40A: "Pat attention!" ("LISTEN HERE!").Tinseltown sounds old-timey to me, though I don't recall whether the term was used in the period piece L.A. "Enlist in the Air Force," "enlist in the Marines," "enlist in the Navy".they're just variations on the "enlist in the " concept. That's not exactly the sort of phrase that passes muster 100% as a crossword answer, as "enlist in the Army" isn't quite a discrete unit of meaning. 17A: Respond to Uncle Sam's poster request (ENLIST IN THE ARMY).Though in this case, you don't need to anagram anything because the theme clues play it fairly straight. I suppose it helps that I have a knack for anagrams-PuzzleGirl says she finds them vexing. Despite that, I finished this one in a Mondayish amount of time. I've got a bug of some sort, not as bad as the flu (that's a stuffed animal version of the H1N1 virus in the picture) but it's still slowing me down on crosswords. I don't know about you, but I thought this puzzle was way on the easy side. THEME: "Your INLETS Are All Mixed Up"-Four phrases begin with anagrams of INLETS
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