Same goes for "LAUGH AT ME" ( 28A: 1965 Sonny Bono hit), which stretches the meaning of "hit" to the breaking point. the term only gets 25K Google hits, period, which is tiny. There appear to be pictures of hand-knitted something-or-others, but. Come on! Google Image Search doesn't even turn up an image of one of these - nothing that makes it clear what species of jacket we're talking about. What in the world is a HUG-ME-TIGHT ( 29D: Short, close-fitting jacket)!? I mean, I'm guessing that it's a short, close-fitting jacket, but Damn. This puzzle was admirably tough, with lots of crafty cluing and colorful answers, but still, there were some answers that bugged the hell out of me. Still, after many minutes, only the Eastern portion of the puzzle was substantially filled in. We had a sign inside our condo that said "MAHALO for taking your shoes off." Only other true gimmes for me were DANTE'S ( 37A: "_ Peak" (1997 Pierce Brosnan film)) and RICHTER ( 8D: Scale developer), though I managed to get SOUTHERN CROSS ( 33A: Constellation seen on the flags of Australia, Samoa and Papua New Guinea) very quickly, with just the last two letters in place. Started with MAHALO ( 15A: Hawaiian "thank you") - if you ever go to Hawaii, you learn this word. Even with some fairly substantial gimmes, it took me a while to really get going, and then at about the 2/3 mark, I got completely stuck, with the NE and the far W being wide open and recalcitrant. I had a horrible time with this puzzle, possibly because I did it first thing in the morning - literally, rolled out of bed, went to my desk, and started the puzzle.
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