Nice one Jake! I struggled a bit with SUPER FUDGE and AGNES but managed to guess right after getting the rest 🎉. Clever way to clue DRESS

Glad you liked it! Please check out some of my other puzzles; they’re not perfect, but I try to keep them fun. 😄

Well done. I didn't have time to figure it out so I revealed the answers and was very interested in your answers.  Great clues!

Thanks, Jim! I appreciate it. I’ve got some other more time-consuming puzzles for when you’ve got more time to spare. 😉

Really nice. Great clues for DRESS and KEELS. And a Judy Blume reference always gets a smile out of me!

Thanks, William! A smile is the best I can hope for. I really enjoy and often find myself including little homages to those who have had an impact on me in some regard. I guess Judy Blume was one such person!

Untitled Mini

Thank you! How’d the theme come across? It’s suppose to be visually representative

Yeah I liked it - at first I thought the circles in the center were just randomly spread but once I figured out the theme it all clicked

Globe Trotter

5/5/21 Mini

Wonderful puzzle! Great MLM clue. And I did not know the Babadook was gay!

GSWS Zine Puzzle

Nice tough puzz! Always one of the best ways to wake up on a workday.

I SWEAR BY your 7x7's! It's consistently amazing to me that you're able to get that "I'll never get this, the puzzle's totally blank, then everything falls, even the stuff I don't know" feeling (I'm trademarking that name) from a 7x7.

Wow! Super-proud of my no-hint solve on this one, lots of educated guesses that worked out.

Love the Claire Saffits shout out with EGG 😄

May 4

Nice one - some how in my head I was sure it was PATTY Cline and not PATSY - oops!

Well now I have a new clue for mayonnaise

This was fun! Nice using OATHS to help clue HOTFOOT and TESTY. And the clue for BLIP was great.

Those were especially challenging to clue and I'm glad you enjoyed them :)

Sheydah #3

8 down could maybe use a more specific clue! but great puzzle!

PIANO means softly in music notation I believe. I'm not sure what you mean by a more specific clue. But glad you liked the puzzle

Just meant adding a hint about music wouldve been more obvious

Famous Five

Con? Vi?  Shah Jahan is rolling in his grave!  Great clue.

We loved the cryptic clues esspecally the usa! Great puzzle!

Finding Yourself

Goodlands

So clever! I’ve always noticed it before, and never knew it had a name.. RAS, got it! Love learning new things. :) 

Only thought I had was GOBBLUTH is not an example of RAS, but it’s slotted with the other themers like you would expect it to be.

For real, super fun puzzle!

RAS Syndrome

Thanks! I'll pass your compliments along to Sara!

I kept trying CALZONE for the Uncrustable instead of RAVIOLI!  The A and O matched, haha.

Found in Translation

The brief reprieve from CAMPAIGNADS is very much appreciated 😂

Wow, definitely had me stumped there.. loved the entry SHONDAVERSE. And somehow I’ve watched 11 seasons of Greys Anatomy and still couldn’t come up with the answer..

There was no way I could get the 2D/3D/4D crosses with 7A. 🙄 But I did discover that CAMPUS QUADS is the same length as CAMPAIGN ADS. 😃

Yo Dawg, I herd you like minis

Nice one Taylor! I struggled but still enjoyed it!

Happy to hear that! Another attempt at a Fri/Sat NYT style puzzle. Glad you made it through!

MINIMS was my last word filled; luckily, I have taught math for medical assistants and we talked briefly about some archaic units of measure. 😃

Nice! yeah that bit of fill threw me off, I had never heard of it.. but I felt like everything surrounding it was gettable enough so I kept it in.

Hard one! Liked a lot of the long fill. Re: minim, as a musician I know the term in that context (it's a Britishism for a half note) so I put it in on a guess it could mean something else too.

Thanks! I thought about clueing MINIMS in the musical sense, maybe that would have been the better option!

Themeless Express #5

Nice one! I liked that clue for ALEXA! I was glad RIVER was kind of easy I think otherwise I would've been totally stumped.

Cluing Practice 16

What a lovely theme and smooth grid! Nice one Philip 😊

Thanks Mike! I wanted to do a farewell-themed puzzle for my last day of work, so this is what I came up with. This is also the first puzzle I did with vertical symmetry instead of conventional 180º rotational due to the length of the themers

Wow! Fun, smooth and really amusing. Now, I’m wondering about those tombstones...

Thanks! Me too... I tried to work “Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty I’m free at last” into an earlier version of the puzzle

Nice! Love the "Bring It On" reference lol

Fun! Definitely like the tombstone theme!

thanks! hope the theme wasn't too morbid... i figured since the epitaphs were catchphrases/song lyrics associated with their life, it's a nice way of honoring them

Puzzle #49 "Parting is such sweet sorrow"

Nice one Sara! I wasn't able to get the meta but I see it now 😊. I think the top entry has to be YEE

Pick Up The Check

Nice one! I struggled in the NW and SE - thought I might figure it out eventually but had to give up 😭

Thank you! Too hard? I was trying my hand at a Friday/Saturday style NYT puzzle

I'd say maybe you nailed it, then! I often have to give up on Sat if I'm solving solo 😂

That was really good, except she very definitely spells her name ROSIE Perez, not ROSY.

Good catch! thanks, definitely didn't check on spelling.. haha. I'll have to re-clue that one

I've been plowing through your themeless puzzles tonight; great cluing and stacks!

Thank you! So happy to hear you’ve been enjoying :) I spent a few weeks working on themes puzzles and thought I’d give themeless a chance. Love building stacks and coming up with fun long entries.

Themeless Express #4

Very fun puzzle Sonalee! I went through all the clues once and thought there was no way I'd finish. But slowly they all came together - the best kind of puzzle!

Quite fun! Crunchy RAW cicada salad.... mmmmmmm!

definitely not doing what 8A suggests... but fun puzzle anyway! :)

Crunchword

Great puzzle Emma! So many good ones but my favorite was LAPFUL 😻

I'm not familiar with Schoolhouse Rock - I'm listening to the song now, so the Kangaroo clue for IT makes sense to me now, and also the reference to WHO brought the rhinoceros on the bus? lol the song is pretty damn catchy... fun puzzle thanks

Loved it! LAPFUL was my last solve and a great way to finish it.

Great puzzle that brings back great memories!

I Got Pronouns!

Nice one - I loved the double parenthetical for APE 😂

you already know what i'm gonna say about 8A ("hell yea" is what i'm gonna say)

(7A) love this puzzle because of the multilinguality!! also 11D, so good

April 28

Nice one! I had CPI for PSI and was pretty confident about it so that entire corner was a no-go for me 😂. Nice trap clue!

Ha, thanks! Felt pretty good and sneaky about it. 🥸

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