Jamie

My first Thursday without lookups! Though I thought this was a lot easier than yesterday’s puzzle because I know nothing about cycling. Today’s gluing was very much up my alley. Got the theme pretty much right away based on the relatively straightforward 16A clue. I enjoyed 7D and 8D juxtaposed next to each other and mentions of two British Prime Ministers.

I can’t be the only one who had Stephen FRY instead of REA for the longest time.

For 43A I had WAKES for “Get a rise out of,” which I felt fit pretty well. And a google search told me that WALD could mean to govern or inherit, so I thought that fit 43D “Comes out in top” too! Had to read Wordplay to figure out my mistake.