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40A: City at the confluence of the Ouse and Foss ( YORK) - "Ouse" looks distinctly French, and Foss I've never heard of, so this took some work.

with the cheer "Roll Tide!" (' BAMA) - obvious even without the long-running ESPN College Gameday ad built around this "cheer." Everyone knows SOOEY is used for calling piggies less well known is the fact that UIE is used for calling ELANDS ( 49D: Safari antelopes). I think of moonshine or hooch when I think of the bottle marked "XXX" I do not think of ALE ( 30A: Bottle marked "XXX" in the comics). Cheri UTERI would be a great theme answer, though I'm not sure for what theme ( 29D: Gestation locations). SCRAG looks cool, but it's a word I've never seen anywhere *but* crosswords ( 41A: Skinny sort). KAHLO is a kool name for krosswords ( 36D: Mexican artist Frida). Well, that's eastern Europe-adjacent, at any rate. I'm gonna say eastern Europe / western Asia. I couldn't tell you what continent they're on, let alone what country they're in. I know Dolomite as a blaxploitation hero. Also had a lot of trouble with BOWS's symmetrical counterpart, MTNS ( 57D: The Dolomites, e.g.). It was only as I was about to google that I realized, "Ohhhhh. Got it all from crosses and still had no idea how the clue fit the answer. Strangely, the toughest clue for me was 1D: Things to draw ( BOWS).

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59A: Stylish Lionel? ( MOD TRAIN SET) - "LIONEL" = yet another word that could've been de-EL'd.46A: Demand during a roadside negotiation? ( THROW IN THE TOW).25A: Verbal exchange about a harsh review? ( PAN DISCUSSION).

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But, on the plus side, it's a great puzzle if you're a fan of the word "THE" - three appearances!

ALARIC over RESEEK (!!?) crossing OLE OLE and multiple WANDAS ( 48D: Stand-up comic Sykes and others) is super-ugly, as is the multiple OCHERS and REALES ( 9D: Old Spanish silver coins) crossing the never-lovely EDUCES. Fill on this one is interesting in parts- NEAR THE TOP ( 27D: In second place, say) and RATIONS OUT ( 11D: Distributes stingily) are interesting phrases-but there really is far too much dreck. BARREL, LAPEL, LABEL, CAMEL, etc.), not sure why those first two theme answers aren't better-or why this wasn't a Sunday-sized theme. With so many -EL words out there that are also words (or names) without the -EL (e.g. Half the theme answers are cute (bottom half), the others, not. Anyway, not much to say about this except the theme feels pretty tired. Why do I feel like I've done some version of this puzzle not just once, but many times? Weird. After I got the first theme answer, my thought was "Ugh, NOEL, not this theme again." But when I was done, I looked NOEL up on, and couldn't find a single puzzle that had used NOEL as a theme answer.