Good Clues For People Who Love Bad Clues

as someone who's been to Natick, MA more times than I can count in my life, I feel obligated to introduce the solvers to a little hometown fare thanks to Ada and Owen for telling me to cool it with the obscure nonsense .puz

Behold! A grid I made fully on paper, with only minimal help from Wordlisted for like 5 things total I swear Thanks to ruiner and Max for test-solving! .puz

Maybe the most evil puzzle I've ever published Happy 21st birthday to Max, who helped with the making of this abomination! Allocate all of your hatred of this puzzle to him please and thanks Also thanks to Troy for having like maybe a little of influence on this puzzle, but not enough to warrant any blame Thanks to Quiara and Gizmo for risking their lives .puz

  I'm like Goldilocks except Papa Bear's bed is too formal and Mama Bear's bed is too small and Baby Bear's bed doesn't allow 3's Thanks to juff and skald for being the usual suspects .puz

you know my motto: if you get away with it and there's still blood on your hands? not my hands! playtested live by twitch dot tv slash ruiner underscore ii dot gov .puz

theme density > grid quality any day of the week also can we get a shoutout to sidsgrids dot com play tested by 18-Across .puz