Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - WOAH!

For those of you still recovering from yesterday's jammed-to-the-rafters-with-pop-culture-references grid, the NYTimes proudly presents as an antidote today's puzzle -- with barely a pop culture reference in sight -- thereby keeping the average number of PCRs close to the officially prescribed 3.5 PCRs per grid ... a regulation and a number that we just invented. The theme was cute, involving artificial facial components, and the rest of the clues were equally droll, including such winn...