Sorry for nagging you, but you did it! Lol nice job, this one took me forever.

Zucchini is so weirdly spelt

I didn’t understand the PROTO clue till I watched your solve.

Glad the team names didn’t occur to me… solved this one in two minutes. Which doesn’t usually happen - I shuffle 5x bf starting & today the word placement after helped a lot.

"Fare" in the theme "Pixar fare" was meant to specifically clue you in on the food aspect of the theme. I initially went out looking for food-related Pixar characters like "Mr. Potato-head" but then I quickly found ratatouille. Loved today's theme!

You got Risen so much faster than I did.

I am completely unfamiliar with the film Ratatouille so I had no idea where this was going. I started finding ingredients and then found the spangram.

Never heard of set for a card before, thanks for looking it up!

I also didn't know Set the game, but imagine what it is like to play the game when you aren't from the US and you typically don't know 1 or 2 words minimum.

You didn't go for it but you still spotted the purple one immediately. I'm still gonna count this!

SO proud of myself getting the basketball teams, only to be so disappointed!

I figured out the spangram about 45 minutes before I was able to spell it 😂

new york times with a personal attack against nba fans

I'm amazed at just how many ways there are to spell Ratatouille. I tried them all. 😂 I'd never have found that Spangram first. And who knew there's an h in zucchini? 😊😊😊 We don't think you're an idiot!!!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(card_game)

Yeah, I never saw Ratatouille, just assumed the title was the name of the lead character, I too went searching for Pixar titles and was just confused when all that popped up was food items. I eventually slogged through it, with the help of two hints, but I never really understood it.

I don't like the fact that there are clearly 4 NBA teams in the puzzle. When there are more than four groups of four then the game becomes a coin flip. This was just poor puzzle editing in my opinion.

I liked how the two Hawaiian clues are repeated words. It helped me get MAHIMAHI after I got NENE. Is this a common thing in Hawaiian or did the setters specifically choose these words?

Yes, SET is well-known pattern-spotting card game, but it might be more relevant that the New York Times used to feature daily puzzles in their games section. :)

I got fooled by basketball teams to start off. I also grouped baseball, tarot and magic, and in spite of having several card sets in my house didn’t think of that for the longest time. Finally managed to put all the right terms together after that. 🎉

I found peppers and onions and wondered if I'd missed some Pixar film about animated vegetables. Very slowly got the rest...

There was also a 'bowling' red herring set which you managed to avoid.

I don’t think anyone believes you’re an idiot when you fail to find things you say. You’re just so good usually that it’s nice to be reminded you are still human like us.

Good morning. I’m here because I can’t find a thing. I’m glad you are early. Thanks for the start. Went and finished it. Not what I expected.

Unintentional nod to the Bay Area with Clipper(s) cards!

@3:43 pronunciation of “peruse” as per-use is a bit strange as it is more like prooz … 🤔

Ted Mosby is the lead character on “How I Met Your Mother”.

Card was the first thing I noticed but also didn't know set card

I also got confused by Set Cards because I've never heard of them. It was the last category so I finished the puzzle, but being unable to figure out where "set" belonged cost me some time.

In a lifetime of visiting barbers I've never heard the name of the thing they throw over you. Obvious but not, if you see what I mean. OK I failed, guessed the card category but didn't know magic or set. The chili words sound pretty random.

The poor guy who set this was probably really proud of the red herring with the basketball teams, and you completely ignored it!

I think I still have an old Set deck but totally forgot what it was called for today

Anyone else get fooled by the nba teams immediately?

My interpretation of the cards was set [of] cards ie standard 52 card deck.

basically the mandelbrot set is a graph of numbers that either diverge off to infinity or remain stable when plugged into a relatively simple equation. it's related to the reimann zeta function, which is part of one of the largest unsolved problems in math, if you want to go down a rabbit hole. this is a short video that explains mandelbrot pretty well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHiwg3VqhJ5laKs

Ok sorry for the spam but the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe is a personal favorite of mine, for two reasons. One, it's almost verbatim the story of Romeo and Juliet: young lovers belonging to enemy families, they arrange to meet in secret in order to flee together. Because of a misunderstanding Pyramus believes that Thisbe is dead and takes his own life, then she finds him and does the same (read the whole story from Ovid's Metamorphoses!). Two, in the spot where the young lovers were supposed to meet, but commit suicide instead, grows a tree with white fruits. By the Gods' will, the tree soaks up their blood and the fruits turn red. That's where mulberries get their colour from, according to the myth.

@3:54 I did a double take hearing "Mathematician Benoit Blank"

Commedia dell'arte is a form of unscripted theatre, that revolves around stereotypical characters, often with marked regional connotations ("maschere", literally masks). It was popular between the 1500s-1700s approximately. Oh, and Ted Mosby is the narrating character of "how I met your mother" 😅

I had a lot of trouble with 55A: Give one's two cents. I thought it might be OPINE ON, then I thought it could be SHINE ON. It was made harder by me not knowing the cross about feedback session.

Chris seems to remember Ned Stark now, looking forward to the day he can pull Arya or Sansa out of the hat!

Loved the new speed solve today. Fascinating to watch you fly through even without the commentary. You are a true master! Thank you for this video and all the others!

Lol yeah that wasn’t for me. Doesn’t help that I’m legally blind, so the audio really helps. :)

This is the first video I've ever seen with 0 dislikes and nigh-exclusively disapproving comments! I suppose it goes to show how respectful and well-communicative the community you've garnered is, haha.

CLEAN - FEAST - STAVE - STAKE

AUDIO PRATE STAKE

SKATE and then STAKE back to back!

I echo most others as well: solving with commentary is more satisfying for me.

I can tell you from experience that it's still possible to fail with 4 lives and 2 categories remaining, as I did today 😂

The tricky part of the Abba clue is that “Take A Chance On Me” is also 15 letters and it could be an answer in a different theme. I wasted a little time on that wrong answer before I figured out the theme. It was nice to see how fast you could really solve a puzzle when you weren’t narrating (you beat me by 53 seconds) but it’s not a great watch.

Whenever I do a crossword like this, it gets me very stressed and it feel like im holding my breath