Great puzzle Red! I had CUFF for CURB and convinced myself that DAFNEY and ERFAT might be correct 😂

Baseball Fun 1

Loved it! I played the BARITONE all through my school years so it's fun to see it in a grid!

Waterbee! Tip of my tongue. Really clever all around.

Look on the Bright Side!

Tougher for me, but solvable with the cross clues and educated guesses. And amusing!!!

Triggered bc I have an ex named MARTA, XD

Cluing Practice 11

Very fun Daniel! My favorite was DDD 😂

Just noticed that it spells out "WORD", too!

oh ffs I just realized that as well thanks to your pointing it out.

Triple What Score?

Wow such a smooth solve! Loved the original voice in the cluing - like for AWESOME and with the shout out to @scantor in LOLA (I should make @ mentions work in comments!)

lol thanks! yeah i didn't realize, but a lot of my favorite clues tend to be food-related... i love to eat! awesome blossom, puppy chow, dim sum...

Great puzzle, feel like this was filled with hidden messages

How often do you see a clue referencing Charlie the Unicorn? Loved it!

This was fun! Definitely felt like the clueing was much more personal - refreshing!

"Be a unicorn in a field of horses"

Oh man I can honestly say I have never seen anything like this 😂😂

Fun one Ben!

This is f**king beautiful. I am in awe as someone who writes intentionally convoluted clues. I love this.

Thanks!!! I will have to make more I guess

This is sinful. More please!

(Loved it, but my word that took a while, really fun!)

Thank you.  Next one will be a short story for each clue.

I'm working on a meta inspired by your latest one, btw!

holy shit, this must have taken FOREVER to write

Honestly, wasn't too bad, since the grid didn't take long; took about as long to clue as a normal 15x15

You were right, I feel very rewarded after completing it!

I have no idea what I just did, but that was awesome.

Oh wow. I am sitting here laughing in bemusewilderment. Oh, btw, check those dupes crossed in the upper-right area. Unless that was due to a breach in the space-time continuum which cased unpredictable results. In that case, neverm --- (morphs into butterfly).

This abomination must be a crime against crosswords!

Loved it! I thought the long across answers kind of acted as a (fun!) theme, though!

thanks! i suppose if the theme was idioms", but i feel like thats a bit too broad

fun puzzle thanks! love the cluing for the idioms... sleep like a baby was my favorite

that was the idiom that inspired the whole puzzle!

Themeless Express #1

awesome puzzle - the nerd in me loved all the sci-fi references... and it's quite fortuitous that all the themers are 11 letters long

Science Fiction Double Feature

Great puzzle Ryan! It was a smooth solve and the meta was nice too!

thanks for linking the meta solution... the whole puzzle was executed very nicely!

Follow Suit (meta)

Fun one Ben! Oh man I should've been able to get CROSSLY 😂😂

Haha! Man there's another good website name.

only one black square - mad impressive! not a clunker in sight either

One Block 2

I got my (second) vaccination Saturday morning!

Nice one! It took me a while to get the theme but it was a fun puzzle to work out!

Make It A Double!

Amazing puzzle Philip! I loved the CAPTAINPLANET theme and the grid was so smooth to fill!

Thanks! I wrote the puzzle for earth day (next month). Kind of wish the elements would be in grid order (with captain planet at the end), but that was too difficult to do when I was laying out the grid

Sorry I cheated and solved it early as I worked my way through the moderation queue :P

Another great puzzle!  You really do a great job of avoiding hard crossings.

Thanks!! When I get stuck and have to use a more obscure word, I try to make the words that cross it easier. For example WABO and NAGE are pretty much nonsense-sounding words, so made sure the crossing clues are more fair and gettable...

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival" - Wendell Berry

Loved this puzzle! The whole grid was smooth and SPERM WHALE / GIANT SQUID / MUSEUM was so evocative!

woot! thanks. i wanted to try and work in a reference to the movie, but I couldn't make it happen

Natural History

Woo! Fun one Sara - I like the submission mechanism :)

Where’s the Meta hint in the puzzle, or is it just the title?

Look for stuff that is slightly out of the ordinary.

Very nice! And now I'm hooked on meta puzzles. 🙃

Oh dang, I overthought this.  I thought we had to type the ~submission mechanism~ into the empty box, and I was trying all these rebuses, like "TWITTER", "COMMENT", "EMAIL".

Really enjoyed this! Especially the thematic EEK clue (Didn't realise all four were thematic until I'd input meta - which was a lovely way to add an answer check :D)

That was great. Love the submission angle - Ricky B

Eat With Your Eyes

NATTY and YOKED went totally over my head.

Heh same! I managed to get it down to the Y and took a stab

Interesting, might be more niche than I thought!

That was the LUCKIEST guess I've ever had with NATTY and TIDAL

I'm this context it's a lifter or bodybuilder who got where they are without using steroids.

5x5 2

Nice one! Fun fact about STLUCIA - I had to get practically every letter before it came to me 😂

[theyreeeee great!] (this clues MALAIKAS PUZZLES in a grid i have coming up)

These may take me longer even with autocheck but I love getting opportunities to expand my word list! Wonderful puzzle :D

love these clues! especially 10A and 18A were really fun when they finally clicked for me. And learned something new about bonobos!

definitely had some trouble with this but damn that was fun! i particularly liked APPLETINIS

themeless 7: !

Fun solve - time to think about the meta!

I had KWS instead of KWH which led to SOUSECALL instead of HOUSECALL whoops!

Beyond Comparison

Nice one Chris! I couldn't figure out how to make REGGAE fit until I read the clue for ARTS and realized what was going on 😂

I mean you went to all the trouble to build the Rebus function I figured I should use it...

TIL you can fill in rebuses on crosshare :o

“I am the resurrection and the life.”

Nice one Kjersti! Impressive amount of themers you managed to fit in here!

Thanks so much! I appreciated your tip on last weeks crossword, I'm going to try to keep my themers a little more clear!

Nice! So satisfying! This is my favorite one yet, it was a genuine challenge because I haven't listened to Weird Al in years!

this was a really fun puzzle! gonna have all these songs stuck in my head for a while now 😜

Parody Parity

Thanks to fizzix and go-away-im-sleeping from Discord and Steve Mossberg for testing and advice.

IWANTYOUTOROT killed me 😂! I managed to work my way through most of the NW corner (including figuring out the trick!) but that's as far as my limited cryptic skills would take me. Great puzzle!

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