…got taken to the UPS store this morning. (The neighborhood FedEx window seems to have gone the way of Nineveh and Tyre, at any rate around here.) Post-partum depression now settling in. Can’t **do** anything. Well, I unclogged a waste pipe… am trying the “Literary Review” crossword… 7ac:

“Almost nobody followed by PM? (4)” NOON, of course. But what the heck is

23ac: “Succulent area presented as gift (5)”?