Well, it's almost Monday and having put a serious dent in our cache of leftover Hallowe'en candy today, I am fighting off a sugar crash. Fortunately, today's crossword didn't put up much of a fight, even for a Monday.
In keeping with my need of a brain jumpstart, the theme is electrical in nature, the four theme answers ending with items necessary to illuminate a room : EMOTIONALOUTLET, CHICKENWIRE, TULIPBULB and STAYCURRENT, all leading to the humourous revealer IVESEENTHELIGHT. All very straightforwardly clued, though the electricians among us might have expected others; e.g. CONTEXTSWITCH, HAIRPLUG and oh, I dunno, BLUESBREAKER.. Yes yes yes, it's a 15x15 grid, I know, I know...
I have to say, reviewing the rest of the grid, nothing noteworthy is really jumping out at me. KIRBY was unknown to me in a Nintendo context. SLC as "Capital of Utah, in brief" gave me a few moments of pause. And right off the bat, 1A "Gender-neutral pronoun" (THEY): I have no issue with gender neutrality, or gender fluidity for that matter, but can we as a species not have done better than co-opting an existing word that already has a (plural) meaning? It's a little nitpick of mine.
I do think it's cool that a Boy Scout can get a merit badge in Nuclear Science. In my day, when a kid had a meltdown, it meant a whole other thing..
OK I'll stop now. "See" ya tomorrow!
-philbo
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