I went diagonally thru this thing to the SE, where "Y" in THEESPYS gave me SYSTOLE which game me TEAM, MATS, CCUP etc. I really haven't been paying close enough attention. I think of them as a fictional / animated band because of their first famous video from circa 2001, "Clint Eastwood." Maybe they are less fictional and animated now. that's a generational thing, for sure ( 15A: Grammy-winning group whose name is an homage to the Monkees). I had OVERRODE at first instead of OVERBORE (13A: Domineered).
Got POGS and EVOKE right away, which meant ESP and SKITEAM and NOLA and ABLE and most of the NW very quickly followed. But I know that we are all only one or two proper nouns or slang phrases away from total destruction on any puzzle, so your experience may be very, very different. I have many Tuesday times that are slower than this. Just when I was thinking I was getting slower and slower and would never approach a personal record again. But all those things were solidly in my sporty lexicon, and only PUT ON A CLINIC caused me even a moment's hesitation. Between two TEAMs (SKI and NFC, what the hell?) and THE ESPYS, and PUT ON A CLINIC and MIRACLE ON ICE, yeah, yikes, it's sports-tastic. I'M SPEECHLESS! Figuratively! It definitely helped to have some basic sports knowledge, and this puzzle will break hard along sports knowledge lines. I was within 11 seconds of my *Tuesday* time, that's how fast I went. My Saturday record (since April '18) is now faster than my Friday record, that's how fast I went. I wasn't even focused on going particularly fast, and I nearly broke 4 minutes. I mean, The City I Live In Is In The Dang Clues. It's like it was written especially for me. Every clue I looked at turned into an answer. This was that-dude-playing-golf-in-the-rain-storm-in-"Caddyshack" easy for me-everything was just going in. First, a Paypal button (which you can also find in the blog sidebar): But if you are able to express your appreciation monetarily, here are two options. All are welcome to read the blog-the site will always be open and free. Some people refuse to pay for what they can get for free.
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My ridiculous opinionated voice yelling at you, cheerfully and angrily, about how much I love / hate crosswords. No amount of technical tinkering is gonna change the blog, which is essentially just my voice. Just the plain, internet-retro style of a blogger blog. Turns out people don't really want whistles and bells. I even got the process partly underway, but then when I let slip that I was considering it, feedback was brisk and clear: don't change. I actually considered redesigning the site earlier this year, making it slicker or fancier somehow. I hate ads in real life, so why would I subject you all to them. As I've said before, I have no interest in "monetizing" the blog in any way beyond simply asking for money once a year. It's at least as much work as my day job, and unlike my day job, the hours *kinda* suck-I typically solve and write between 10pm and midnight, or in the early hours of the morning, so that the blog can be up and ready for you to read with your breakfast or on the train or in a forest or wherever it is you enjoy the internet. OK sometimes I take vacations and generous friends of mine sit in, but otherwise, I'm a non-stop blogging machine. OK, two days a month I pay young people to write it, but every other day, all me.
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