If you're in the middle, you're probably golden. If you know too much, then you (ahem.I) can overthink it. If you don't know music at all, then this ENHARMONIC thing is utterly impossible to get. This is one of those kinds of puzzles that requires a middling ground of musical understanding. I do hope we’ll also get comments lauding this remarkable puzzle, one I’ll remember for a long time. F NATURAL has to break some kind of Longest Rebus Entry record. I imagine we’ll get those comments explaining why G SHARP and A FLAT are not the same note and comments asking how to fill this online. I liked CAL crossing UCLA and the ITO/ABE pair. This would have been a winner even without MUSICAL NOTE, ENHARMONIC, and TWO-TONE. To see these double-whammy rebuses, F NATURAL/ESHARP, G SHARP/A FLAT, E FLAT/D SHARP… terrific. Once I got rid of “museum gift store,” knowing that had to be wrong anyway, I finally got it all. It took forever, even with the D in AWED to abandon D FLAT for E FLAT. Rex – Yes! DEFLATEGATE was obviously the neon rebus sign, but I couldn’t get past some kind of D FLATegate. “smu” for EMU with spectacular disregard for the clue. I think I was going for some kind of “band” geek for 41A Wandered around looking for other low-hanging fruit: BRYN, ALMA, GRE, and then three massive mistakes that mucked up all kinds of things: Tough solve, but in the end I was able to wrestle it to the ground. Gonna go RESOAK something in hopes it will make me feel better. Again, I am far far under the weather, so don't take anything I say today too seriously. I imagine musical types will be squealing with joy at this one. Loved FANGIRL quite a bit ( 41A: Certain geek). I had NO WORD for NO NEWS (32D: "Haven't heard a thing"), and LOFTING (?) for WAFTING (59A: Floating). ETHNO jazz seems terribly made-up ( 13A: _ jazz (fusion genre)), and helped make that whole center area the toughest part of the puzzle by far. There are two "IT"s in this puzzle, but I don't really care ( I MEAN IT, QUIT IT). I don't think the impulse to double up on Japanese P.M.'s was a good one ( ITO, ABE)-so many other, non-trivial ways to go. That was just brutal, and the "as seen" phrase seems superfluous. I don't know why "cars" is part of one of the (apparent) themers? I don't know why "as seen" is in 20A: Tar water, as seen in medieval medicine ( CURE-ALL). Are the black squares at the bottom of the grid supposed to be in the shape of a tuning fork? I honestly don't trust my assessment of anything right now. You don't wanna know how long I gaped at DEFLATEGATE wondering why it wouldn't work (it wouldn't work because I had the first square as DFLAT. I got the basic concept reasonably early, but my brain was not at all capable of doing the conversions or whatever at those three ENHARMONIC squares. Actually, I sense that it was good, or at least original. I haven't been sick in a long time, but I sure am now, so I have no idea how hard or easy or good or not good this thing was. Born in Valdez, Alaska, Egan is one of only two governors in the state's history (along with current incumbent Bill Walker) to have been born in Alaska. He served as the first Governor of the State of Alaska from Januto 1966, and again from 1970 to 1974. William Allen "Bill" Egan (Octo– May 6, 1984) was an American Democratic politician. Word of the Day: Bill EGAN( 38A: First family of Alaska => EGANS). TWO-TONE CARS (9D: Dichromatic fad of the 1950s) (not sure how "cars" fits in, but.).MUSICAL NOTE (3D: One added to the staff?).Then there are some other answers that seem related, including: D EGATE (66A: Gridiron scandal of 2015, informally) / CAR (55D: One adept with a deck).LOOKIN (65A: Dressed neatly and fashionably) / GET (53D: Suffer some tire damage).MUSEUM O HISTORY (16A: Home to many stuffed animals) / TH ER IMAGE (6D: High-tech home gadget company).THEME: ENHARMON IC s quares ( 7D: Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score) - there are three of these, where the squares contains the same pitch is written out differently in the Across and the Down answers:
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