BOTH SIDES NOW
The theme does not reference the Joni Mitchell song, but the fact that all theme answers start with "pro" and "con" followed by the same string of letters. As in "Popcorn and pretzels at a parade?" (PROCESSIONSCONCESSIONS). I guess we are to take that middle S as being possessive. CONTRACTORSPROTRACTORS (Tools of the trade?) might be the best one, even though I doubt that protractors come up too much in a contractor's daily routines. No wait - CONFESSIONPROFESSION (Police interrogator or priest?) is the best one. That works. The one that works least well is probably PROTESTANTCONTESTANT (Someone who might excel at a Bible trivia game?), because does any protestant really care much about all that Bible stuff? Or is that just me...
Seems there's a lot of religious-adjacent stuff in here: ATONER (Penitent person), ITSASIN ("God does not approve!"), POORBOX (Container for alms), NOSAINT (A flawed person), SON (Solomon, to King David).
It seemed odd that there were clues for the second- (NEWYORK) and third-largest (TORONTO) tech hubs in North America without one for the largest (San Francisco Bay area), and when I looked it up, some sites put Seattle or Ottawa as second.
I like LOOKIE YONDER together at the bottom of the grid, and any mention of Robert FROST (Poet with four Pulitzers) is good, but I hated OLDONES (Items being replaced), and there was a little too much KOD, OKD, DECI, OPPO, INSPO, and ATTA for me.
IMOUT.
- Horace
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