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OK, so, if you bend your head to the left and look at this grid sideways, you can almost imagine that it is meant to represent an IOMOTH (Showy insect with dark eyespots on its wings). 

Fun Friday. I LOL'd when I finally sorted out "Acrobat's display" (PDFFILES) to finish this one off. Whew! 

This is a clever one!

The revealer appears, unusually, in a Down answer in the top right corner of the grid. It makes sense for it to be in a Down answer, though, because the theme is so vertical. So what's going on? The answer HANDMEDOWN (Something that's kept in the family ... or a hint to making sense of three pairs of answers in this puzzle) is interpret...

Happy Earth Day, Everyone! We've got a heck of a puzzle to celebrate it with, so let's get right to it.

The classic refrain of REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE is invoked today to create a very clever puzzle. Each of the three pillars of the environmental motto is represented in a different way in the grid. First, the three Across answers ...

The day is off to a FLYINGSTART, with airline companies beginning each theme answer: Spirit, United, Frontier, and Delta. Nice, tidy Tuesday theme. I have no complaints.