All’s fair in love, war and Ryan McCarty’s Saturday puzzle. Elijah Golob, 2, navigated the “water hazard” at an artist-designed mini golf course at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2008.Credit...Ben Garvin for The New York Times April 30, 2021 SATURDAY PUZZLE — Happy May, everybody! We’re in the lusty height of spring and Ryan McCarty’s grid today has a lot of romantic touches, some verging on bawdy. We are also back on the short stacks, which is fine — a staircase of seven across entries making a sequence that might fit in at a poetry slam. I think the cluing today is reasonably kind, with a few exceptions, although I think I got lucky with a couple of good guesses in the long down entries, which aren’t easy at all.