Jeff B MD

Attaboy! Clever little Wednesday theme. Even though was easy for a Wednesday, the theme made it worthwhile. I liked the "mother of a stable family" clue.😊

Forzamoment I didn't think I would stanzachance in solving this puzzle. I says to myself ariakidding and after plugging away succeeded. Gosh, sonatathing!

Thanks To The Team. Nice puzzle to start the week.

Enjoyed this Clever construction. 96 reasonable 4 letter words was impressive and no Oreo! I had paper plates before pasta salad for summer cook out dish. Favorite clues were for older pipes and microscope.

Thank you Deb for all the years you have helped me with the tough puzzles with your humor and crosswordese expertise. I have always enjoyed when you shared personal anecdotes. You felt like a secret friend. And thank you for your most important crossword lesson: the puzzle is for my enjoyment to complete however I need. I can look up an obscure actor's name or the 3rd high prince of Egypt if I need one less stressor on an already stressful day. I retired one year ago and love it. Can read 2 books at a time now and have more time foall my NYT puzzles. So thank you Deb and good luck with the next stage of your life!😊

Those of you who do not like multiple word answers will definitely not like the SW corner but 'I Mean Yeah', 'God Help Me', I liked it. I think Hannah Made The 'Smart Move'. It 'Talks Sense' to me. My favorite clue , though, was 'One might be felt' for game table. Also Caitlin, thanks for the fascinating link about Mell Lazarus and the final Momma comic strip!

Although the puzzle was Monday level of ease, I was disappointed with the obscure sports themed expressions. I don't mind not "getting " the theme initially but I do like a good aha moment when I finally see it. No aha moment today. :(

As I live and breath, this was one of my favorite rebus puzzles. An amazing feat! I only wished there'd been more than 13 colonies but alas, you can't change history. (Well I suppose people try!) Plus, fun clueing like the Monk's orderly life. And a test of my Roman Numeral knowledge retention! Made me HAPPY!😊

I think HIP HIP HURRUMBA might just catch on. Will surely need to try it at our next celebration.

What an amazing Monday puzzle. Slowly reading across the top and appreciating the theme in all it's glory as it revealed itself was heartwarming. Congratulations on a puzzle well done. Take pride in your puzzle and your message.

Amazing Sunday puzzle on multiple levels. Loved the rebuses especially spIDEr! Tricky move having the rebus in the revealer! And able to fit in all the Caesar salad ingredients to boot !!!🥬🥬🥬

TPed for "unannounced roll out". Hahaha! Clever theme that took some thinking to sort out. My favorite was sausage link.

I was lucky enough to see Les Miz SRO (Standing Room Only) in 1983 in the London West End. One does not mind standing 2 1/2 hours if the show is amazing and one is young! Perfect Wednesday puzzle with intriguing theme. Merci! Favorite fill was "Oh but I do"!

Fun puzzle with a few tough crossings (moue/soli). What a great collection of unconnected people you don't expect to see in one place: Sal Mineo, Donna Summers, Brie Larson, Evel Knievel. (Nice COMPANY for Elaine Stritch). And then throw in Funny Girl and Gigi!

So very clever for a Tuesday. I loved it. Like a Thursday without the brain pain.

Just the right amount of Thursday brain strain for my Thursday morning. The downs were straight forward enough to solve the revealer and then enjoy the 6 mini brain teasers. Great puzzle. Good luck and enjoy your premed. Though, it's hard to imagine how you will find the time to create puzzles while in Med School!

OH FUN!!! Like pennies from heaven! Answered the US Mint first, which helped me answer the other theme clues. Loved the rebus! Penny loafers my favorite. I tried to fit in "penny for your thoughts" at first instead of "put in your two cents". No go!. Seance was my last clue to fall, but I liked the misdirect. What I wouldn't give for a fresh hot cross bun with coffee right now!!!

