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
23. "May I?": PLEASE.
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.
35. One goal of the Marine Mammal Protection Act: DOLPHIN SAFE TUNA - This Chicken Of The Sea TUNA is non-GMO and DOLPHIN SAFE as efforts were made to have the nets cause less distress to dolphins.
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.
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.
20. Carrier letters: USS.
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)_/¯
This one is between
Chef
and his wife Janice over the price of turkeys ...
Today veteran constructor Alan Levin dishes up four cooking
contests with in the language clues that bake into 4 punny game shows by changing just a single ingredient ...
17A. Contestants must perfect a ras el hanout today on ...:
THE SPICE IS RIGHT.
The Price is Right. And to spice things up a bit Alan gives us today's Arabic
lesson:
رأس الØانوت = ras el hanout, a Middle Eastern spice blend. When I attempted to save the logo that follows I got a prompt that it existed
already. Then I recalled that the watchword for
The Price is Right -- "COME ON DOWN" was used as the reveal in
Trent Evan's April 6, 2023
puzzle.
25A. Contestants flatten a confit de canard today on ...:
PRESS YOUR DUCK.
Press Your Luck.
If you should happen to have a duck handy, here's a recipe for
Confit de Canard (confit is French for candied). As it turns out pressedduck is actually a different dish, an Asian
specialty. Here's the Bald chef's recipe for
Chinese Pressed Duck.
424. Contestants work in teams to create a Michelin star-worthy dinner today on
...: LETS MAKE A MEAL.
Let's Make a Deal
is still going strong The fill for this actually makes some sense.
56A. Contestants race to prepare baby's first bottle on ...:
THE NEWLY FED GAME.
The Newly Wed Game was an American television game show that put newly married couples against each
other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses
know or do not know each other (e.g. when the crying baby wakes up at 2 AM, who
handles the bottle?).
10. Damsonlike fruit: SLOE. SLOE (Prunus spinosa)
is a species of flowering plant in the rose family native to Europe,
western Asia, and regionally in northwest Africa. The fruits are used
to make sloe gin in Britain and patxaran in Basque Country. The wood is used to make walking sticks, including the Irish shillelagh.
Sloe berries a.k.a. "Blackthorn"
14. Commands a crew, informally: COXES. A COXSWAIN is in charge of a crew, especially of rowing teams.
20. Appointed: ORDAINED. In most Christian churches people are ordained
to one of three positions: bishops, priests, and
deacons. In the Catholic church the first two require
celibacy. Deacons may be either permanent or
transitional. Permanent deacons may marry, whereas a transitional
deacon is temporary position for a seminarian during the last year of their
formation. The following year they are ordained to the
priesthood. Ordinations are performed with the
Sacrament of Holy Orders. One of the many actions that take place during this rite is the
laying on of hands ...
The Laying on of Hands
21. Come next: ENSUE. Clue 21A will ENSUE .
22. Patient care pros: RNS. Registered nurses are on the front
lines of medical care. This is what it takes to become one.
23. Brit's pal: MATE.
25. [Theme clue]
31. No longer listening, say: BORED.
33. Type of 32-Down: ALTO. Also called the English Horn. Here is a solo featuring this instrument from the second movement of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "New World", played by Vivian Kong ... 34. Ground-breaking tool: HOE.
35. Bibliography space saver: IBID. Today's Latin lesson: ibidem; "in the same place" -- used to indicate that a reference is from the same source as a previous reference.
36. Jet off for: FLY TO. Don't know where I'm going and when I'll get back again ... 38. River's edge: BANK.
47. Ocasek of the Cars: RIC. The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes (keyboards), and David Robinson (drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader. Here's Just what I needed ...
48. "Being the Ricardos" role for Bardem: ARNAZ. Being the Ricardos
is a 2021 American biographical drama film written and directed by
Aaron Sorkin, about the relationship between I Love Lucy stars Lucille
Ball and Desi Arnaz. Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem star as Ball and
Arnaz. Kidman received an Oscar for Best Actress that year. Hand up if you've seen it?
51. Locals at the 2016 Summer Olympics: CARIOCAS. A Saturday
level clue that you could only hope to get with perps. I didn't. The
term is a demonym used to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The original meaning of the term is controversial.
