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Talk about a wordlist name-all those vowels! Speaking of wordlist names: REAL ALE (29A: Unfiltered and unpasteurized brew). I know the title "Heather Has Two Mommies" but LESLEA, nope, that slipped out of my brain ( 44A: Newman who wrote "Heather Has Two Mommies"). still shaking my head over the fact that I saw the revealer so late and that all it did was repeat the world I could already see inside the circled letters, and that that word was (still) in no way specifically related to the actual theme concept (which, again, is meaning reversal, not SECRETs). Another example of a technical / architectural feat done for its own sake, with no concern for whether the concept underneath it all really makes any sense. I'm genuinely astonished at how weak a revealer / spelled-out thingie SECRET is. In fact, there was never much of a SECRET at all, since the Down crosses give you those squares. There is no punch in the revealer, and there's especially no punch in the *repeated* SECRET in the circled squares. I mean, you must have seen what was going on with the theme before you got down there, so SECRET, at that point, would be a. I saw that the circled letters spelled out SECRET, and I thought, "well, that's interesting, but it has Nothing to do with the actual gimmick, weird." And *then* I saw that there was a revealer, which just seemed goofy and unnecessary. I finished this puzzle never even noticing that there *was* a revealer. It's overgeneral and ridiculous and honestly completely useless. so if you're going to have a revealer, it should be something that conveys that. The main idea is that the circled squares reverse (*reverse*) the meaning of the Across term, turning it into its *opposite*. The main idea of the puzzle isn't SECRET. I'm just stunned by the irrelevance of SECRET. SECRET has nothing to do with "opposite," so.
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