Sarah Sinclair wishes all of us, coupled or single, a happy Valentine’s Day.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — Whenever I see Sarah Sinclair’s byline, I know we’re about to see something really entertaining. And I don’t just mean her crosswords, although those are great. Ms. Sinclair has developed a fun habit of sending theme-adjacent photos of herself and her collaborators to Wordplay, which I consider to be a kind of dessert after solving the puzzle.
Today’s confection is a video of her barbershop quartet (below her notes) wishing us a happy Valentine’s Day, and I think it’s the perfect end to a lovely solving experience.
Tricky Clues
Today’s puzzle is a themeless one, but there is quite a bit of good thematic material here, highlighted by the central entry, CATCH FEELINGS, at 36A.
14A. [Clean energy?] has minimal or no impact on the environment, but in this puzzle the clue refers to what some believe to be vital life energy. If yours is clean, you have probably racked up some GOOD KARMA in your lifetime.
18A. Get your minds out of the gutter, please. These [Bad things to blow] are FUSES.
22A. Let’s play our favorite crossword game that doesn’t actually exist: “Is It a Verb or a Noun?” When it’s a noun, a [Parcel] is a package, but the word can also be used as a verb to mean to METE out something.
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