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52D. An ergometer is an extravagant name for a paddling machine, so somebody who "Activities on an ergometer" ROWS. 안전놀이터

57D. I have not perused "MEN Explain Things to Me," the "Rebecca Solnit exposition assortment" named in the hint, yet I have heard a lot about it - it's an assortment of articles about the experience of being a lady in a male centric culture, and the title paper is about a peculiarity presently known as condescendingly explaining.

The present Theme
This puzzle highlights four topic sections that share an example, all situated in the long Across openings. The question marks in the pieces of information for the subject sections are obvious signs that some punny pleasantry is going on. The first is COURT DISASTER (20A. "Calamity at a tennis match?"), which takes the action word state COURT DISASTER (and that implies, basically, "play with risk") and reevaluates the word COURT as a thing meaning where tennis is played.

The other three subject sections comparably change action word phrases into quips about sports settings: FIELD QUESTIONS changes importance from "take questions" to "Vulnerabilities at a football match-up" and POOL RESOURCES changes from "arrange assets" to "Provisions at a dip meet." Another topic passage at 36A additionally follows this example.

All the subject expressions are distinctive, in-the-language expressions, and it's amazing that Ms. Rimkus recognized four expressions that all beginning with action words that can likewise be sports settings. I'd very much want to hear what other topic choices Wordplay analysts can concoct. I offer TRACK CHANGES as my own commitment, which I'm certain my editors will appreciate!

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