My time: 5:14, just short of average but not great for a Monday at this point.
Theme: three apparently quite disparate jobs — CODE BREAKER, STAND-UP COMIC, and CHIROPRACTOR ("health professional who has your back?") — are told to GET CRACKING. That's pretty clever! Very well done.
Title woman in songs by the Beatles and the Spinners is SADIE. In the case of the latter it's the 1975 song "SADIE," no description of her sexiness attached. It's about the singer's mother, actually.
"Yellow flowers in the primrose family" is OXLIPS. The oxlip, primula elatior, is a semi-evergreen perennial that grows well in shade.
New Jersey's SETON Hall University is a Catholic university in the Big East conference. It main campus is located in the quaint town of South Orange.
ERNIE Banks, Chicago Cubs Hall-of-Famer, appeared way back on October 11, 2017, but back then he was referred to as "Mr. Sunshine." Today he's clued as "Mr. Cub."
"Hilo Hello" is ALOHA. The Hawaiian city of Hilo was an answer on June 30.
Clever clue: "A physicist or a fashion designer might work with one" is MODEL — the physicist part refers to the Standard MODEL describing the forces and particles of the universe. "Hombre-to-be, perhaps" is MUCHACHO, Spanish for young man.
This was a very nice Monday! Good clean fill, and a smart theme. I really liked the clues; often a Monday is kind of boring with its straight synonym clues, ut this one has some fun ones like "target of a camper's scalp-to-toe inspection" for TICK. The constructor, Eric Bornstein, is SLY AS A FOX! It's not quite as EASY as the typical Monday but much more interesting.
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