Speaker TIP ONEILL was a real blast from the past to counterpoint Pres Reagan's NATO & SAG. And CASkS LOTS was great if you're deep in your cups. I coulda swore (don't me about the grammar) it was Mark Zuckerberg, but POLa MALLET wasn't making sense. The only real sticking points were in New England. Put the trailers back where they belong - trailing the main thingiewhopper - and we won't have to skip them. SKIP INTRO was perfect, no matter the clue. Twitterers.if you tweet on Twitter, does that make you a twit? Asking for a friend. Har! Took me two parsings to get it as Sometimes Y. Never heard of DOCTORDOOM, but then I've never seen the Fantastic Four except in trailers. I knew a couple of them in my debauched youth. PS someone on Twitter just confessed to thinking SOMETIMES Y (16A: Addendum to a common pentad) was one word, pronounced like "old-timey," and now I want it to be a word. 80-proof has plenty of KICK (which is about as specific a term as "spiciness"). Clue on KICK is dumb because all kinds of proofs of alcohol have KICKs. I'm being given the option of moving ahead. It's not really a "message." It's an option.
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And I really didn't understand the clue 28D: Clickable message at the start of an online TV show ( SKIP INTRO). I was it was going to be an exhortation to ASK the speaker another, harder question because the first one was a gimme (?). Not sure why "Come on!" is in the " ASK ANYONE!" clue ( 25D: "Come on! It's common knowledge!"). But no, you give someone you *care* about a pet name (perhaps). I honestly first thought that it had to do with actual pets. Anytime you try to pull out that "?" clue, it better land beautifully.
I knew RECITATIVE (24D: Operatic song-speech), so no problems for me, but it's not exactly ARIA-level familiar to the general population, so it's possible people got tripped. I really hope you know your opera terms, because I can easily see someone's deciding that 40A: Handles with care? ( PET NAMES) is PEN NAMES. Why can't the editor? Lesson for constructors: give your editor as little room to f*** up as possible by not putting gunk like AGENAS in any puzzle you make ever, thank you. Exceedingly, painfully, predictably, the first Twitter comments on this puzzle (negative *and* positive reviews) go Right To This Part of The Grid and flag it as a problem. To misjudge the situation this badly, to overestimate the power of your own cleverness so profoundly, after failing to see the TORTA Solution (as it has come to be known) in the first place. Bad enough to think a very fine word like HIRES should be clued as HI hyphen RES (ugh x 1000) ( 26D: Crystal clear, as an image), now you want to clue SAG as an acronym? (Screen Actors Guild). What? What's that you say? You think it's very very cute to duplicate successive Across clues (even though many / most solvers don't solve by reading clues in order)? And you would like to do that little cutesy gimmicky thing here? Here? Where you're already dealing with the AGENAS Situation (as it has come to be known)? You love Reagan soooooo much that you want to do a little two-clue tribute to him? Here? Here? Honestly, the bad judgment is mind-boggling. That's a common word, shouldn't be too hard. All you have to do is give SAG a reasonable clue. So you could've had TORTA / TAR / ARENAS. The obvious fix here (and why did no one see it) is to make it ARENAS and then change SORTA to TORTA (and please, please don't tell me TORTA is obscure, because, I guarantee you, using whatever metric of obscurity you want, it is not more obscure than AGENAS!). In fact, ironically, the puzzle suffers precisely because this answer is suuuuuch an outlier, quality-wise.
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Well, it's partially ruined by the constructor, who never ever ever should've included the obscure crosswordese AGENAS in the grid-a grid otherwise so mercifully free of this kind of junk. This puzzle, with its perfectly reasonable, occasionally entertaining grid, was totally ruined by poor editing.
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