Margot (@jenesaiswha)

Great, really smooth. Enjoyed it. But OPEN ENDER? instead of OPEN ENDED? urmmm

Honestly, I can´t complete many Saturdays. Because of how I grew up and where I´ve lived I´d never be able to get something like the "DOGIES" or "HOSER" clues. But the diference with other Saturdays was that when hitting reveal for various words I didn´t really have many "aaaaahhhhh (facepalm) that´s so good!" moments. More like either "eeeeeh... really?" or "eeeeeh... what!?". On the inexact language in the cluing that's been pointed out below (IRS, BIG UPSET,... BAD THING was pretty bananas). This is something I'm used to in experimental indie puzzles, but there I can balance it out with the more Gen Z/Millennial fill. Here I had no hope. I agree with some comment below that says that the people defending the puzzle had to contend with Gen Z fill, they'd be singing a diferent tune. I'm not insane. I don't think that you can make experimental puzzles that are everyone's cup of tea. And I'm glad that people more into old school trivia have a place to come for their own weirdo-hard-hard puzzles. Just kind of wish there were some way to know what the deal is before investing 30 minutes into a puzzle... oh well. That said, I liked the clues for BSIDE, CREDO, HIATUS,...

My Spanish half calmly typed in CUADROUPLE and I didn't know the word DQED. So that took a little while... But hey, DQed is now in my life.

This was so nice. Am realizing I really enjoy end-of-week Rafael Musa puzzles. Heading over to Xwordinfo to find the dates of old ones :)))

very cool tricksies :) thanks!

The construction to me is mind-blowingly good but would have appreciated the clues being a tad harder. But again, wowza on construction!

So funnnnn. Great long answers. The misdirects. Yum yum. Thank you!

I loooooooove this puzzle. Has this been done before or something? It seems like there are very few comments for how good the puzzle is? <3 sock clue

What a great theme! Once you figure out the first one, fun to guess the other ones without crosses. Really nice :)

Really enjoyed it. Surprisingly easy for a Saturday. Solved in under 20 min, a PB for me (I´ve been solving for a couple of years but I´m half non-anglo and tend to miss out on a lot of references) but the fill was SO good. I came up with a theme and want to try my hand at constructing and submitting and when I see fill like this in a debut it´s honestly intimidating, heh. Congrats!

Fun! Very nice long ones. And relaxed for a Saturday (I can rarely solve them). Loved loved looooved “where roots are branches" for FAMILY TREE. Thanks, Jacob. <3

My fastest Friday! It felt like a Wednesday. In any case, I liked it :) Thrown by FLAP and "to-do", didn't know that they had the "spat" meaning, thank you commenters!

Excellent! Thank you :))))))

Beautiful theme :)

Annnnd a blessed Robyn Weintraub Friday to you, Deb! 😌

I'm sure it's my fastest Saturday. I really enjoyed it and liked the long fill! I see some disagreement, but I'm down with the MATH TEAM one. Learned that reckoning = "a calculation that you make". I thought it meant something a bit different. Happy to learn LOCS as well. Smiled at HUMAN CANNONBALL. :)

Love the theme, nice execution! Thanks and Happy New Year to all :)

6:30 Sunday morning all I have to say is: cuuuuuuute. Sundays aren't usually my cup of tea, this one I really liked :)

Wow, very breezy. Nice entries tho!

Lovely. Was pretty blocked on the top... but carved the right side out and all went well. 46min. Thank you, Mark!

Mmmmmmh... it's not marking mine as completed. If anyone knows this, I'd appreciate guidance: did I fill something in incorrectly or are you supposed to put the state rebuses in any specific order? As in "accross states go first"? Thank you :))