62A: Scratch the "2 Legit 2 Quit" rapper? ( CLAW HAMMER).28D: Amuse the "Get the Party Started" singer? ( TICKLE PINK).10D: Protect the "Kiss From a Rose" singer from the cops? ( HARBOR SEAL).17A: Conk the "You Were Meant for Me" singer? ( CROWN JEWEL).By the 2000s, everything becomes a big blur, punctuated by major life events / national trauma. Individual years were clearly delineated before I graduated college. Notice how my dates get vaguer the farther I get away from college. All the one-named singers whose names are being punned on have a post-1989 fame (chronological order of fame, by my internal clock, goes HAMMER (ca. I wonder if this puzzle is going to skew easy for young(er) people and tough(er) for older people. Only other sticky clue in the whole grid for me was the one on NORMA - and that's opera, so no shocker there ( 31D: Singer of the "Casta diva" aria). didn't remember) ERIC Carle ( 43D: Children's author Carle) and didn't know IRINA (figured it had to be ELENA) ( 27D: "Three Sisters" sister), and couldn't remember (at first) why the hell Mendeleev was important ( 38D: Mendeleev's tabulation=> ELEMENTS). Finished up in the W, where I didn't know (i.e. Started writing with 1A: Harry James's "_ the Craziest Dream" (" I HAD") and never really stopped - though I hesitated a few times toward the end. Mid-4s on paper, a good 10-15 seconds faster than yesterday's puzzle.
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