Saturday 35:14 (3 Google)

No records here. Pablo Casals? Ina Claire? Yikes. (The third Google was Dane Cook who was clued via an album I know nothing of.) Some things you learn by doing enough puzzles, such as bygone opera diva Maria CALLAS, "Family Ties" mom ELYSE, song "Goodnight, IRENE," Supreme Court justice ELENA Kagan, both names of ALAN ALDA. A mine opening? ADIT. Indigo dye source? ANIL. If you want to go real deep into the archives, you'll learn AMAH (Asian nursemaid) and ESNE (Anglo-Saxon slave), although Will Shortz hates that kind of crosswordese (if it ever really can't be avoided (and the rest of the puzzle had better be worth it), ESNE is often derisively clued as "slave to crosswords"). Unfortunately, while something as useful as INA is the sort of name you might expect to pick up from experience, I've never seen it clued as a name. It's always "___ flash!" or something. It ought to be, if it can, of course. Crosswords need to be careful balancing such things. Sure, a computer will figure out a cellist and a 1939 film actress no problem, but solving other clues take a human touch, too. And you don't always need to know everything. I got all 11 letters in DARLENE LOVE entirely from crosses.