Great puzzle Malaika! I wrote in ARSENAL for WESTHAM and was 100% sure that was gonna be right based on the clue 😂😂😂

Nice puzzle! Mom help me with broccoli. The Tagalog answer was the last one and so solved itself.

January 17

Really nice puzzle! Just the right difficulty for me - I almost gave up a few times but after I got OPPOSITEDAY (😂) it started to fall into place

themeless 4: hot in herre

epic is right. I wish I actually knew any TS songs but I still love it!

I've never been happier to get the word YET in a crossword.

Are we out of the puzz yet / Are we out of the puzz yet / Are we out of the puzz yet

Admittedly, my Swift skills were lacking - but I managed, haha. Well done!!!

I couldn't recite a single TS lyric but I had fun solving this puzzle.  It was fun going in knowing I'm gonna have to pull all of these out of thin air.

1. “I said remember ___ feeling/ I pass the pictures around”
2. “And I ___ catching my breath/ Staring out an open window”
3. “And they said ‘There goes the last ___ American dynasty’”

This was a delight! I am not that familiar with Swift's work, but this was extremely fair (I mean, I solved it!) and fun! Also very cool to learn about how you made the puzzle!

January 13 #crosswift

Yes!  This was super pleasant.  These have all been great so far!

I'm trying to figure out why the letters are circled. Hmmm...

loved this one across, down and diagonal!

Is there a way to go back and see the clues after solving? What was the clue for OKC?! Ashu

Figured out how to see the clues. Jeeves!!!!! Do your American friends know what that is? Well, tally ho pip pip then!

January 12

I only just found out about that last night!  Hilarious that you put it in here👏👏

Your puzzles continue to match my interests (TWW, Hadestown, etc) quite well!

lol you *did* toss your previously-constructed 1/5 puzzle!  Bean Dad plus Google's union was just too much to resist?

So, yesterday I (32) was bored, and I was staring into space so a mysterious figure told me "make a crossword." I said, "How?" like I always do when approached by a mysterious figure, and the mysterious figure said, "Open Crossword Compiler and choose a grid size and make it."

I love the "solved without helpers" emote

January 5

Loved the fill and cluing in this one!  Almost all of them made me smile!  I got 10A from the crosses, and had to look it up afterwards🤣🤣

Great cluing!  (Because when you're driving around, you need to know where to stop and eat, of course!)

I just subscribed to "Sheeple" magazine.

(Ewe know it.)

Never put the Michelin thing together till now! And loved the open-endedness of 1D. Such masterful cluing!!

SHEEPLE! And the Afroman throwback got me laughing out loud. 20 years!

Never heard if sheeple which was a rather large handicap
Liked ergo

January 3

Another fun one! My insistence that FAWN should be DEER was my downfall 😂

Mike D's experience is relatable content; I was so sure about DEER!

I've got my ion this one.

(Up and atom!)

I didn't know PONY (maybe I'm old?) so I was filling it in like "It can't be...  Is it? .. No..."😂

I'm a proud member of the DEER/FAWN mistake club :(

O noes I just realized that this puzzle is the transpose of the grid shown on the main page!  That is, the grid here is _the same as_ the grid for Jan 12, rather than flipping rows/columns.

January 2

What a great start! Looking forward to 311 more gems! ✏

It's happening! Can't wait to see where this all goes

Awesome start to the year Malaika - I loved XXX

This is so great! Can't wait for the other 311.

So many juicy clues packed into a 7x7. :)

Such a delight! And I literally just made a ROUX before doing this puzzle.

January 1

Really fun puzzle Malaika! I almost gave up on the NW corner but GRANOLA unlocked it for me 😊

Very cute theme!! especially loved clues for GALPALS, SEENIT, and ALARMS

Great puzzle! So many satisfying clues. I'm with Mike — GRANOLA was my saving grace in the upper-left.

Crossword(s) of Affirmation

cute theme! i liked all the Official Crossword Words (TM)

Heh those were my favorites too! Nice puzzle Malaika!

Malaika Handa

@malihanda