Nice one! I didn’t pick up on the corner animals until after I’d given up 🙃

Animal Farm

Themeless 3

Fun but not easy! I had STARMAN for SPARTAN for a long time. I love the shape of the puzzle; it was fun to work my way around the circle. :)

Great puzzle! I removed the wrong letter from AREAS to get AREA instead of ARES 😂

My friend did that as well when he was solving, honest mistake.

Themeless 6!

Really smooth and you fit a lot of themed entries in there!

Thank you - I had fun coming up with the theme entries so I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I'm from 15A and TIL that 12A is the same number of letters... I feel like this is something I should have realized earlier :) Nice solve!

I was delighted when I spelled them out in my head and realized they matched!

This puzzle helped me get my groove back.

Bucks in Six

Regular Minis #17

Nice one! I had to give up on the NW corner but it was fun working my way through!

Themeless 5!

Great puzzle Ethan! By the time I figured out the theme I had already gotten all the characters 😂. Very cool!

Fun puzzle! I was struggling a lot but a surprising amount of the grid fell into place after I googled "Abe Vigoda Godfather". :)
Who's the character hidden in PALEOARTIST? Leartis?

Of course, thank you! I was like "Have I been spelling Laertes wrong for years...?" :)

Division By Parts

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I have no idea how I got the bottom squares.  Loved the puzzle though.  Sara is on my wavelength.

I liked this one a lot! Though I'm still confused about the final squares. Any hint?

Confused about what to put in the final squares, or what the prank is? Happy to help either way!

Both! I cup? I'm feeling extra dense today :( Sorry for missing the joke.

I'm missing the part about how to figure out the squares were ICUP

Wow. That really takes me back. Fantastic fun.

LOL - amazing puzzle!!! takes me back to elementary school when a classmate asked me to spell "i-cup"... another classic one is what's you name? what's this (points to nose), and what's in my hands? (holds out nothing)... 😂😂😂 - i was so excited to use them on other ppl too

Wow I really enjoyed this and I'm so impressed! Dula Peep!!

Back in second grade, I was too smart for ICUP, but IHOP got me. Man, what a throw back!

Not Much, What's Up With You?

Really appreciate that! Those were fun to write, I'm glad they were enjoyable to solve as well.

Crackle, Crackle, Pop, Fizz

Great little puzz! I love how everything tied into other clues, though it took be a bit to get everything to come to mind. Very well done, and thanks to Clairellyn!

Thanks for solving! Glad you enjoyed it :)

I didn't know either so I looked it up, seems like Digital Audio Workstation and Virtual Studio Technology

A digital audio workstation is a computer program for recording music. Virtual studio technologies are plugins - either samplers or synthesizers - for digitally emulating acoustic instruments. The most obscure clue in the puzzle, I know :) Thanks for solving!

That university elective in digital music is finally paying off.

Thanks Clairellyn for the brilliantly dumb title.

To Thine Own Self Be Clue

Loved it Josh! I had a typo (AROO for EROO) but it was a very smooth solve overall, and I enjoyed the theme!

Love a crossword that sends me a-Googlin' when I'm finished - 44A was a new one for me! Nice solve, thanks!

Very smooth solve. You did ask for feedback on your first grid and I hope this doesn't come across meanly, because I did these as well on my own first attempts. I'll put them as replies to this comment.

(or I'll just have to make a second comment) 44A isn't common knowledge, so it needs fairer crossings. Be careful of duplications - you can do Bet and Betray but DNAS and DNACHIP repeat a whole word in the grid and that's normally advised against. Other than that, good grid!

That’s extremely helpful Ariel, thank you! I knew 44A would be difficult but I expected it to be slightly more common knowledge than it’s turning out to be based on those that have solved so far. Now I know!

Also, being mindful of how fair the crossings are on my harder fill is something I’m trying to be more mindful of in my second puzzle. Thanks again for taking the time to give me feedback!

Ready Player One

For All Time

Love the shoutout to Olbrich Gardens! Definitely worth a stop for anyone visiting Madison!

Absolutely! One of my favorite places in Madison. Thanks for solving :)

Nice to see my hometown show up in a puzzle, especially the Gardens - a special place in a special city

Starbucks Run

Very nice! I liked the clue for USAIN - never heard aptronym before!

Congrats on your first puzzle.  "Aptronym" was a new term for me as well!

7/18/21 - First puzzle

I solved the previous version of this one but just wanted to comment again on this one to say I really enjoyed it!

Crossword Puzzle

Trying to submit again to see if it works!

Did you have trouble submitting? LMK I'd love to try to fix it if there was an issue w/ Crosshare

Fun puzzle! Couldn't get the meta, though

Lexicon Devil Crosshare Crossover Mini-Meta #1

Noah's Ark Wasn't Functioning As Well As Planned

Nice puzzle! VAN was great 😂😂. And happy birthday Norah!

Clue for FORTY made me groan in a good way!

Go Shorty...

My high school math teacher was a huge OSU fan and the proudest parent you'd ever meet - her daughter was the sousaphone player who dotted the i in Script OHIO!

I appreciate the extra hint about INNI being palindromic, don't think I would have gotten the puzzle without it.

Glad it was helpful - INNI was definitely the "leftover" word in the puzzle so I lucked out that I could use it but knew it was obscure. Thanks for solving!

Hello Everyone

Easier than most of your puzzles, so thanks for that. ;) Very nice work.

Some days you want to make a mean puzzle, some days ya don't.

Regular Minis #16

If anyone wants to know how a particular clue is spelled without the typo, just ask :)

Can you explain how the meta works? Nice puzzle - had a heck of a time trying to work my way through it 😊

Each clue has one of its letters replaced by another letter/character. Taking these letters in order (Acrosses and downs), they spell out the first verse of Close To You by The Carpenters. e.g. ASP is [Certain wiper] instead of Viper, so you should take the W.

Whoa. I don't feel so bad about not getting it now.

wow wow wow. i was writing down the typo letters as i went but got distracted bc i’ve been watching shrek while i solved this. great meta, great song, great work!!

Fun! Hard! That was a clever concept. I didn't know about the song, but once the meta clues were finally done (with lots of checking) the few remaining clues were a piece of cake. Thanks!

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