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👋🤓🎙 Live from Berlin and a Dalíesque sea of toilets: Rebecca and Brooke review the week of 9/12/22 - 9/18/22 in New York Times crossword puzzles, covering such topics as:

• "Noted" in crossword clues
• The world's kickiest animals
• Triple-checked squares
• Does Europe have Daylight Savings Time?
• Green paint
• "Representation Without Transformation" (h/t Sally Hoelscher's USATXW blog)
• Wacky Wednesdays
• Where difficulty comes from (misdirects, vagueness)

And if you don't know the Bob Marley song "Soul Shakedown Party," check it out.

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