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Portmanteau unit of computing information / FRI 7-8-22 / Dog that's a cross of two French-named breeds / Insect with a delicate nest / River for which a European capital is named / Pocket-size medical tools / pre-marriage name of 1940s-50s first lady / Point oceanic spot farthest from land / Lyre-playing great-granddaughter of 8-Down / Something a provocateur opposes

Constructor: Kyle Dolan

Relative difficulty: Medium-Challenging 

THEME: none 

Word of the Day: BITON (50D: Dog that's a cross of two French-named breeds) —

The Biton is a hybrid designer dog created in the United States. Bred as a family companion from crossing a Bichon Frise with a Coton de Tulear, the Biton retains the small size and adorable fluffy or long and curly coat of its parents. (wagwalking.com)

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Found this one pretty dull and dreary. It's built like a Saturday puzzle, with four thick, distinct, relatively isolated corners that you have to work your way through methodically, and that you can very very easily get stuck in if anything goes wrong. In short—not great flow. Further, when. you decided to basically make it a four-corner puzzle, you don't get interesting answers so much as acceptable answers. You're not gonna object to most of the longer fill, but you aren't going to be surprised or delighted by it much either. I don't understand what answers in this puzzle were supposed to be seed entries, i.e. the fill you really think is new and fresh and fun and interesting. You get a bunch of 9s, but since they're stacked, the best you can hope for is "clean," not "eye-popping." It's very tough to make stacked longer answers come out clean, so unless you seed one of those corners with a real winner and build on top of it, what you're most likely to get, best case scenario, is mostly what you get here—the corners hold up, and that's it. You get a "Q" here and and "X" there, but also a bunch of just-OK stuff like ART EDITOR and REDTIDES and IRON RULE and OUTRACED. Nothing wrong with those, just ... nothing memorable, either. PAPER WASP, which is freed from the limitations that come with long-answer stacking, is easily the most interesting thing in the grid, but even that is interesting only in the sense of being unusual (I didn't know such a thing existed) (32D: Insect with a delicate nest). It's a curiosity, not a surprising turn of phrase or a familiar expression or a famous name you've never seen in a grid or some as-yet ungridded modern phenomenon. PAPER WASP got a "huh, cool name" out of me ... which is good, but it's the most that any of the answers in this puzzle got out of me—at least in terms of positive mental commentary. This felt like a solid, workmanlike, 20th-century Saturday puzzle. Very competent, not a ton of fun.

I really don't get deciding that your most "original" bit of fill is going to be short fill, and today I am particularly looking at QUBIT (7D: Portmanteau unit of computing information). No idea what that is. Seems like a little smug nod to techy folks. I'm guessing it's pronounced like "cubit," and that it's a "portmanteau" of, uh, Q*BERT and OBIT. Oh, dang, it's actually "quantum" + "bit"—way less interesting. Anyway, let's just say that this answer has made its one appearance for this decade. See you in the '30s, QUBIT! Another thing I don't get is trying to disguise your weak fill (BITON) under the name of a "designer dog" (the very phrase makes me queasy) (50D: Dog that's a cross of two French-named breeds). It would be one thing if the two breeds involved in the name (portmanteau! again!) were well known, but I was sitting there going, "OK, it's a bichon frise and ... and ... huh ... I got nothing ... oh, crap, is DRUB right? Is it DRUM / MITON!?!? A Maltese and a ... python? What in the hell?" If you were familiar with the dog breed Coton de Tulear (the -TON part of this dog-engineering experiment), then congratulations. I just had to trust DRUB (49A: Defeat soundly) and pray that BITON was ... something. Not a great position to put the solver in. (And hey, if I'm the only solver that's out of the BITON fandom loop, then I take it all back and apologize for my ignorance)

Other bits:

• AREA MAP (40A: Part of a typical business search result on Google) — ugh. This answer pretty much embodies how scintillating I found this grid (not at all). I had SITEMAP and one point. So dreary to have the answer you need to get into one of the corners be this bland / vague. Thank god for GODSPEED down there (that answer looks positively electric compared to most of the rest of the grid)
• TOGAED (28D: Like ancient Roman senators) — one of those forced-adjectival answers that you just have to accept. I mean, am I currently SHIRTED (well, am I?) (I am). But I'm happy to allow a few of these Crossword Specials in the service of a wonderful grid. Just wish this grid had been more wonderful.
• EVA / DUARTE (38A: With 45-Down, pre-marriage name of a 1940s-'50s first lady) — first, congrats on using "pre-marriage" instead of the gendered, creepily virginity-focused "maiden"; second, wow, learning a lot about Bess Truman* today.
• MIR (34A: "Es tut ___ leid" ("I'm sorry," in German)) — unless it refers to a space station, your MIR clue is gonna be lost on me.
• MAGIC ACT (34D: Tricky thing to pull off?) — had the "G," but that was less help than you'd imagine. I first tried EGG-something (thinking that it was "tricky" in the "trick-or-treat" sense, and maybe kids were egging someone's house), and then I tried GAG-something (thinking of, I don't know, a joke, I guess, although those aren't technically "tricky," are they?)
• DOTE / TOTE — I just notice that these answers are symmetrical and they rhyme and for some reason I think this is cute. Get yourself a DOTE TOTE! Filled with all the books and candies and other items your beloved enjoys! This is the note I choose to end on. Good day.

Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld 

*jk I know it's Eva Peron please no mail

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