Fairly chunky grid and lots of trickery adds up to a lovely, tough, Friday. Let's talk about it.
I'm just going to start with my favorite clue - "Congressional record?" First I thought of minutes, notes, even MEMOS (Staff notes), but no, it's SEXTAPE. Beautiful. In other areas, it gets a bit expansive - "Down" isn't just eat, it's INGEST, and "Humdingers" aren't lulus or oners, they're CORKERS. Nice.
The quote clue was high-quality too - "'____ is the most convenient time to tax rich people': David Lloyd George" (DEATH). Hah!
"Shepherd's warning" (GROWL) (shepherd dog, not shepherd with a crook) is very good, "Receiving end?" (GEE) is classic literalism ("receiving" ends with a GEE), and perhaps the trickiest of all, "Explicit subject for her?" (ANTECEDENT) is pure high school English class. The pronoun HER needs an explicit subject to refer back to. Yowza.
Oh, and "Mixing board" (PALETTE) is not about audio recording, it's about painting!
Really fun, really good Friday.
- Horace
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