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Fun puzzle, my only quibble is that three of the four theme answers are alliterative which made the fourth feel off.

Great puzzle! Happy to see a nonbinary constructor :)

CEREL didn’t look quite right, but it still took me ages to twig to my error, and it sounds like I wasn’t alone. I had already faced a mighty struggle in the top left: I didn’t clock the phrase at 2D for a while, it’s way more common with YET, surely. 4D is not really a thing, PET seemed to make way more sense (when have you ever heard of a CAT-only shelter?). And I didn’t know animals other than doves use cotes. Some very clever cluing elsewhere but those issues ruined it for me and made it a slog.

It’s not a meme?? It’s a (I thought common) game that kids play. I was certainly playing it before the Internet

I play Minesweeper every day so this was delightful. Having said that, I was stymied by an error and finally figured out I had an E instead of an O at 3D/17A. Maybe I’m just butthurt but I feel like E works better with the cluing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