Nice! I thought the fill was fine - TINEAS is obscure but gettable. As a vegetarian most of the time (I do eat fish occasionally) I've tried to like SEITAN and TEMPEH but have never found a good recipe.
Thank you for solving and the feedback! I am a much better eater than a cook. My usual first veggie cookbook recommendation is How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Bittman, but for Seitan in particular I think Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero is likely better. I never used to like tempeh, but it's grown on me.
I only recently learned of AMARNA (and I was surprised I hadn't heard of it sooner, it seems pretty important in the archaeological scheme of things). Thanks for solving!
Ooops! Hah. By 3D... I really meant 4D! Although 3Dwas totally new to me. While SPLEEN is obviously a familiar word, that's an unusual way of cluing it- I just don't get that reference.
Thanks! It’s definitely not my first thought either, but I took my cue from it being a really common cluing in NYT puzzles. (It was used a lot in this sense in Everything Is Illuminated.) Maybe I should change it to my original idea of “Red cell recycler”?