Had NEMEANS (!?!?) before NUBIANS, so that slowed things down a bit (also no idea about TONI, who isn't even known by her real name, so ?). Bigger wrong was PACK UP for TANK UP (not a phrase I heard growing up, and I grew up in car country, i.e. Small wrong was ONS for INS (5D: Walk-_). I always start there, and since you start with nothing, that's when you're likeliest to go wrong. As usual, the struggles came in the first half of the solve, and the second half was a sprint by comparison (if you watch the solving video I made for yesterday's puzzle, you can see this phenomenon happen quite clearly-2/3 of the time to solve the first half, and 1/3 to solve the last night and day). I did blow through the puzzle pretty quickly, which is always a nice feeling. The clue is incorrect on a literal level (never a good thing). Smaller nit-I don't think "now and later" means "all day, every day." If I do something now and later, then I do it at two discrete times, with a gap in between. They don't even seem to be really trying. NERDS calling their dad, also on the better side of this theme set. Wacky puzzles have to get weird, or else they get very tedious (polite smile-quaint) very quickly. The image of a snickering baby Ruth Ginsburg is probably the highlight of the puzzle, in that it's bizarre, and therefore offers a memorable image. Still not sure how the marquee puzzle remains this tepid, week in and week out. It'll pass the time for 15 minutes or a half hour or an hour or whatever. But it's not innovative, and it doesn't even offer much of a new or vibrant take on an old concept. This is placeholder stuff just absolutely typical, run-of-the-mill, utterly characteristic late 20th-century NYTXW fare. Except for FANTASY SERIES (which felt new / interesting) the fill doesn't do much that's interesting either. Remember some candies! That's all you do here. The particular humor of the clue doesn't matter much, and in most cases isn't really there. But once you piece the first themer together, once you grasp the concept, solving mainly just involves thinking of candy names. I'd be stunned if I hadn't seen this exact theme at some point in my life. There's a core idea-a theme type I've seen before. There are no laughs here, and not much in the way of real cleverness. Tones and I released her debut extended play, The Kids Are Coming, on 30 August 2019, which peaked at number three in Australia, and top 10 in several countries. Tones was the most awarded artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, winning four from eight nominations. "Dance Monkey" was accredited 13× platinum by ARIA for shipments of over 910,000 units, in October 2020. By mid-January 2020, "Dance Monkey" had spent its 24th and final week at number one, beating Bing Crosby's all-time Australian record for his version of " White Christmas", which spent 22 weeks (five months, namely June to October) at the top spot in 1943. In 2019, she broke the Australian record for the most weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart by any artist with 16 weeks. Her breakout single, " Dance Monkey", was released in May 2019 and reached number one in over 30 countries. Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer and songwriter. Tones and I with the 2019 dance hit "Dance Monkey" => TONI). Word of the Day: Tones and I ( 37A: Singer Watson, a.k.a. MARS SMARTIES (115A: Some astronomy PhD.s?).LIFESAVERS PAYDAY (103A: When E.M.T.s bring home the bacon?).MILKY WAY STARBURST (84A: Supernova in our galaxy?).WHOPPERS SPREE (67A: Burger King bingefest?).CRUNCH NOW AND LATER (47A: Do core exercises all day, every day?).BABY RUTH SNICKERS (31A: A young Justice Ginsburg chuckles?).NERDS RING POP (22A: Bookworms call dad?).THEME: "Sugar, Sugar" - wacky phrases made out of candy names:
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