My time: 5:13, a new record by four seconds!
Today's theme celebrates JOHN LEWIS, who represented GEORGIA'S FIFTH district (Atlanta) for 33 years, and advocated NON-VIOLENCE as a way of resisting. And Alexandria OCASIO-Cortez is standing on his shoulders! Very neat.
I like to think that "seat at a counter, maybe" (STOOL) is an oblique reference to the sit-ins of 1960 as well. Especially followed by "took a load off" (SAT) — but maybe I'm reading too much into it.
Oscar ISAAC is a an actor best known for the title role in Inside Llewyn Davis and as Poe Dameron in Star Wars.
Lake BIWA is Japan's largest freshwater lake. It is located entirely within Shiga Prefecture (west-central Honshu), northeast of the former capital city of Kyoto. Lake Biwa is an ancient lake, over four million years old, and is estimated to be the 13th oldest lake in the world.
Now that the crossword mentions it, I realize I've never seen an NBA game end in a TIE, but I didn't realize that was built into the rules. In the NBA, after the score is tied at the end of regulation, the teams play a five-minute overtime period. If the score is still tied at the end of overtime, the teams play another overtime period. The record of extra overtime periods is six.
Never heard of actress ANNA Deaveare Smith. She was in The American President and The Human Stain.
FDR was the first sitting president (I hope that wasn't a tasteless pun) to ride in an airplane. It was 1943, and he rode in the Dixie Clipper to meet Churchill in Casablanca. He was 60 years old.
"Return of the Jedi dancer" is OOLA. She's a slave of Jabba the Hutt, and she is eaten by his rancor, and of course a black actress has to play her, I guess?
This was a solid puzzle. Nothing too flashy, but with some interesting fill like SAYS BOO, WE'VE MET, NARUTO, and BAD FATS.
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