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I really liked Deb's comparison between solving and wine appreciation. So tired of seeing everything being timed and/or turned into a competition.

Great puzzle, but....I want to start a petition that decrees that that any clue asking for a rapper must auto fill. Really, there must be 10,000 of them out there.

I come here to do a crossword on my tablet, not a white board. This is a great construction, but belongs somewhere else on the game page. Not fun, good-bye streak, don't want to sit at a 22 inch monitor with a legal pad and pencil.

Funny how trivia can make or break you. Bond's pistol was my entry solve.

A bit of a lesson to be learned here. There might be more to something than is apparent.

I'm older so was familiar with all these headlines, maybe this theme is payback for all the thousands of celebrities and rappers younger solvers might know, but I have never heard of.

Between Friday and Saturday's puzzles, two of the best - I'll never get this, I got it, challenges in a while. Like walking through ankle deep mud but you finally get there. Thanks to all the great constructors.

As someone who has a hate hate relationship with cellphones and texting, those acronyms are a strain.

A perfectly satisfying tooth pulling exercise.

A great puzzle is brutally humbling in the first 15 minutes, then like pulling alligator teeth, finally comes to fruition. Funny how clues can make sense in hindsight when at first seeming so clueless.

A little longer than average, start in bed, wake up at 2 a.m. and start to see the words. A perfect puzzle.

I think the name of the puzzle refers to what it takes to get through it. Very tough, but doable. One where you start out and think that you'll never get it, but just keep plugging away. I had a 45 of "I've been everywhere" by Hank Snow. That answer was the crack that got me started.

Help! What do you do when your fill is perfect, checked against the key, but doesn't recognize the solve?

Very clever and a lot of fun. Took me me too long to realize what day of the week I was working on.

Sam, I totally agree about the feeling there is a connection out there. It's how I explain putting it down and later picking it with sudden revelation. More than subconscious wheels turning. The trick of this puzzle was coming on a Wednesday. The bar joke got me going down the right path. A fun ride.

Just right for me, like pulling teeth, twenty four minutes longer than usual. Very clever and fair.

A fun challenge with an "aw ha" kick. Just right I think for Thursday.

Very clever and fun. Any tie-in to Seinfeld makes me smile. Congrats to a fellow Kansan.

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