There's a lot to love in this tough Friday May 2 puzzle by Barry C. Silk (answers.) If you completed it in seven minutes that's the same amount of time it takes to listen to LAYLA, apparently. HERSHEY, Pennsylvania has sticky sweet streets. Speaking of sticky, CHEEZWHIZ makes its NYT debut. And for some reason I hope one of my readers explains, "one with a lot of workers" is apparently PAVER? Maybe I have that one wrong.
Favorite clues include "famous finger-pointer's declaration" for I WANT YOU, "unrevivable" for STONE DEAD, and "contest with many missions" for SPACE RACE. We forget that was fundamentally a contest. Seems hard to believe that it's been 36 years since a human walked on the moon.
