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Regarding TROUTS, I don't think any apology is needed. Any ichthyologist will tell you that, while "fish" is the plural when referring to multiple individual animals, "fishes" is the plural when referring to multiple *types* of animal. So by extension, surely the same is true for "trout" vs. TROUTS!
Re: QUIET QUITTING - I'm still vaguely annoyed that they felt compelled to come up with a hip new term for "not doing unpaid work for your employer".
Add me to the "bit easy for a Friday, no?" crew - wound up with a faster time than even any Wednesday or Thursday puzzle this year (it would have been my third-fastest Tuesday solve of 2025!) And also - one more vote for SPIDEy over SPIDER.
@Captain Quahog - and for those trying to suss out the answer etymologically, the "columb-" in "columbarium" is from the Latin "columba," meaning dove or pigeon. Seems a bit non-funerary, but the rows of niches in which the ashes are placed resemble the nesting boxes in a dovecote.
@Dave - yeah, figuring out BEAUT (not BEAST) and SOURS ON was responsible for like a third of my overall time...
@Kevin D The single largest purchaser of kale in the US used to be, of all places, Pizza Hut - not to eat, but to serve as decoration around the bowls in the salad bars.
@Joe no, because the colloquial name of the institution is Caltech, not Cal Tech.
@Bob T. - there's an old joke about how tennis champion Andy Murray was (at least according to the UK press) British whenever he won but Scottish whenever he lost
@Steve L Which led to a great clue a couple years ago - something like "Best part of mayo?" solving to CINCO. And as with this one, there was some griping from solvers who didn't know that Spanish capitalization rules differ from English.
Procrastinated a bit today, didn't open the puzzle until about 10:15 pm... then proceeded to have a bit fo panic at the prospects of continuing my 250+ day streak! Wasn't too bad overall, though. (Weirdly, I've heard "loosey goosey" plenty of times, but never expressed as the simile in this puzzle.)
@William Kash Californian here, it's also ScARF. (Tbh, I don't think I've ever seen or heard SNARF outside of the NYT XW.)
@LJADZ - funnily enough, I had identical solve times on Tuesday and Friday this week
@The X-Phile - travel/aviation YouTuber Noel Phillips did a video about his visit to Nauru recently. Definitely worth checking out to see a bit of what the island looks like!
@Catherine I was really hoping we were going to get a Schrodinger puzzle there. Alas.
18A has me thinking of NOFX's "Franco Un-American": I never looked around, never second-guessed Then I read some Howard ZINN, now I'm always depressed
@Fritz I had CAT SCAN at first, as i'm sure many others did - but upon reflection, surely a CAT SCAN is a subtype of PET SCAN?
@N.E. Body It's like solving the purple set in Connections - you could just submit the last four and finish the puzzle, but doesn't it feel better to pause for a bit to work out the link?
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