Dr. Audio

The clue [totally wicked] was another of those awful/delightful misdirections, especially near Halloween. I should have picked it up as a live in the Boston area where practically everything is “totally wicked.” But I never could get out of the ghoulish mood to reach RAD which is not in this older man’s vernacular.

I always thought the Catholic Mass was capitalized. Is that misdirection kosher?

I was brought up with “Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit.” I had an Italian teacher of the violin who was hired by my Italian family. All that fruit however never made me a Paganini.

49A made me laugh out-loud for some reason. I did not expect that answer at all. I was hung up on some version of LAG but could not get the tense right. So when SAT hit me on the crosses, I had this weird image which I will not describe in the NYT.

I am trying to remember my high school English but is not the answer to 23A “malapropism,” rather than “mixed metaphor?” Correct me if I am wrong, but we went to see the play as a class trip. If I am right, the emus would have to fix the whole theme.