Wow. How amazing was that theme and construction. When I'm (sixty) four (3) was my aha moment. Not a bad song to be buzzing around my head for the rest of the day! Impressive how Tracy placed the exponents in the perfect spot, still had room for a revealer and still able to have great fill. Favorites were 'Ricochet' for 'It's off the wall' crossing 'It's for the birds'. Also, learned about Tone Tags today. I Like the concept . I Want to try it out but will anyone know what I mean!?

Pretty ballsy puzzle.Thanks.

Hard enough for me. Couple of look ups giving me a few ILT moments. Looked to see if Emily Dickinson had a blue or grey period until I got enough cross letters for the "MORN" aha moment and smiled. I enjoyed typing Toy Poodle. I do miss my blind little red toy poodle, Rosie.

What a fun and clever theme! And any puzzle that has Slash as an answer is a Sweet Child of Mine!!!

"With me, surprises are rarely unexpected " to quote the esteemed Detective Clouseau. Too hard or too easy I found the puzzle to be delightful. I found the clueing to be playful. I liked when "home addresses" became evident from a few crossings. (I mean there are plenty of places mail can go!). I liked when soft hearted appeared on the bottom. Loved having 'pylons' and 'pile on' on opposite sides of the puzzle. I did have primate/same par before private/save par not being a golfer. And the grid itself was beautiful to look at. Thanks.

Well, I found the theme fascinating to look back at after the solve. I thought the wonder of goofoff shuffling back to itself and so allowing it twice in the puzzle a fun aha moment and worth the price of admission. I did have trouble with northeast and had to look up T Booker and the MGs and Noor ( yet again although I think I have her tucked in the brain for next time.).

I can only imagine how difficult this was to make. And such a beautiful looking grid with 6 spanners to work out. Perfect Friday for me.

Thanks for a great Wednesday puzzle. Nice to bring up carnival memories from my childhood and good times with my children. Step right up and try your luck made for great memory evokers!. And a straight forward rebus to boot.😊

I've been waiting for a puzzle all about William Tell!!! Fun outing today. And it's nice to start the day with the sounds of a couple of alliterative phrases. Shooting star and marksmanship. Loved the special effects on solving.

Enjoyed everything about this Sunday puzzle! No obvious theme answers. Each one required multiple crosses to figure out , but each was on the mark, very clever and made me smile.😊

Nice having 6 theme answers in my Monday puzzle, yknow.

I don't usually do cryptic puzzles, so I enjoy when one pops up in my crossword puzzles. A couple took awhile to sort out after completing like Knight (made me smile though) and Crave. Favorites were "Not completely honest" and "Never Ending Story". 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵__ (Unfinished Symphony!)

I have loved The Little Prince since we had to translate it in French class in high school. Pretty clever assignment for high school teacher to keep us excited about foreign language. Favorite quotes that gave me life lessons: ⭐️When the merchant offered the little prince a pill to take per week to eliminate, the need to drink water and save 53 minutes per week the prince said "as for me, if I had 53 minutes to spend as I like, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water"! ⭐️"People have forgotten this truth" the fox said "but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed." ⭐️"if someone loves a flower of which just one example is among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ". ⭐️ and finally : "One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible the eyes." Thanks David, nice debut puzzle, whatever day this is. And LOL : hot place for a dog!

Loved the 'fly by night' theme! So very clever! Tried to picture mammoths and bowls with wings flying at night. Gotta love the owl that likes to wake me at 4 in the morning! 🦉🦉🦉. MERCI for a fun Tuesday puzzle.

Tough one today. Had to leave and come back a number of times (breakfast, Connections,Wordle, elliptical) but I got through with just one or two look ups. Great puzzle. Nice accomplishment for me.😊

Perfect kind of hard Saturday for me. Loved my DOH/aha moment when I finally saw Sesame Street! Especially liked intestine for "inner tube". Smiled when I changed 'Persona' to 'Fursona' with the entry of sour!😊

Very excited when Lil Ol Me finally figured out the center BLOCK rebuses. Never did figure out the C to O conversion to connect the theme clues to their answers until reading Wordplay. Clever though.

