Ryan

@Andy seems a bit excessive

@Asher B. Makes perfect sense though?? Steal the kiss from the word to make it fit the clue. Give a hug to the other words to make them fit. Have a little whimsy :)

@loftyc rappers used to put of ~mix~ of their songs onto ~tapes~ at one point. Digital media killed that, but the idea is still the same to have a demo of your work. Name stuck, media format didn't. Make a mental note of it for next time.

@P how long have you been doing them? It takes time, don't get discouraged!

@D it's a common enough term. If you couldn't get it it's on you, not the editors.

@Charles i don't think that mylar alternative = mylar balloon alternative = latex was unfair at all

@Mike nothing new. French and Spanish in particular show up quite often. Work the crosses if you don't know it.

@Jonathan Baldwin apparently they were made with eel at one point <a href="https://britishfoodhistory.com/2012/01/22/eel-pie-and-mash" target="_blank">https://britishfoodhistory.com/2012/01/22/eel-pie-and-mash</a>/

@Terri solve em however you like!

@loftyc just wait till you find out about other words whose meanings have changed!

@Nemo not a rebus puzzle.

@Chet "I wasn't clever enough to get the theme so clearly NYT did something wrong" It's okay to not get everything every time.

@Jane Wheelaghan cos he said so

@S Godwin quick look at the Wikipedia page for antivenom says that they're synonyms. Maybe you know something i don't though. I do agree about gasoline, but the rest of the puzzle was so clever that I didn't mind that one.

@Xword Junkie you might get botox tea if you try making kombucha without properly disinfecting everything first

@Cathy Parrish OSU is without a doubt the bigger rival. It's such a big rivalry that people who never went to either school but happen to live in the same state as one of them vehemently hate the other. Not much of a nit to pick really, just a mistake you made in your solving.

@D if you got it then I really don't get your beef with it...

@Grant WWE is acting....

@Wingnut they call them dinks in pickleball from what I've gathered listening to my coworkers. I just accepted it and move on 🤷‍♂️

@5cat but they were GIs...and yanks doesn't fit...

@Ryan although Wednesday was extra hard for me this week so I'll take an easy Friday I guess

@Pat Engel across rebuses are numbers and are in circles, square them to make the down rebuses. Then look at the revealer again.

@Redleader Then you've got a misplaced modifier going on and nothing makes sense. Yoda would know that the adverb should tag along with the verb.

@Allen boohoo they use slang in the crossword sometimes. Least it's not another Taylor Swift clue.

@Gary i think you will live

@Shmi rowing shell is a boat

@Paul technically incorrect to a pedant, but widely used as in everyday speech for a long enough span of time that it's equally valid a cw answer as "till". Colloquialisms are in the cw all the time.

@NanuNanu that's an unfair nit to pick and you know it. Rise means "took over" in that clue, not "first evolved"

@Francis Both spellings are appropriate, cleveland clinic has it spelled without the A <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/7246-cesarean-birth-c-section" target="_blank">https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/7246-cesarean-birth-c-section</a>

@Judith Nelson yes

@Rich in Atlanta should have let him go on thinking that so that his boss looks at him funny next time he asks to leave work cos he doesn't feel good

@Add not a rebus, circled letters are confirmations and they are on a slant/angle/bias.

@Joe "that girl" could be the subject of a sentence in which case SHE is just as suitable.

@Rachel118 April fools?

@Jen either all the letters or the first letter will work.

@Ιασων <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come-hither" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come-hither</a>

@B Was a minute faster than my average Wednesday. Wasn't that hard.

@Charlie Fuchs you should try playing it sometime, real fun board game.

@MountainGoose feels good don't it? What was your time?