My time: 15:22, about five minutes faster than average.
This was easy to guess because I knew of the song, but not the specific lyrics: "ONE FINE DAY" is a 1963 hit by the Chiffons. "The arms I long for will open wide / And you'll be proud to have me right by your side / One fine day you're gonna want me for your girl."
Again, this was easy to guess from the context: the word derived from Egyptian for "great house" is obviously PHARAOH.
A NAIAD, in science, is the larva of a dragonfly.
PELE served as Brazil's Extraordinary Minister of Sport from 1995-1998. He also has been declared a National Treasure of Brazil, and November 19 is National Pele Day in Santos, Brazil. Since then he's faced a couple of scandals, so his reputation has suffered a little bit of tarnish.
"Sauce ingredient in a Londoner's pie and mash" is EEL sauce? Minced mutton with eel jelly. Hmm. I guess I'd have to try it.
Never heard of LOLA Falana, a singer, model, and actress. Falana was discovered by Sammy Davis Jr. in 1964; he gave her a featured role in his musical, and she recorded under Frank Sinatra's record label. In 1970, she made her American film debut and also posed for Playboy magazine. She was the first black woman to model for the Faberge "Tigress" perfume ads. Later she starred in a few movies considered to be of the blaxploitation genre.
It was, again, simple enough to guess that the place where Brazil, Colombia, and Peru meet is called TRES Fronteras, but I've never heard the term.
The ROSE PARADE, also known as the Tournament of Roses Parade, is an annual parade to mark the start of the Rose Bowl Game, held mostly along Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, on New Year's Day.
For "ATM input" I fell into the trap and put *PIN but they wanted the AMT.
Homs, a major metropolitan center, was home to many a SYRIAN, but was pretty ravaged during the civil war.
THE CITADEL is the military college of South Carolina. I've heard of it, of course — I remember when they didn't want to let women in, because they were too gay or something — but didn't know where it was.
I forgot that it was REAGAN who had that stupid "Morning in America" campaign.
San Francisco's BART terminus SFO was last mentioned on July 18, 2018.
Fashion designer INES Di Santo came up on January 30, 2019.
The term LETT, a Latvian, came up on July 10. Today it was clued as "neighbor of a Belarussian."
Clever clues: "Sticky pad?' is NEST. "T as in telegraph?" is DAH. "One for the books?' is AUDITOR. "Party person" is POL.
This was a fine Saturday puzzle. I had a lot of trouble in the northwest corner; I kept thinking of the setter in "setter's activity" as a dog, and not a VOLLEYBALL player. All slowness was due to HUMAN ERROR.
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