Manuel Pagan

Sam, I am sorry. I must admit... I had to cheat. Very rapidly I understood I was going nowhere and my brain started hurting. I left it, came back and left again, many times. I began to negotiate, why do I need this? I told myself. Cancelling my subscription fleeted in and out, My brain still hurt. I took a drink of water and resolved to end it all. I looked in the Word play column. I will be eternally grateful for Ms. Lovinger, she saved my life today.

Close to my Sunday best time. What is all the complaining about? The title tells you it's multi-hyphenated. I guessed where the hyphens were almost immediately, and my brain is pretty slow. I did not even realize it implied the word line until ----BACKER. None of the downs were compatible with the word LINE. I am not a fan of tricky Sunday puzzles but as far as difficulty goes this one was not. Chill out people.

It's been a while since I had a Sunday puzzle make me laugh out loud. Favorites were DONT START WITH ME and YOU CANTWINTHEMALL. Thank you, Mr. Kugelman, for your entertaining and funny puzzle.

Yey! A rebus Tuesday puzzle! More of these please, they make me feel good about myself. Thank you thank you so much Mr. Young!

I got GENTLEMEN START YOUR ENGINES early but midway through it I found myself just staring at it as if the wormhole had swallowed me and given me a tour through space and time. I completed it in 48 minutes which for Thursday puzzled is short for me so i am convinced that time stopped when i was out, unfortunately I don't remember anything that happened during that interval. Shame. A very novel idea Mr. Ayas, i look forward to your next one.

Pi is not just about circles. It is all over waves, whether electromagnetic, mechanical, gravity or the ones you surf on the beach, Pi (and E) is literally everywhere in the natural world.

In Puerto Rico we make Tamales too, but we use bananas for the mass and banana leaves for the wrapping. The filling is mostly ground meat and olives and peppers and anything else you want. We call them Pasteles. I have never seen this unique dish in the States, other than when my late spouse sent them from the island.

I'm surprised at how many people didn't know who Sisi was. I guess nobody watched the recent PBS mini series or the 1956 movie with Romy Schneider. I guess you had to be there. Pet Peeve: the clue for 103A starts in singular and ends in plural.

I found out the theme early when I also filled in EMAILS with the "These can be marked absent"clue. Looking and the clue and already having ABS in place through crosses pointed at the clues having something to do with ABS. I found the clue to be clear and not obscure at all. My time with this puzzle was still above my average: I found some of the fill tough. About carets: If you ever took a Fortran or Basic computer programming course, you'd be familiar with exponents after carets. It is the only way to represent them in statements.

Ingenious! My favorite was LIFE OF JAWS. Great clue! I just have one question: How is a TOMATO part of a club? Do emus eat tomatoes?

I have no doubt that the idea of this puzzle was extremely clever for the authors, but for me it was a slog. I've been known to laugh out loud when solving puzzles but not a chuckle here. This was too much for my addled 70 year-old brain.

Very nice puzzle! I got THE SPANISH STEPS almost immediately, the church took a little while longer. I spent a couple of years in Malaysia, so I sympathize with @T's indignance: Orangutan comes from old Malay "Man of the forest", however the word "Orang" no longer exists in the Malay language.

I started this puzzle with some trepidation when I saw the three triple stacks, only to find it later surprisingly easy & entertaining. I don't know if it indeed is, or if it's that my few remaining brain cells decided to work together today, but I will congratulate Mr. McMahon for his debut. I wonder what he is going to do to top the triple stacks. Thank You!

Hey no fair! After all that work putting in those double letters they all disappeared! It was fun while it lasted.

Yikes! I didn't stumble upon the clue in 116A until I was 1 hour and 48 minutes into this slog, I almost quit a few times. It took me 5 minutes to finish it after that. BOOYA! I enjoyed those last five minutes. Also, why F sharp? Why not A?

This puzzle was like vacation at the beach. Thank You, Thank You. Fun fact: Big Ben is not the clock, its the bell. - - Emu fodder

Cow tipping? - I dare whomever to tip over a half-ton animal standing on its four legs, asleep or not. A job for SUPEREMU!