My time: 7:27, just under average for Tuesday. I made a lot of clumsy finger mistakes, but the truth is, this one caught me off guard. Maybe I should do my solving when I'm more awake.
Theme: WEB OF LIES: the shaded and linked answers are all a form of lie, like TALL TALES, FICTION, LIBEL, and so on.
I'm not happy with my time especially because some of these clues are so simplistic. "Meditation syllables" (OMS). "Kit _____" (KAT). "Outs' opposites" (INS). "Raise the ____" (ALARM). These would be rather simple, and boring, even for a Monday.
On the other hand, I'm not sure "Let me see..." is a great clue for WELL.
I have never heard of the baseball term "twin killings." It means double plays, or DPS for short. And what is a double play? It's when you get two outs in one action.
"Bubble gum in 1906" is INVENTION. This is... contested. Bubble gum was invented in 1928 by a man named Walter Diemer, say some sources. Frank H. Fleer invented a substance in 1906 that we would not probably call successful bubble gum: Blibber-Blubber!
I have never heard of the term DIME STORE (e.g. Woolworth's). I have always heard "five and ten cent store" or even "five and dime store."
Ariana Grande has a song "ONE Last Time," but the Hamilton song would have been a better referent. Her song is kind of boring and has a weird video.
For "reactions to slugs" I put *EWS but it's OWS because it means punches, not mollusks.
The wrist bones CARPI have come up before. Remember that, Fishwrist!
I liked the theme today. Well-spun, with a nice capper that explained it all. It's always admirable when the capper of the theme helps you solve the rest of the theme answers.
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