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Paul Coulter’s Los Angeles Times crossword - Stella’s write-up Is this a famous quote most people know? I’m going to guess… The Wizard of Oz? Yup. I’m going to assume this clue is referring to multiple graphs since there’s only one x-axis per graph. “Incan” might be used as an adjective to refer to the empire or objects (pottery, art, etc.) coming from that empire, but the people are referred to as Incas or the Inca. I was going to ask what was wrong with cluing this with respect to the people of the Incan Empire, but a little research set me straight. I’m liking the fill, too, especially “ I’M ONTO YOU, DUNGAREES, USER NAMES, MAGICIANS, and BEESWAX. I enjoyed the revealer most of all and the opportunity it affords me to embed the video below. Simple, straightforward theme suitable for a Monday. The revealer is “ AIN’T NO SUNSHINE” (51a, ). Theme: Familiar phrases whose final words are associated with rain. Matt Westman’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Take a Rain Check”-Jim P’s review Every time I see it in a puzzle now I am just a liiiiiittle bitter.

My first NYT puzzle ever (2018) originally included the word LOLCAT, which I was asked to edit out.

Not sure we needed all three examples there.

oddly wordy clues in this puzzle, such as 41d for TROUPES and 23a for WALK.

That being said, my other favorite thing in the puzzle was the reference to VENMO as a verb! And there were some….

I was surprised when I looked up the author afterwards and saw that he was a teen. But overall the cluing of the puzzle ran kind of old (For example, 37a for LIL and 57d for SHE’S).

There isn’t that much bad fill today – I never love seeing III or AEIOU, and LEICA is a little rough right at the center of the puzzle.

Were other folks more into coffee than I am more excited to see in in the puzzle? C ARE TO ELABORATE and THE PRICE IS RIGHT itself were my favorite theme answers – WHOLE BEAN COFFEE is certainly a thing, but it wasn’t an answer I was particularly excited about seeing. Getting to put in so many letters so quickly helped my time be under 3 minutes, which is rare for me on Mondays. That being said, I got CARE TO ELABORATE with only a few crosses and GUERILLA WARFARE with none at all. It’s a nice touch that all of the theme answers are a grid spanning 15 letters long, because there are a LOT of phrases that end with these letters and otherwise the theme might have seemed too broad. I like the theme quite a bit – it’s very cute and reparses the revealer phrase effectively. I’m sure many other puzzle folks like me have seen so many game shows in their lives that when I read this clue I thought “well, that could be literally anything”, and moved on to the downs.

Given that, it took me a long time to find it as the revealer, especially given that I had already gotten the fee/rate/fare answers! “Classic game show” is kind of an amusingly vague clue for THE PRICE IS RIGHT. If I’m killing time in a hotel room, THE PRICE IS RIGHT is one of my go-to morning shows. New York Times, 08 01 2022, by Garrett Chalfin