0:13:45 Not bad at all, and I love the theme! Initially wanted "nose" for 1D: What dogs "shake hands" with , but Fra...

0:08:00 Not my favorite Monday puzzle. Didn't love the theme. Seemed awfully contrived, and in  MOORESSMORES , the vowel sound changes...

1:08:36 SOFT T's After a brief scare last night when the NYT Crossword app sent us the diagramless puzzle by mistake (and not correc...

0:28:30 The grid looked Saturday-y, but it filled in like a Thursday. Something of a relief, actually, after last Saturday! My favorite ...

0:48:41 At first, I thought that this was one of those puzzles that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once or twice. There's ...

0:33:03 Great start today with 1A: It has everything (COSMOS) , and it just kept on keepin' on after that. Very little garbage in this...

0:27:27 We didn't know that a PACA was a 1D: Spotted rodent , but it was INFER able (in a way)  (27A: Gather, logically) from the cros...