Wendy

Clever, albeit inconsistent theme. Stick with either "second in commanding" the first word of the answer or the second word of the answer. Spanish RAmada COtillion dresses Crosswords - particularly Sundays - should be consistent. Spent too long asking myself what a PSanish ramada would be because I got OCtillion dresses fairly early through the cross clues, and continued to try to answer the theme cluse by swapping the first two letters of the answer phrase (because second in command means second letter swap...makes sense). I suppose if I had gotten Spanish RAmada first, I would have spent my time swapping the first two letters of the SECOND word (again, second in command). Because the theme title could apply either way: swap first two letters of first word, or swap first two letters of second word....maybe there should have been theme answers that swapped the second word for the first word....of the first letter of the second word with the second letter of the first word....see how clumsy it is when you don't stick to a consistently parsed theme? This could have been a great puzzle...but to me it's just lazy if you can't stick to a specific and consistent theme.