Nautilus Puzzles

Just a silly one. Enjoy!  

 It's the 8th of the month, and you know what that means: a puzzle! Just a nice little themeless today.  A few too many dupes/weak fill left me unsatisfied with this one overall, which is a shame, because I'm quite happy with the long words. Hope you enjoyed!

 It's the second of the month, and you know what that means! Time for a puzzle. A few thoughts on this one below.   One good reason to have a puzzle blog is to showcase puzzles that I like, but don't think will ever quite be polished enough to present without commentary. There is no theme that I want to make work than this one: it has a perfect, punny, 15-letter-long revealer, and I spent a full day scouring every source I could think of to find theme answers that work. The four here are the only answers I've found that work, and even they are quite stretches: 20-Across isn't particularly well-known stateside, 29-Across is little better, and the cluing for 55-Across is a pretty awkward joke (47-Across, however, is perfect). And the fact that these, the only answers I've found that work, all fit symmetrically into a puzzle with the revealer as a central, vertical spanner?  It's too perfect not to make a puzzle out of. But it's a puzzle that's a nigh...

 Happy 8th of the month! You know what that means: a puzzle! The fun thing about midis is that instead of a theme, you can just have one silly, dumb joke! Enjoy!

 I'm practicing themelesses, which are a bit outside of my usual wheelhouse! I'm a fan of themelesses that still have one little meta-joke, so see if you can spot this one's. Enjoy!

 It's the 9th of the month, and you know what that means: puzzle day! This is a very simple, silly joke that I find tremendously entertaining. Have fun!

My latest obsession is the double dactyl , a poetic form that combines whimsy, triviality, and an appreciation of solid poetic meter. You can look up the full rules on Wikipedia, but should know that a double dactyl always takes as its subject a single name that fits double-dactylic meter: DUM-da-da-DUM-da-da. Which... is a surprising number of names! Once you start noticing them, you can't stop: if inspired, feel free to write your own double dactyls about Timothée Chalamet. Or William Lloyd Garrison. Or Czechoslovakia. Or Indianapolis... These are pop-culture double dactyls, which is a good place to start (I've seen a lot of good Lord of the Rings-based ones.) I've been trying to write one about Gilgamesh Gilgamesh, the antediluvian, Mesopotamian hero, but it hasn't come together yet: Witchery-ditchery Geralt of Rivia Raising a child and cursing his luck, Everyone else in this show’s so verbose while he’s monosyllabically muttering, “Fuck.   “Pictures of Spider-Man!” ...