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.

I can't believe you snuck an ETON and some OREOS into a Friday puzzle. Good job! Neither were obvious.

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!

A tiny bit of Latin nitpickery. Et Alia implies people. Et Alia = and others (people), Et Cetera = and other things. Fun puzzle though, and I enjoyed the twist at the end.

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.

Fun puzzle! I was about to ask how do you sat Natick in Hebrew, but honestly those two weren't too hard or obscure. The other one, in the SE corner was definitely a Natick. Neither of them are household names. Still, I really enjoyed this one.

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.