Monday, July 3, 2023 - You won't be feeling KINDOFBLUE after doing today's crossword

A cheery Monday crossword, thanks to a theme that celebrates the best of us. Most of the clues were familiar / on the easier side, as befitting a Monday, but 51D, Coffeecake with cross-sectional swirls, BABKA, and 17A, Miles Davis classic that's the all-time best-selling jazz album, KINDOFBLUE, might be the exceptions (YMMV, of course). A logistical note: we will be not be publishing a podcast tomorrow, in honor of Independence Day, but we will return --with some sparkling ...