Featured clue | 6-down: President for whom Liberia’s capital is named
Factoid | 21-across: The gallery at La Scala in Milan is typically crowded with the most critical opera aficionados, known as the loggionisti, who can be ecstatic or merciless towards singers’ perceived successes or failures. For their failures, artists receive a “baptism of fire” from these aficionados, and fiascos are long remembered.