Floral Arrangement

Fun meta!

You really rose to the occasion.

I saw the clever mechanism fairly quickly but spent way too much time trying to fit QATAR in. There aren't many flowers with a Q. Rookie mistake -- looking at the entry rather than the clue.

Very nice. I got to ORCH- and wondered, how is he going to get -ARD out of the last two words? But then, of course, that made no sense.

Great puzzle Emma!

Thanks for the great meta!

really loved this one!! fun and fresh metanism... mighty morphin flower arrangers to the rescue!!

Thanks for the puzzle!

Very nice, Emma! Love the mechanism!

Very nice ikebana there!

Flower arrangements and I was expecting football formations! Silly me. LOL. Very well done. Thanks, Emma.

Excellent puzzle, Emma. Idaho shows up in another grid this weekend - might be a record!

Loved the theme -- it's nice to work in such pleasant surroundings -- and delighted with the meta. Thank you, Emma!

Fun one

Excellent meta!

Fun one. Thanks Emma!

Thanks, Emma!

Thanks, Emma!

Excellent meta and fun to solve! BUTTER took me a while as I never heard of "BUTTER BOX". But much to my surprise, it's a thing. Learn something new every day.

Very nice indeed, thanks. As I was solving I kept thinking "man, I really need to get better at cluing." Including a few specific instances where I'm fighting the urge to steal your clues. I think the solving path was "these are all two words" followed by "a dragon is a mythical beast." Missed "Mercury or Saturn" the first time through (even though, lol, I specifically thought "oh, this is the right type of clue"), so I had CAR as a baby's toy for a bit (with a ? next to it, in my defense). Also never heard of a butter box, so had that as "Draw from a bakery" ("drawn butter is a thing, so maybe..."). Again, though, with a ? next to it. Once I replaced RRCHAD with ?RCH?D it was obvious, and then I went hunting for the correct matches. Thanks again!

now to find the "ID", :)

Nice floral theme. I enjoyed this one. Thanks.

Fun puzzle, Emma, thanks! If anyone is visiting the Philadelphia area, PLEASE come visit Longwood Gardens here in Kennett Square, PA. It has an absolutely mind-blowing year-round orchid display in its Conservatory.

Clever construction, letters in correct order of clues!

Qatar was a brief distraction, but saw hydra and crackle and the rest came quickly. Thanks.

Fun and smooth! Thanks.

Nice addition to the football game!

Excellent! I was afraid that it was going to be anagrams, with "arrangement" in the title :-)

hey elise

Very nice. I caught the mechanism early but I got lost a little with trying to remember that the word was not a synonym it was another answer. Very clean fill and great job of disguising the alternates. What a very cool ideas for a meta. Go ahead and do it again, I Dahlia...

Well done.

Dragon unlocked it for me, although was a little uncertain at _ _ _ H _ D until I found the C. Thanks, Emma!

Rather straightforward for me, for once, though finding some of the synonyms took some time. Nice clean meta that blossomed in due season.

I needed a nudge to get me out of an anagram rabbit-hole!

I learned a lot from your fun puzzle, Emma... including the provenance of a certain Utah city, and Gregor Mendel's second favorite flower (a scientist cannot live on peas alone)!

Got to the puzzle late, but it was an enjoyable solve...thanks Emma and Will!

Fun, thank you! As a rookie meta solver, it took me a few cuts to get the meta. (I came back as to avoid the latest podcast spoiling it, and got it!) BUTTER BOX is also new to me, though my wife recently clued me into the BUTTER BELL.