Nice, but 4A is kind of already in the clue.

July 14

excellent, loved the 1a clue in particular!

Very nice! I've never heard that expression for INK but I like it 😂

1A was great though I'll admit I was first confused why AYESHA didn't fit!

really loved 1A and 12A clues. thanks for the puzzle!!

June 20

Solved the easier clues in 3:40-something and wanted to give these a look as well. Smooth solve throughout and a great challenge!

Holy crap I completely forgot about CAM Jansen

Love the non-breakfast-test-passing words!

themeless 10: for mary (harder)

themeless 10: for mary (easier)

I think 10% of my solving time was reading 3D lol

love the multimedia solving experience thx u for that. AND a very fun solve!!

That layout is cool. I may have to borrow it some time!

June 17

Oh, very smooth - really impressive + fun grid! (I must actually listen to 5A+10A at some point eep)

Loved it - especially CARE. I always love trying to figure out "word with" type clues

So tight!  ENTICE crossing CARE and MIRAGE and GLUED TO — whew, this fill deserves fanfic.

wow this took me forever (thought 7A was PEGGERS and it took ages to untangle all that) but lots of great answers & clues here thx u!!

the confidence with which I dropped in ASS at 8a...

you know what i'm gonna say about 5A/10A (it's that it's very good)

No puzzle will ever compare to Sad Honk and the remix. God bless you all and your popular culture.

This would have gone better if I could spell either 3D or 7A. :)

Me trying to fit "Marshmello" and "Bastille" into 5A and 10A ...

May 30

Took me a while but I'm very glad I stuck with it! The two ! clues in the SW were what stumped me the longest, but SEXTAPE was so good 😂

themeless 9: lines

ACDC cracked. me. up. Also love the CMU shoutout in the EDU clue!

wowowowow 1D was for the first drink i ever bought myself-- at a best western freshman year of college. i think i saw it and it was bright & shiny and i had heard about it in a tech n9ne song. thank you (i think?) for dredging up this lost memory i'd either forgotten or repressed

May 19

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 😄

I had _so many_ cross letters after filling in STEER BY!  But no...

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

Malaika Handa

@malihanda