Daniel

Well, it definitely sets the tone for the month! Had a fun time!

My favorite clue of the bunch has to be 22A - Lottery commission? which of course resolves to DRAWINGBOARD. 65A- Yellow submarine? gets an honorable mention for CHICKENSANDWICH. Really enjoyed this one!

Very hard puzzle, but still enjoyable! (took me well over an hour to solve)

Those of you that enjoyed this one might also enjoy <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2004/07/04" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2004/07/04</a> As for this puzzle, I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of it. Happy 250th! (a little early, yes)

Okay I definitely got a chuckle out of FACTORFICTION.

After today's theme time to listen to some Bach Chorales....

Me trying to draw a Giraffe, NOWTHATSATALLORDER.... Fun puzzle otherwise

ROGER Roger, I COPY, OVER and OUT. Really enjoyed this one!

ICKY theme, okay I'll see myself out!

My weekend was full of DISSONANTCHORES, so I'll drink to that! The trick became clear after CONTROLLEDCHAPS, the circles no doubt gave it away easily. As always, was an enjoyable solve.

Was wondering what the theme was, then I was like wait these are world cup winners.... Sure enough.... Enjoyed this one, was an apt theme given what is going on right now.

Was a difficult solve for me. The theme didn't click until most of the puzzle was done, at which point I just face-palmed for feeling like an idiot. 10/10 would do again.

I once tried to TRIPLEJUMP but ended up face-planting in the sand....

Great, now I have Jump Around stuck in my head. All kidding aside, things went pretty smoothly. I had fun!

Strychnine nine, ermine mine, plane lane...and the list goes on. Thought the puzzle was fine. Then again, I am just a rookie around these parts.

Felt this was a bit on the easier side for a Saturday level puzzle, then again maybe that was me just getting lucky.... Either way, still enjoyed it!

Enjoyed the set theme, especially TWOBIRDSWITHONESTONE and HONORAMONGTHIEVES.

Absolutely enjoyed the theme today.

OH DEAR, here we go again! Was fun theme, all things considered.

The 2 clues leading to the one rebus square were fortunately easy to get, of course THEBIGAPPLE and SNAPPLE. Was a fairly fun solve.

Well, SOMEBODYSCRANKY (that would be me).

This felt easier than yesterday, but maybe I am alone in that assessment. But the theme definitely made me smile!

Things felt too good to be true after the upper half of the puzzle, then the bottom right happened...spent way too much time down there!

This just confirms it for me, we are definitely living in a PARALLELUNIVERSE.... Joking aside, I very much enjoyed the theme of this one!

After SEABASS, EEL and AHI I will trade that WETBAR for a rawbar....

Was on AUTOPILOT for most of this until it came time to crack the theme, which was pretty clever! So this was a very good Monday puzzle!

Was a fun Sunday puzzle, enjoyed the aha moment after 22A: HELEN OF TROY was filled in, which was also my favorite clue of the set (HOT woman worth fighting for).

I was torn between wAgE and RATE for 42A and penciled in wAgE but then quickly realized it wasn't going to work with GOTEAM, definitely went DOH after that but I did enjoyed being slightly tricked. Was a fun Tuesday!

Definitely gonna PARTYPARTYPARTY after that one!

55A and 48D made me smile, that is all I can really ask for when solving a crossword puzzle.

I dunno about everyone else, but after this one I am hungry!

Well, any day I wake up alive is a reason to feel WARMANDFUZZY. As to fuzzy, that reminds me, I need to shave....

Simple and fun Wednesday.

The only mistake I made was doing this on an empty stomach.... Otherwise, was another fun Friday solve!

The crosses were a massive help in figuring some of these out (as was catching onto the theme of Capital Cities), while a couple just clicked immediately (Victoria Cross, What a girl wants. But, overall this was a very fun solve!

ELBOWROOM and HEADRESTS being in the upper right corner was pretty amusing as was the answer for 17A. Really enjoyed today's puzzle.

Found it difficult to get started, but once I started filling in the bottom right and found CROCODILE TEARS things started to fill in nicely. Had to also make some corrections HoldTIGHT vs HANGTIGHT, caTFOOD to PETFOOD etc. Definitely was an enjoyable solve!

I don't about you guys/gals but I had fun with this one! Loved the theme.

HOTHOTHOT indeed!

Out here we have always called ROLLINGSTOPS California rolls (no, not the sushi!), but rolling stops makes more sense. I had also put HOLYMOlEy initially, but corrected it to HOLYMOSES after the botched EAlYREADS. Also got a kick out of 31D- They're filled with bacon? leading to ATMS!

POTOROO definitely tripped me up, but was fairly confident in crosses in the bottom half and the starting letter because of PHASES. Being given the letters definitely helped. IOTAS definitely did not get me, I have seen this type of clue before with chis and etas.

Took a bit longer than usual because I kept trying to make rEpS work instead of the correct SETS, soon realized that the former wasn't going to work and then everything fell into place. The aha moment was fun after iv LEAGUE, which made the other ones easy to solve.

Only reason I went with CRAWDADS instead of CRAWfish was because of the theme, I had OLDMANANDTHESEA by that point. But duet for PAIR almost tricked me if it wasn't for the cross of 13D being BRO. Was a cute, and apt, theme.

This was a difficult solve for me today. Picked up on the theme after most of the puzzle was done, at which point I just face-palmed for feeling like a complete fool! 10/10 would do again

Pretty hard for a Wednesday, but fun nevertheless. On a side note, Sam probably wasn't the only one that put sorry for 14A (definitely guilty here).

As soon as I saw the grid I said "finally something right up my alley," and I wasn't disappointed either!

The aha moment on the theme was after filling in PLUSSIGN from other answers and noticing the start of DOLLAR in 24A, looked at my keyboard and sure enough.... What a fun and clever theme!

Was pretty tricky for me, but BANANASEAT, ROGUEWAVE and CISTERN really opened up the right side of the puzzle for me.

Been about 25 years since I last used DOPE as slang for cool, surprised it immediately popped up in my mind. This felt like a run of the mill Monday puzzle.

Enjoyed the theme, however now I want a drink and its too early.... Oh well.