My time: 8:10, a new record by eleven seconds! I had no idea while I was completing it. WOOT!
OBOE certainly is a crossword mainstay, isn't it? "One of two or three in a typical orchestra," but one of thousands in the history of the NYT puzzle.
I vaguely remembered PEAR drop as a boiled British candy. It's mostly named after the shape and not the flavor.
I know ST. JAMES is a Monopoly property, but I can't recall what colors the various squares are. The orange ones are ST. JAMES Place, New York Avenue, and Tennessee Avenue.
Rita Moreno was noted as having won the EGOT on August 9. John Legend is also an EGOT winner. He won his Emmy for playing Jesus.
French printmaker, sculptor, and caricaturist HONORE Daumier was an iconoclast who attacked royals and the bourgeoisie. He was jailed for portraying King Louis Philippe as Gargantua in the periodical "La Caricature."
"Resort near White River National Forest" is ASPEN, Colorado. White River National Forest is the most visited national forest in the nation encompassing 2.3 million acres. With 11 ski resorts, eight Wilderness areas, 10 mountain peaks over 14,000 feet and 2,500 miles of trails, this forest is a place where you can press play on adventure and inspiration! Or so they say, anyway.
"Deck wood" is TEAK, which was referred to on December 16, 2017.
Clever clues: "still on the line, say" isn't about phones but laundry: DAMP. "It requires some assembly" is QUORUM. "A home?" is OAKLAND. "Crack jokes, perhaps?" is POTTY HUMOR (not, as I thought it might be, drugs humor); the crack must refer to the crack in people's behinds. "Take turns, say" is STEER.
This was a fun puzzle! There was very little new information, but lots of sly cluing. The grid has some good fill, like MOONQUAKE, PIZZA OVENS, PREEMIES, and SCRATCH AND SNIFF.
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