Nice tough puzz! Always one of the best ways to wake up on a workday.

I SWEAR BY your 7x7's! It's consistently amazing to me that you're able to get that "I'll never get this, the puzzle's totally blank, then everything falls, even the stuff I don't know" feeling (I'm trademarking that name) from a 7x7.

Wow! Super-proud of my no-hint solve on this one, lots of educated guesses that worked out.

Love the Claire Saffits shout out with EGG 😄

May 4

Nice one - I loved the double parenthetical for APE 😂

you already know what i'm gonna say about 8A ("hell yea" is what i'm gonna say)

(7A) love this puzzle because of the multilinguality!! also 11D, so good

April 28

Fun one! I couldn't quite get DBLEUDAZZLED - the cross with DEBUTS just was not clicking in my brain 😂

I had SHEET instead of OPERA and... aaaarrgh! Loved it! Great puzzle!

It's pretty good I think that I knew 1a *immediately* because of my having attended enough of the right Passover seders.

Wow, can't get enough of these clues! I loved the emoji clue for AWES, and the clue for GEODES in particular. And it was so fun seeing TALKSHIT in a grid. Awesome puzzle!

themeless 8: sparkles

There is nothing in the world that makes me giggle as much as watching that ONEAL gif on endless loop 😂

I was stuck on "why is this five letters? I know the answer is SHAQ!" for the longest time.

ok so many great things here. love seeing DOWNBAD in a grid. can never remember how to spell Shaq's last name. the clue for RAWDATA is going on my all-time favorite clue list. idk what i was doing in 2011 but somehow i missed this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4EZHGFK-1c????

Good one! That was fun. Almost wrote Lebron before I realized it was Shaq... lol

nice puzzle with great clues! loved the reference to sporcle and the raw data clue was very clever... i got stuck because i spelled shaq's last name as ONEIL by mistake...

April 22

First time I've heard the word copaganda 😂

My family won’t play Catan with me anymore since I blocked my wife’s potential longest road and she threw a sheep at me.

so true about ONESIZE and love WASHDAY. ngl, ibiza flag isn't really doing it for me? your cluewriting looks more like how i text than anyone else's and i always feel very ~at home~ with your puzzles which also happen to always be wonderful

vex-illology is fun! love everything about this puz

I know what the answer is but I'm still gonna start saying "SO LID!!!"

April 17

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: !

Dang. Just ... dang. This was a beautiful puzzle.

this was just SO good argh. taking a long break half way through solving definitely helped. loved DTF, ITSUCKS and CRABS especially

themeless 6: ????

Nice puzzle! I didn't know OLAM (but I'm glad to learn it!) and had ODDER for OLDER 😂

Huzzah for being Jewish and knowing about Tikkun OLAM immediately

that was FUN(dip)!... i also didn't know olam, but love doing crosswords to learn new things

That was an awesome puzzle! I also had no idea about OLAM - love learning from crossword puzzles!

Malaika Handa

@malihanda

May 4

April 28

themeless 8: sparkles

April 22

April 17

themeless 7: !

themeless 6: ????

March 18

sad honk

March 13

Malaika Handa

@malihanda

May 4

April 28

themeless 8: sparkles

April 22

April 17

themeless 7: !

themeless 6: ????

March 18

*sad honk*

March 13

sad honk