Dear Solver,

Well, we went the whole summer with just one two-hour postponement, but today I’ve got to break that streak. Wasn’t a time thing, just nothing came to me that I liked, so instead of calling it in I’d rather give it another shot tonight for a meta that will hopefully be worth the wait.

Please consider trying my WSJ meta from today if you haven’t already:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/oh-and-one-more-thing-friday-crossword-september-8-3846a5a4

Also, here are couple of elves I found climbing trees near my house.

Until tomorrow,

Matt