My time: 4:44, missing Tuesday's record by about thirty seconds.
Theme: BREAKS CHARACTER, or "can't hold back laughter while performing." Also, in eight Across answers, four characters, as in non-alphanumeric signs, are written out, broken by black squares. For example, tilde is found in UNTIL / DENSE. Asterisk is found in HASTE and RISKY. And so on.
Here's what a COLONIAL house generally is: They’re rectangular, typically two stories, and fairly symmetrical. They have steep, side-gabled roofs, which means the triangular portion of the roof is only visible from the sides. Traditionally built with wood or stone, these homes were only one room deep and two or three rooms wide, with either one massive, central fireplace or fireplaces at both ends of the house. They have a centered front door and the same number of small, multi-paned windows on either side of and above the door.
Korean-born New Zealander LYDIA Ko is an LPGA golfer, the youngest #1 in professional golf history at just under 18 years of age. Since turning professional in 2014, Ko has won over ten million dollars in tournaments. That's crazy money!
OAHU has come up a lot in the puzzle. Today it's clued as "most populous Hawaiian island." The population, according to estimates in 2012, was 976,372. This is about two-thirds of the total population of the state. You sure learn a lot of OAHU trivia from the New York Times puzzle.
I remembered ELIAS Howe from 2018!
Clever clues: "Alternative to truth?" is DARE. "Devices relied upon to a high degree?" is OVENS.
I thought this was a VERY well done puzzle. I'm not AVERSE to a little wordplay!
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