Well! Your head will be spinning after today's pinwheel of a puzzle, with its four-way rotational symmetry and chunky, consistent construction throughout - of the 64 answers, only 8 are 3 letters long and 8 more are 4-letter.
Aesthetic appeal notwithstanding, this was not a difficult Friday offering. I got off to a karmic good start by correctly guessing YESMAAM for the very first clue "Formal affirmative", and it just went from there. Over on the right, I liked the misdirection of "Windy location of myth?", which I expected to be MTOLYMPUS or something, but turned out to be LABYRINTH - of course! Right beside it, the "defunct health tech company once valued at $10B" could only be THERANOS. Lordy, what a story that was!!
Down below, it was nice to see LEACH spelled correctly ("Drain away") - so often, you see LEECH. (Grr!!) Moving to the end, a little trouble in the SE corner with "Stealing from the collection plate, for example" (SACRILEGE, not SACREDSIN) and "Covered in ink" (TATTEDUP, not the too-obvious TATTOOED). A little learning for me here too - that CREDO is a liturgical chant..
Aside from this, not much in the way of obstacles. Looking at it one more time, I just 'got' "Whoops, e.g." (YELLS). I hadn't been reading the clue as a plural word! ... I had a hope at one point of mastering the PIPEORGAN - I think at one point these were the most complex of all human-made objects - but alas, it will never be. Awe-inspiring to sit in a church while an organist is having at it, is it not?!
Though Fridays are generally themeless, I did notice that there were an awful lot of doubled letters in the grid - 17 pairs in all, if I'm counting right. I doubt that's a coincidence. Perhaps Mr. Snyder was taking a cue from his first name? :)
That's all from me today! Hope you enjoyed the puzzle as much as I did.
-philbo
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