I got as far as OMAR KHAYYAM and gave up. When I was done I noted that LIRA sits nicely stretch across both words in the phrase BROCCOLI RABE, and so I fantasized about a bygone currency theme. I was going so fast that I had to do a few rewrites: had NEEDS for SEEKS ( 53D: Is in the market for) and IMPULSE for the much better IMPETUS ( 43D: Driving force).
41A: Least acceptable amount ( BARE minimum).32A: "Young Indian brave" in a 1960 Johnny Preston #1 hit ("Running BEAR").20A: Bitter-tasting vegetable (broccoli RABE) - we eat this quite a lot.But it was over quickly, so no real harm done. All in all, though: BOREDOM ( 41D: Yawn inducer). So RIGATONI gave me a brief moment of amusement, which is something.
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I have a certain respect for RIGATONI ( 39D: Tubular pasta), if only because when I got to that clue, I could see the pasta in question but couldn't remember how to spell it and ended up initially with RIGOTINI. I would have liked STABLER if had been clued via the 1970s Raiders quarterback Kenny STABLER. Here's what I liked: PENCHANT ( 4D: Strong liking) and SAROYAN ( 5D: "The Human Comedy" novelist). not a lot to love here, except maybe "RUNNING BEAR," which at least had the virtue of being completely new to me. Low theme density, anagrams neither all at beginning nor all at end of their respective phrases. Simple anagrams are all that are holding this puzzle together.
Supremely easy and, as NYT themed puzzles go, not terribly imaginative. THEME: BRAE anagrams - four theme answers, all of which either begin or end with an anagram of BRAEĪ hillside a slope.
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