My mornings have a routine: get up, make food for breakfasts and lunches, and when everyone else is set, sit down with my bowl of oatmeal and press through the crosswords in the morning cage liner while listening to Morning Edition.

So there I was, getting a recap on the first impeachment hearing from yesterday, making my way through the clues, enjoying the fact that some of these references will stymie the young ones (for example,
34 across: Author/Aviator _____ Morrow Lindbergh,(1) or perhaps
17 Across: “Robinson Crusoe” penner(2)), as many of the clues lately have been ripped from the headlines…of 1945 editions of Variety or The Hollywood Reporter.
I mean, 32 Down: Chaplin named for her grandmother.(3) Really?
And then, there it was. Something a très actuel, yet fully classical.
56 Across. Three letters.

(1) Anne
(2) Defoe
(3) Oona
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