Twenty years ago I stopped putting the butter dish in the fridge, and it’s a game-changer. INDIAN FOOD, STICKY RICE, RACK OF LAMB, BUTTER DISH, RITZ crackers, AHI – hellloooo bea and wen. I also had “_ _ stare”/“set” before STEELY GAZE/MEG. And there I was feeling at once bad and pretty surprised that David would have “sium” in a grid. But my faux-hold, “telly” and then “telie” for that flat tube… and “sium” for TRON really mucked things up for me. Ok, so yeah, yeah, I bit on the “tgi” deal, too. Some show-offy gamer and math stuff, and then etc. With the exception of ONESALL, this grid actually looks pretty good but it was a drag to solve. It's one thing to be able to put together a nice grid, and another thing completely to *write* the puzzle well. has to be up there with the most ill-conceived clues ever. I knew FERGIE so I had only the "G" I sort of knew that LCD had to be followed by "T," and so TGI couldn't be right, but. I needed every cross, but WAIVE and ENABLES were not coming to me due to clue shortness/vagueness, and SGT was even worse because of the TGI trap ( 20A: Abbr. My brain keeps parsing it ONE SALL and pronouncing it to rhyme with "gunsel." Not only is it terrible, it was at the heart of the section that was most difficult to solve. ONE'S answers are Always bad, but this one feels like King Bad. Please, constructors, delete it from your word list now. The one answer that really undid all the good will that other answers had built up was ONESALL.
three is a crowd and the Colosseum is in Rome and the Italian word for "three" is TRE). The "?" clues were all duds except 51A: Colosseum crowd? ( TRE) (i.e. Lots of vague one- or two-word clues, which added toughness but not zazz or sass. Not sure how a grid with so many decent entries ended up being so boring, but here we are.
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