My time: 4:07, not bad!
Theme: how four EMOTIONS are typically depicted in newspaper comics. So: "Anger, in the comics" is STORM CLOUD. "Odor, in the comics" is WAVY LINES. And so forth.
This theme would be decidedly more interesting if the "in the comics" part was omitted in the clues, SWEAT DROPS would be clued only as "nervousness." And then the word EMOTIONS, already in the puzzle but ignored, theme-wise, could be clued as "what four starred clues describe in the comics." (Not that they're all emotions; that's an example.) Or maybe even make in the comics be the a-ha capper answer to clue like "where these themed clues are true." That would make a really clever Wednesday. As it is, this a straightforward Monday. There's nothing wrong with it, but it didn't make me smile the way it would if it were a little more tricky.
Anyway. "Catkin-producing tree" is ALDER. And what is a catkin? Why, simply any spicate inflorescence (as of the willow, birch, or oak) bearing scaly bracts and unisexual usually apetalous flowers. That's clear, right? There will be an exam later on. Apparently they're edible??
"Letter after phi, chi and psi" is OMEGA. This is a fraternity and sorority thing. Psi OMEGA is a fraternity for dentistry!
Way back in 2017 we had the painter Charles Wilson Peale, but today we meet 19th-century portrait painter Rembrandt PEALE. He was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
That OPEL was once owned by General Motors came up on December 17, 2017.
Allen "the Answer" Iverson was last in the puzzle on September 20, but this time I spelled his first name right.
Well, that's AMPLE coverage of this Monday. Good GAME, everyone. Hit the showers. See you tomorrow.
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