BK

Bro get out of here with OPERAARIA. What are we even doing

The entire middle and lower middle is just bad. I've seen puzzles rejected that are so much more clever than this, very odd

No one in the history of the world has ever said "dash it" out loud, ever.

Kinda obnoxiously hard?

Bruh

A little wobbly in places but the freshest puzzle in a while which is always appreciated, so for that it gets an A

Great Saturday puzzle

One of the worst weeks of puzzles I can remember so far

Nice debut

Unpleasant

I don't mind novelty but the insistence lately on adding small phrases in lieu of words is getting pretty old. NOIINSIST looks like an abomination and can almost only be cleaned with crosses, which, fine. But when half the answers are two word phrases it feels less clever and more ham fisted. Am I alone here?

I'm not getting any cleverness from the theme sadly, which made this much more of a slog than it would have been. Glad it seems to be mostly well received though

Easier than the Weds imo, still pretty fresh though the "theme" clues were pretty unsatisfying. Gonna go ask my pup what he thinks

Here with popcorn

Sorry I hated this one

Really nice one for this week!

Really really nice one Had CLUBMED forever which was really messing me up

8:14 woot. Theme filled up a ton of the grid once it clicked

8:47! Felt like a Tuesday

This was a nice one, except a lot of fast times since the theme takes up so much real estate. But a smile on my face the whole time

24:17 on a pretty solid, fiendish one S and m was a groan. And"print" took me like two minutes of staring since i was stuck on u-trap

The names in the bottom left were the only tricky bit, otherwise a silky smooth Sunday

Fantastic looking grid, fun fill I jived with at 15:34!!

22:18. Theme really opened it up, impressive fill though mostly

This was not a hard puzzle? Hint for newer solvers on Sundays - READ THE PUZZLE TITLE

Took. no. tice. I said this about fifty times before I got there lol

10:53, jived hard with it

Surprisingly didn't set a PR with this one lol but just over 4 mins. Feels like the theme should feel cheap but it didn't

14:56. Feels good for a winetraub. Curious how many of her clues get edited, I suspect very few

LEDGE crossing EDGE? Say it ain't so, Alex

Cluing was just bad here, made for a boring puzzle on an ok grid

No thank you

15:30. Enjoyed this one

Longest Thursday for me in years. Over 30 mins of pain lol

Fun one, some of the answers looked insane until filled. Sub 23:00, jived with it

Enjoyed this and the visual aspect worked for me, I never even thought to enter t/v. Just weird that the bottom right vee violated the pattern. Would've been more satisfying if it kept the same rules

4:50 GIDDYUP

OHME? Didnt know the hymn either so that was a mind killer

Great one

Pleasant. 25:53 today, struggled with a bit of random fill but it never felt obnoxious

23:27 giddyup

3:53 today, love getting under 4

Sub 20 min, not really getting why any effort was put into the "theme" but it was serviceable nonetheless

4:22 today, almost a new pr

Fun and pretty fresh

When puzzles like this get published, I expect that having already been published confers some advantage. No issue with the theme, it was actually fun to crack but the rest was a slog