I pulled out 3D Toy for a budding engineer: ERECTORSET because I had an erector set when I was a child. So much fun building things like planes and stuff. Maybe that’s why I fixed my PS4 (again) recently instead of taking it in/throwing it away or why I do so much woodworking stuff. And even though both of my parents are engineers, I went into accounting. And magic.
Theme!
2D Cackling Australian bird: KOOKABURRA -> KOOKABU(R)(R)A.
26D Dove’s cry: COO -> C(O)(O).
5D Nickname for the Mandalorian’s charge: BABYYODA -> BAB(Y)(Y)ODA. Now, I started this puzzle while I was falling asleep last night, and I had put in BABYYOSH, which I then changed to BABYYOSHI by putting the H and the I in the same box. That messed me up later because I thought that it was a many-letters-per-square puzzle in addition to the circles, but maybe it was just BABYYOSH. Foolishness.
7D Spur (on): EGG -> E(G)(G). Her?
9D Hoity-toity: SNOBBISH -> SNO(B)(B)ISH.
28D Platform for Super Mario Galaxy: WII -> W(I)(I).
12D Like a public relations pro: MEDIASAVVY -> MEDIASA(V)(V)Y.
52A Rare sighting after a storm … or a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters: DOUBLERAINBOW.
Finished this one in 13:13.
| Day | This Wk | Best | Average | 4-Wk Avg | Streak |
| Monday | 5:25 | 3:49 | 9:21 | 5:34 | 81 |
| Tuesday | 13:13 | 5:22 | 13:11 | 10:31 | 5 |
| Wednesday | 7:38 | 16:58 | 15:55 | 21 | |
| Thursday | 12:12 | 28:06 | 19:58 | 7 | |
| Friday | 10:29 | 30:08 | 14:49 | 21 | |
| Saturday | 20:11 | 31:55 | 23:17 | 21 | |
| Sunday | 15:11 | 51:57 | 36:41 | 8 |