Impressive spanners. Enjoyed discovering answers to all five as they revealed themselves. I will do my best to kill with kindness today..

Amazing grid. Great stacked middle section. As Debbie used to write: do what you need to do to enjoy completing the puzzle. I googled for rig Veda, Paulina and Fontane to give me footholds in 3 sections . Favorites were dog breath, loud shirts and soap stars (recalling Susan Lucci /Erica for all us old All My Children fans)!

I loved figuring out this puzzle. And each theme was a new challenge with great rewards. Amazing debut! I had most trouble in the Mideast (sounds true to life!) as I had company instead of comment before getting the theme. Also, I had innard instead of Ankara for Turkey part. I had it working for me until I had to put in Hazmat suit.

Nice Tuesday puzzle. Great musical references. Slowly,gently the puzzle unfurled its splendour and you can listen to the power of the words. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the words. Sweet words are made of these, who am I to disagree. Some puzzles want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused by you. (I don't think lyricist is in my future).

No one expects a Wednesday rebus! What fun it was to discover this after seeing a few obvious answers not fitting. Crewcuts/ YouTube ware the last straw for me before my aha moment. Enjoyed learning about the besenji dog which makes a yodel noise rather than a bark.

Oh, I get it now. 😣 Theme was interesting but I still found it a stretch in the end. After completion, I did need to read Sam's Wordplay to understand. (Aside:Hopefully, in 2 years time, we will see Mount Denali, Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario on our maps again and not just on T-shirts!)

I loved the theme answers. Each one delightful. Klingon Lingo and Last in Blasting, Lotsa flotsam! And I'm sure I am not the only one who gets a kick every time a "cab" clue refers to wine and not a taxi! And who hasn't overdid Verdi on a cold winter morning?! Short bits of opera is enough for this folk music, alt rock lover.

Yo, Adam, I loved your debut puzzle. Great wordplay throughout and nice long entries. Smiles with inlets (small sounds?) and ravioli (hot pockets?). Clever clue for mid. And a reference to Top Chef to boot!

Very much Enjoyed this Thursday. After a few of the down answers were missing the final T, I imagined them in the black squares. It wasn't until I got to the revealer, I then saw the Forest through the 'Tees'! Oh, and thanks for reminding me that noseeum (?no see em?) and black fly season is about to begin here in Maine!🪰🪰🪰

Tricky but rewarding theme answers. Took a minute to figure out why 'Can Opener'was the answer but then I got it. DUH. Will be listening to some Emmylou Harris today, for sure . Check out Coat of Many Colors and Boulder to Birmingham. And trio albums with Ronstadt and Parton. Also lending back up to Bright Eyes, Dylan and Young.

Dana Carvy's Church Lady skits were brilliant. And The Stranger still Billy Joel's best album IMHO. And what was with Billy Joel not being on NYT's top 30 singer songwriters list. Who was behind that . "Could it have been Satan?!!!"

I agree it wasn't a Thursday puzzle difficulty, But it was FUN. Able to get the theme answers from enough down clues and then go back to each answer to get the clever wordplay. Visitor center took me a second to get but smiled seeing fairytale ending.

Great Friday puzzle. Yes, I was intrigued by shower beer (and discussion below) and loved the home run trot seed.

Great Sunday romp with giraffes. Who doesn't like an excuse to think about giraffes. West With Giraffes. For a good read check out West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, a historical fiction published in 2021 about two giraffes being transported to California in a pickup truck in 1938.

Well "I'm not the world's most physical guy" and just a regular old puzzler, but I slogged my way through this tough but enjoyable Saturday puzzle with some definitely needed look ups (afortiori and Diego Luna) to help me through. And now I am hearing L-L-L Lola! (Great song worm to have in my head for the weekend!). Thanks.