My time: 8:20, half the average Thursday time!
Theme: the motto of the THREE MUSKETEERS, which of course is "one for all, and all for one." This means that in the four Across answers with circled letters, the letter group all is transposed with one. This results in Sly Stone becoming SLY STONEALL, and phone call being PHALL CONE. Zany fun!
I didn't know that the ASTER is known for attracting butterflies.
The athletic teams of Whittier College are called the POETS. That's fun! The Religious Society of Friends established the town of Whittier in 1887 and the Whittier Academy the same year. Both the town and the College were named in honor of John Greenleaf Whittier, prominent Quaker, poet, and leader in the abolitionist movement. I'm thinking an even cooler name would be the Whittier Greenleaves.
For "dental crown alternative" I put *INLAY but it's ONLAY. What's the difference? Glad we asked. It turns out that an inlay fills in cavities and hollows in a tooth in the areas between the cusps. An onlay will not just fill in cavities in those spaces, but they can work for a larger area, including the cusps. They work similarly to crowns, but they do not cover the entire surface of the tooth.
RON Cephas Jones is an actor who was in "Luke Cage."
I know almost all the world flags, but Anguilla is a territory and not a country, so I didn't know its flag has three DOLPHINs on it.
Dodger pitcher Hideo NOMO came up on September 27, 2017. Today he is clued as someone "who threw no-hitters in both the American and National Leagues." I don't really know what those are, so it doesn't help me much.
The constellation ARA appeared on September 17, 2017 as "altar constellation" because the ancient Greeks identified it as an altar. Today it's "constellation beneath the tail of Scorpius."
Photographer NAN Goldin was showcased in January 2018.
I loved today's theme! A very enjoyable and original challenge. I got through it with relative ESE.
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