It’s Mikey’s birthday! And he’s been such a good sport about doing my hard puzzles on stream that I decided to make him a Mikeystyle puzzle for his birthday. Hopefully he likes it! You can watch him solve it on the stream tomorrow (don’t spoil it!).
The photo for 30A is by Shantanu Kuveskar and is CC SA-BY 4.0, taken from the relevant Wiki page. And here’s something fun about 45D.
I was in the studio laying down the tracks for this new puzzle and it was tight, but I knew it needed that something something to push it over the edge, so I called up Brooke and was like “wanna do a guest verse?” and she was like “I’m in” and before I know it she’s rolling up in this limo with her usual entourage and she glides into the booth and starts dropping her smooth fill and her funky clues, BAM BAM BAM, all in one take, and when she’s done I’m like “daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang” but before I get the word out she’s already back in the limo heading off to her next gig. LEGEND.
Hello hello! I hope you enjoy the puzzle. This one is not pretending to be an easy one. Thanks to Brooke Husic and Christopher Adams for test driving this one; both gave excellent feedback, and the puzzle is a little less obnoxious thanks to them — well, and a little more obnoxious — OK, let’s say it’s more obnoxious in good ways, you know? Let’s hope so. Enjoy!
Hey, if you get stuck, don’t be afraid to reveal a letter.
