I do letter grades when I PINCH HIT for Rex, and this one gets a C. The fill sported a lot of nice multiword entries: AND SUCH, TAKE TWO, NAME ONE!, SNEAK OUT, TOO TRUE, PINCH HIT, FAR LEFT, AM I LATE? HANG IN THERE balanced symmetrically by I'M OUTTA HERE, PREY ON, and ALL IS LOST. The others make sense in retrospect, but the theme entries weren't very entertaining and the frustration of not grokking what was going on made for a rather joyless solve. for "century"? I think of "cen." or just "c." for that. Not a good sign! You abbreviate one word in each entry and wackiness ensues, it turns out. Too subtle for me - I had to read another crossword blog to understand the theme. LOOK OUT FOR NO ONE (112A: Do a bad job as a watchman?).CUT QUITE A FIG (94A: Prepared some amazing Mediterranean fruit?).APT COMPLEX (92A: Emotional problem that is surprisingly fitting?).TURN OF THE CENT (66A: Coin flip with a penny?).POP DENSITY (42A: Your father's blockheadedneses?).DON'T GIVE AN IN (38A: "I forbid you from providing special access"?).FIRST PERSON SING (23A: "Belt it out, Adam!"?).I'm the worst substitute crossword blogger in recorded history thus far. But note that I've run into some technical difficulties, too - Blogger isn't letting me overwrite Rex's original post for some reason, so we've got two posts today. But we're rolling now and I'll be punctual with my posts for the rest of the week. Apologies right off the bat for the late post despite Rex checking in with me yesterday, I still managed to forget that my blogging duties began today. Matt Gaffney here, filling for Rex this week.
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