My time: 12:28, a full two and a half minutes slower than my average. Man! This one beat me like a red-headed MAGAt.
Theme: STRONG PASSWORD ("it may require letters, a number, and a special character," as seen in the highlighted answers).
I had a plethora of wrong first attempts in this one. For "small building blocks" I put *LEGOS; it's ATOMS. Well played, ma'am/sir! For "things finished with handshakes" (aren't we in a post-shake world now?) I put *DEALS but it's PACTS. For "apt rhyme for casino" I put *KINO! That's a good answer, dammit! But no, it's RENO, argh. For hospital patients who are "post-_____" I put *ICU for some reason but it's OPS. For "friendly honk" I tried *BEEP but it's TOOT. For "venture a thought" I put *SPEAK but it's OPINE, of course. That was too bold of me. Finally, I took "bowling game" to mean "one game of bowling" so I put *FRAME but it meant "type of bowling game" and is BOCCE.
"Breathful" for AIR really got me. I was thinking of it as an adjective. What a breathful morning!
"Imitates" is DOES? I can't think of an example in which that is true, except in "monkey see, monkey do," which implies an object to both verbs. This is a bad clue.
I didn't like "Bit of paperless reading" for EBOOK. Why bit? That implies something small and brief. I wanted to put EBOOK but that word made me think it would be something like E-ZINE or some crap.
Alces alces is the MOOSE, or elk as it's called in Europe. The word "elk" in North American English refers to a completely different species of deer, Cervus canadensis, also called the wapiti. I hope this clears all your moose-terminology-related questions up.
I don't think Japanese tennis pro Naomi OSAKA has come up before.
Ypsilanti school Eastern Michigan University, or EMU, came up in 2018.
I had a vague uncertain trace of memory of IBANKER and it turns out it was featured way back in October 2017.
Wow, I really screwed the pooch on this one. I feel like a DOLT, but I also think some of the clues were poorly written. Well, ADIEU to today's and here's to Thursday's attempt.
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