Tough grid today with rare diagonal symmetry. I didn't exactly notice it during the solve, but I didn't exactly not notice it either. The fifteens of KIMSCONVENIENCE (Sitcom set in a corner store run by a Korean Canadian family (2016-21)) and SAMEDAYDELIVERY (Prime choice) (Wean yourself from Amazon. It's not hard.) were balanced by a wide open SE corner, and the middle was relatively open and free-flowing.
ANYADVICE (Tip line?) took me forever, and it wasn't helped by my mistake of AfC (Miami is in it, for short) (ACC). And I don't say "DIAL" up, so "Turn (up)" took a while too.
REDGIANT (The sun, e.g., in about five billion years) was hopeful, in that by then all of the problems on Earth today will be long gone. Of course, I will be too, but still...
Love any nod to Poe - (N.F.L. team whose name is a literary reference) (RAVENS), and I like the trivia in "Chain whose name came from a Boston hotel whose sign was too expensive to remove." It had been a hotel, but it was the third hotel bought by a pair of people who eventually used that name for their entire chain. The holding company eventually became the Sheraton Corporation of America, and was the first hotel chain to be listed on the NYSE, in 1947.
- Horace
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