I did not expect that literally every themer would have the "ON" either taken from or added to its tail end, but that's what ended up happening, making it very easy to just put "ON"s into all the upper themers while also imagining them missing from the lower ones. so this lower themer would be lacking the "ON" (where the upper themer had gained it). When I saw the "ON" and recalled that the title of the puzzle was "Movin' On Up," I immediately went down to the longish answer just below the "ON" and, noticing it too was a "?" clue, figured the "ON" had been moved "up".
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Somehow the first themer that I actually got in full was " TIS THE SEAS!" I had picked up the "ON" at the end of FRUIT BATON, but did not yet know that was the answer. That is, STUD FARMS ( 23A: Where some stable relationships form?) really looked like it was a theme answer, somehow, so. The other disorienting thing was that not only did the long Down themers have "?" clues, but the very first long Across had a "?" clue as well, meaning that all three of the first long answers I encountered had "?" clues, so I had no idea what the theme was doing or which way it was going.
Something about the verticality of this theme was mildly disorienting. Cale has also acquired a reputation as an adventurous record producer, working on the debut albums of several innovative artists, including the Stooges and Patti Smith. Since leaving the band in 1968, Cale has released 16 solo studio albums, including the widely acclaimed Paris 1919 (1973) and Music for a New Society (1982). He studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before relocating in 1963 to New York City's downtown music scene, where he performed as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music and formed the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles across rock, drone, classical, avant-garde and electronic music. John Davies Cale OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Word of the Day: John CALE ( 20A: Rocker John whose surname sounds like a leafy vegetable). WELCOME WAG- (79D: What a dog greets its returning family with?) / MAIN DRAG ON (16D: Smaug, in "The Hobbit"?).HEART SURGE- (78D: Result of love at first sight?) / TACO BAR ON (13D: Mexican street food mogul?).
BOXING LESS- (76D: What Amazon retirees enjoy most?) / TRASH CAN ON (9D: Give a scathing review of a major camera brand?).STORE COUP- (83D: Retail takeover scheme?) / WARM-UP TO ON (6D: Animated short before a Pixar movie?).'TIS THE SEAS- (74D: Response to "Why art thou queasy?") / FRUIT BAT ON (3D: Banana wielded by a maestro in a pinch?).THEME: "Movin' On Up" - "ON" at the end of one familiar phrase is "moved" "up" and attached to the end of another familiar phrase directly above it-the "ON"-ing and de-"ON"-ing create wacky phrases, which are clued wackily (i.e.
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