Saturday by Stacy Yaruss McCullough & Matthew Stock
Today is the Winter Solstice which means Nebraska will only get 9 hrs 11 minutes and 47 seconds of daylight. Tomorrow we will add four seconds to that total as we head towards spring. This puzzle kept me in the dark most of the way through. What a slog!
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On a personal note, this week marks the beginning of my eighth year of blogging Saturday themeless puzzles for C.C. at her wonderful site.
Across:
1. Bad Bunny genre: LATIN TRAP - I found out it is not LATINO RAP. Here is what it is.
10. Maker of Cleansing Melts soap pads: OLAY.
14. "There's a storm brewing": I CAN FEEL IT - As seen from Nebraska Memorial Stadium last spring
16. Traffic sign: CONE ๐
17. Digs at the beach: SAND CASTLE - I got "Digs" as a noun and eventually the rest came
18. New clothes hangers?: TAGS - Minnie Pearl's iconic TAG
19. Yurchenko double __: vault now called the Biles II: PIKE.
20. Stick in the water: POOL NOODLE - BOAT PADDLE worked for a long time! Is this really a stick? ๐
22. Oaf: CLOD.
24. CrossFit moves: BURPEES.
25. Neither early nor late: ON BEAT ๐ Rhythm!
28. Dark: MORBID.
29. Artistic hot spots: KILNS ๐
30. Products of deductive reasoning?: TAXES ๐
31. Study: DEN - Noun not verb
34. Loads: A LOT.
35. Yarns: TALES.
36. Exclamation of approval: VIVA - _ _ V _ turned out to not be RAVE
37. Bow wood: YEW -
38. Acts like a gobstopper: LASTS - We called them Jaw Breakers in my misspent yute
39. Unspoken: TACIT.
40. News segment: SPORTS.
42. Grapefruit relative: POMELO.
43. "Do I look like I care?": SPARE ME -
45. Word with freeze or fry: DEEP.
46. Precursor to getting one's just desserts?: CAKE BATTER ๐
48. "Well, that used to be true ... ": I WAS.
52. Quarreling: AT IT.
53. Lao Gan Ma condiment: CHILI CRISP - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ Lao Gan Ma (old grandmother in English) was invented in a small Chinese town by Tao Huambo. This has become very popular and made her very wealthy. All you'd want to know. From C.C.: This brand is hugely popular in China. [My brother] Andy puts it in everything. Cantonese food is mild. Not much chilis. But Sichuan food is super spicy.
55. Eerie spray: MIST.
56. One of three in the Girl Scouts logo: SILHOUETTE.
56. One of three in the Girl Scouts logo: SILHOUETTE.
57. Bridesmaid's accessory: POSY - Today I learned a POSY is simply flowers joined together by stems or floral wire to make it easier to carry.
58. Entertainment on a carousel, once: SLIDE SHOW - This fabulous scene from Mad Men is great TV writing and would have made for amazing ad copy.
Down:
1. Condition whose therapy may include hissing like a snake: LISP.
2. __ palm: ACAI - A Swiss Army knife of cwds
3. School house?: TANK ๐
4. Overexposed?: INDECENT.
5. George Halas Trophy org.: NFC - The Philadelphia Eagles were champions of the National Football Conference of the NFL but lost to the AFC champion KC Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
6. Vessel at a teddy bear picnic: TEAPOT ๐
7. Task on a postseason to-do list: RESOD - We chose to merely RESEED and it worked out fine
8. High, in Italian: ALTO - L'affitto รจ molto ALTO. (The rent is very high)
9. Some brimless hats: PILLBOXES - On 11/22/63 Jackie gave this hat to her secretary Mary Gallagher at Parkland Hospital but no one knows what happened to it after that.
10. Deep-ocean mollusks: OCTOPI.
11. Funny bones?: LOADED DICE.
12. Perspective: ANGLE.
13. Party planner's list: YESES.
15. Grants for researchers?: TENURES - Getting that grant can go a long way toward keeping your job
21. Contact juggler's props: ORBS - Contact manipulation is a form of object manipulation that focuses on the movement of objects such as balls in contact with the body.
25. 3 out of 5, say: OKAY.
26. __ Valley sunbird: Middle Eastern species: NILE.
27. Air busses?: BLOWS A KISS ๐
28. Soda shop treats: MALTS.
30. Spoon-fed line: TASTE THIS ๐
32. Profoundly bad: EVIL.
33. Gp. with a compass rose emblem on its flag: NATO.
35. Southwest expanses?: TARMACS ๐
36. Many "What We Do in the Shadows" characters: VAMPIRES.
38. First unsigned artist to record a Billboard No. 1 hit: LOEB.
39. Golf club part: TOE - Not where you want to hit the ball
41. Sort of: PRETTY.
42. Stopping point: PERIOD ๐
43. Rascal: SCAMP.
44. Grillmaster's domain: PATIO.
45. Territory nearly surrounded by Haryana: DELHI - As you can see, DELHI is mostly in the state of Haryana (yellow below) but extends into Uttar Pradesh
49. "__ pleasure!": WITH.
50. Regarding: AS TO.
51. Be effusive: SPEW.
54. Prompt: CUE.
