My time: 10:01, five minutes faster than average.
Theme: UNLUCKY BREAK, which apparently means that in the three themed answers, the numeral "13" is replaced with the letter B. I think this is because if you push the 1 and 3 together, they make a capital B? But why that's an "unlucky break" I don't know. It seems like it's an unlucky non-break. That is, the B isn't yet "broken" into the 13.
Oh well.
"Modern lead-in to scrolling" is DOOM. I only recently heard about this neologism. DOOMscrolling means to constantly go through the horrible news onslaught that 2020 has been.
"To weep is to make less the depth of GRIEF" was said by Richard Plantagenet, the Duke of York, in Shakespeare's "King Henry VI, part 3."
Apparently the RED River of Texas was once part of the US/Mexico border, before the US took the Texas part. It is now the borderline of Texas and Oklahoma.
EZER Weizman was an Israeli Air Force general and the seventh president of Israel.
Did you know that the US Forest Service owns about 38% of IDAHO? Ha ha, Idahoans think they're so independent but they're just a bunch of feds.
GIA Scala was an Italian-Amercian actress and model famous for The Guns of Navarone.
Finance and insurance company AIG (American International Group) appeared on August 26. Today it's clued as "big co. in the 2008 financial meltdown."
I like "big joints" for BLUNTS and "busts" (as in broncos) for TAMES.
That's the end of this one. I found it to be fairly easy for a Thursday, with a fun, if initially confusing, theme. Why didn't they save it for a Friday the 13th?
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