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THE SHERIFF IS HOT!

just when i’d thought the answer would always be “épée”. ah, well. épééd again.

I never once stopped thinking that it said “Relatively nice person”. After i resigned myself to “CLUBFED”, i was surprised to hear the happy music, because that is not a nice person. I do the crosswords to reassure myself that my brain is still working well, but that was not reassuring. Surely there are others who mis-read it too? Oh well. Amam said there’d be days liek this.

when i figured out the theme, i caught such a wave of admiration/amusement that it made me giddy. gosh i’m so glad i got into crosswords. how great to have a natural source of dopamine like that.

I AM SO GRATEFUL THEY FINALLY GAVE US DARK MODE! i do these at bedtime. once i finish, closing the puzzle and suddenly getting hit with the bright light of the screen… it wakes me fully up at the worst time. i enjoyed this puzzle, and i’m thrilled to celebrate the solve in dreamland.

i spent way too long thinking “how interesting to learn that Montana has a Spanish Lotto!”

hazard of coaching singers for a living: i thought that “silence-enforcing doc” was ENT

new PB for me, and on a phone too! and then i got to go back and admire the puzzle afterwards. so clever and fun!