Jay
Washington DC
Oh this was a tough one -- not the solve; I did that fairly quickly for a Sunday -- but the automated checker which actually wanted dashes instead of the word LINE. I strongly believe that should have been counted as correct. But in any case... got it done!
@Cam Fruit is also plural. Fruits, like fishes, refers to more than one kind.
"I flubbed that line. Maybe next time I should use the script." That's post hoc ergo prompter hoc.
@Patricia Henry mean is one of three things that can be meant by average, and is the most commonly used. The clue is valid
Probably a little easier than a typical Wednesday, necessary to make the theme work, but I love the theme - and having knick knack and knock knock in equivalent places in the grid made me smile.
@elle Sometimes we're just not on the same wavelength as the constructors, and that's annoying. I was stymied by several self inflicted red herrings, for example trying to make Jargon fit where ARGOT goes, using the J from JLO. Then I realized that Argon is also about 2ppm in the Earth's crust, which confused me more!
This was an amazing puzzle. The several pairs of similar intersecting answers - tent and tenet, Adele and added, for example - made this super fun.
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