Unbelievable Thomas Joseph Crossword Challenge For May 11

It's Monday, which means it's time for a speedy solve—and I completely breezed past the theme today. How did you fare? Join me ... I found this to be a pretty tricky big Sunday grid! And I had some confusion around the nature of the theme… How did you fare with ... It's the first of our two weekly themeless crosswords, and this one has a bit of punniness and a bit of trickiness—how did you fare? In which I am truly and inexplicably stumped by 1 across for a long time. This is the