Tired of chocolates and roses, you step into a gallery featuring the work of a local artist—paintings in unfamiliar colors, colors you cannot even define. “I’m just letting her be weird,” the gallery owner tells you.
  1. Ability to identify a Jon Hamm character gets failing grade? (7)
  2. After Introductions to General Relativity, a young Vulcan loses his head (4 4)
  3. Awfully disheartened about, let’s say, an ancient deity (6 4)
  4. Be first: fly back—go before noon!—and start to gut the Spanish defense (8 5)
  5. Contents of Snickers: tar, goo, nougat (8)
  6. Cues Skelton (6 3)
  7. “Destruction of Satan,” by Ken (6 4)
  8. Ebony, for instance, getting nothing for article? (8)
  9. Elitist encroaches on wonk (8)
  10. Err and fall a little; going back in, I acknowledge my error (6 4)
  11. Explosive anger seen outside (4 5)
  12. Family doctor rushed inside to sign (6 4)
  13. Female cow? (6)
  14. Furry animal eats ash in Denmark (4 3)
  15. Gamma-ray plutonium ballpoint pen (4 5)
  16. Garbled telegraph code (13)
  17. Hide currency in artful bauble (6 4)
  18. Lion or tiger cub left (8)
  19. Loud expression of disgust cut short after heartlessly clear edict is unveiled (7 3)
  20. Man who is artistic follows painful piece of work (6 4)
  21. Oddly, delay follows tour with missing ring (6)
  22. Rare female detective gets taken in by hogwash (4 4)
  23. Rotten plum bribes (6 4)
  24. Subtle Nero goes mad (6 4)
  25. “The Patriots’ tight end? Really quite sharp,” says the reverend (4 5)
  26. Tilt can (4 4)
  27. What the fuck? A pair of lieutenants goes in and starts to blindly zigzag through (7 3)