My time: 10:20, nearly five minutes faster than average.
Theme: The solver must take literally the answer at 71 Across, LONG. The four Across themed answers all start with 'Long," which is omitted in the grid, and instead the second word is reproduced with each letter appearing twice. (The finished version online gives you giant, long versions of the letters, as above).
So, for example, "some winter wear" is long johns, but you skip the long part and enter the johns like so: JJOOHHNNSS. The tricky clue "oboe or flute sound" refers to those words' long vowel, appearing in the grid as VVOOWWEELL.
Did you know a little less than eight million Americans live on [Long] IISSLLAANNDD? So many!
And so forth.
I don't think I'm familiar with Strawberry Fields Memorial, in Central Park, New York, but it makes sense that it was funded by Yoko ONO.
I had no idea what the puzzle meant by "the Midshipmen," whose colors are gold and NAVY BLUE. It's the Navy academy athletics team.
With just a little jog of the memory, it came to me that Abercrombie & Fitch's logo has a MOOSE.
I remembered right off that Beyoncé voiced NALA, from its appearance on October 27!
The fact that UNIX was developed at Bell labs last appeared on October 14, 2018.
Early TV network DUMONT was last seen on September 14, 2017.
Clever clue: "More than calls" is RAISES. "Needle maker" is PINE. "Mystery writer, for short" is ANON. "It's commonly used to make a product" is TIMES SIGN.
Welp, that's it for this Thanksgiving Thursday. No Turkey theme here, though I bet some will think this theme is a turkey. Have a good lloonngg weekend!
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