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Numbers in a crossword grid?! Someone give me some pearls to clutch! Sorry, feeling sassy this morning. Enjoyed the puzzle, though.

I'm just too old-school. For non-human source of spam, I had PIG. but I quite enjoyed the puzzle.

I got 47D on cross clues, but it took the longest time for me to catch that the "club" referenced in the clue was a sandwich. It was one of those cases where I was so caught up in thinking of a weapon or entertainment venue or group that I couldn't make the jump to the other definition. I quite enjoyed the puzzle, though.

This was a thoroughly enjoyable puzzle.

Pretty tough for a Tuesday, but still enjoyable.

Starting yesterday, the NYT Games app began crashing every couple of minutes on my IOS device. I usually play on wi fi, but I'm on mobile data for a couple of days while travelling.

Came for the rebus hate; wasn’t disappointed. I like rebuses. Or is it rebi? They're my favorite kind of Thursday puzzle.

HOT TEA as a freebie? Wish I could get that deal. since this is Friday and tricky clues are acceptable, I would’ve clued it as "Juicy gossip."

very enjoyable. CROONER instead of SINATRA mess me up for a while, but I finally figured it out.

There was a microbrewery in my area that closed down in May. It was named Duck-Rabbit, and it’s logo was the ambiguous figure featured today.

Can't wait for next year -- April 1 will be a Thursday.

I enjoy rebus puzzles, and this one was quite fun. I came to the comments for the rebus rage, though, and I was not disappointed. I wonder if schadenfreude could be worked into a rebus...

Today’s theme made me think of the old one-liner, "I just can’t get a Handel on all these Baroque jokes." (Handel was a baroque composer.)

I enjoyed this puzzle. For everyone who is complaining, I would encourage you to take a look at the day's Wordplay column before you get too deep into a solve, or at least when you think there might be a trick involved in a theme. You don’t have to read all the spoilers, but a quick glance at the headline of the column can often give you a hint to a puzzle's theme. I am sure I will get some blowback, but I will preemptively say that I disagree with you and I hope that puzzles like this continue. I consider them fun.

I didn’t try it, but it would be cool if you could enter Roman numerals in the numerical spots so that it’s still all “letters”.

As a lefty, I felt a bit unfairly smeared by 44D, and I would add that it's definitely not a "delightful" entry, as the Wordplay column claims. In this case, two incorrect swipes do not a "swipe right" make. Now, we just need a puzzle making use of the left brain -- right brain nature of handedness so that we can all be reminded that lefties are the only ones in our right mind.

When I first read the clue for 107D, I thought it meant that the bottom of the I was above the top of the O, and I was all set to take issue. It eventually hit me that "atop" in this context meant "superimposed over." And I will also say that I enjoyed this one immensely.

I had a much more scatological guess for the first word of 7D.

I enjoyed this one. I was thinking that the same clue and answer couldn’t possibly be right, but was pleasantly surprised when it was.

After I solved 43D with cross clues, I kept wondering about the names involved. I had the pronunciation of "Irene" so firmly stuck in my head that I couldn’t recognize the name "Rene" until. I typed it out in a search. 🤣

As a homebrewer, I have used malted barley and malted wheat at times. I was actually going to complain about the 4D clue, but, upon reflection, I have no problem with it. When I place an order for brewing grains, I regularly talk about the malt I want, and there are different types. For example, my most recent batch used UK Pale, UK Medium Crystal and UK Dark Crystal to make an ESB, a type of British ale. The malts all happen to be barley, but I referred to them by the names listed above and never said the word "barley" when placing the order. My supplier knew exactly what I wanted.

This was a thoroughly enjoyable one; I enjoyed the theme and notched a new PB for Wednesday.

The first word in the crawl of Star Wars episode one is actually the word "Episode." The answer needed is the first word after the title.

I enjoyed this one quite a bit. Most of the theme was fairly straightforward to suss out, but the theme entry at 17A took me quite a while. I tried "ova" first, then hit on the rebus but put "eggs" in all three slots. Finally, the solution hit me in quite an "aha" moment. Quite fun.

this was a very enjoyable Sunday puzzle. Thanks for a very fun rebus!

I don’t know if it counts as an alternate solution, but if the first letter of 63A is an M, it seems to fit both clues. Someone ordered to do something is "made" to do it, and if you end a piece, as in get rid of it, you "omit" it.

I got 123A with cross clues, but I had never heard of that particular word for a marble. It will be interesting to see if it shows up again in future puzzles. Hopefully so, now that I know it. 😁

The specificity of "Troopers" in the 65A clue made me think of "Staties," another piece of CB jargon I used to hear. Took me the longest time to figure out the correct answer. It didn’t help that perhaps the most famous smokey of them all, from the movie Smokey and the Bandit, was Buford T Justice, a sheriff -- not a trooper.

I got the first theme answer with cross clues, and after that things fell into place such that I got a new personal best for Thursday with this one. It was thoroughly enjoyable.

This one gave me a new personal best for Saturdays, and was quite enjoyable for Valentine’s Day. Cheers!

I enjoyed this puzzle, but I have to disagree with the clue for 1A. The "B" in the answer indicates that we are dealing with a 4-point GPA, and the structure at the college where I teach -- and at every other college with which I have dealt -- sets a perfect A at 4.0 and a B from 3.0 to 3.9. On that scale, a B-plus would be higher than 3.5. An average grade of 3.3 would result in a B-minus.

I enjoyed the puzzle, but a monsoon is not a storm. It is a seasonal wind pattern that influences weather. In south Asia, summer monsoon winds blow north and bring warm, moist air from the Indian ocean north into India, causing a rainy season. Winter monsoon winds blow south, bringing air over the Himalayas, where cold temperatures pull most of the moisture out of the air. As the winds continue south into India, the predominantly dry air results in a dry winter season. Both are monsoons.

I completely missed that the rebus option was available, and got the solve with just entering W's and one D in the various circled squares. As I was finishing up, I was feeling a little sad that there wasn’t a Thursday rebus to enjoy. Silly me.

I kept thinking there was chicanery with the down clues, as well as the across ones. It was fun, though.

I get all the theme answers except the pharmacist one. Is it a pro procures, or is a proporocure a thing? I enjoyed the puzzle all in all, though.

The clue for 17A should be, "despite its name, it’s not generally alcoholic." There are alcoholic variants.

I feel compelled to rebut all the hateful reviews. I enjoyed this puzzle. Granted, everyone is entitled to their opinion, But I thought it was fun.

Two quibbles with the clues: First, there are several aircraft that qualify as 48A that are neither small nor intended only for short flights. Second, a 53A is a denomination-specific service. There are many orher denominations that also have Christmas Eve services. But it was still an enjoyable puzzle, all in all. Thank you!

I enjoyed the puzzle, thank you! I did have one question, though. Is the Uganda clue really the name of a dish or is the word in the clue the name of the green bananas themselves?

My completed puzzle keeps giving an error, but I’ve checked against the answer key and had another person double-check me, and everything is correct. I can’t figure what’s going on.