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Easy but clever and satisfying fill by a brilliant young college student. Very sad that her lab partner did not live to see this. <a href="https://www.hmc.edu/in-memoriam/arjun-vattipalli-27" target="_blank">https://www.hmc.edu/in-memoriam/arjun-vattipalli-27</a>/

As el said, hard to get a handle on missing letters you can’t see. Also, too much trivia for me, I prefer solving good riddles.

The double digits are arbitrary and in no way reflect the typos that fat fingers produce. Disappointed in this and so much else about the NYTimes recently.

Figuring out homophones suggested by overly simplified drawings was annoying enough, worse when they weren’t even real words. This felt like a puzzle on a kids’ menu at space camp!

Now THAT was fun!

Excellent fun, not too much pop culture, just good witty clues.

Beyond clever and obscure to the point of cruelty! Not fun.

When I don’t particularly enjoy the challenge of solving for obscure trivia, I do appreciate the opportunity such fills give me to deepen my knowledge of the world. 17A sent me way down a rabbit hole reading history of the Nutcracker. I’ll enjoy that more than ever this holiday season.

That was fun!

For the first time ever, in almost ten years of filling these grids nearly every day, I worked the southern and southeastern quadrant first. It was random, quite by accident, but given that theme reveals often reside in this general area on Thursday puzzles, I believe I will adopt the habit going forward. I’m embarrassed to admit that this has taken me so long to realize!

This was a fun fill, one that elicited a loud GO HEELS! at the finish.

Fun puzzle. Just enough to get there. Clever!

Brilliant!

Sweet little Tuesday puzzle. I would just like to point out that back in the day, doing crossword puzzles with pencil and paper, there was zero percent chance you would ever accidentally change a correctly filled letter! It drives me crazy!

I’m with them!