Jack

I can understand some frustration when a wacky Thursday theme forces a constructor to shoehorn some ugly fill into a puzzle. What confuses me is all the negative comments on this puzzle that not only has an exciting theme, but also has super approachable fill! With the exception of SETI and maybe ELAL all of this fill struck me as common NYT fare, and the acrosses seemed intentionally clued in a straightforward enough way to give numerous toe-holds for solvers to puzzle out the twist. It isn't often we get a puzzle this unique, and to have one with a fun grid design and great fill struck me as quite a feat! Thanks Jesse!

Super excited to hit my 500 day streak, and what a fun puzzle to do it on!! Thanks Joe!

Thought this theme was great! Had DUI instead of DWI for the longest time and had never seen “kewpie” written out so “keupie” seemed alright to me! Other than searching for that incorrect square I loved the puzzle!

Fantastic puzzle. The theme accomplished what all themes should, made the solver feel clever once they figure it out. Also a Thursday PR! Thanks Jesse!

I had GREEN GLASS because I never considered that the actual lawn would be the feature being clued and some people put decorative glasswork in their yards right? After a lot of searching for my mistake I caved and checked the answer key, took me a lot of searching with the key as well! Fill and cluing felt below the normal NYT standard today. Hopefully just a blip.

What a wonderful puzzle! Thanks so much Adam!