Very nice! RAID tripped me up but I think I should've been able to get it from GENERIC

'Tis the season

Took me a few attempts to realize I had to apply the "One Too Many" to the solution as well - very clever! Great puzzle Emma - super smooth solve and a huge aha moment when I finally figured it out 😊

Nice! And thanks for accepting my second submission -- when I realized my first was wrong!

Same as Mike D here! Very clever, and a joy to solve.

Great puzzle!  Thanks for sharing it, EO!

Great puzzle, Emma. Just like Mike: took me a minute to figure out the final 'meta-meta' trick. 🙂 50A also got me wondering whether it had an extra letter at the beginning. 🤔 Great all-round!

Add me to the list of people who got it on the second try.  Nice puzzle!

Very fun! I had the same blind spot as Mike D but finally realized my mistake after walking away for a few minutes. Loved submitting thru Crosshare.

Great job Emma. Not only did you come up with a great puzzle but you are the first constructor that I have ever seen on the leaderboard.

Lol, no great accomplishment on my part. But I wanted to be able to read people's comments, and since Pandora's Blocks posted this puzzle, Crosshare doesn't recognize me as the constructor (new feature, Mike D?), so I had to solve it like everyone else to get to this page.

Very fun! Scar was gave me my first "hmm this is meta-related". Struggled with some of the uncrossed extra letters, but figured out "stop off" from context. Took a few minutes of double-checking until I realized my mistake after that failed entry. Great meta!

Thanks, Emma! Fun puzzle and I love the instant feedback.

So glad you allow a second (corrected!) submission!  I thought about it for quite a while.. ‘WHY ISN’T THAT RIGHT?  IT’S RIGHT THERE….  OHHH!!  DUH.”  Great challenge!

Great one from Emma! Lucky for me this puzzle allows two submissions ;)

Good puzzle with a clever meta! Nice job, Emma.

Some meta puzzles are impressive because they have a complex meta mechanism that is smoothly executed, some are impressive because they wrap everything up simply and properly. This one is definitely the latter, solid and enjoyable puzzle.

Hats off to Emma for a clever construction and fun meta. Or should I say (imagine a cockney accent) “‘ats off, Emma. Well done.”

I was surprised that meta trick was not applied to both words, Because each word had one to many. Thanks for sharing your puzzle. Top of the morning to you!

Great clue for IN A BOX, Emma! And the final letter drop was a neat twist. Thanks for the guest puzzle!

One Too Many

Heh KWYJIBO was never gonna happen for me but I enjoyed looking up the reference afterwards!

Too funny!!!! Kwyjibo was a throwback for sure

Should have looked a gift horse in the mouth 😂🤣

Lockdown8

Awesome puzzle! The themers were all great and it was such a smooth solve 😎

Thanks! Are you Pietro Maximoff? Because you seem like a Quicksolver 😋

Just a guy who knows a good pun when I see one! :)

"What If...?"

Amazing puzzle Emma, thank you for sharing it!

(I almost forgot… should the clue for 58-down read “loser”?)

Oops - I thought it did! Fixed it, thanks!

beautiful tribute puzzle! briefly tried "notorious" for 24-Down

Fun as always, Emma.  But meaningful too!  Thanks!

When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?

An incredible puzzle! Hats off to you. But I'm confused about 22A. Wasn't Leo played by Eric Da Re?

Whoops! You’re right… Aldo Ray was Eric’s pop. Thanks for pointing out my goof!

Thanks for the feedback, Mondenstrunken. I’m glad you enjoyed solving the puzzle!

Rerouting...

what a scrabbly puzzle 😊 very impressive

Lockdown7

Nice one! I used to love to CROSSSTITCH 🧵

Midi #1 - Crafty

nice! had SPAMALERT instead of SCAMALERT at first, and spent a minute wondering what the hell an ORDOP was

You vs. Puzzle

I laughed at myself for thinking of YOTE at first glance. Great puzzle!

So many fun clues here! Loved the bilingual combo of 5D and 12A!

Beat It

Awesome puzzle! WAVE was one of the last I figured out but it seems so obvious in retrospect 😂

Thanks! I think that's the best kind of clue, so I take it as a compliment :D

Fun, I got more than I thought I would! The square I got wrong was one I thought I knew (not Alan Menkan...)

Yeah that corner seems to have caused a little trouble for quite a few people! Thanks for the compliment :)

after all your minis, I was kicking myself at going over a minute... I'm pavlov conditioned to see "sommersmith" and think "SPEEDRUN" lol loved it.
This was an accomplishment to get so much relevant content (and acceptable fill) in such a small package
Also some great cluing too

Thank you, I had a lot of fun constructing this one so I'm really glad it was fun to solve too!

And the Winner Is...

A lockdown-themed lockdown puzzle. Some of the theme entries are probably too obscure for anyone who's not Australian or living in Australia, but hey, I had fun making it

Nice one! The only part I got stuck on was the NE corner. I've never heard "get on the BEERS" - I like it!

Thanks! For context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_on_the_Beers

I also couldn't complete the NE corner without help - but I definitely had fun with this puzzle! Loved the clues for UMPIRE and SOURDOUGH!

ditto that the NE corner was the toughest... lots of fun clues... ZOOM without wearing pants... i do that all the time hahaha

Lockdown6

Regular Minis #22

Very nice! I almost gave up a few times but glad I stuck with it - just the right difficulty for me 😊

Winging It

Nice one Jake! I kind of guessed to get LATIF but maybe it was deep in my subconscious somewhere 😊

Thursday Mini

Loved it! Great homage puzzle that does the man justice. And if anyone hasn't seen Phil's SNL audition tape, it is comedy gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auh5udW9hpc

Glad you liked it! I hadn't seen that clip before- he would have made a great Zapp Brannigan

He would have. And a million other roles. Happy that you have seen that little nugget of Phil’s raw genius.

You Might Remember Me

SO close to down-only - but two letters in CUDDLES were beyond me.  10A would be IA IN or IL, and only C went with HAFF, but what are Quakers good at giving? The best answer would be Queries - but it was impossible. Gah! Glad you have a friendly Friend in your life. :-)

Round and Round

Oops! I misread the clue for 3-Down and thought the entry was supposed to be a palindrome, not the full song name 😂. Nice puzzle 😻

Haha thanks. Hope you looked up the song!

Lockdown5 

That Z was tough; I had to brute-force it. I like this format, though.

Almost solved it had it not for me putting in the PG replacement of DARN YOU 😂

Frisco's Music Recommendations, #1

Nice puzzle! I liked the tricky clue for STYES, but shouldn't that clue be made plural?

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