Words: 70
Average Length: 5.54
Difficulty: Quartzish on the Mohs scale?

I hope you all had a wonderful time last week with friends and family. The seed for this grid was 14 Across, where my brother and I will be going in February! (Oh, the difficulty rating thing: numbers are falsely precise, I think. Henceforth I will come up with other ways of estimating the sweat of your collective brows.) Please enjoy, pass along a link to the puzzle or my site, and be well!