Sunday: This Grid's Got Puns - 26 February 2023 New York Times Crossword

[@EpiDot52]

Wow. Very impressed by how quickly you turned understanding of the theme into answers for 23 and 37 across.

[@seanfraser9162]

Nice work, That was a tricky one.

[@mattsanner1169]

FOR THEE, ASS KING. First time the crossword has made me laugh out loud. Probably the best answer I’ve seen so far.

[@jeremybuckets]

I got the same kind of involuntary snort from a clue a few months ago: "I'm toast!" for "bread"

[@-sbin]

Official computer of the NYTimes is what I though too when I filled in the clue.

[@nixhixx]

La Vie Bohème from Rent features the given lyrics. It's the upbeat, rollicking sticking it to the man celebration of the differences of the characters.

[@Reberi96]

Flagella and cilia are hair-like appendages on cells! Both are used for swimming around, but some cilia can also have other functions (respiratory cilia in the lungs, for example)

[@jeremybuckets]

27:10 so close!

[@nixhixx]

Lots of references to pancakes, apt this week.

[@chorl]

I assume you are referring to another NYT game.

[@timegentleman]

@@chorl there was blini and dosa in this, for two. Arguably taco as well, and I might have forgotten some.

[@chorl]

@@timegentleman I meant as to why pancakes were apt. There was another game today that related to that.

[@jeremybuckets]

@@timegentleman Corn Pone is sort of a cornmeal pancake

[@timegentleman]

@@chorl I assume OP means pancakes were apt this week because of Pancake Day!

[@Spiklething]

11:06 Berkshire is pronounced Barksher

[@anyprophet]

i think of romano as a category of cheese. there's pecorino romano but it is also made with the milk of other animals.

[@rosiefay7283]

I can't believe the cheese is the only thing they've ever done for us.

[@imeden1012]

Well pecorino is the category of cheese here, romano meaning roman, hence the "Italian style" in the clue there. There's also pecorino sardo, pecorino toscano, and others.