Tuesday, October 27, 2015 David Phillips

Theme: Jumbled - Shifting the letters of the word DAY (within the circles if you have them). All six permutations are used.

17A. Lois Lane portrayer in "Man of Steel" : AMY ADAMS

21A. Earliest recorded Chinese ruling group : XIA DYNASTY

33A. Kevlar-lined vest, e.g. : BODY ARMOR

44A. "Reelin' in the Years" rock group : STEELY DAN

55A. High-definition medium : BLU- RAY DISC

63A. What a nine-to-fiver works ... or, literally, what each set of circled letters represents : DAY SHIFT

Argyle here. No other connection between the answers but a little overlap on two sets. Two big corners. David's second puzzle with us but he has several with NYT. Their loss, our gain today.

Across:

1. "The Affair" network, briefly : SHO. The effects of an affair between a married waitress at a Hamptons diner and a teacher who spends his summer at his in-laws' estate on the island. Network: Showtime

4. Feel the pain : ACHE

8. Connect (with) : LIAISE. Taken from the French. I first heard it used in the military; the liaison officer.

14. "How's that again?" : "HUH?"

15. The season to be jolly : NOEL. Ho, Ho, Ho!

16. Sprain application : ICE BAG

19. Accruing very little interest? : BORING

20. Put one over on : FOOL

23. Ranking card suit : TRUMP. No politics. (It will be tough.)

25. Sunrise direction : EAST. Except on Venus and Uranus.

26. Tavern brew : ALE

28. Pantyhose shade : TAN. Not ecru today.

29. Heavenly balls : ORBS

37. Pet's reward : TREAT

38. Blood typing letters : A-B-O

39. Holy threesome : TRINITY

41. Multi-platinum 44-Across album pronounced like a continent : "AJA"

42. Abrasive : ROUGH

46. Frat party barrels : KEGS

47. Shine, in ads : GLO

48. Opposite of paleo- : NEO

49. Arboretum sight : TREE

51. Big name in cubes : RUBIK. Ern̈o Rubik

61. Melt fish : TUNA

62. Spring tweeters : ROBINS. My first thought was peepers.

65. Get payback : AVENGE

66. "I hear you" : "OKAY"

67. See 32-Down : LEE. See 32D. With 67-Across, co-creator of Spider-Man : STAN. Stan Lee makes another appearance.

68. Corporate consolidation : MERGER

69. Give for a while : LEND

70. Make an effort : TRY

Down:

1. Mining tunnel : SHAFT. "She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft)"

Video(live)[3:08]

2. Funny business : HUMOR

3. "What a joker!" : "OH, YOU!"

4. "Then what happened?" : "AND?"

5. Sweet-talk : COAX

6. Prefix with sphere : HEMI

7. "Frozen" princess : ELSA

8. Tripoli native : LIBYAN

9. Clickable pictures : ICONS

10. Lawn maintenance tool : AERATOR

11. Nile wader : IBIS

12. Director Gus Van __ : SANT. I had a Z at the cross with LIAIsE.

13. Like French toast : EGGY

18. "The American Look" cosmetics brand : ALMAY

22. Luv : DEARIE

24. "The Bell Jar" author Sylvia : PLATH. Wiki (about the book.)

27. Make a boo-boo : ERR

28. Pinto-riding sidekick : TONTO. "Giddy-up, Scout!"

30. Enjoy a book : READ

31. Tijuana's peninsula : BAJA

33. Announce a visitor, dog-style : [BARK!]

34. Bassoon kin : OBOE

35. Magician Henning : DOUG

36. Sent on a wild-goose chase : MISLED

37. Polk's predecessor : TYLER. 10th and 11th Presidents.

40. Rightmost bowling pin : TEN

43. Stripper's bottom line? : G-STRING. [snicker, giggle]

45. Kid : YOUTH

47. Old Faithful, e.g. : GEYSER

50. Cooking stove : RANGE

52. Constructed : BUILT

53. Figure out : INFER

54. "Sons of Anarchy" actress Sagal : KATEY

55. Novelist Stoker : BRAM

56. Romcom subject : LOVE. (romantic comedy)

57. Over, in Germany : ÜBER

58. Celeb with a big fan base : IDOL

59. "Oh, for Pete's __!" : SAKE

60. Color similar to teal : CYAN. from Greek kuanos.

64. Guitarist Barrett : SYD. The original front man and songwriter for Pink Floyd. Web Site.

Argyle

Note from C.C.:

Hey, a shout-out from David to my husband Doug (35D), who celebrates his 68th birthday today. Happy Birthday, Boomer!

