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Fun and challenging. I laughed once I realized the true intentions of the punny clues for IAMBIC and ISOTOPE. Re: the latter, my mind swapped “nucleus” in for “nuclear,” so I’d left NEUTRON dangling in there for a while). Speaking of addled brains and nucular, remember when Bushisms were the absolute worst word salad we’d ever heard from a leader?

Fun puzzle. Loved HEYBATTERBATTER, and chuckled aloud once I realized the Harry STYLES situation. Also got to learn some new (to me) info about a Chaplin movie and the etymology of “delicatessen”. Unlike the arrogant “Ugh this is sooo not hard” comment chorus, I have fun with clues that are a bit misdirect-y, punny, and thorough rather than reliance on single words whose answer could be any of a million synonyms for the sake of difficulty. Thanks to the constructors!