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And with a cutesy '?' clue? You're really trying to make dognapping cute?. OMNI OLD MOOS ABUT UTERO are all tolerable if there's gonna be some kind of long-answer payoff, and while LOIN CLOTH was promising (-ish), INNUMERATE is such a dull technical term that I couldn't even retrieve it from my brain storage house, and DOGNAPPER, yeesh, way to start things off on a depressing, miserable note ( 16A: Spot remover?).

But back to the beginning-this one had real trouble getting off the ground. I'm never that impressed by Scrabbly letters in a grid, but in this case those letters just happened to be in the most interesting fill. Started and ended in pretty bad places, but it did have a kind of high point toward the middle, when all the 'Z's and 'Q's got involved (OK just the one 'Q,' but one 'Q' goes a long way). This one was a bell curve experience, or something close to it.

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