Michael Gaobest

The pig Latin isn’t consistent and the sound shifting only sometimes makes sense. Thinking that JUMBO ENTREE should be JUMBOTRON is jumping the shark a step too far. It’s too much for me to go from JUMBOTREN to JUMBOTRON - why not JUMBO TRAIN? And the ALL TIME AU LAIT really is another leap too far for ALL TIME LOW. The theme isn’t fun. Thankfully the puzzle clues overall are Sunday funday great.

Fun Friday! The monks and punks clue was super cute!

A difficult Tuesday! Fun puns.

Great puzzle! I really appreciated seeing Anne Frank and Lois Lowry as part of the clues. Their works are so essential and indeed lucky that we can get them at the LIBRARY.

Another fun and challenging Sunday! I love the James Bond franchise so this is super nostalgic :-)

Great Wednesday puzzle! I was able to do the top half before needing help with the bottom half. I stumped myself thinking that THEIR / THEY’RE worked perfectly and thus couldn’t imagine WHOSE / WHO’S until reading reader comments that the ARCADE was an AMUSEMENTARCADE and not a MOVIEMENTARCADE (?) as I was trying to invent.

I love this! I’m a Star Trek the next generation fanatic and I’m still having a lot of struggles with this crossword - in that great Sunday way :-)

Super fun especially when discovering the tech world for the theme - great bonus tech clues for INTEL ADA IPHONE and more. I’m struggling with the north and I’m having much fun. As a Mac / iPhone guy, I didn’t immediately know the Windows challenge terms :-)

Omg!!!! Beyond joy to accidentally discover the punchline. I got a box set and in 2003/2004 I “binged” every episode - one a morning before work. Then in late April 2004 I watched the finale with my now-wife after a few weeks of dating. Beyond great because I really needed help with some squares and now I know the names to use. So fun!!!! Thank you!!!

Great puzzle with fun word ladders. This felt more challenging than a typical Monday crossword.

Complex and fun like any given Sunday - I just had AHAS when I came across COMESAC with SCISSORCUTS which helped me realize that RCCAR was not Drone nor Robot. Phew. Back to work. Thank you!!

ACME (which is part of the answer) was my clue. Omg this is beyond fun and fabulous for the kid within us. I was so thrilled that I had to fill in some obvious answers and then make a comment. As always - THANK YOU and now back to the puzzle!

While I continue working on this, I’m loving the Dracula theme. Oh so fun with the punny expressions.

Great puzzle - I’ve solved the bottom half. I’m struggling with the top half especially the themed clues. The DINEANDDASH is fun to type - just so we never experience it :-)

My first Sunday where I didn’t need to read the article in order to finish. Maybe it means that it was easier than a normal Sunday. Definitely super clever and fun. Great theme clues & answers :-)

Omg such a fun witty Sunday - my first theme clue was ELLE FANNING and I’ve figured out 2 more names. Super fun. Thank you! Back to my puzzle…

Great fun witty puzzle. I’m confused about the 4 rhyming letters ETA which I got thanks to SAWS!

Omg I love this! I’m working on it yet the iced tea & lemonade combo is a favorite beverage and I finally figured it out. I’m ecstatic. It’s been a fun puzzle with great challenges and now I have more knowledge about those circles. I definitely figured out the Revealer clue :-)

Clever and a fun AHA - I definitely struggled with Roentgen’s (???) and only got it due to the perpendicular answers. I loved the Star Trek clues - super fun and not everyone yet knows Star Trek.

I struggled with EMENDS and THELIKE only because I don’t use those terms.

Clever puzzle and gimmick! I did strongly assume BOOST before reading comments and realizing BOAST! :-) I can’t understand how WAGERS adds NE to create the actual answer about Crystal healing.

The Smartphone clock function clue is fun - ALARM was my instant guess. Thankfully the cross words made me realize that there is a different function for the correct answer :-)

I love that EMERY / EMORY were clues respectively for Monday / Tuesday. Fun!!

I solved the puzzle but only got the HOER due to the perpendicular answers. What exactly is HOER because I googled it and didn’t find a meaning. Thanks everyone!!

