Themeless Saturday by Adrian Johnson
A funny thing happened on my way to a very quick solve. I sped through the SW, SE and NW but the fill in the NE mocked me. As you can see in the colored grid, there were some real obstacles there. Even a NASA guy like me struggled with SPACE WASTE (not space junk) and I flat did not know SHOJIS, ARBORIO, AGRABAH or suss out the sense of the word WEEPING. I'll struggle to get through the day, live with a couple of bad cells and try to stay out of the left over Halloween candy.
1. Tails the fox's creator: SEGA - Apparently our frequent crossword visitor, SEGA's Sonic The Hedgehog, has a friend.
5. Remains among the stars?: SPACE WASTE - OBVI the picture below is an exaggeration but there's a lot of junk up there. The first object in space was Sputnik in 1957 and it fell back to Earth after 3 months and burned up in the atmosphere.
15. Snake's target: CLOG.
16. Factor in some accidents: HUMAN ERROR.
17. One consulting a manual, perhaps: USER - After this HUMAN makes an ERROR, he then seeks out the manual which, fortunately, is almost always online.
18. Event with pros and cons: OPEN DEBATE.
19. Cactus League city: MESA - We paid $65 per seat to watch the Cubs play the Royals during spring training in MESA, AZ.
20. Puts together: JUXTAPOSES - One of my favorite words.
21. "Duh": OBVI - There seems to be poetic license to take any word and chop off a part and use it as slang these days. Totes adorbs! 🤨
23. Title for Mo Farah: SIR.
24. Impulse-ive path?: SYNAPSE 😀
27. "How cool!": OH NICE.
30. What hikers wear: PATHS 😀 Some of those PATHS that HIKERS wear can be very precarious!
31. Aspirational hashtag: LIFE GOALS.
34. Letter between pi and sigma: RHO - In Greek, Gary becomes Γκάρι
35. Berry quantities: PINTS.
36. Softball stat: RBI.
37. Formal address: YOUR GRACE.
40. Affix: TIE ON - "Affix a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree"
42. Chocolaty cereal brand: OREO O'S.
43. Leila Fadel's venue: NPR NEWS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
45. Brand on a racetrack: STP - Too slick for a sumo wrestler in this 1960's commercial
46. Austrian gent: HERR.
47. "Brake! Brake! Brake!": STOP THE CAR.
53. Not close enough: AFAR.
56. Name for five kings of Hawaii: KAMEHAMEHA.
57. Beyoncé voice role: NALA.
58. Structures at some winter carnivals: ICE CASTLES - Wisconsin's Magical ICE CASTLES
59. __ bag: GIFT - A welcome alternative for those of us who are very bad at gift wrapping.
60. "I'm in no mood": DON'T TEST ME.
61. Ballpark figs.: ERAS - Not EST'S today
Down:
1. Dirty film?: SCUM.
2. Term in conditional programming: ELSE.
3. Plays around?: GOES ON TOUR😀 After 60 years, Mike Love is the only original Beach Boy that still GOES ON TOUR (pink hat below)
4. Fictional city that's a magic carpet ride away from the Cave of Wonders: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AGRABAH.
5. Sliding screens: SHOJIS - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ $800 at Home Depot
6. __ platter: PUPU - It was my first thought and it turned out to be right
7. Centurion co.: AMEX.
8. Tilt: CANT - Lean and Bias didn't work.
9. Dating connections in some publications?: EN DASHES - My full time teaching gigs ran from 1968 - 2015.
10. Overcome with joy, perhaps: WEEPING - My first sense of overcome with joy was BEAMING
11. Rice named for a Piedmont municipality: ARBORIO - Grown in the Piedmont area in the far NW section of Italy.
12. Titles for mujeres casadas: Abbr.: SRAS - Married women in Español
13. __ bag: TOTE.
14. Part of a basic Spanish conjugation: ERES.
13. __ bag: TOTE.
14. Part of a basic Spanish conjugation: ERES.
22. Seconds, for short: VPS - Vice Presidents can be the second person in charge. I went through many thoughts about what "seconds" meant in the clue
24. Moving with ease: SPRY.
25. "Huzzah!": YAHOO.
26. Big name in sports statistics: ELIAS - The ELIAS Sports Bureau is famous for hyper-specific sports nuggets for the media such as
24. Moving with ease: SPRY.
25. "Huzzah!": YAHOO.
26. Big name in sports statistics: ELIAS - The ELIAS Sports Bureau is famous for hyper-specific sports nuggets for the media such as
There have been more than 4 million innings pitched in Major League history and Fernando Tatis is the only player to hit two Grand Slam home runs in the same inning.
27. Habitually: OFTEN.
28. Event intended to address trade deficits?: CAREER FAIR 😀 When you are looking for a new trade.
29. Pipe shape: ELBOW.
32. "Feel Good __": 2005 hit for Gorillaz: INC. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
27. Habitually: OFTEN.
28. Event intended to address trade deficits?: CAREER FAIR 😀 When you are looking for a new trade.
29. Pipe shape: ELBOW.
33. Trespasses: SINS.
35. Initial stage of mitosis: PROPHASE.
35. Initial stage of mitosis: PROPHASE.
38. Abide by: RESPECT.
39. "Capisce?": GOT THAT - "ARBORIO is Italian rice. Capisce?"
40. Uno e due: TRE.
41. Close enough: IN RANGE - The arrival of the B29 Super Fortress ] put the home islands of Japan IN RANGE for bombing
48. Qdoba snack: TACO.
49. Serious sign: OMEN.
50. Defib experts: EMTS - Many buildings now have defibrillator units in the hallways to use until EMT's get there.
52. "I'm still here": AHEM.
54. The "A" of NATO: ALFA - The NATO alphabet where I would be Golf Alfa Romeo Yankee.
55. "Phooey!": RATS.
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