My time: 25:10, two minutes faster than average.
Theme: chore wordplay. "Chore for a security guard?" is SWEEP THE FLOOR. "Chore for a dog-walker?" is PICK UP THE TOYS (which doesn't work so well). A funnier one is "chore for a rower?" which is GO TO THE BANK. "Chore for a censor?" is TAKE OUT THE TRASH.
And so forth.
I knew there was a STL Cardinals (from crosswords, of course), but I didn't know about the ARI Cards.
RON Johnson is a Republican senator from Wisconsin. Ugh, who cares. He's a shitty Trump lapdog who attacks US intelligence agencies.
Aralia cordata, known as UDO in Japan, is an edible herbaceous plant. The edible stem is sometimes boiled and served in miso soup. Young stems are consumed from the roots and added to soups and salads. It must be properly cooked, as the raw stems are coated in a resin tasting similar to pine. Prior to eating, they should be thinly sliced and boiled in water a few times or placed in chilled water for an hour to eliminate the resin. It's the fugu of the plant world!
I have never heard of "crispy cookie brand" TATE'S.
ETON has been in the grid many, many times, as a school ("near Windsor"), a cap, and a collar. Now it's as part of ETON mess, a strawberry cream dessert.
It's the New York Times Crossword's goal to include every single California place name ever in their grids. Here is NOE Valley, a neighborhood in San Francisco.
Despite Utah resort town ALTA having come up in the past, I was totally stumped by it.
Clever clues: "Magic, once" is LAKER. "Carrying a key?" is TONAL.
I wasn't very fast today, but I wasn't POOR AT the puzzle either. The important thing to try to remember as much of the new material as I can!
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