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Element suggested phonetically by NOPQ STUV / MON 6-6-22 / Famed Roman censor / Indigenous people for whom a Great Lake is named / Juice brand with hyphenated name / Measuring instrument that may have a needle

Constructor: Michael Schlossberg

Relative difficulty: Easy side of normal

THEME: "HONEY, I'M HOME!" (63A: Cry after navigating the last parts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues?) — last words of themers tell a story of a very specific kind of return home through a sequence of locations that form the path the returnee takes:

Theme answers:

• DELLA STREET (17A: *Secretary of Perry Mason)
• TWELVE STEPS (23A: *Alcoholics Anonymous program)
• STICK THE LANDING (39A: *Finish a gymnastics routine perfectly)
• BOY NEXT DOOR (52A: *Description of a wholesome, clean-cut guy)

Word of the Day: DELLA STREET (17A) —

Della Street is the fictional secretary of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, short stories, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner. [...] In the first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, written in the early days of the Great Depression, Della Street is revealed to have come from a wealthy, or at least well-to-do, family that was wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929. Della was forced to get a job as a secretary. By the time of the TV series in the 1950s and 1960s, this would not have fitted well with the age of the characters as then portrayed. According to The Case of The Caretaker's Cat, she is about 15 years younger than Perry Mason. // Several instances of sexual tension are seen between Mason and Street in the Gardner novels, multiple glances, kisses, and so on, and several proposals of marriage, all of which Della turned down because, at the time, wives of professional men did not work. Thus, she could not have continued as his secretary (and effective partner) and she did not want to give up this aspect of her life. (wikipedia)

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There's something creepily "wholesome" about this puzzle. Like ... I dunno, it wants me to think of a hygienic, sober mid-century nuclear family that watches DELLA STREET on the TV and hopes their daughter will grow up to that nice BOY NEXT DOOR and what not, but my brain really wants to fight this premise, so all I'm imagining is Perry Mason stumbling home drunk to an empty house, calling out "HONEY, I'M HOME" to Della, who is not there and will never be there because Perry has screwed up too many times, so now Della is off somewhere with the BOY NEXT DOOR and Perry's all alone, forever and ever. My version is dark, but I'll still take it over whatever central casting has imagined for us here. Seriously, though, the puzzle has an overall very old vibe, not just in the theme answers and theme concept, but in the quality of the fill as well (STENOS and IDES and VIDI and NENE and APSO and etc. etc.). Also, I don't think BOY NEXT DOOR repurposes the last word enough. That is, the other homecoming locations (STREET, STEPS, LANDING) are strongly reimagined by the theme answer phrases, whereas the BOY NEXT DOOR is just ... there ... next door ... watching you come home ... plotting god knows what, what's wrong with that kid anyway!? Anyway, that DOOR is just a DOOR on the STREET where you live; it hasn't been sufficiently un-DOORed by the theme answer. 

["Amiable handmaiden"!? The disrespect!]

I finished up at O'NEAL and didn't get a "Congrats, you're done!" message from my software, so I checked the cross and corrected that final answer to O'NEIL (53D: Baseball great Buck), but that still didn't get me the all clear, so I scanned the grid for my mistake and it looks like I never fully corrected my very very early and completely inexplicable hiccup on 1D: "Veni, ___, vici":

Caught that one early when I was like "uh, her name is *not* NELLA STREET!?" but apparently forgot to change EDOL to IDOL, blargh. Otherwise, not much happened between start and finish for me. Oh, I wrote in ELENA instead of SONIA (43A: Justice Sotomayor)—got my five-letter Supreme Court first names ending in "A" wires crossed. Thankfully no ALITO today. Had a brief feeling of drawing a blank at PLASMA, since I honestly thought solid & gas & liquid were it (5A: Alternative to solid, liquid or gas). Did they used to teach that to kids in science? Anyway, per wikipedia: "Like a gas, plasma does not have definite shape or volume. Unlike gases, plasmas are electrically conductive, produce magnetic fields and electric currents, and respond strongly to electromagnetic forces" (wikipedia). Weirdly (for someone as scientifically semi-literate as I am), I got ISOMER no problem (67A: Similar chemical compound). Even more weirdly, for someone who does as many puzzles as I do, CIPHER did not come quickly (15A: Coded message). But overall, it's a Monday, there's so much easy stuff floating around the grid that any slight hold-ups were quickly taken care of. 

The only truly remarkable thing happening in the puzzle today is the weird "B" run that the Down clues go on toward the bottom of the grid. Check out the alliteration in 50- through 53-Down: [Baby buggy to Brits / Beauty and the Beast heroine / Baseball great Buck]. I feel like this alliterative indulgence is a sneaky little whim, like someone is trying to see if we'll notice. Well, I noticed, and all I have to say is: respect. Fly your freak flag, you ... Fill Folks. See you tomorrow.

Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld 

P.S. here are my ERLE Stanley Gardner shelves (each shelf two rows deep);

[A.A. FAIR = Gardner pseudonym for his Cool & Lam mysteries, which 
I actually prefer to the Perry Mason ones]

P.P.S. LOL I just got this (57A: Element suggested phonetically by NOPQ STUV ...). It's just a segment of the alphabet with the "R" missing, or "gone," thus ... ARGON :/

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