My time: 4:15, faster than average.
Theme: CANADA! As far as I can tell, November 30 isn't a special day in Canada, so the puzzle doesn't have any chronological significance. In addition to the four highlighted theme answers, there are a couple of bonus Canada clues, such as RAIN being clued as "weather often associated with Vancouver," and of course the de rigueur answer ENE being clued as "Toronto-to-Montreal dir." And OTTAWA, "capital of 71 Across."
SAYING SORRY? Blame CANADA!
"Life is short and this is long, per Hippocrates:" ART. Or, more succinctly, ars longa, vita brevis, as written in his Aphorisms. While this is often taken to mean that fine art is eternal, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was actually talking about the physician's craft.
The only clue that totally stumped me today was "____-crab soup." It's SHE-crab soup! What the heck is that? Apparently a thick bisque made with a gravid female crab, so that the roe adds to the flavor.
Airport LGA is clued as having "many flights to Toronto Pearson."
"DC player, formerly a Montreal Expo" is NAT, as in the Washington Nationals, a MLB team, which came up on December 4, 2017, but not that they were the Expos until 2005.
Zeno of ELEA has come up a few times. We last saw him on November 15, 2018, I think.
And now the Canada-centric Monday has come to an END. Just think, not one eh in the puzzle.
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