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 😂

Came together in such a great way! Love AFRICANDIASPORA!

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

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

Ahh tough but was so worth it in the end! Parsing STLUCIA was really tough.

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

Malaika Handa

@malihanda