This is the crossword puzzle thread

easiest Wednesday ever

Streak is now at 365, and I kind of hate myself for caring that much.

Ray Stevens to thread! Or not.

Leee, I also got to 365 recently and had the same ambivalence - simultaneously "yay me" and "who gives a fuck."

Anyway, today’s puzzle…took me a while but I enjoyed, I think.

same, was a fun one! really liked the clue-ing on this

Sunday was a bit of a headfuck, I only figured out the gimmick after I’d ground through the whole thing using crosses.

I saw the gimmick early on but didn’t have much of a reaction to this puzzle pro or con. I started it last night, didn’t feel like bothering and picked up again this morning.

Today's is chewy -- tough but fair, if that's something you enjoy.

And again today. YMMV but I really enjoyed it despite nearly not finishing. Clues were difficult but not arbitrary, and some nice fill too. (It does have glue but I'm more tolerant of it especially if it's balanced it by good fill.)

And if I scared you off, Rex calls both days exceptionally easy, so maybe I'm just obtuse.

I did both. They weren’t particularly hard or easy. More of the medium challenge I am willing to accept these days.

the port authority/fields medal winner cross was rough

Was wondering why I never saw you on the math threads.

Tomorrow’s puzzle seems really boring.

Sez I as I peer into my 🔮

Natick today in the NW. :(

Keith Hernandez just noted on tonight’s Mets broadcast there will a nyt xword themed around him this summer, right around the time his number is retired

MEX

Today (Tuesday) is scarily good. Not too difficult, but with a clever theme, good cluing, and some unusual words with crunchy consonant clusters. I particularly liked CMON, RXS, MRT, CBER, and ONSAFARI.

Didn't like it as much as you did, but yeah, pretty substantial for a Tuesday.

Thurs 9D!

They must have seen my screenname.

I passed Ben ταυσίγ this morning and mentioned that but he hadn’t done it yet.

feel like several of today’s clues were slightly off

Yeah

It feels as if there are more factually or grammatically incorrect clues in the NYT nowadays than ever before, perhaps a side effect of the obsessive pursuit of counterintuitiveness and misdirection.

Yes. This kind of thing in general is why I have mostly preferred cryptics for a long while.

23D where I had PINE instead of PITY nearly had me with a DNF.

I wish I could do cryptics. Some day I’ll get around to it.

@Leee haha same

I had something else wrong there

Okay, Sunday’s is fun.

loved today’s, from 1A on. :)

otm

love to see 62D in the grid but let’s show some respect to the cornet

Yes

stumbled a bit on today’s mostly because I first filled in 60A with LETSTAKEOURTIME, which still has some shared letters with the right answer, and so led to some confusion on my part

I thought today was going to break my streak because I know nothing about comic books & never saw 12 Years a Slave and this stuff was all jammed in the top corner

yeah today’s was pretty name-heavy, also not a comics person and think i only vaguely knew about 1A from twitter

Sunday puzzle fine I guess.

liked friday's a lot

couple funny clues along with good fill

otm

The conceit of the traffic lights was pretty cool. Very hard in places for a non North American, NW corner particularly

i liked it fine enough but 43D is bad

otm

Enjoyed today’s.

How did people feel about today’s puzzle?

nice concept once i got it but found some of the other fill kind of tricky/annoying