Off The Rose (with Laura Braunstein)

This isn’t my usual type of theme, but we went with it anyway since Laura is a big fan of this puzzle’s subject and I’m a big fan of finding related entries that have matching lengths (and also somewhat a fan of the puzzle’s subject). The grid ended up with a lot of short entries, which always leads to some iffy fill, but we tried to make up for it by having some fun with the clues. Some of those clues (and a couple of the entries) are on the more adult side, so if you normally solve my puzzles with a small child, first of all, why? But also, maybe do this one on your own.

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