jim
pdx
Got a slow start and came in right under my average but am a little worried because my breakthrough was getting ANGER off the clue and getting NOONECARES from only three letters.
Was a killer for me - 50% over my average. I got the rebus in a reasonable time, but it led me to throw down blackeye in 19D and took me forever to give up on it. It didn’t help that the flask was new to me and that so many of its crosses were proper nouns.
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