“Request that’s risky if you’re over 18?” sounds both risky and risqué, but that’s not what the clue is asking of you, so just get your mind out of the gutter. The “18” in this clue refers to the game of blackjack, and the command HIT ME runs the risk of putting the player over 21. Start at the first “T” in 16A, hop up to the “IM” in MINI ME and come back down a line to the E in that theme entry. If you are reading from left to right (Don’t say “Why wouldn’t you be reading from left to right?” That’s a whole other rule to break. ), you have a theme entry that has a small bump, or wrinkle, in it, which spells out the word TIME.

Source: New York Times August 20, 2020 01:52 UTC