Scott

@SP I've been going backwards in the app - and this puzzle reminds of a 2011-ish Thursday for exactly that reason: hyper-ambiguous cluing. It seemed like there was a point a few years later where that (mostly) went away and there was more balance. If we know that the Across won't be solvable on its own, there's no reason to have Saturday-level cluing on the Downs. I want to be clear - I don't really have a problem with the construction. But at least give me clues I can chew on and mull over. (I was lost in the top center - the combo of the ambiguous crossings and, for example, cluing RAS to Haile Selassie instead of something cleverly dorm-ish.)