Lisa

This was a fun and well designed puzzle! It wasn’t a rebus or poorly edited puzzle. The “trick” was literally in the puzzle title. And it came to me from the crosses with ROGUE and IGER. The ———— , which create a LINE, are the only solution. LINE should not be accepted, nor should a rebus. In my humble, average-solver opinion. Happy New Year 🥳

I received a huge hint to 17D. As I was reading it my husband was listening to a story about the release of the new Led Zeppelin documentary. Got it.

Well, that song will be stuck in my head all morning. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Cute puzzle.

Oof, that was a bit tough. And then it wasn’t. And then it was. And then it wasn’t. Good, fun puzzle. I had to look up a couple of the proper names (and now feel out of touch). But everything else fell into place. iMac was my fave 🤩

Fun Saturday. The GAMs got me, though. GAM came with the crossings, but I then went down the blow hole to learn more, who knew? And GAMAY was a lookup, and now added to my “everything I know about wine I learned the NYT crossword” list.

I really loved this puzzle! It is so clever, and what a grid!! But opportunity lost at 83D, I was really looking for PISH POSH.