Matt

This was one of the toughest Tuesdays you've published in a while! DRILY and NERTS had me tearing my hair out! Also I had 'AID' for 44D 'Chip in' for an embarassingly long time.

As an Australian who doesn't know a single thing about American history, or American media, this was a toughie!

I got the theme pretty quickly but boy was the rest of this puzzle a challenge for me! I usually breeze through the Tuesday crossword. I suppose being an Australian a lot of the American-focussed fill was completely lost on me (NOLITA, MIKA, STPETE, SIXER, EDISON and AISHA). Also KMARTS are very much still a huge deal in Aus, there's over 300 stores across the country.