This is a fun theme of GROWINGPAINS - exclamations of physical and emotional pain that get longer left to right along the bottom of the puzzle. It's a theme that would be very hard to notice without the shaded squares to emphasize "ow," "oof," "ouch," and "shoot" at the ends of longer answers.
Funny that HIED (Went in haste) should be in the puzzle today, because I just noticed again yesterday that "Spelling Bee" does not accept it as a word. NOCLUE really, what Ezersky's rules are for entry...
In other news, it was good to be reminded of HOTORNOT (Early 2000s rating site with a rhyming name). Hah. Those were the days...
I've never thought of TANGENTLINES as "Figures that are straight approximations of curves, in geometry." And geometry was my best math course! Sigh. I guess I was too involved in the PHOTOSHOOT world, where f-stops and shutter speeds were all the numbers I needed.
Best clue: "Double-decker checker" (KING). Brilliant.
- Horace
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