Summer

This was the first time I was able to do a Wednesday puzzle without looking up anything! So I loved it 😊; it was fun.

I hope the AI clue is not the beginning of the end for human puzzle creators. But hey, it’s so much easier and cheaper, right? Kind of like junk “food.” Unhealthy and habit-forming.

I was able to finish this puzzle without catching on to the theme. This is one of the few Wednedsays I’ve been able to finish! So I liked it.

So fun!! Easy, breezy, no furrowed brow—just what I want from a Monday puzzle!

This was really fun, esp bc I learned a tiny bit of ASL years ago!! The drawings were excellent. My first completed Wednesday puzzle, but I did have to use Check Puzzle. A year ago I could only finish Monday🎉

Perfect for a Monday! Easy, breezy, fun.

I grew up about 35 miles south of that lake in the puzzle and never heard it referred to as the thumb of the finger lakes. But I haven’t lived there in decades, so maybe it’s a new thing

Pretty hard for a Tuesday. Strange—the long clues were gettable, but lots of the little words and crossings were frustrating.

This was a little tricky and punny for a Monday, but quite enjoyable in the end.

Had it not been for SEERED ( couldn’t see it as two words!), I would have solved the puzzle. Even though tricky in places, I still enjoyed it. Fun mix of easy and brain twisting.

Fun, easy start to the week!!

“On toe” is not used by most ballet dancers today. It’s pretty old-fashioned. En pointe is the correct term. Seems like it could be a useful crossword answer.

First time I got all the longer answers but still couldn’t solve without revealing letters. Lower right hand corner stumped me - didn’t know Māori dance, used OIL instead of TIN and just couldn’t get there. I can never solve anything beyond Tuesdays, and I thought several crossings were pretty hard for a Monday.

That was easy and fun, perfect for a Monday puzzle!

Lower left a bit left field for a Monday. The rest was fine.

Ball-peen hammer was new to me. So I learned something.

This had a fun, rewarding theme. With Warren simple at the outset, it made it easy to figure out what was going on with the rest, although crossing pop culture clues (Lady Gaga song and Spice Girls) almost sunk me.

Sorry, but while it’s technically true that “cal” is “part” of UCLA, “Cal” is used to refer to UC Berkeley.

Sheesh— I’m eancmon. Puzzled over that one until I read the Tricky Clues. Sure to appear again.

What does TLDR mean? Is it an acronym?

Easy Monday puzzle, nice and breezy.

This was breezy and fun for a Monday! A quibble: I was taught by an expert scholar in Inca art that it is always Inca, not Incas or Incan.

GOHAM? Never heard this, what dies it mean?

Film-Elam? What does that mean?

This was a really speedy puzzle for me, except for crossing skateboarding and football, didn’t know either one, and nearby, crossing stock and a fruit I’ve never seen. Also, I guess it’s time to learn the characters in Frozen (which I’ve never seen), since they seem to show up in most NYT crosswords that I try.

Super easy, one after another, Tra La la until 58 across, which brought it all to a screeching halt with truncated lazy words that spoiled a perfectly good puzzle.