Monday 7:24
Tuesday 9:51
Wednesday 12:30
Thursday 17:05 (one error)

This is probably a normal proportional rate in a given week, but these times are slower than my average. Monday is usually in the sixes, Tuesdays, the eights. Thursday was a rebus puzzle, with ME in one box. I picked it up fairly early, when "Show Me State" was one letter too long, but the across clues were a obscure, just a series of one or several years, all but one within the last 11 years. And why ME? (The fact that it was its own word in the first rebus clue I got was also a distraction The first across clue I got mostly from crosses was 2015, 2016, 2018: GA[ME] OF THRONES. That didn't make much sense.

When I got to the reveal clue, What each of the programs in this puzzles has won at least once: PRI[ME] TI[ME] EMMY, I made the connection between year and answer and got the rest without much trouble. Once you know you're looking for award-wining (mostly) recent television, it isn't too hard (MAD [ME]N won four years in a row (2008-11)). They did throw in the first ever winner in 1949, PANTOMI[ME] QUIZ. That one was trickier. It still took me almost till the end to see the reason behind the rebus (ME = Emmy). Not that getting this would have helped much, but just another sign of being a little slow this week. One clue that really tickled me was Chain letters?: S AND M. Perhaps that answer has been in the puzzle before, but that clue is slick. Half of nine?: ENS was less so, but I should have seen it.