C.C. & Boomer, Sept 5, 2009

Friday, March 8, 2013, David Steinberg and David Phillips

(Note from C.C.:

To online solvers, whenever you see a "-" sign in a grid, it means there's no clue/clue number for that entry. Puzzle software does not allow empty clues, hence editors often use "-" as a signal. Your on-line clue numbers will be different from Lemonade's write-up number.

Today's grid should look like this:

THEME: Water falls. Some of the fill does as well.

Each of the six theme answers requires the word WATER presented top to bottom connected with across fill to complete the fill for the clue. As the Friday Master of Ceremonies, I get these visually creative, but outre puzzles where much of the fill is in un-clued space. When we had Ian Livengood's version back in January, he had the words be read backwards, this time you have to picture the entire answer and figure out what spaces to grab to put it all in. The symmetry of effort is wonderful blending the across  and down part of each theme answer, keeping the long fill at 15. This effort is from David Phillips (?) and David Steinberg, one of the wunderkinds of construction, still in high school I think. You can read all about him on his own LINK. let us get right to the puzzle, because like Lucy, I got a lot of 'splaining to do, especially if the online sites numbered wrong again.

1A. Perennial Oscars staple : PRICE W, - No Clue D. : WATER. - No Clue A. : R HOUSE.  PRICE WATERHOUSE.  (15). We all know this accounting firm tabulates the Oscar votes and places the winner's name in a sealed envelope, to be opened on stage. (Also the basis of Johnny Carson's Mayonnaise jar). Anyway, a very tough way to begin, with 1A unfillable without the perps.

6A. Canoeist's challenge : WHITE W. - No Clue D. : WATER. WHITE WATER (10). I can only think of Deliverance and will never go in a river again.

31A. Prevent that sinking feeling? : TREAD W. - No Clue D. : WATER. TREAD WATER (10). A literal and figurative clue.

45A. Best Picture of 1954 : ON THE W - No Clue D. : WATER. - No Clue A. : R FRONT. ON THE WATERFRONT. (15) The wonderful Brando, Rod Steiger movie. 

19 D : WATER. - No Clue A : R VAPOR. WATER VAPOR (10). This clued steamed me.

42 D. River phenomena (or what literally happens six times in this puzzle) : WATER.  - No Clue A. : R FALLS. WATER FALLS (10).

Across:

11. Game with pelotas : JAI ALAI. The hard rubber ball used in the fronton, caught in the cesta.

13. Maria ___, the last House of Habsburg ruler : THERESA. Your history LESSON.

14. They're found in bars : SPIRITS. This is doubly true, as alcohol is known as spirits, and I imagine a lot of ghosts haunt the bars.

15. Most comfortable : HOMIEST. This was difficult for me, but I had already committed to doing down clues first, so...

16. Breed canines? : TEETHE. Really fun clue, I could not think of anything which passed the breakfast test.

18. "Peter Pan" character : SMEE. Classic crosswordese.

19. Erase, as from memory : WIPE. The NEURALIZER.(0:56).

24. Ukr., once : SSR. Ukraine was once one of the the Republics.

25. Honey Bear portrayer in "Mogambo" : AVA. Gardner, reprising the role first done by Jean Harlow in Red Dust. LINK. (4:17) Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, what more do you want.

26. Like some labor : MENIAL. Interestingly from the Latin word for house, which is also the root for maison in French and Mansion in English. It referred to 'house workers' who were also called menials.

28. Emotionally strained : TAUT.

30. Cabinet dept. created under LBJ : HUD. Part of his Great Society legislation the Housing and Urban Development  Department was created to protect home buyers and foster home ownership and urban growth.

