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Sorry folks - if you don't like puns, you are out of luck with many puzzles. Instead of leaving a cross word, just move on. Thank you.
@Mike - I am thankful for the puns from Mike of Munster. I am thankful for Barry Ancona keeping us on the straight and narrow. I am thankful for the Polish perspective from Andrej. I am thankful for the commenters - regulars and occasionals alike. I am thankful for HeathieJ my erstwhile East Troy neighbor. And I am thankful for easy rebuses.
Midi - Dear Mr. Livingood - "Antifa" is not an actual group. It's a figment of Trump's imagination. I can't believe this clue and answer got past the NYT editors again. (We objected the last time a constructor tried this.) On the other hand, I am anti-fascist, but I am not part of an official group.
@Mike - Wow, Mike - you have outdone yourself! And not by a tiny bit. You had me dancing along.
People - if you want a harder Thursday puzzle, please submit one. The NYT can only work with what they are given. I enjoyed this puzzle.
Link to wordplay column from puzzle still not fixed. "Look, I made an app link that works" not consistently said at the NYT.
@R - It's a Monday puzzle. It's supposed to be easy for experienced puzzlers, and a nice break from the end-of-the-week tortures.
@Sebastian - The press agents (irons) have handles, so using the adjective form, they are "handled". Your question has a handled answer.
Kitten heels are low heels, not high heels. They may be technically stillettos because they are small, narrow heels. But usually what are refered to as stilletto heels are several inches longer than kitten heels.
Sorry, not my wheelhouse today. I had to reveal one letter. And reading the column - okay as far as it goes. But I never heard of PISMO Beach, SAMOA Beach (Calif.), or SAPOR. That's a three-way natick (or 2.5 if you insist on not counting SAPOR). Also STUTTGART means "stud farm", which sounds like a bunch of honeys to me (if I were in heat). And what is Apia Samoa? So, not on the constructors' wave length today.
Wow! Puzzle of the year for Trekkies! I loved it. Took awhile, but very satisfying on so many levels. (If you haven't watched Star Trek, hopefully next week will be in your area of nerddom.)
@Grumpy - Agree 55D is a lame clue. I don't think the constructor should prophet from such entries.
Champion crossword constructer! Calendar-commencing creativity!
@Mango - Admission receipts from a fair or event will be collected at the door or the gate, and can be called "the gate".
HOSTS at 1A is a word often used in the Bible to describe armies.
@D Hie thee to a Shakespeare play.
@Steve L - Oh please, normally your youngest child IS the last child to leave home.
@Rob - I open Wordplay now thru the main NYT app search function, but it's a pain to have to do this to get the Wordplay and the puzzle both open at the same time. Dear New York Times: The Wordplay column and the Crossword crossreference each other!!! WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THEM BOTH OPEN AT THE SAME TIME! And yes, I am yelling. Please don't have obviously non-users make changes to the Puzzle app! - Jennie M. Ehrmann
I enjoyed this puzzle. I enjoyed the different tricks. I like fruity desserts. Thank you.
@David - Samoa here refers to an obscure beach in California, and we're supposed to know the equally obscure town of Pismo Beach, CA. I should submit a puzzle using Wauwatosa, Waukesha, Wautoma and Waunakee. Only HeathieJ and a couple of others would have a clue.
@Cary Coutant "Near mint" is near mint condition of a coin or other collectible. I didn't get it either, until it came to me as I was starting to type the phrase into Google. That was a near miss!
I read the column. Don't understand it. Some words in the puzzle relate to pigs, but I don't see how the circled words relate to each other or to pearls before swine. And I don't recall what pearls before swine have to do with wasting time. Also, I never ever heard of a loud out. Don't believe Bob Uecker used that term. Winter has come. Lots of snow.
@Francis - Woodbury forecast (have family there) is 37 for Thursday. Should help. (As an aside, we feel for Minnesota today.)
I loved the theme. My dad worked for WI Department of Transportation Division of Highways and helped design the Interstate system here. This was right up my alley, or freeway lane.
@Steve L - No, they are definitely smaller. This puzzle was physically hard to work.
Never heard of the Peter Pan Bus Company. I looked it up and saw it was in the Northeast only. I used to ride the Badger Bus quite a bit. Guess where that is located.
RNA as a translator is deep into medical chemical knowledge and concepts I do not have. I'm just glad it works against Covid.
@Andrzej - Sorry, US specific clue. Most of us have heard of her, and many remember the coin. Once we got DOLLAR, we just had to doublecheck the spelling of her name (and there are two correct spellings to choose from).
@KT - Please think about grade inflation, as discussed in the Wordplay column.
@Gregg - That was my last correction.
I leapt with joy when I finished this puzzle. Fun.
@LadyB Maybe it means we had to power through it.
I enjoyed the theme. Now I need an ice cream cone.
@Hi hi - I've never heard it called Baja Mexico. It's usually just Baja colloquially. Everyone knows it's in Mexico. Formally, it's Baja California and Baja California del Sur.
@RJ - Rowdy as a noun makes it a good misdirect. Misdirection always adds time and fun. Rowdy as a noun is in the dictionary.
@Edward Rice - As I understand it, Bostonians just call it "Mass Ave", and the rest of us call it Massachusetts Ave., pronounced Avenue.
@DawnW - I didn't have to type in any letters over the dancers. I left those squares alone.
I see all you ten o'clockers posted that the puzzle was fast and easy. Well, I am a couple hours later. For me, it was tricky in spots and my time was average for a Saturday. I enjoyed the puzzle, but I got a workout.
@Darren - Obscure answers? I had only three look-ups: the NYC club, if jalapeños were the right heat level, and the Leila name. A couple other unknowns were revealed by crosses - that author, for one. About par for a Monday. The NYT puzzle has to have a little bite. You can get a book of Super Easy Crosswords at the grocery store.
I loved this one! Very clever! I think my favorite was _NIGHT as HEADLESSHORSEMAN. But all the theme entries were quite clever. This is a contender for puzzle of the year.
Had no, no, no idea what the dashes meant. And since the dashed entries weren't shaded (indicating they go together) I didn't know they were supposed to go together. Luckily I eventually filled in the squares going the other direction. I have no idea what the pairs are, since the author of this article didn't list them (in word form). Dumb and annoying to send out an incomplete list of clues.
Wow - I just noticed that the grid could be seen as a butterfly, with the wings on either side of LUCHADORA. (Una mariposa monarca de México.)
Oat bars don't translate to crunchy. Just sayin'. They are rated as chewy. Solver (or un-solver in my case) stays mad at puzzle. Not adept today. (Mother-in-law's name was Effie. I put that in first.) I gotta take off the e-brake and learn some driving from Fast and Furious.
@Emile - There are already large T's in the grid. Don't need more.
I enjoyed the puzzle, although the constructor was goofing off to have the same clue and answer twice.
"Let's go fly a kite" was my entrée into the puzzle. Helps that we did a dance to it in a ballet recital as a teen. Had kite props, of course.
@heironymous - A billion means a million million in many parts of the world. This is called the long scale. Not 1,000 million on the US short scale.
"Foundation for a proposal?" on the day Taylor and Travis revealed Travis got down on his knee to propose. Perfect synchronicity! And made the answer a gimme.
@jennie - Thanks Isabeau and HeathieJ.
Fun puzzle. I pulled out pen and paper to work out some of the theme entries, after I saw what was going on.