My time: 12:36, five minutes faster than average.
No theme, but some smart clues and interesting fill (BASILICAS! LITE BRITE! GRAYBEARD! TERRY CREWS!). "Reunion attendee, informally" had me stalled on school reunions, but it's one who goes to a family reunion — AUNTIE.
I've heard the title TRUE WEST, but I didn't know it was a Sam Shepard play. It's about two brothers, one a screenwriter and one a drunk and thief.
Why on earth is there a 23-foot bronze statue of EL CID in Balboa Park, San Diego? Is there some connection? No one knows.
I didn't know MOVEMBER was an annual event to grow awareness of men's health issues. I honestly thought it was an annual event to raise awareness of mustache-growing.
A SCHUSS is a straight downhill run in skiing.
I rolled my eyes as I wrote TOON for "Linus or Lucy, e.g." They aren't toons in my eyes. Comic strips aren't toons, dammit!
Apparently Rita Moreno played someone named ANITA in "West Side Story." Anita is a Puerto Rican immigrant. She is the girlfriend of Bernardo and a
close friend and confidante to his sister Maria. Anita's character is
based loosely on Juliet's Nurse in Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet."
So apparently the parallel of a soccer mom — left-leaning, high middle class — is NASCAR DAD, blue collar and right-leaning.
A LETT is a Latvian, the people living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
"Duke's grp." is ACC, which has come up so often before. I just don't care about sports conferences.
SEGNO, the musical repeating mark, came up way way back in 2017.
Clever clues: "Garb for the masses?" is ALBS. "Causes for alarm?" is HEISTS.
Nice puzzle! SLOW CLAP.
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