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"9A. You thought that the 'Body part where a sock might go?' was a foot, didn’t you?" I must confess, it wasn't my first thought. I blame the Red Hot Chili Peppers. :D
The clue "Still working on it?" solves to ALL DONE not because that's how someone who leaves food on their plate would respond to the question, but because it's another way of *asking* the question ("All done?"). By contrast, NOT DONE doesn't work because it's not synonymous with the clue.
@Aria The former title is HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. She is now HM (Her Majesty) The Queen Consort.
@Sarah I think I originally learned that term from Roger Ebert, who used it in his movie reviews. It can be a noun ("it was a meet-cute"), as clued in this puzzle, or a verb ("they met-cute"). Coincidentally, one of Merriam-Webster's examples for the verb is a 2021 Wordplay column by Deb Amlen. In the puzzle she was writing about, [When clocks 'spring forward' for daylight saving time] was the clue for 2 AM. This occasioned Deb's reference to an ad for the alarm-clock brand Clocky that showed the product "leading two people on a chase through the streets of Paris until they meet-cute in front of the Eiffel Tower."
Lots of fun fill, and a Saturday personal record for me!
@Steve It's a word that you might encounter in an introductory Latin class, which might be called Latin I (as opposed to Latin II, Latin III, etc.)
@LisaK Yes! <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/crosswords/editors-note-guess-whos-back-back-again.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/crosswords/editors-note-guess-whos-back-back-again.html</a>
@Liz B I briefly considered XVI.
LEEZA GIBBONS and CHUCK WAGON would also fit with this theme.
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