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There’s a small distance between decent idea, and fully cooked A+ idea. Had the title for this one first. Okay, it was originally just “Hot Takes.” And then, well, basically nothing. I mean there were tons of ways it coulda gone with this but nothing per se jumped out as like the thing I had to do. But, with some persistence and a few incredibly supportive people in the puzzlin’ community who listened to me babble my way into making this a solid theme, and BOOM, here we are.
I feel like I should do my best Stephen A. Smith impersonation right now and give you my own Hot Take that this is one of favorite/best puzzles lately. But I’ll spare you that. Since the NBA postseason is upon us, however, and if you ask me nicely, I’ll do my Hubie Brown impersonation in a heartbeat. But only if you ask nicely.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
Very nice, but that SE corner was kind of brutal.
Yet another drop-a-letter themed puzzle.
It’s a shame that 50A is slightly off.
Great puzzle; loved the theme. 63A made me laugh quite a bit.
No offense, 31D was 1998, not 1988
It varied from the pattern of 1 dropped letter. No big deal to me.
I don’t Understand the clue for 44 across.
Not sure what you’re not getting about the clue since, by your phrasing, I assume that you got the answer. But think of a flight of stairs. Does that helo?
*help?
Yes, but BEQ clues this:
hot takes #5 and #6.