Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers

Question:

Answer:

AMERICAN

Length:

Similar Crossword Questions:

Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense
Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them
"Apt" geographical element needed to complete the answers to 10 of this puzzle's clues
Today's honoree, "camouflaged" in 10 other puzzle answers
Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers
Worries, and word anagrammed in part of four puzzle answers
Number of times this puzzle's theme word appears diagonally in the grid (to complete the puzzle, shade those words plus the Down answers that begin where they meet)
Puzzle title people hidden in eight long answers
Make sense
Shoe additions, and what this puzzle's theme answers contain
A good one follows the starts of the four longest puzzle answers
Workweek start, or an apt title for this puzzle based on an abbreviation found in its five longest answers
Owner of eight other answers in this puzzle
Final (and a word that can precede the first word of this puzzle's longest answers)
Wee hr., and a hint to a feature common to this puzzle's four longest answers
Maxim demonstrated by the partnered answers in this puzzle
Where one might see the sounds embedded in this puzzle's theme answers
Queen whose name contains three apt words in a row, as does each of this puzzle's four longest answers
Item with features that begin this puzzle's four longest answers
Pet targeted by the first words of this puzzle's four longest answers
Word that can precede the last word of the four longest puzzle answers
Theme of today's puzzle
Neutral color running through the four longest puzzle answers
What the six puzzle answers graphically represented in this puzzle have in common
MC Hammer "We got to ___ just to make it today"