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@Mark M. Here I was, coming here to make a comment that it was a fun puzzle but could have been a Wednesday! Thanks for the reminder to just enjoy and not kvetch
@A.R.So what is term you prefer to refer to someone who lives out their gender assigned at birth and those that don't? My eldest lives a different gender than was assigned to them at birth, and I do not. What terms do you prefer to "cis" to distinguish from how I live my gender and how my child lives theirs? Or do you not accept that this is a legitimate choice and therefore have no need to have a word to refer to it?
Generally easy for Thursday, but 51D/62A was a serious Natick for me requiring a Google look up for spellings (which doesn't count as cheating, right? RIGHT?)
I love Schrodinger's puzzles but I didn't figure out this was one until I finished it and the rebus squares showed up. Sorry I didn't twig on to the theme earlier. The "I figured out the trick for the Thursday puzzle" is frequently a rush!
I am the total Thursday puzzle fan. The wilder the concept, the more out of the box, the more happy I am. I have never been angry with the constructor when I don't get a puzzle theme. But, this may be the first themed puzzle to raise my dander. No one refers to a pundit as a "P authority" or simply as a "P." Having the only connection between the clue word and the answer being the first letter seems pretty tenuous connection on which to hang a puzzle theme. Other than the theme, I thought it was a good puzzle and I enjoyed the solve, but for the theme, not a fan
I am a sucker for any animated puzzle (my favorite being the Pride puzzle that flashed rainbow colors when completed) so I loved it. I do wish there had been a theme for the words resulting from leaving the "Ts" in, but that would probably be close to impossible, so I'll be happy with the puzzle as it is.
@Ken This cross bothered me too. I was pretty happy with the puzzle, though. I had the good "Aha" moment I Iook for in a Thursday puzzle.
@Jake I did get the theme, as I believe I made clear in my post. I understand that the first initial of "pundit" corresponds to the "p" in the answer: that a pundit is an authority that has p as its first letter. I just think that the only link between the answer and the clue is the the first initial is a pretty thin basis for a puzzle theme.
@The X-Phile It was a quick solving Wednesday'ish puzzle, but I thought the puns of the theme clues were Thursday level clever.
@Clemens Congrats! I too didn't think I'd ever solve a rebus puzzle. I still remember the first one I got, where the rebus was various makes of cars. I felt like a genius for two days, until the next Saturday puzzle brought me back to earth.
@Eric Ressner When I am on a streak and wonder how to enter multiple letters in a square, I allow myself a quick glance at the answer key to see how they were entered, and trying not to look at the specific letters. That's not cheating the streak, is it?
@Barry Ancona I did rebuses with the terminal Ts, thinking the instructions intended by “down to a T” was make all the T’s go down, that is, all the Ts dropped down out of existence. So I missed the cleverest part of the puzzle. I even noticed all the black square Ts when I open Ed the puzzle but then promptly forgot about them !
@Oikofuge I didn't see that until y our comment. How incredibly clever!
@Steve L. Lett totally flummoxed me. I know the geography but an archaic form of Latt? Otherwise really enjoyed the puzzle but not this clue!
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