Such a surprising level of novelty based on a genre that turns out to be only mostly dead. Glad I didn't, as there were no ENDIN' TEARS for me. We've had so many elision puzzles over the years that I was tempted to stop solving after completing PARTNERIN' CRIME. I gained appreciation as I studied these results. Shifting from RESPOND IN KIND to someone likely to answer your questions is a creative leap. Neat change of pace to include RESPONDIN' KIND, which changes the last part of the phrase much more than the others. Thanks to two reviewers - Mark McClain, who gave the theme and fill a thumbs up, and Taylor Evan Johnson, who gave this newbie a lesson on "?" clue etiquette. After trying to eliminate DANAS I eventually succumbed but was still overall happy with some fill I would personally like to uncover as a solver, like RED PANDA, BLANK CDS, RAP DUO, SUNDANCE, FOSTER DAD, DRY GIN, and EUROCRAT. The team also suggested a cheater square in the southeast, which enabled a big improvement in the fill (even though you'll have to forgive OPCITS). My favorite clue from Will was the quote clue for SLEEP - a quote that I'm sure will come to me when I next suffer a dose of insomnia. My favorite was SIESTA for being a double play on both "Spell" and "out". Several of my proposed "?" clues were kept, including some for shorter words (LIRA, MER, AHA, and NAN). CASIN' POINT) or gerunds taking a double consonant (e.g., MANNIN' THE MOON). The theme was still restricted in some ways: it would have felt inconsistent to use verbs losing an E in their gerund form (e.g. The other finds were equally clunky, but switching to "X-in-Y" phrases produced better options. This puzzle started with JACKIN' THE BOX (a pun on robbing theatergoers with the best seats in the house), and I set off looking for "X-in-the-Y" phrases, where X was a noun that could be reinterpreted as a verb to produce a punny result.
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