Thanks! I got a bit of help with making it trickier thanks to Chris P.

TIL there is a Ralph Waldo ELLISON… confidently put in Emerson and couldn’t figure out what went wrong from there

When I came back to this puzzle for some edits, I admittedly forgot about Invisible Man

Why did 9D sell the funeral products division?
Too much red ink!

Fun one!

EMERSON/ELLISON tripped me up too. But fortunately "SON" gave me enough to go on to figure out GLIA!

Menace #4

Sweet at first 

There! Are! Four! Lights! (No, you're not crazy. The correct answers would be MINDGAMES, GASLIGHTING, MANDELA EFFECT, and STOCKHOLM Syndrome)

loved the clue for ATLAS... less spinny hahaha... also, are you the untrustworthy one mentioned in 23D? 😉 - great puzzle with fun clues

Thank you! Haha yes it's me, but only for this puzzle 😋

I went from confused to amused. Very nice!

I was so mad at first with Copenhagen but had to laugh once it all came together

A Glitch in the Matrix

Awesome. As a huuuuge JB fan, I had a far easier time with those clues than with the rest of the puzzle😅. Really a lot of fun! And you can do a sequel with a bunch of other great phrases!

The Godfather

Nice one Paul! I learned COLES - always good to learn a new word! Can you explain the clue for CDS to me?

I googled "CD bubbles" and the videos are mildly entertaining.

Crossword #39: Special #1: Sweet Anniversary

Disregard my email.  I was trying to use F 5 for the the first letter and had to skip the black squares to make it work.  Obviously was back solving.  On reviewing my work I realized I should be using F 8, which was then consistent with the other coordinates.  Great puzzle.

Woo great puzzle! I needed a little nudge from Will to confirm that I was on the right track but I really liked this one 😊

I just can’t get “you sank my battleship!“ out of my head now. Too many Saturday mornings watching cartoons (and the commercials that went with them). :-)

A good puzzle leaves a lasting impression, right? LOL

Will, did you coordinate (pun intended) with Muggle Meta Mondays?

No, I did not! It was a complete coincidence - great minds think alike!

Great puzzle, one small nit to pick but that is for later.

Hit and Sunk

Loved everything about this puzzle. And now I'm thirsty.

Seeing DEJAVU was awesome, and there were a lot of other great fills as well. Great puz!

This was great! Nice one, Philip! A lot of these clues made me smile. Shout-out to the Tappan ZEE Bridge!

Puzzle #51 "If you don't drink, how will your friends know you love them at 2 AM?"

Nice one Anthony! BBL tripped me up but it was a fun solve!

Themeless Puzzle

Nice puzzle! The only one that hung me up for a while was ADEER - at first I thought it should be "Doe a" but now I'm not sure which is right 😂

"Re [not ray] a drop of golden sun," etc.

Unprecedented

“Casual spot where you might order 30 hand rolls”

Salt 'n stuff

Very fun! Should ECHO precede foxtrot? Or does it follow it in a manner that I don't see. I originally had GOLF, but soon saw that wasn't right.

Oops, you're right. The change should come up soon.

I think you might have a typo in 61D (remove the 'a' since it's in the answer)

Nice! One suggestion:
Remove "Like" from 25D, since that makes it an adjective but the answer is a noun :).

Completely Different

This is so cool! Really enjoyable solve and a very clever grid

Nice! Took me a while as I've never seen the show, but a great puzzle nonetheless

This was fun… Young millennials/genZ would probably struggle a bit, but I remember watching it when I was little… everyone is in their correct spot too - so cool!! Now the theme song is stuck in my head

Loved seeing this clever construction and theme come together!

"Much More Than a Hunch": 9 Mini-Crosswords

I never knew there were so many 39D in the world! Amazing. When I read the title and saw the circles, my first thought would be mixed salads... but once I saw olive and jade, I figured out where you were going. Thanks for a fun puzzle :)

Salad Days

Nice puzzle Anthony! After I figured out the theme it still took me a while to get THESLOTTHICKENS but I got a chuckle when I did! 😂

Can you explain the clue for AUH to me? I see how the AU is duplicated but not the H?

Nice! Wanted DeNURE instead of JURE and ended up guessing that one. Got a good laugh out of the themes

"riding the pine" was an expression i was unfamiliar with, but once i got the trick, i love trying to figure out the rest of the themers. they were funny - the slot thickens is my favorite one - only minor quibble is only one of the S's needs to change, and in my head I was tryin

in my head i was trying to convert all the S's to P's in the long entries, but that would severely limit the base phrases you could use in the puzzle. very fun nonetheless - thank you!

Postscript

Nice one Chatonne! I know it can be so frustrating sometimes to try to get something to work and ARENG keeps working it's way in there 😂. You did a great job making up for any spotty fill with original clues!

Definitely had to do quite a bit of research to come up with the clues, so I'm happy that it was worth it lol!

This was a fun one! I appreciate the not giving of craps that went into it.

filling boards with words I actually know will be the death of me

Very nice! I got stuck in the NW corner but really enjoyed the theme and the grid in general!

Untitled

Very nice - loved the grid and loved the meta!

Really enjoying this series and a nice meta on this one!

This one and Ridgemont are my favorites. Great puzzle!

Mixed-Up Movie Marathon 3: Cutting Class

Themed #7

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So many fun clues… loved FACEPALM and DREAMJOB… going to rewatch Tatiana and Alyssa’s LSFYL now 😜

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