Michael’s First post

It’s not hard to see why we both landed on the same concept. MICRODOSE is just a super evocative phrase that’s becoming more and more in-the-language, as we say. It’s also a perfect revealer answer for a rebus puzzle. And when I noted that the resulting L-S-D strings, bound by a square shape, look a lot like your average piece of acid blotter paper, well, how could I not?

There are three features of this puzzle that made the final product super satisfying for me.

First, while the theme content was finite, there were enough options to render a grid where the LSD tabs are located symmetrically in the grid, which is ALWAYS my preference, and which I wasn’t able to do in last Sunday’s NYT puzzle. Second, each of the answers breaks up the L-S-D strings in a consistent way, with a space after the S: DEVIL’S DEN, CALLS DIBS, RU PAUL’S DRAG U, etc. And third, I was able to include the revealer