Those who follow me on Instagram might wonder sometimes if there’s a bit of a theme in the #crypticclueaday answers, because there might be a few that have to do with France one month, and a few that are about ’80s bands the next, etc. The answer is: Not intentionally, but often I come up with cryptic clues on the fly for words in whatever book I’m reading, and so the hopper ends up getting filled with words that are related to each other because they pertain to the topic of a nonfiction book or the setting of a fiction book I’m reading.
This, of course, is a themeless, not a #crypticclueaday post, but its seed too is related to content I’ve been doing a deep dive into outside of puzzles (and unless I finish cluing another grid in the next two weeks, so will the next one!). Have fun!