Charlie

enjoyed the theme and didn’t so much mind the fact that the puzzle refers to artists as paintings, but honestly so many aspects of this puzzle weren’t thought through properly. i filled in a bunch of artist names based on crosses before figuring out the conceit of the puzzle and then had to scour the puzzle to find the names again to try to figure out what the missing letters were, why not have both clues refer to each other? add to that multiple naticks and a rebus that doesn’t work both ways and the solving experience was just frustrating

last time i did the sunday (last week? two weeks ago?) there were squares that didn’t work both ways and people in the comments were telling those of us who were annoyed that a rebus doesn’t have to work both ways and this week i’m being told in the comments i should know that it would be completely inappropriate for the puzzle to accept LINE since it wouldn’t work both ways and all i’m saying is a little consistency would be nice!