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Fun puzzle! Cheers from this here proud ANTI FA(scist) - and nope, that's not a group, it's a core moral value.
Wait, what, no other O's anywhere except the pips?? That's some lovely polish, in a fun puzzle!
Splendid fun way to start a Saturday - thank you! But 50A?? Too soon, Mr Gard, too soon... (muffles sobs 🥲 ...)
The clue "Pan in the butt" is a real contender for GOAT... Also, "huggers" for arm?? Happy sigh.... Loved this puzzle, still chortling - thank you!
Happy Canada Day 👋😊!
Loved the ONENIL ONEILL alongside each other... And also confidently rebused and MARIE'd for quite some time! A lovely fun romp on a VERY snowy day here -- thank you, fine duo, please keep them coming!
@Helen Wright sunshine wishes to you and your lovely daughter. Thinking often of Mr Rogers these days - "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
@Jack McCullough yes - not so much use for physical cash anymore! But it's always a pleasure seeing our $10 bill. Beyond its lovely purple, it celebrates hero Viola Desmond, who like Rosa Parks, refused to take a seat at the back (of a Nova Scotia movie theatre, in Viola's case). She stood with courage and tenacity, through ridiculous legal battles and at high personal cost, to end segregation here.
Getting all of OREOCOOKIE in there, intead of just our old pal OREO, was an especially lovely flourish - go, Malaika!
Ooooh Tom LEHRER _and_ STAN Lee in one glorious grid! This was so fun!
Woody woodpecker cries AND Barber of Seville playing in my brain as I solved this one with glee - fine start to the week! (Brain is quieter now we're done 😃)
Okay, finally figured out 36D is HAVE AT IT.... World now safe from me trying out new idiom HAVE A TIT 😅
Going to have to get me a FONRITPAQOMOH t-shirt... Thank you for the chortle, Deb, and the really fun puzzle, Kareem!
That lovely crossword solving moment where your brain shifts gobbledygook into sensible words... I confess staring at NEEnLEDROP at 2D for a quite a while, helped along by FAn at 19A (which also works nicely for "cool when hot")... Sure, that darn D seems obvious now 😄 Apropos nothing, spare a thought for the kids of Toronto tonight, who MUST finish all trick or treating befire the World Series game 6 start at 8. Happy Halloween all y'all and GO JAYS 🎃!!
Lovely to see several Muppets in this puzzle... Feel like there was even a nod to the Count with all the number-ish clues? (Anyone else old enough to remember the Sesame Street sponsored numbers in the '60s -- "This episode is brought to you but the number EIGHT" -- always with the hapless chef dropping that many gooey desserts as he fell down stairs? I missed Sesame Street so much when we moved back to Britain in 1970. But I digress!) Thanks, Patrick - that was great fun!
Okay, THAT was fun! XBOXES especially 😄
@David Ramos TIL that so do NOSEHAIR and MUSTACHE 😄
So many fun echoes (AIM/ARM, EVE/VEE, DMED/DIED, on we go)! ... And for me, a lovely blast of nostalgia: me and my sweetie playing computer games on our first PC, back on the 80s, trying to figure out if those amber dots were vital clues or random rocks... We've been together for 46 years now, yikes! But the graphics are better these days 😄
@Mean Old Lady popping in from Toronto to say, World Series starts HERE on Friday 🎉!! And fall or not, we're really pretty heated up about it 😄 Happy autumn!
What fun! .... and Sam Brody's list of unused anagrams was a lovely little extra
My favourite thing? With a clue that MIGHT be a Monty Python quote, the whole gang's in here quoting the black Knight 😊. Knew I could count on you all - this is a fine, fine community! Have a lovely day filled with kindness and sunshine, everyone.
@Andrzej, I really enjoyed your background on yellow potatoes in Poland - and, actually, while I'm here, all your comments! Here in Canada, the yellow ones are called Yukon gold potatoes, and they're kind of fancy 😃
@Rich in Atlanta I hope you get to come back here soon - sending sunshine your way!
Will be popping in this puzzle for quite a while just to see the goofy duck (tentative bunny)... The eye almost bested me too... Was unreasonably self satisfied when I finally figured it out. Thank you for the fun (and A+ constructor comments)!!
Deb, the NYT crossword -- and this community -- have becime glorious daily fun since my own recent retirement - thank you so much for all your skill in making it so. Sunshine wishes for your road ahead!
