It's nice to stop and appreciate the theme, but it's also fun to get the full "aha" moment by not paying too close attention. I saw the circled letters today, but I didn't bother to see what they represented until I had completed the entire grid.
The revealer is 56A: Sections of a choir ... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters (VOICEPARTS). In each of the long answers is one of the standard chorus voices: alto, bass, soprano, tenor, all in order but split into "parts" by scattering their letters across the answer. The theme would have been better had the parts been in order from high to low as you move down the grid, but that's a tough ask when the highest part has seven letters! I very much appreciate finding soprano inside of STOPDROPANDROLL.
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| Chappell ROAN |
There are some lovely long down answers, including three place names (GALAPAGOS, COPENHAGEN, and TEHRANIRAN). I would like to go to two of those three places. And even the third, but not in the current climate, I'm afraid. I have been to the ALAMO, but not ANGOLA.
It's been rather HUMID around here, not like Italy, where some are.
- Colum
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