![]() I don't know that the fill is terribly flashy today, but it's solid. Some trouble with SANTIAGO, which I know only as a place in Chile (the capital!). Their name is very familiar to me, so no trouble there. ![]() I think Julio sang with Willie Nelson once, and Enrique became a pop star right at the low point of my pop music literacy (the '00s, or, as I heard someone call them the other day, the naughties!). I remember the IGLESIASes from days gone by. Got to -RED at 41A: Made a peeling? and briefly thought it could be PARED *or* CORED, but then I chose the word that actually referred to peeling, and that solved that (what is even a pun on? "Made appealing?" Looks like it's trying to ape "make a killing" and doing a bad job of it). Wasn't sure what shape a bacillus was, but at three letters it didn't take long to figure out. I guessed OTTO at one point but then fixed it. That answer is the only real speed bump, a total outlier relative to the familiarity of the rest of the answers in the grid, but it's just four letters and wasn't hard to work around. ![]() Oh, I also didn't know that OTIS guy who helped develop the pacemaker ( 4D: Inventor Boykin who helped develop the pacemaker). did we make the technical name for breast milk. LAIT was the only thing I didn't know, and that was because I misread the clue ( 14A: Brest milk). I would expect people's times to be very fast today. Felt like yesterday's "guess the expression-of-disbelief phrase!" theme, coupled with harder than usual cluing, took me twice as long as today's. I had the timer off but barely hesitated at any point in the solve. I was stunned at how easy this seemed for a Wednesday. And then to get your plausible answers to fit symmetrically in your grid? Yeah, this is probably just what it needs to be to come off properly. Still, this one unspooled perfectly for me, with the revealer really doing its job of both making me see something I hadn't and (crucial) making me "oh, wow, cool." The "ME" aspect of the theme probably severely limits the number of plausible answers you could generate here, so maybe the theme isn't "thin" at all, but exactly as thick as it needs to be. Also, BUSINESS MEETING is about the most boring 15 you're ever likely to see. class on the level of traditionality with "gym" and "German" (or "English" or "biology" or "history" etc.). It is slightly thin, and I still don't think "business" is a real H.S. We track a lot of different crossword puzzle providers to see where clues like " Islamic holy city" have been used in the past.Really, really liked this theme. Recent Usage of Islamic holy city in Crossword Puzzles
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