My time: 5:03, not bad!
Theme: four common phrases that star with R now start with — get this — an F! HA HA! Isn't that rich?
For example, risky business is in the puzzle as FRISKY BUSINESS, clued as "what Fancy Feast and Meow Mix compete in?" And "anti-fuel extraction slogan" is FRACK AND RUIN. Frack! Instead of rack! Get it?!
Seriously, I don't really get why this theme exists, but at least knowing that everything started with FR theoretically helps with the solve.
Not a lot of new stuff on this easy Tuesday.
I didn't know IODINE is extracted from kelp! Watch out! May contain too much iodine.
The USC (go Trojans!) is a Pac-12 school. Who cares?
I'm very familiar with the name AMOS Oz, but haven't read any of his books. I didn't even know he wrote in Hebrew. He said about his work: "If I were to sum up my books in one word, I would say they are about 'families.' If you gave me two words, I would say 'unhappy families.'" In his 2004 essay "How to Cure a Fanatic." he argued that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war of religion or cultures or traditions, but rather a real estate dispute, one that will be resolved not by greater understanding, but by painful compromise.
ESSO, that crossword mainstay, is here clued as "competitor of Petro-Canada."
"Former Houston hockey team" is the AEROS, active from 1994 to 2013, until they were moved to Iowa and became the hard-to-say Iowa Wild.
Well, this was a simple Tuesday, with a theme that really could have used a jokey capper or explanation entry. Thank goodness that's OVER.
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