Steve

I very much disliked this one. I think the flaw was that LONG FACE fits in the same gap and is a very correct answer, which left me very confused and frustrated. Some kind of hint to the theme was very much required. It also felt quite US-trivia heavy, and the use of "crawler" instead of "crawly" threw me too. The perils of living across the pond!

I almost turned on auto check for this but glad I didn't. Managed to puzzle through even if it took me a long time to get the theme.

Very enjoyable

I was surprised at ROOFS thinking it must be some Americanisation. I've since been down the rabbit hole and apparently rooves is considered archaic!

I wonder how many people knew of PAULINE. As an avid gamer I was embarrassed to have to look it up. I always hope clues in my specialist area will be gimmes! Also I assumed Kamehameha was a Dragon Ball reference 🤣

Very tricky for a Tuesday

Why would a SHOP have sawdust? I guess if it's a pet shop, but the answer doesn't seem specific enough.

After finishing today's puzzle I had the success screen, but the puzzle wasn't showing as finished on the main screen on either Android nor iPad. I had to open the website in order to get it to trigger properly. Had a similar issue last week that ended a (short) Wednesday streak

Why is it spaced as CU STOME R S?