We’ve just rung the doorbell at the Christmas party, tell me these pants to not in fact make me look fat. I can’t reattach my hair, so tell me the new cut looks great. I never, ever want the truth, especially if there’s nothing I can do about it. “Waikiki” before IWO JIMA because like Rex, I misread the clue as “surfer” island. I think “fume” fits the clue better, but no one ever calls and asks my opinion. This one had some terrific clues: those for TIP JARS, ST PETER, DREW, SCALES. I love, love, love “Fasti” and reread all six volumes at least twice a year. TEAROOM was my toehold, and then OVID, a gimme. 4D: Literally, "sulfur island" ( IWO JIMA) - read this as and thought "wow.Sorry for breaking my own rules and bringing vomit on stage. I wish there were a zany, drunken story to go with this fact, but I think he was just sick. Family lore has it that my father apparently once barfed in the planters outside the Russian TEA ROOM. 38D: Russian _ (iconic restaurant near New York's Central Park) ( TEA ROOM) - I ate here once with my mom and sister in the summer of 1983."Opera daughter" is a bizarre, crosswords-only kind of phrase. I see now that it contains "Amon," as in "Amon-Ra," the most popular Egyptian deity in CrossWorld. 29A: Opera daughter of Amonasro (AIDA) - wanted AIDA but the name in the clue sounded Italian, so I waited for crosses.20A: They're open to change ( TIP JARS) - smiled at this one as I roared past.PETER is the one who "admits" you (or not?) to heaven)
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PETER (42A: Bigwig in the admissions dept.?).
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And yet here it is, blocking the song I want to remember. I think I heard it once in a brewpub in Los Angeles last week, and I haven't thought about it since. Anyway, I've got "The High Road" by Broken Bells in my head and it won't leave, and I have no idea why. That ever happen to you? You want to remember a song and you try to say the lyrics to yourself but then all of a sudden whatever tune is in your head segues into "The Macarena" or something? It's awful. There's another song in my head blocking the song I want to remember. So far the main thing this puzzle has done is drive me crazy trying to remember the pop song I know that contains the lyrics "All good things are wild and free," which I only just learned, from this puzzle, is a Thoreau quote.