Rick Box

You know what other country is 7 letters and only uses 1 point tiles, and also starts with E? ERITREA

Complete respect for 50A, Futbol Stadium Cry. What a great way to point out her puzzle didn't use OLE ANYWHERE.

The Cinephile channel is TCM, not TMC

I disagree that zero-sum game is a good clue for WASH. A wash implies a player ended up where they started, not that the sum total of all wins and losses among all players was zero, with individuals gaining or losing. Poker (if no casino is taking a rake) is always a zero-sum game. It is rarely a wash.

That was amazing. Beautiful grid, and 48 across is absolutely true.

Dog's post-surgical device or whatever that clue was - I loved it.

Seeing OCTOPI for the plural of OCTOPUS makes me die a little inside.

"Butt text?" was the clue of the month, IMO. Props.

Well, I liked it, even if it gronked my average solve time for Sundays (my final error to fix, like others, was MODELTS to MODELAS, but I back-engineered IWTSFRAMED into IWASFRAMED).

OHHH. I didn't get the twist until I read the column. Because I guess reading fail. The *clues* are *********, not the entries.

Excellent workout. I wonder if the constructor knows that KONA marathon is also a thing - that screwed up the SE corner for me for a long time. If it was intentional, it was a wonderful bit of evil. Never heard of INCOGMEATO, but a great grid.

Nice puzzle. The SW corner destroyed my Friday average, but it was a nice challenge. It took me forever to realize leatherette could be described by two different FA___ words, and that NASA missions could be numbered differently than I was thinking.

Cute puzzle. Would solve again.

A nice puzzle, so I feel a bit bad with this cavil: I don't see how the clue for 12A fits the answer. The answer is the person, where the clue asks for what she wrote. Is there a way of interpreting the clue that I'm not seeing?

27D - Are you cluing that channel as being "for cinephiles" intentionally now just to troll us?

I didn't see anybody else mention this, but THANK YOU FOR NOT cluing 45A as '"Cinephile's favorite channel" or the like. I see you. You have demonstrated that there are other ways to get that three letter filler.

16D - how is 'Classic pickup lines' REOS?

Too bad they made you rewrite buckeye. Because ACKSHULLY, the 'nut' you replaced it with is not a nut. Look, you knew we were pedants when you submitted the puzzle.