L.A.Times Crossword Corner

Jul 27, 2024

Saturday, July 27, 2024, Lance Enfinger, Bob Weisz

Themeless Saturday by Lance Enfinger and Bob Weisz

I had an enjoyable Lance and Bob co-construction a month ago and I had a fun solve again despite obscure names.

The top four lines filled very quickly especially the 10-letter cells. I had a pleasant struggle in the 3 o'clock position where SPED was wrong for race and I had to suss SALT from the clue of "cure". 😀

Lance is a pharmacist who moved to Mint Hill, NC, so his family could be closer to nature, hiking, and adventure. He helps his amazing wife homeschool his three kids.

Bob is a “creative, upbeat, meticulous video editor & animator with decades of experience!” He lives in Los Angeles, is a 2007 graduate of Wesleyan University and has been constructing crosswords since 2003.

Across:

1. Tool for someone with attachment issues: HOT GLUE GUN - It feels good to semi-confidently fill in 1 Across

11. Pros who work according to schedule😀?: CPAS.

15. "I haven't even gotten to the good part": THERE'S MORE.

16. Spot to 14-Down: RINK and 14. Skim the surface?: SKATE 😀

17. Part of a full count: THREE BALLS.

18. Pond plant: ALGA.

19. Long: PINE 😀 My good friend is from Long Pine, NE

20. Message with a slammed door: AND STAY OUT 😖

22. Jack of "Twin Peaks": NANCE.

24. Fourth-highest mountain on Earth: LHOTSE.

25. Cold one: BREWSKI 😀

28. Person in labor: PEON.

29. "Queen of the Blues" Washington: DINAH - 40 seconds of rare footage of this wonderful performer

30. Foil a foil: PARRY 😀 A successful thrust and an unsuccessful PARRY

32. COINTELPRO org.: FBI - COunter INTELigence PROgram

35. Exact location, slangily: ADDY.

36. Yankee great who wore No. 9: MARIS - #9 Roger Maris hits his famous #61 home run in 1961 and is greeted at home plate by #7 Mickey Mantle

37. Cure component: SALT 😀 - Gotta love this!

38. "Definitely": YES.

39. Ashtray array: BUTTS - Yuk!

40. Change for a 20: FIVES.

41. Sassiness, informally: TUDE.

42. Infamous fly eater?: OLD LADY - I remember singing this song

44. "Stand strong": BE FIRM.

47. Weasel: SNEAK - This man was a SNEAK at Los Alamos, NM during while working on The Manhattan Project. He shared atomic bomb secrets with the Soviet Union.

48. Serious violation: ILLEGAL ACT.

50. Title of respect: MAAM.

54. Useless, batterywise: DEAD - Been there, done that

55. Lot lot: SALES FORCE 😀

57. Like challah: EGGY.

58. Solved crosswords in a waiting room, say: KILLED TIME.

59. CNBC topic: NYSE.

60. Publisher's guideline: STYLE SHEET - Sample

Down:

1. Intro to web programming: HTTP.

2. Surprised greeting: OH HI.

3. Arctic __: bird that flies between poles: TERN.

4. New York's High Line or Boston's Emerald Necklace: GREEN WAY.

5. Film producer Daniels: LEE.

6. Wells Fargo rival: US BANK.

7. Free: EMANCIPATE - These child actors EMANCIPATED themselves from their parents as teenagers

McCauley Drew Ariel
Calkin Barrymore Winter

8. Half of a "Do You Love Me?" duo: GOLDE - GOLDE and Tevye's famous duet from Fiddler On The Roof.

9. Many search results: URLS - Here is the URL for last month's collaboration of these two gentlemen:

https://crosswordcorner.blogspot.com/2024/06/saturday-june-1-2024-lance-enfinger-bob.html#google_vignette

10. Big and little spoon, say: NESTLERS.

11. Drawer in a box: CRAYON 😀

12. Spirit guide?: PILOT 😀 Here a Spirit Airline PILOT greets a passenger

13. Cattle breed: ANGUS - Here are some in a feed LOT in Wisner, NE

21. Bridge call: AHOY - Is that what the captain is saying?

23. Incinerator residue: ASH.

25. NYE, for Psy: BDAY - The Korean Rapper was born on New Year's Eve 1977

26. Badger: RIDE.

27. Stops: ENDS.

28. Sentence structure: PRISON CELL 😀 - A wax figure of Al Capone in his actual PRISON CELL on Alcatraz.

31. "The only way to run away without leaving home," per Twyla Tharp: ART.

32. __ bean: FAVA - _ _ _ A was not LIMA, uh, eventually

33. Ran: BLED - _ _ E D was not SPED, uh, eventually

34. Wee: ITSY.

36. Dirty looks from a spa attendant: MUD MASKS 😀

37. Creature domesticated in China more than 5,000 years ago: SILK MOTH.

39. Small town: BURG.

40. Org. concerned with recalls: FDA - The Food and Drug Administration issued a Class 1 (most serious) recall of my CPAP machine two years ago and I got a replacement.

41. It's bound to change colors: TIE DYE.

43. Reveal: LET SEE.

44. Leader from Scranton: BIDEN.

45. Parting words: ELEGY - I know I read this in H.S. but I hope there won't be a quiz.