This was a fun one. How to describe it? Take a word that ends in "or," break it into two words, the last being "or," find a phrase that contains those two words, then clue it so the original word works with the last part of the phrase and the "or" is absorbed again. Something like that. It'll be easier if I just use examples.
Walking-around money for Pavarotti? - TENORTWENTY
Preacher's gift? - PASTORPRESENT
5 and 8 go into 42, for example? - FACTORFICTION
Local leader is prohibited? - MAYORMAYNOT
Impressive and amusing. I laughed out loud at the absurdity of the third one.
Speaking of amusing, I also laughed out loud at 11D - "Answer to 'Why's your report card in the trash?'" (OHNOREASON). Hah!
Interesting trivia about the ASTROS (Baseball team formerly known as the Colt .45s), and I didn't know that the PINACOLADA was the "National drink of Puerto Rico," or that Dr. Pepper was invented in WACO.
I'm sure Ken Jennings will get a laugh out of 16A "Long-handled gardening tool or immoral pleasure seeker, per contestant Ken Jennings on 'Jeopardy!' (incorrectly)" (HOE). That's quite the pointed clue! :)
OVERARM (Throwing style) seemed a tad unusual - isn't "overhand" more common? - TERTIARY (Third in order) was odd, and SENSATE (Perceptive) seemed forced, but really, there's not much junk at all.
Best clue: Blue stop sign? (SAFEWORD), but the non-QMC "Bit of a lark" (WING) was also very good.
Overall, I quite enjoyed it.
- Horace
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