This one just sparkled with fun(ny) clues - thank you, Joyce, please keep 'em coming!
(actually meant that to be a reply to @Steve L! Clearly not safe to drive a keyboard, but friendly greetings all round!)
"Whoa baby, if like to put a rider on THAT policy!!"
@Grant see, this kinda stuff is one big reason why I read these comments!
That south east corner has an astonishing number of options for the incautious puzzler - I felt very lucky to escape before drinking three coffees then twitching all day! (39D: Fasting? FISHdaY? Aha, FISHFRY!! And let's not even get into Plump little baby fingers, 48D) Nice puzzle!
Lots of fun and fabulously puzzling, thank you! (OLD AS DIRT - mwah!) But gotta register a sewist's protest against GIRTH for "Tailor's measurement". Chest, waist, upper bicep - these are tailor's measurements. GIRTH??? Nah..... Yours from the Wonky Suit League!
Hurray for another Zhou and Kevin romp!! (My romping was especially joyful after changing ScAM to SHAM... HANDMEDOWN makes so much more sense than cANDMEDOWN and it really helps with where all those MEs are going 😅)
@Whoa Nellie THIS redeemed the frustration of staring at yesterday's rebuses for me! Thank you and happy Monday!!
What a fun, snappy puzzle! (Amazon wrapper?? MWAH!!) I'd never noticed how many four-letter synonyms for "posterior" there are (seat, rear, rump ...) And those Ebert quotes were just glorious. Thank you, John - please may we have some more?
There's a part of me thinking "No, no, the EARLY internet users knew how to use bang - style email addresses! AOL parvenus, eye roll, mutter..." But it's okay, I've sent that part of me off to tell the neighborhood kids to git of my lawn already. Happy Thanksgiving, American neighbors!
@Andrzej wait, what? You mean the Polish version has no dogs at all?? 😥
Fun solve! I'm off to hop around the house on one foot (dancing to Great Balls of Fire), now that I've taken my shoe off at the door...
@DJ yeah, same, I was struck down there for quite a while too. But it was fun reading about Artur Rubenstein and dwarf planets as I got myself unstuck!
@Helen Wright I hope you don't leave.
@Ben yes!! And the was some chortling when I FINALLY realized it was our old friend OREO...
Loved everything about this fun puzzle AND yesterday's, too - and it was all the more fabulous that they were published together. Big thanks from over here - any way to share that comment? 😄
The mighty jaws of the agouti might be my very favourite bit of crossword trivia - what a fun puzzle!
@Karl M the thing about it is, I don't think Viola Desmond's actions in the 1940s were widely recognized across the country until into the 21st century. We've needed to learn how to mark our heroes. I'll never forget my goosebumps the first time I stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall, and read his words there. Or how it felt to sit in Rosa Park's bus seat at the Ford museum in Detroit. (And I made a mistake above- I'm sorry! Discrimination would have been a better word. There wasn't codified segregation. But the discrimination was deep and the fight goes on for too many people here.)
Long stare at ASA, I needed, and chortling now, I am! What fun - thank you! Off to do the Costco Erin in full Yoda voice now - this should be good.
@Strudel Dad same on both counts! FWIW I thought the clue was excellent - sparsely elegant, no more needed.
On the 16 A discussion of misspellings: our language, like us, is alive and changes. It's kinda lovely and colourful that way 😉... (Then again, there are also goofballs like me who just make lots of typos. Whole different thing...)
I got stuck in the SW corner for quite some time (partly because the Welsh language doesn't use the letter V, looking at you, EVAN)... But puzzles are for being puzzled! And so I was... Thank you for a fun and sturdy workout, Kyle!
@Helen Wright oof here's wishing you sunshine soon!! Here in Ontario, we're hoping for something north of freezing - I KNOW there are snowdrops under that snowbank on our front lawn... But at least the cold days are sunny and bright...
Great fun solve - thank you, Kareem, for the AHA!!! moment of getting the gimmick. May I just now that 29D, AXMEN, appearing 51 times in the Old Testament, was quite a relief after that 😅
So fun! All those hills made for a soccer that stopped up as we went along 😄 And FINALLY a sports clue that was a gimme for this Canadian nerd (who sobs at college sports clues) 🎉... Turns out of you live here you know the hockey trophies, I think it's in the water or something....