Sketchy Dads (Midi)

Fun one RM! URE was a devilish clue 😂. I got stuck at ELOGE/AGNI

URE is either wordplay... or a river in Yorkshire. Which, as a Lancastrian, I'm Contractually Obligated To Not Use.

ELOGE/AGNI seems to be a sore spot - I thought it might be grokkable from ELOGY (which is the substantially more common word), but alas. Leaning, ahoy!

Fun puzzle with some tricky pop culture references and lots of fun puns/wordplay.  There was definitely some hard fill to clue here (ENOW, ALIN) so I think you did a good job overall.  Never heard of a 16A which also set me back.

Glad you enoyed! Yeah, WHITEPARTY is surprisingly uncommon - I know it from Season 9 of Rupaul's Drag Race so I figured it was in the known vocab of culture, though apparently the xword dictionaries don't have it. Weird!

Great one! Never heard of eloge before, a learning experience.

Oh, you did it without any checks or reveals - I'm just gonna do a happy dance now :D

Thank you for taking the time to enjoy my madness ^_^

Face a Greater Challenge

Another great puzzle Emma! I had fun working out ONEINNINE and I love the occasional breaks in the fourth wall like ELIASON. Time to try to figure out the meta!

Lots of tricky words for me. Good puzzle though

Tricky puzzle.  We'll see about this meta now...

United in Duet (meta)

Back to back 

Solid puzzle.  I also appreciated all the east coast (Mid-Atlantic) references. 👍

640k Ought To Be Enough For Anybody

Tricky one! That was a good clue for OBITS - TIL!

Mini 6: Chain mail

Nice puzzle Saswat! I wonder if part of the clue for SMILE got cut off? If so you should be able to fix that from the edit menu

Cats are inside

Great puzzle SB! Somehow I survived 2020 without ever hearing of ZOMBIEMINKS so that one gave me trouble 😂.

Thank you for your kind comments, I am glad you enjoyed the puzzle!

Very fun puzzle! I especially enjoyed the funny idea that the 80's was the best decade for pop music 😁

You typed it right in the boxes; therefore, it must be true!

A Journal of the Plague Year

Nice one! My cat is definitely a SLEEPER 😹

This is great ! And lots of cat related clues !

That was a really fun puzzle dense with themed clues.  Had a bit of trouble with the NE since I mistook WAN for NYA (i.e. cats for dogs).  Thanks for sharing!

Feline Fun

Even more fun (and even trickier!) when these are larger like this! MAPLE was the toughest for me - I ended up filling the grid before I was able to think of 'ample' 😂

Yes! Hoping to make them bigger and bigger

Beggar nuts! (Anagram for gangbuster 😁) Loved it, thanks for another great anagrammy!

Love these!  I got stuck on TRADE - I had the TREA but thought I was making a mistake because it was supposed to be CRAFT but I should have realized that CRAFT doesn't have any anagrams.

Thank you! And ya always gotta think about what's a possible anagram

This was my first Anagrammy ... I loved it! Great fun!

Ah the TREAD/TRADE, DARE/READ crossing nearly undid me!

Fun puzzle - thanks for sharing. These are my favorite puzzles on the site. Appreciate ya.

First stab at one of these, it was fun. Thanks!

Excellent.  Got fooled by placing PAM at 1A and PDA at 1D before sorting it out.  Maybe I should have read the "no initialisms or proper nouns" part of your instructions, not just the anagram section.

Anagrammy 4 :]

Thanks a lot. Glad you liked it. I'm worried if you got the theme or not. I feel like I made it too hard to spot

Like Mike D, I've not spotted the theme (FALLDOWN / PUMPEDUP feel suspect), but that was a nice and very clean + polished grid to work through. Cheers :-)

Thanks. Yeah, my cluing isn't that great.

Well, I had the advantage of seeing the shaded squares and they really added to the fun! Great puzzle, thank you.

I missed the theme at first but I get it now that I can see the shaded squares.  I liked the grid and the clueing.  Super clean with no junk fill.  Looking forward to more puzzles from you in the future.

Kids! Play outside!

Awesome puzzle Emma! I loved the theme, but there were so many other fun clues throughout! ERNE was particularly great 😂

Thanks, Mike! Yes, I found the clue for ERNE particularly pleasing as well, although I think the one I was most proud of was MILORD. Thanks for solving!

Fun theme!  I love musicals so I found the first half of the clue easier than the last!

Thanks and happy New Year! Very fun theme, and I could DEFINITELY hear your voice in the cluing.

Musically Inclined

Excellent puzzle. Fun theme, clean fill. Love the punny clues too, especially ones like for SEW and MATHLETES and ATM. Your cluing is fun and entertaining. Thank you for sharing.

What Mike D and LuckyDog said! Fun, fun clues.

Happy New Year!

Awesome job on this puzzle - the themers are all so good! I almost got stuck in the NW - once I eventually got ANTLER and SAAB the rest worked themselves out.

This was a really fun puzzle and I really enjoyed discovering the themers.  Agree the NW was a little challenging but everything was gettable from crosses.  Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Aaron. This was a fun one to make

Movie Mash-ups

Fun one Aaron! Nice grid, I liked SWIPERIGHT, FORLOOP, and BIGBAD. I struggled a bit in some areas - I think JOYED/MCRIBS/JAMBAND and ACTIVIA/ASPIS/PATEL were the ones that forced me to reveal. Looking forward to more of your puzzles in the new year!

IMO this was a bit too trivia heavy.  I had to cheat on ASPIS/PATEL/ACTIVIA and TLS/ARMADA and JOYED/MCRIBS/JAMBAND.  IMO some of these could have benefited from easier clues in case we didn't know the crossing word at all.  I enjoyed some of the clues such as INHALF though!

Thanks for everyone's comments.

Thanks for letting me know about ACTIVIA/ASPIS/PATEL.  PATEL was actually the clue whose difficulty I was most unsure about especially crossing ASPIS.  I'll definitely be working to have cleaner crosses and fewer "Naticks" in the future!

Themeless #1 - Slow Work Day

Fun puzzle.  IWATA/RTB was a bit of a "Natick" for me but otherwise super smooth.  My only suggestion would be to clue RTB with an abbreviation (perhaps Online Auction Meth.) so solvers know it's going to be an abbreviation/acronym.

Vito's Puzzle

Good recap to the year Ernie! Here's to a better 2021!

Excellent puzzle.  It's hard to construct these densely themed puzzles without a bunch of cringey filler, but this is solid (and nicely clued) throughout.  Well done.

Great puzzle. Really loved the clue for JKL -- that one was new to me. Thank you for sharing.

Fun puzzle, super-clean fill, great recap to 2020 overall!  Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the timely puzzle. 
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

MMXX

Nice one RM! I had THECHASEUSA for THECHASEABC and couldn't make that corner work 😂. Hadn't heard of this show yet but it sounds good based on the cast alone!

.... guess who's just realised that he could have gone with themers of JENNINGS, RUTTER, HOLZHAUER, HAINES, and THECHASE, thus saving himself a lot of headaches. Hint: His username is an anagram of "MERIT STUDENT"......

Unleash The Beast! (Wait, wrong show...)

I consider myself a computer nerd but this was tough! You packed a ton of theme in here - nice job!

A Smattering of STEM

Nice one Mikey! Let's hope this looks like a relic if somebody solves it this time next year 🤞

I pine for the days of 4-down but I really liked this one.

Really enjoyed this mini.  Fun clues and a nicely implemented theme.  If 2020 did anything it probably upped our crossword game, be it solving or constructing.

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