Who Wants Candy? The unbeatable Alan Massengill and Andrea Carla Michaels return for another collaboration with great aspirations. A moment of affection at the Circus Charles Knie in Hanover, Germany, in 2014.Credit...Julian Stratenschulte/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Dec. 27, 2020 MONDAY PUZZLE — The dynamic duo of Andrea Carla Michaels (a.k.a. ACME) and Alan Massengill eases us into the slow and lazy week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, a time when you might toss aside your Zoom meeting blazer to lounge around the home office, catching up on crosswords. Though this puzzle — accessible and smooth, even for a Monday — has more than its share of crosswordese answers, it’s cleverly clued to make the most of them.