Saturday Themeless by Alan Levin
Across
1. Adjustable border: HEM 😀
4. Heavy coat?: FOG. 😀
7. Donor's words: I GAVE.
12. Smithwick's, for one: ALE.
4. Heavy coat?: FOG. 😀
7. Donor's words: I GAVE.
12. Smithwick's, for one: ALE.
15. Puff piece?: CIGAR 😀
16. Join: SIT BESIDE - When Queen Elizabeth II's dad George VI came to D.C. for a state dinner in 1939, this was the seating chart.
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18. Temper: INURE.
19. Rogers Centre team: TORONTO BLUEJAYS - I would love to watch the MLB TORONTO BLUEJAYS play a game while I am sitting atop the CN Tower and then they have retract the roof in the Rogers Centre
21. Georgia city nickname: A-TOWN - An alternate name for the state capital Atlanta, GA.
22. Rodeo circuit?: LASSO
26. Boondocks: STICKS - The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain").
30. Problem that can grow with fame: EGO.
32. Rendezvous: TRYST.
34. Time when shadows are shortest: NOON - I lovingly remember the long shadows of afternoon World Series games in late September.
39. Diamond who went platinum: NEIL - Here is NEIL's first certified platinum album (sales over one million). It did not make platinum but I just about wore out his very first album
40. Ricochet: CAROM.
41. Syncopated piece: RAG - Wasn't he your first thought too?
42. Intel providers: ASSETS - ASSETS (spies) are often sent out to gather intel
45. Take to the limit: MAX OUT.
47. __ restaurant: THEME - One of my favs is the Sci-Fi Drive In at Disney Studios. You are seated in replicas of old cars while old move trailers, cartoons and ads play on the big screen.
49. Try to get a rise out of: TROLL.
52. Major achievement?: BACHELOR'S DEGREE - I've got one of those around here somewhere where I majored in math. 58. Studied on the side: MINORED IN - My minor was physics.
57. Dough in a French bakery: EUROS - I wonder what euphemisms the French use for money.
59. Pong maker: ATARI - Wanna play a free online game?
60. Some clinic procedures: SCANS.
61. Arch Manning's uncle: ELI.
62. Caesar dressing?: TOGAS 😀
63. "Gorillas in the Mist" subject: APE.
64. Managed: RAN.
Down:
1. "__ la vista": HASTA - "See you later" literally means "until the view" or "until the seeing". ¡Hasta luego, cocodrilo! (See you later alligator)
2. "Daniel Deronda" novelist: ELIOT - George ELIOT. The nom de plume for Mary Ann Evans.
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
3. Chicago, for one: METROPOLIS.
4. Hand ball?: FIST 😀
5. Pasta aglio e __: OLIO - Below is spaghetti aglio e OLIO (with garlic and oil)
6. Seventh-inning stretch song, often: GOD BLESS AMERICA - MLB started doing this after 9/11 and now only the Yankees do it.
7. Least friendly: ICIEST.
8. Noir establishment: GIN JOINT - Hey, you thought of this too...
9. Arizona's __ Fria river: AGUA - Even I can translate this but...but if you can't
10. Fluctuate: VARY.
11. Spanish 101 word: ERES - Tù ERES muy comico. (You are very funny.)
13. "30 Rock" page: KENNETH - Getting his tie pulled by star Tina Fey
14. Actress Ward: SELA.
17. Pick up a few spares, perhaps: BOWL - The hardest one.
24. "Midsommar" director Aster: ARI. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
25. Line up: SYNC - I love getting together to watch the Lincoln Saltdogs professional baseball team play for Father's Day, but we have to SYNC the schedules.
27. Writ, e.g.: COURT ORDER.
28. Longboard Island Lager brewer: KONA.
29. Bump in the road: SNAG.
30. Honey Cone lead singer Wright: EDNA ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
31. Says: GOES.
33. Hill of __: home of Ireland's Lia Fáil: TARA All you'd ever want to know
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| Lia Fáil - The Stone of Destiny on The Hill Of Tara |
36. Abundance: PLETHORA.
37. Arctic __: FOX.
38. Theatrical folks: EMOTERS.
43. Something to prove: THESIS.
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| It should be THESIS and not THESES but I liked the cartoon. |
44. Poivre et __: SEL - French words for the two most common condiments
46. Beseech: URGE.
48. Some parents: MOMS.
50. Arabic name that means "night": LEILA ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
51. Bolshevik leader: LENIN.
52. Exhausted: BEAT.
53. "Set it and forget it" mode: AUTO - Not foolproof
54. Rugged feature: CRAG.
55. Show appreciation at a poetry slam, e.g.: SNAP.
56. "That's all, folks!": DONE -
4 comments:
I got it!
And it really didn’t seem that hard!
Even the grid spanners weren’t that tough to get!
FIR, so I’m happy.
Good morning!
I often pass on the Saturday puzzles, but I didn't recognize Alan's name, so I gave it a shot. I liked it, even though "Rodeo circuit" was a little too cutesy-poo. No Wite-Out was required today. Thanx, Alan and Husker.
FIR a Saturday! Me! Saturday! (That means that the smart Cornerites will complain about it being too easy.)
I helped put cushions on the seats of the Rose Bowl in preparation for Super Bowl XXI. While we were there, NEIL Diamond rehearsed the National Anthem over and over - like maybe 15 times. To me, every time it sounded exactly the same. At least he cared.
I lived in Atlanta for a few years. Don't remember ever hearing it called A-TOWN. Certainly not as catchy as Big D, where I hung my hat before moving to A-TOWN.
FLN - Thank you Irish Miss. It certainly was Abejo who was the active Shriner.
Thanks to Alan for the Saturday special that even my dumb mass could finish. My favorite (and final) fill was EURO for "dough in a French bakery." My least favorite was "says" for GOES. "She goes...then he GOES..." grates on my last good nerve.
HGary, you were wondering about French slang for money, or dough. The closest to "dough" is ble (with an accent over the e), which is the French word for wheat. So they use it like our calling money "bread."
When I lived in Paris decades ago, the French were still using "sou," which means a trifling amount ("This isn't worth a sou!"). The sou was their old currency, worth less than a penny.
They also call money "fric," short for fric-frac. And many others, including one that the French have borrowed from English, good old "moolah." Only they spell it moula--pronounced exactly the same.
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