Puzzle One Hundred Sixty: Duncan' Donuts! (guest puzzle by Tina Labadie)

Excited to take a break from posting and present this puzzle from Tina Labadie, who you may remember from this past Sunday's New York Times crossword!

Tina's notes:

Aww fuck how do I solve one of these things

Puzzle One Hundred and Fifty Nine: I Am Better Than You

Time for the Et Tu Twitter Roundup, where I share one randomly chosen tweet from the Crosswordsphere!

making a 15x15 with 28 theme entries and I thought I finally managed to squeeze them all in but it turns out I accidentally deleted one

— Will Nediger (@bewildering_ly) June 3, 2022

Thanks for the tweet, Will!

Anyway, here's a 15x15 with 29 theme entries and I didn't forget any of them

 

FLATS FRIDAY: GUEST FLATS BY ADA NICOLLE

Hi y'all! It's Ada Nicolle here, and I'm celebrating AJR day by telling Et Tu to let me post on their blog! Here are some AJR flats!

DOUBLE BANK (*1 *1 *1, 4) (7, *10)

I love this A1 album, maybe I’ll listen to B1

these brothers three make banger songs and I've listened to each one

I've played "The Click", now "B2" is the one blessing my ears,

I'll leave my door A2 so my whole family can hear!

FIRST LETTER CHANGE (*6, *6)

"ONE TWO went ONE TWO went ONE TWO went down

he said screw it, Imma smile right through it

and I'll scream when no one's around"

- AJR in their song "ONE TWO"

AJR-IFYING (2, 5)

(this flat requires knowledge of the ritual weapon known as the VAJRA)

"Comment ça TWO?" he said to me

I was in France then, don't you see?

He asked me if I knew the FIVE,

the ritual weapon symbolizing the properties of a diamond and a thunderbolt

VOWELCY (*2 *8, 4 6)

If you need a SECOND PHRASE

to skip shit you don't wanna do

just bump AJR'S FIRST PHRASE,

it's their new opening tune

click the button for answers

AJR / AJAR, ANOTHER / NEOTHEATER | HUMPTY / DUMPTY | VA / VAJRA | OK OVERTURE / GOOD EXCUSE