my complaint and thus, I must assume, others' complaints.

@Steve L naw, man. Wordplay requires understanding and playing off the meaning of the words. This just kinda rubbed related things against one another and preeningly thought rather highly of itself.

@Andrzej a gimme for me too... Until I tried to spell it!

@Francis the photo shows the moment when zita funkenhauser (ger) beat Laura badea to win gold. The event took place in 54D. I will admit, I looked it up because it has been a looooong time since I saw any of those blue-stripe Adidas shoes. When little other info is available, shoes are an excellent way to tell the era of a fencing photo.

I should say, to win team gold.

@JB idk. Seems like a shipbon which everyone had a companion.

@Joe P I've been slowly working my way back on Thurs-sat puzzles. I'm about 10 years away from that one and suspected that would be from a very different style. I didn't, however, think I'd be *completely* shut out in my first pass. Woof. Good luck!

@Barry Ancona I mean, every kid *and* every parent knows that you can fudge "one" by adding other increments "one half" "one quarter" "one onehundreth" "one gazillionth" "one ameliabedelianth" etc. The end isn't one, it's zero.

@Darren right? I absolutely loled. Can't decide if this is citable proof for Team Down and Back or purely a case of fools rush in! :D For anybody who wants to stick an oar in, your opinion on this matter only counts if you do spend a bit of time in the water. You might still be on one side or another, but if you don't get that there are Reasons to support each you're not actually *in* the discussion.

I'm pretty sure most people assume it means what you and I assume it means... And if that's the common understanding, then *that's* *what* *it* *means*. I've posted other comments on this, but oddly the emus have dined to their heart's content today. But the moderator's disregard for these comments does not make them less true.

@Barry Ancona you're not counting down to one, you're counting down to ignition. Who cares about one? One isn't the event! If we say that one, which precedes the event, is the aim of the countdown, then surely two, which also precedes the event, is equally the end. Ditto three. Etc.

@Max in that system, the term for two lengths is two laps.

@UE I had exactly the same problem.

@Mark completely agree. On a weekday morning, I don't want the puzzle to take up my whole day. And, frankly, that goes for weekends, too, so I'm glad that at least the Sunday one is available a little earlier! I often get it started in Saturday evening so I'll have more Sunday morning free for, well, Sunday morning! (having the monday puzzle available earlier feels like a waste, but I wouldn't mind having the Saturday puzzle on Friday evening!)

@Name2 one would think, but it has not yet proved so easy.

@J I haven't said nay until getting to this comment, but I'll say nay now. I understood it. But the cluing was poorly done and I'm now having to choose whether to continue wasting my morning flyspecking an unpleasant experience or just walk away with the darned thing.

@Weak just so you don't feel like your comment is falling in dead ears, I have certainly commented agreement, but the comment has been moderated out of existence. You are not alone in this feeling.