Kate

This comment section never ceases to kill me. When it’s easy for my husband and I, it’s tricky for everyone else, and vice versa it seems. A couple of minutes slower than our average time, but I attribute that to sleepiness from the time shift. I loved the double back theme, adored the MANY references to space travel that came up. Any time you get Uhura and Tardis in the same puzzle it’s a win for me. I little harder than a typical Monday, but not significantly. We needed no look ups or double checks and it came together fine. We haven’t enjoyed several of the last puzzles, but this got us off on the right foot for this week.

Ugh. Thanks for the Mandala Effect panic this morning. I distinctly remember N*Sync, not *NSync This was such a rabbit hole and a hold up on my puzzle today.

This one made me mad. No theme. No cluing on what purpose the rebus might function. I had everything filled in except Naïf, because I have never seen it before in my life. I didn’t use the rebuses at all, it just filled them in once I completed the puzzle, which seems dumb. I should have to understand them before the puzzle ends imo. But it just seems like a straight forward fairly simple puzzle. The “cleverness” was unnecessary and therefore unappreciated in this one.