Decent grid! STDs was a good herring.

Indeed it was!

I always appreciate the mix of types of groups, and high- and low-brow subjects, and that was achieved in the Mandela and cartoon bars groups, but I don't want to solve groups about STDs. It seems like some kind of obsession since there are 2 groups using them. It's kind of a saddening commentary on the general quality of grids here that STDs would be considered an appropriate answer in the STDs group.