34. Intertwines : ENLACES. Like your fingers in the church/steeple.

36. Pygmalion's statue : GALATEA. Not the Eliza Doolittle story but the wonderful Greek MYTH.

37. Course number : PAR. This clue was average, par for the course.

38. Touched : FELT.

39. "A Tale of Love and Darkness" author : AMOS OZ. This BOOK about the early days of Israel.

41. Native Coloradan : UTE.

42. Financial Times rival, briefly : WSJ. Wall Street Journal.

46. Train with dukes? : SPAR. Not from Downton, but put up your dukes and box.

47. "I hate to interrupt, but..." : AHEM. Not to be confused with 7D. Shut (in) : HEM.

49. Strasbourg's region : ALSACE. This city is the capital of a region that is between German and France and has changed hands often.

51. In a defensable manner : TENABLY.Last week tenable, this week the LY.

54. Biological reversion : ATAVISM. The human tail which is quite evident in a fetus is the classic example.

58. Newborn raptors : EAGLETS. Birds were dinosaurs.

59. Progress by directed effort : TELESIS. A very Friday word and concept, from the Greek, LINK.


Down:

1. Retiree's attire? : PJS. Just pajama's retiring to bed, not from work, unless you are Hugh Hefner.

2. Knock : RAP. Knock music has no ring to it.

3. "Revenge of the Sith" episode number : III. The last of the prequels. VII is supposedly in the works.

4. Café reading : CARTE. Our French lesson Lolita, for menu.

5. Peace Nobelist two years after Desmond : ELIE. Wiesel. The entire LIST.

6. Time-traveling Doctor : WHO. Who?

8. Pupil controller : IRIS. I love explaining EYES.

9. Swarms : TEEMS.This puzzle teems with tough clues.

10. Scoreless trio? : ESSES. Classic misdirection, look at the clue, don't define it.

12. Formation meaning "neck" in Greek : ISTHMUS. It connects to large bodies, either land or in the body connecting larger parts, such as the Thyroid Isthmus. Not  a happy word if you lisp.

13. N.Y.C. country club? : THE UN. Country Club, really cute, but when I first read this I had already filled it in and was thinking of my friend Michael Theun form wrestling in High School.

17. Broke ground : HOED. They are forever breaking new grounds.

20. Co-tsar with Peter I : IVAN V. Love the co-star anagram pun. LINK. Fun stuff you can learn here.

21. TV cook Deen : PAULA. She gets enough publicity without me.

22. Prominent instrument in "Paint It, Black" : SITAR. The psychedelic instrument of choice. LISTEN. (3:40).

23. British nobleman : EARL. Robert Crawley.

27. Biblical cover-up : LEAF. In the garden of Eden after the apple.

29. Snack in un bar : TAPA. We have lots of places serving tapas in SoFla. They are not all Spanish THEMED.

30. Leggy wader : HERON. For Splynter WATCH.(1:55)

32. Couldn't get enough of : ATE UP.

33. American rival : DELTA. Airlines, not countries.

35. "It's Impossible" crooner : COMO. He ended up living in Jupiter, Florida, SONG.(3:14)

36. Watches with wonder : GAZES AT.

37. Sci-fi writer Frederick : POHL. Wonderful imagination, he married his wife when he was 65.

40. Legal orders : STAYS. Hard one, as there are so many Orders, though Stays especially of execution are important.

43. Harvest sight : SHEAF

44. Tower-building game : JENGA. Remember WHEN? (1:44)

46. Cut off : SEVER.

48. Suburban symbol : MALL.

50. Pasture newborn : CALF.

52. ___ canto : BEL.  Opera term, HOW TO.(7:32).

53. Mil. ranks : LTS. Lieutenants.

55. Prefix with propyl : ISO.

56. It might be original : SIN. Did you SEE? (1:16).

57. Boulder hrs. : MST. Mountain Standard Time and the time zone where my youngest lives and time for me to wrap this up. So what do you all think of this style of puzzle. Rich does not allow a rebus puzzle, how about ones without conventional structure?

Again thanks to all who enjoyed my Charlotte. i also want to send Marti to the ACPT with our best wishes.


Lemonade out.