Will Johnston

Super fun to see a puzzle with this creativity appear as a Monday. It's inspiring to see the care that went into this -- I notice that there aren't any other O's in the grid except for the pathway bouncing around. This certainly required a lot of work to build. Loved it!

Really super fun puzzle, very accomplished construction and nicely diverting clueing. Typically it's frowned on to use a word in clues that appears in grid answers, but here for the superb central across entry, using "Can I ..." is just fine with me. I had BEAUTYSCHOOL for a while in upper right. Enjoyed seeing nice "crunchy"/"scrabbley" words like ECZEMA crossing PANZA, and the TCHOTCHKE crossing STICKERSHOCK. A very welcome professional debut for Kelvin Zhou.

Super creative theme this Thursday! Loved it.