NYT Friday Xword - a cinch!

A cinch, strangely enough! So, be the first on your block to solve it.

Too easy for you, Twicks.

I didn’t get around to it until this morning, on the subway.

From your post I was expecting it to be a little easier than it turned out to be; I started it at the Grand Army Plaza IRT stop in Brooklyn and finished at Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall in lower Manhattan.

Have they been dumbing them down over the years, or am I getting smarter?

Don’t think so. This one was a fluke, I’d say.