My time: 4:18, over a minute faster than average.
Theme: "Female scholars," i.e. WOMEN OF LETTERS, a pun indicating that the four themed Across answers are women whose names are homonyms for letters — SANDRA OH as in "O," ELLE MCPHERSON as in "L," etc.
I enjoyed the clue "like calamari... or overloaded circuitry" for FRIED.
Kendrick LAMAR has 13 Grammys, which is reasonable, but I didn't know he has a Pulitzer Prize! He won the Pulitzer in Music for the album Damn. Damn!
ELLE MACPHERSON was on a record five Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers, 1986 to 2006.
Noted woman of letters KAY HAGAN unseated Elizabeth Dole to become senator of North Carolina in 2008.
The movie It's a Wonderful Life was produced by RKO Studios.
This was a nice quick Monday. I liked that two goddesses of the dawn, EOS and AURORA, were both represented.
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