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Nov 8, 2025

Saturday, November 8, 2025, Kelly Morenus, Erik Agard

 Themeless Saturday by Kelly Morenus and Erik Agard

Kelly and Erik have provided an enjoyable challenge that was a challenge where I never felt out of it. Let's see what they had for us. 

 

Across:

1. Advice to someone who's about to blow?: MAKE A WISH 😀

10. Applications: USES.


14. Good-looking?: IDEALISTIC.

16. Patriots quarterback Drake: MAYE - He has led the NE Patriots resurgence this year.


17. It's the thought that counts: MENTAL MATH - I can at least approximate this very quickly. 


18. Card dealer?: AMEX - Pick a card, any card


19. Caribou relative: ELK.

20. Number in brackets: SEED - In an 8-team tournament, the team with the best record will be SEEDED #1 and will play the team with the worst record who is SEEDED #8 in the first round.


21. Like Santa Fe, among U.S. capitals: OLDEST - Santa Fe, NM was founded in 1610 and is the oldest capital city in America.

23. Ran out of juice: DIED.

25. Oil formations: SLICKS - I had spills first

27. Tool in a shed: HOE.


28. Biblical son of Seth: ENOS.

30. Drew: LURED and 38. Draw (into): SUCK.

31. Dendriform Tolkien character: ENT.


32. Choose: OPT.

34. Challenges for students and senators: MIDTERMS.

36. Toast types: GONERS 😀


39. Exercise named for a physiologist: BURPEE.


40. Get even: LEVEL OUT - Airplanes use an artificial horizon indicator


42. Fan's request: PIC.


43. Suffix with origin or liquid: ATE.

44. "__ gusto": "Pleased to meet you": MUCHO.

46. Ceremony: POMP and circumstance 

49. Dwelling for some modern nomads: VAN - RVS did not work

50. __ price: ASKING - Does anyone pay this?


52. Slander, e.g.: TORT.

54. