My time: 4:11, not too bad.
Theme: four Across answers feature various stages of cooking as their first word: from RAW FOOTAGE, to HALF-BAKED IDEAS, COOKED THE BOOKS, and then finally BURNT UMBER. There is no capper.
"Banking org. founded during the Great Depression" is FDIC, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, created under the authority of the Banking Act of 1933 (also known as the Glass-Steagall Act), with the responsibility to insure bank deposits in eligible banks against loss in the event of a bank failure.
Maryland command center FT. MEADE has come up before, but today it's clued as "home to the US Cyber Command." And the NSA!
The fact that Galileo was PISAN came up on August 27.
The chickadee / TIT relationship was discussed way back on October 15, 2017.
And that about wraps it up for Monday. A decent theme, nothing too difficult. I liked the inclusion of KIT BAG, GROUPIES, NEW ERA, PRIOR TO, and OK SIGNS in the fill.
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