I definitely needed to read the article to comprehend the puzzle and then it was super fun to complete. Great Sunday work!

Bravo! Super fun. It took me awhile and I’m not finished. But boy did the UPSIDEDOWN answer help … THANK YOU (not an answer AFAIK) for these genius ideas.

Great Sunday puzzle. Fun challenges. I knew half the tricky clues and all the theme clues - I still have work ahead of me!

Super fun rebus! Such a genius concept. Still working and I am still seeking that fifth square - THANK YOU!!

Fun and great Sunday as always especially with the drop it fun combined with multiple uses of J combined with having AGAR / AJAR in the same quadrant.

Super fun Sunday - thank you!

Very fun - I’m trying to still figure out some clues yet I love this theme. I don’t need to hear the music because it’s already in my head :-)

Great puzzle once I read the related article. I always try to solve monday to Wednesday before reading the article. I feel that sanka is tough for a clue. Imho It’s not easy for people born after 1990 or so.

Eek I’m having a headache with the article although I sense that the 4 circles will use the NSEW (in full words!) for rebuses. I’m just not sure if I can tolerate it :-)

Fun! And I only got SEDGE at the end thanks to ROOFS!

Also as a decades-long Hall & Oates fanatic (especially Mano a Mano, side 2 of Private Eyes, and most of h2o), I was beyond thrilled. Of course, now they’ve ended their partnership and finally gone their separate ways… like Steve and Journey!

Super adorable with some great challenges. Loved it. It’s hard to say was genius.

I love these fun puns. The TWO Bs answer was my fun clue about the punny joys. Gotta love the Beach clue :-) While I’ve yet to finish the top third, I just have to comment my appreciation for this amazing Sunday treat :-)

Amazing Sunday as usual with some needed help from Natticks, the article, the great reader comments, and 2 google searches for baby foxes and the non-Rosie Casals :-) Thank you for a great MONKMODE puzzle and maybe some inspiration for more MONKMODE and maybe even some TONES as I make RESERVATIONS for meals and such :-)

Fun puzzle - I didn’t know ESPY and only used it because of the downs (especially EMIR). The ad hominem is genius fun. I was really stumped with the NW corner until I read the article and saw the SCOOT help…

Fun cute adorable crossword puzzle that was somehow too easy for me compared to Monday & Tuesday this week. I finished in under 6 minutes (normally I’m a 10-15 minute guy) and I didn’t need to read the accompanying article. Several answers came thanks to their across/down neighbors (eg Emil which I definitely didn’t know). I truly struggled earlier this week and needed the clues / Google for some answers, eg needing to confirm Atwater’s spelling due to struggles with thank since I had “say” instead of the obvious “sky” answer - ugh that was a big stumper. Time to return to the always challenging Thursday puzzle - rebus just is never easy nor fun for me.

I’ve been watching Shawshank scenes on fb reels in recent weeks so this puzzle was perfect for me! I used my Shawshank knowledge to get many answers and I’m so close to the end :-) Very clever use of the free Y to indicate the escape with the poster. Great movie based on a Stephen King novela!!

Great puzzle - I needed some help from the article and comments to confirm and fill in some answers. I struggle to understand ILL for “Peaks” clue - does the answer ILL mean “I’ll” for I will? Or does being I’ll refer to peaks? I’m confused and only got this final answer thanks to the verticals :-)

Fun puzzle - as a Star Wars fanatic I utterly failed with Frank Oz! Ouch. I only figured it out thanks to the perpendicular answers. Also a weird technical situation - I stepped away from the crossword and finished the final answers. My puzzle congratulations said that I solved this in 22 seconds. Weird. I “admired” my puzzle and time also indicated 0:22.

Fun! Still working on this… I’m so boomer that I only thought of the televised original version of Charlie’s Angels - I saw every episode on syndication and then dvd that i completely forgot to consider the movie!

Extreme fun and the easier theme adds to the fun. I’m almost finished and haven’t yet needed to read the article for help. What a great Sunday puzzle for me :-)