56. [Theme clue]
59. Yacht wood: TEAK.
60. Sammy with 609 homers: SOSA.
61. Bert's bestie: ERNIE. Bert and Ernie go fishing ... 62. __ a one: NARY.
63. Power unit: WATT.
64. Title pages?: DEEDS.
Down:
1. Pod prefix: OCTO. More Latin (or Ancient Greek: "ὀκτώ • (oktṓ)"): EIGHT.
One of the many definitions for the clue "pod" is "foot", so that in
this case it refers to that remarkable, highly intelligent creature, the
octopus, a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. 2. Physicist played by Branagh in "Oppenheimer":
BOHR. Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh's
casting in this role was criticized by some Danes, as Niels BOHR was
Danish -- but
director Christopher Nolan defended it on personal grounds.
4. Flat-topped hill: MESA. Today's Spanish lesson: "mesa" = table. A mesa is a flat-topped mountain or hill.
It is a wide, flat, elevated landform with steep sides. Spanish
explorers of the American southwest, where many mesas are found, used
the word because the tops of mesas look like the tops of tables. Not to
be confused with buttes and plateaus ...
Plateau, butte, and Mesa
5. Aimed high: ASPIRED.
6. Playground time: RECESS.
7. Like some tea: ICED.
8. Greek letter that sounds like "fie": PHI. Among the many uses for this letter, it represents the
wave function
in quantum mechanics which was developed by
Erwin Schrödinger,
a colleague of Niels Bohr (see 2D).
13. Pal follower: ETTE. This can be either a flat surface that
an artist uses to mix paints, or the range of colors in a painting, e.g.
Some believe that Vincent van Gogh was the greatest artist who ever
lived, and I definitely believe that Vincent and the Doctor was the
greatest episode of the time traveler series Dr. Who that was ever
produced (you can stream the whole episode on Amazon
Prime for a
nominal amount) ...
18. Stagecoach stopovers: INNS.
19. Evocative of the past: RETRO.
23. Lose a layer: MOLT. As they get bigger, 38Ds do
this
24. Self-: AUTO.
25. Museum gift shop purchase: PRINT. Like this one ...
Irises Vincent van Gogh May 1889
26. Flushed: RED.
27. "I'm the best!": YAY ME. The crossword antonym to
I TRY.
28. Relocation rental: UHAUL.
U-Haul Holding Company
is an American moving truck, trailer, and self-storage rental company, based
in Phoenix, Arizona, that has been in operation since 1945. The company was
founded by Leonard Shoen and Anna Mary Carty in Ridgefield, Washington, who
began it in a garage owned by Carty's family, and expanded it through
franchising with gas stations.
29. Scams: CONS.
30. Palmer of "Nope": KEKE. NOPE (stylized in all caps) is a 2022 American neo-Western science fiction horror film written, directed, and produced by Jordan Peele. It stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse-wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object in Agua Dulce, California. Hand up if you've ever been there? Two hands up if you saw any UFOs? 😀
31. Tab: BILL. For some reason people always expect me to pick this
up. 😀
32. Bassoon cousin: OBOE. Here is Valerie Xu playing an excerpt from the OBOE solo in Richard Strauss's tone poem Don Juan ...
36. Dessert made in a ramekin: FLAN. Here's a recipe for an
easy to make
Spanish Flan.
37. Gospel that includes the parable of the Prodigal Son: LUKE.
Two sons figure in this parable:
the prodigal son and the faithful son. When we visited Lourdes in 1999 there were giant posters of this
famous painting by Rembrandt all around the grotto, inviting people back to
the Church. I accepted the invitation.
Return of the Prodigal Son The faithful son can be seen in the background, just above
the father's left shoulder. He is not happy about the
prodigal son's return.
38. Pet snake, perhaps: BOA. Eventually they get very big ...
Pet boa
40. Outstrip expectations: AMAZE.
41. Returned a verdict: DECIDED.
43. Like a penthouse: SWANKY.
44. Palestinian leader who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize:
ARAFAT. The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 was awarded jointly to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East". Here's the Nobel Prize Committee press release.
Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli extremist the following year.
57. OH-to-OK heading: WSW. Oklahoma is West South West of Ohio.
14 hr 27 min (972.5 mi) via I-70 W and I-44 W
58. Mauna __: LOA. Not KEA. You have to wait for perps on this. MAUNA LOA
is Earth's largest active volcano by both mass and volume. Its last
eruption was in 2022, lasting from November 27 to December 13. Here's
some news footage of the event ...
Cheers, Bill
And as always, thanks to Teri for proof reading and for her constructive criticism.
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