Laura V

Elegant puzzle. Mind you I had the auto check on, but in my book that's not cheating, it's learning :D

I loved it! The shaded squares definitely sped things along, but that was fine for me.

At first pass I got nowhere, but I'm past the point of giving up too soon. I kept plugging away and when I figured out the theme (before figuring out the theme clue) it became really fun!

I don't believe I've ever had fish n chips served with tartar sauce, but I do remember school lunches serving tartar sauce with fish sticks - which is what I had there until I turned on auto check. Yes, it was hard, but I'm just glad to read that others found it hard too and I'm not just losing my mind!

I like it! Some people fill in the downs to help get the across themes, but I had to fill in the across answers (after figuring out the theme) to help me get some of the the downs!

Fun puzzle. I usually struggle with Saturdays, but this one was a great example of a puzzle with lots of things I didn't know (or think I knew) that I was able to parse out. Got stuck in the northwest corner though. Having Trade and Enter for 1 and 3 down tripped me up for a long while. Finally decided to look up ORLON, and then I was on my way again. I'm surprised I've never heard of LABNEH - but will try making some soon!

I started late last night, got stuck and went to bed, filled in what I could this morning, made breakfast, then was able to finally finish without look ups! Took me a minute, but very satisfying!