Passing Things on to the Crossword Krewe.

I'm blocked on writing the big stuff, and the Hunt stuff is, obviously, verboten.

So I'm passing on a question from yendi:

On Friday, [the Boston Globe crossword had] clues like "Noted Swiss Psychologist," "Football Great Merlin," "Perry and Wilson," "Leopold's co-conspirator," and "Wrestler Hogan" in here. A lot of them. Honestly, if it weren't for four unclued items (all related to a fifth, unclued theme word), I'd call this a Monday puzzle, but at best, it's a Tuesday (as the unclued theme was pretty easy to nail).

Have I missed something in the daily crossword world? When I was doing them regularly, from the mid-80s until the late '90s, the trend was that Monday puzzles were easy, and that they got progressively harder each day, until the nasty Saturday puzzle that made me want to kill someone. That was the case with the Times, Newsday, and USA Today, which were the three puzzles I cut my teeth on, an the AJC also followed that pattern in the '90s.

And the Globe is owned by the Times, so I'd figured that they'd follow the pattern as well. Am I missing something?

I'm sure the Boston Krewe can help with this one.

Update: yendi adds that the constructor was Allan E. Parrish, but I couldn't find a match during a quick scan through Orange's solutions.

FriNYTX: 10:15. SatNYTX: 15:15.