TESmith

Fun puzzle - the theme/circled letters I got somewhat early on, and it was a quicker than average solve from there. I did have a mistake of TEASEd instead of the correct TEASES that took an embarrassingly long time to find.

If it wasn’t intentional for this puzzle to be published on the exact day of the 25th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of my favorite musical, AIDA (the Sir Elton John/Sir Tim Rice one), I’m going to pretend that it was because it was clearly…Written in the Stars. Super fun Sunday puzzle

Having listened to She-Ra books on tape over and over again (inadvertently teaching myself how to read) as a small child, I incorrectly had Princess ADORA instead of SHERA (her alter ego) until I realized NOWAYJOSE was that right. Fun solve!

I love reading the Wordplay column and when I saw SAMETOYOU I couldn't help but thinking "You too in case you ever fly some day!" because Brian Regan is my favorite comedian (and I all but have that bit memorized.) Naturally, I shrieked with joy when he was then mentioned in the Wordplay column. So, thanks, Deb, for making my day.