Tim V.

Wow! Heloise and Abelard! Talk about ARCANA.

This is a response to Sam Corbin's column. Hands, as a unit, is a measure of how tall a horse is. I have no idea why. It just is.

Oooh, a bit of a Natick between 37 across and 39 down. I had the whole puzzle but I had to do a lookup on Chelsea Comedian. I'm not a fan of getting the right word, then having to wrong it with a weird trick. Meh. Certainly a better puzzle than I could construct, so hats off anyway.

I enjoyed this, but it shows me how differently from each other people think. I got the tricky clues first. I got the SHAVED HEADS with no crosses at all. But for some reason a CALL option took me forever. And a HINT=NOTE? Hm. Like many others, I had Bjorn first but realized that was probably not correct. And SEVENOFNINE didn't fit.

I suppose it's my own shortcoming that I'm not familiar with Nella Larson. But that, combined with the nonsensical title (NATHANFORYOU) of a reality TV show I've never heard of, made this section feel a bit Naticky.

You call 36A/31D a "tricky clue." We have a name for it too: Natick. I expect better from the NYT.

I have no complaints about this puzzle, but I struggled! Many of the answers were counter-intuitive. UPS shipment=CRATE? Since when? Anyway, today's time was over 2x my Tuesday average. The theme answers were easy and straightforward, but a lot of the meat of the puzzle was obscure.

This one was a ton of fun. I solved it in my usual time. But I never did get the theme until I read the blog post! All those films! I was oblivious.

I loved the CHARLIEBUCKET entry! I was thinking dogs all the way.

I loved loved loved 99% of this puzzle. But like others, I think the EN-DASH wasn't particularly clever, it was just misleading. Mom, Dad, Sis was brilliant. Farm butter: brilliant. HI hi, fantastic. And I literally LOLed when I got Simpson nee Bouvier, especially since it crossed with such high-brow company as Isadora Duncan! I even loved the "Came Unglued" because, like a lot of people, I had "_ _ _ TAPE". (those are em-dashes width BTW)

As the husband of a voice actor, I'm ashamed how long it took me to get 35A. Fun, fun puzzle, especially with the Caesarean boast.

Oh my god. Messing up on the big screen. I HATE YOU! (lololol). That was a lot of fun!

I solved this under my average, but it was a hard solve. I mean, without looking at a recipe I figured GRAM flour was correct. It was only the APPLEPRESS that saved me. Things started coming together with the STETSONHAT, which made me smile. Like everyone else, I struggled with the SE corner. Like someone else said, I used to subscribe to UTNEREADER. So that helped a bit. But for the longest time I had OLD not OLE. Fun solve today. Beat my average by 4 minutes.

Ugh, I have never, ever, ever seen Galbi. I've always seen Kalbi even though most Koreans pronounce the K very soft. I enjoyed the puzzle though. This is not a complaint!

I've never heard GOOD-OH. Also, when I see "cote" I think dove cote, and had COO for the longest time. I got it eventually but those two were/are total head scratchers for me. I didn't actually catch on to the two-directional nature until the extreme SE corner.

No! Seriously, just stop it. Are there rules or are there not rules? This is two puzzles in the last week that were rebuses but I guess the constructor couldn't be bothered to figure it out all the way. These kinds of half baked puzzles feel phoned-in.

Fun puzzle! I got the theme almost right away and solved it 15 minutes faster than my average. There must be a way to indicate that there's additional information required to solve the puzzle. In this case, we needed to see the colored lines.