Great puzzle!  Confused myself for a while by thinking that the outline of the puzzle had something to do with the location of the "ROSE"s, and then remembered how rebuses worked like 10 minutes in.

took me too long to figure out that a rebus was at play - this was fun... really a lovely puzzle... and the grid is a flower too! so much detail... favorite clue "IM leader?" good misdirect

Flower Box

Great puzzle-- thank you for sharing these gems! Appreciate ya!

really enjoyed this and learned some stuff!

Is that a GLIDE REFLECTION SYMMETRY (p1g1)???  I want to send this to my undergrad professor to use on tests for identifying plane groups.

Themeless 2 :3

I had TBA in 4 Down and I knew it couldn't be wrong, so the process involved in getting DECAY in there would not have been pleasant to watch. 😄 Great puzzle!

Mini 7 :D

Fun as always! I definitely think the expanded word list adds to the trickiness

Expanded word list is just as good as the original! Thank you for sharing these with us. Great puzzle!

Is ALTON just a proper name? I didn't mind TONGA appearing but random dudename was head-scratch-inducing. I think I wouldn't have minded if ALTON was the answer to the clue that got anagrammed to TALON, if that makes sense. Anyway, enjoyable as always!

Yes I understand! I wasn't sure if random names would be too arbitrary as fill words, but makes much more sense had it been clued as "TV Chef ___ Brown" and the fill was TALON. Very helpful advice, thank you.

As usual, so much fun! 🦅 (Not a vulture but it's got talons)

Love these!! The expanded word list definitely works (especially since initialisms are still excluded)

This was so clever i love the twist... The clue on "gives a high five" for rates was my favorite - took me forever to figure that one out.

Well now I'm following your puzzles because this was fun as heck!

Anagrammy 7 :]

So good! Loved it. TINIE and YLVIS were the ones that tripped me up

Great puzzle! I remembered YLVIS, but what got me was 1 Down, it was killing me - I lol'd when I finally got PRINGLE 😂  Loved it.

Laughed out loud at IATEIT, haha. Great job!!

Limited Edition Oreos

WOO! I almost gave up and then kinda randomly guessed at PLUMBOB and it unlocked the rest. Fun puzzle Sara!

I was undone by TJS / JAMAL / PLUMBOB! Shows what I know and don't.

SPELUNK and TOPBANANA ftw! Thanks for sharing a great puzzle.

I love the crossing "Sims" clues (Jamal and Plumbob)!  Very clever

Midi 6 :)

Great puzzle Sara! TARTLET is a funny word 😂

10a absolutely legendary! banger way to start february :) plus the commentary here is my fav so far i am in love with the caterpillars

the six (six!!!) food/drink clues absolutely killed me

Just heard the caterpillar saw its shadow which means this puzzle is LIT (it is)

I PRANCE with joy when I see your puzzles!

February 2

I love these - such a workout for the 🧠

Awesome. Tried it out, put it down, ate lunch, then tried again and it clicked. Loved it.

These are so much fun!  Really loved the clues for 1A and 9A

Love the shape of the grid. This one was quite tough!

Love the anagrams concept, will definitely do more of these 🙂

Anagrammy 6 :]

Great puzzle, smooth fill. I especially liked "ISTHISSEATTAKEN"

I really had fun with this one! The clue for "ISTHISSEATTAKEN" was clever and hilarious.

Great puzzle -- clues were real fun. Thank you for sharing!!

Good 15s, lots of fun clues, and a cool grid!

Exceptional cluing [25A, 58A] on top of a great grid.  SLAKE & SATES both as fill was a bonus!

Themeless 1 :3

Oh my gosh I couldn't get it but I still loved THOR 😂

Okay had to look up MCU so that was an awesome clue. As was MEOW! Never heard of SLASH!

Great little puzzle. I’ve stopped making them myself — I just solve yours!

I'm going to join everyone in marveling at 4D.  Brilliant!

Sara Cantor

@scantor