This is my third snake charmer. I won’t share how long it took me to get the end of loop #2 to link up with the beginning of loop #1. (It was too long).

I was happy to include a reference to the woman pictured above, who was always – for me, anyway – one of the funniest SNL cast members during her tenure. There’s a fair amount of pop culture in here, which may be a boon for some and a scourge for others. Let me know what you think if you give it a whirl.

If you’re not familiar with this puzzle format, each entry begins in the correspondingly numbered square and snakes around the grid, ending in the square immediately before the next number in order. Entry 35 ends just before square 1. When the puzzle is complete, the string of answers will have made exactly two full loops through the grid.