Nate

I’m sure to some extent folks who successfully solve a puzzle rate the puzzle higher than those who weren’t in the constructor’s wheelhouse and the comments skew that way but… Today was significantly better than yesterday’s puzzle, in my humble opinion. I ran out of patience running the alphabet on all the naticks yesterday. Here’s a vote for adding a “Run the Alphabet key” to the app to take some of the slog out of those puzzles. Today’s puzzle was plenty hard and the design left me work to do in all four corners without much to connect to, but the clues and answers seemed much more polished. There were names I didn’t know today, too, but much more interspersed with clever, thought provoking clues. For reference, I’ve solved every puzzle for the past 7 1/2 years so I don’t relate to the good old days of impossible Saturdays, but this was a good puzzle. Very well done, Katie. Keep ‘em coming.