38A: Your heart may go out to it ( ORGAN BANK) - thanks for making me imagine my own untimely death.

Yes, we use artists' names as metonyms for their paintings, and we use ' OIL' as a kind of substantive adjective, I guess, for an ' OIL painting,' I guess, but all the transitive properties in the world can't make this pleasant.

25D: Rembrandt or Vermeer ( OIL) - ugh.

45A: Taboo word ( MUST'NT) - oof, what? So it's a word you use when you are defining something *as* a taboo, and also speak like a quaint 19th-century governess? OK.

Buger King does not sell a single, stand-alone ONION RING, I guarantee it.

3D: Item sold at Burger King but not at most McDonald's (ONION RING) - No.

23D: Pismire (ANT) - I'm sure I've known that this word means ' ANT,' but today I got it confused with 'quagmire' and wrote in BOG.

My daughter just walked in the door, after 7 weeks of working in New Zealand, so I'm gonna wrap this up quickly if you don't mind (also if you do). But again, if we just look at the grid, I think it's good. in ways that I personally clicked with or found interesting or enjoyable. like a Friday as opposed to a Saturday, or b. Would've been great if this had been clued a. Then TIS and THANE, and finally, finally, I surmised EXES and then got TWIX and IWANNASEE, and despite short answers that were completely beyond me (wtf do I know about euchre, ugh ( 50A)) (and ZEKE? wtf is that? ( 58A)) I managed to put that corner together, and then the SW corner, and then I creeped around filling in the rest of the grid. RIC was the only thing I could put in the center. If I'd looked at the clue for RAZORBACK (a gimme) early on, things might've gone much better (I tend to overlook longer clues when I'm starting out, stupid stupid stupid). I feel like a minute or two of my time was just a freefall at the beginning, where I roamed around the grid, dropping in stray answers here in there, but totally unable to put a run together. I'm exaggerating a little, but I haven't struggled to get started this much in a long long time. This grid looks pretty good, but man none of these clues meant anything to me.

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