Yes, I'm actually *asking* for more "?" clues, which never happens. Could've used more of that playfulness today. I liked the clue on GUILT TRIP a lot ( 49A: "Travel" for someone who's feeling bad?). Nothing wrong with any of the rest of it, but if you're not gonna have a ton of surface sizzle, you gotta give me something fun or tricky in the clues. While I enjoyed the feeling of ZOOMing around the grid, as answers go, only DIPPIN' DOTS ( 21D: "Ice Cream of the Future") and " KINDA SORTA" ( 52A: "Uh.
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The center was a piece of cake (cliché again, sorry!), and then the "Y" and the "Z" from YOGA and ZOOM made the SW corner easy to get into and conquer, and that just left the NE corner, which was maybe the hardest, in that it was chock full of trivia, but it wasn't hard at all ( KIWI to the rescue!) ( 9D: Fuzzy fruit that's technically a berry). I assumed that the SW and NE corners were gonna give me at least a little roughing up, but my fears were unfounded. Or I could just stop trafficking in clichés). I went coast to coast on this thing without blinking an eye (in the blink of an eye? yeah, that's the better expression here, I think. Hard to get too excited about a themeless puzzle that doesn't even seem to want you to spend any time with it. Gave me this creepy feeling like "what is happening? what am I doing wrong? what terrors await me around the next corner?" But the terrors never came. Helped that one of my best students this term is named KOFI (my students, I'm pretty sure, don't read this, so hopefully he doesn't hear this compliment and let it go to his head just yet) ( 9A: Actor Siriboe of "Queen Sugar"). Didn't know two of the names, but LAURIE was obviously LAURIE (after a few crosses) ( 36A: Hernandez of TeamUSA gymnastics) and KOFI also went right in via crosses, bang bang bang. If I were still timing my solves and speed-solving, I am confident I could've brought this one in under 4, and that would record territory for me, for a Saturday, for sure. I cannot do Saturday puzzles with virtually no hesitation on any answer anywhere at all in the whole grid, and that is what the solve was like today. Very much the kind of thing one expects to find on a Friday.
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