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@Amy if they hit you that hard, check out your water hydration level! Bartender secret is to drink a huge glass of water and take an aspirin before bed :-) I also thought they might be salts!

@Becky when I went to Google I found that the nyt crossword clue would essentially populate as soon as I started typing, so I stopped using Google almost immediately. Now I consider it treasure hunting research for clues and I limit myself to Wikipedia/IMDb/dictionary, and as an underemployed degreed art historian, the treasure hunt is legitimately such a fun part of the crossword for me :-) It's extra fun when I finally get to solve them without hunting, but that's few and far between haha. Welcome to that first week streak!

And Fab 5 was used to talk about the Queer Eye cast

@Steve same here! I love when last week's crosswords linger in my head and give extra chuckles :-)

@JoPa I only use the games app, but the link to the wordplay column would just open in its own browser window. Amazing. It's the worst now that it's all in the game app

@katie Couldn't agree more and ran to the comments to note the same thing!

@Times Rita I can't believe that Don PARDO was also the early announcer for The Price Is Right! There were decades where people heard this man's voice and screamed in excitement :-) Love to see that he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame (2010) when he was 92 and alive to see it!!

@Jack McCullough yes! Geddy Lee (Rush) donated his collection years ago. He's been a massive supporter of NLBM since its inception. The museum is really fabulous, with a highlight being the player statues on a mini diamond inside. Absolutely worth the trip to KC! We had our Society for American Baseball Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference there in 2017 and I loved it

@Joya HESAIDSHESAID was so satisfying to plug in!! Same reaction over here :-) These are the little moments that really make me feel part of the crossword community

@Post Mortem I always associate "Gild the lily" with Chaucer, and by that I mean Paul Bettany says it in A Knight's Tale when he's offering to fabricate Heath Ledger's patent of nobility

@Lpr I had MOON, the first clue I filled in, forever until your commented helped me keep my streak. 🙏

@Sonja I'm always astonished that there aren't individual boards for each of the games!!! Pip pip cheerio to you!

@Bill hilarious, but it's Sex *and* the City :-)

@Xword Junkie same thought about the Gap! Didn't realize the Gap even sold a single thing in a box

@Steve I badly wanted “syllable” for 31D, and I agree with other commenters that I don’t really consider “sometimes” to have two SILENT Es because the e’s affect the consonants around it and the pronunciation. Rod Carew’s NL batting title counterpart is Tony Gwynn. The Hank Aaron Award is given to the outstanding offensive player in each league :-)

@Xword Junkie appreciated your humor, felt the ;-) in my gut, and giggled over my tea at the multilingual row you incited ;;-)* *me winking, but plagued by last night's mascara and this morning's allergies

@FJC I associate Zhuzh with Queer Eye too! But I think of it even earlier, with the 2003-17 Fab Five and hear it in Kyan's voice when he was doing hair. I think Jonathan is using legacy zhuzh

@Kameron FRIENDOFDOROTHY was fab, and I loved seeing ORGASMS-- It's also described that way in the first season of Emily in Paris

@Times Rita -- thank you for reposting. Agree, appalling for comments of your ilk to be removed.

@Lara totally agree about the NW corner! Added minutes to my score figuring out ADIN

@Jonathan unless it's a direct quote, like Ross from Friends, ANYWAYS is a big no from me

@Andrzej I celebrate a holiday I made up called CharcuterChristmas, where I make 4-6 themed charcuterie boards and drink pairings :-) we really run with things here!

@Helen Wright //murderer!

@Times Rita that makes my heart hurt for her

@B agree about how elegant it would have been for IRE to be part of the trick word!

@Jase Haddleton I so wish the app interface had an overlay for solving this exact kind of puzzle!! Poor interface added a challenge that didn't need to be there

@The X-Phile we have some absolutely fantastic Doner at Balkan House in the Detroit area (Hamtramck and Ferndale locations)

@Dan totally on the same boat with the difficulty and just not understanding the pig-latin interpretation!

@Jack Sullivan first comment in a year that I've taken a screenshot of :-))

@DocP I absolutely loved the new clue for OREO!! It was so fun when it clicked to be stumped for a while on one of the single most commonly used words. Great Saturday puzzle!

@Jill exact same two clues that tripped me up!!