NickQuilton

24:10 1 typo , or type-over. The NYT image clues , https://ibb.co/BCv357D , called "child placemat cartoons" by one reviewer, were dead giveaways. Maybe NYT is going after the kindergarten cohort.

10:54 no errors.

8:54 no errors. At times klutzy performance.

7:20 no errors.

34:06 no errors. Rex Parker rating : "Very very easy". Parker found the theme answers "painfully corny." I thought some were mildly amusing. Some of Bill's bloggers thought they were a thigh-slapping hoot. If the theme was painfully corny their jokes were torture.

30:57 no errors.

29:33 no errors.

22:13 1 error.

9:45, no errors. PB for a Wed.

13:18 2 errors.

8:13 1 error

36:00 2 errors.

1:40 , 3 errors.

38:43 no errors.

38:54. Correct except for the 5 rebus squares , for which I entered nothing instead of the "double". The Seattle Times site required you to enter the double letters in the rebus squares for a correct answer. Bill's grid above includes nothing as the correct answers to the rebus squares. I got the "nothing" part but not the double part hence leaving the rebus squares blank was scored incorrect on the Seattle times site( it would not even provide a result with 5 blank rebus squares so I entered a 0 to represent "nothing," resulting in the 5 rebus squares being highlighted as errors). Technically, the rebus answers on the Seattle Times site were "double" not "double or nothing". If the gimmick was a literal pun on the phrase "double or nothing" the rebus square answers should require both the "double" and the "nothing" , however that may be represented, but it only included the "double' part of the equation. Interesting theme but it was difficult for the solver to know what answer was required in the rebus squares even if you got the theme.

just shy of 30 min., 5 errors.Stymied by lower left.

9:36 no errors/

8:37 1 error. I had PEAT/POT BROWNIES for the entire puzzle but changed the P to an H to make the clue going down, "Baked things that might get people baked", make more sense—Oh OK I just got , POT as in weed. I missed that.

36 min, 4 errors.

43:35 , 1 error. I'm a Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac.

36:17 1 error. Started at 10:27PM. Started nodding off at the computer around 14 min. in ; paused for catnap 10:41PM. Resumed at 11 refreshed and completed at 11:23. Busy at work lately, plus I'm at the athletic centre in evening, so it catches up with me; but a snooze does wonders.

26:18 1 error. Stuck at one point but cluing in on the theme revealed the rest of the blanks,with one oversight.

19 min. 2 errors. 8:30 in couldn't keep my eyes open. Paused it at 9:12pm, out cold for 30 min. Resumed 9:44.

11+ min 1 error.

7+ min. 2 errors.