My time: 5:06, two and a half minutes faster than average.
Theme: a rather simple one — three phrases in the second person involving clothing. For example, HANG ON TO YOUR HAT ("get ready for something amazing").
Apparently in archery if you score a bullseye you get NINE points. In the Imperial variant, it seems. The center ring of an international target is worth 10 points.
FLORA means plants, but here is clued as the Roman goddess of flowering plants, or as the clue reads, of spring.
GIN is "drinking game?" Other than the fact the word means two things, I don't see the joke there. The card game isn't done while drinking, and the drink isn't a game.
Clever clue: "Grant for a filmmaker?" is HUGH.
This was a pretty bland crossword, with a similarly uninteresting theme. A ho-hum, but not bad, Tuesday.
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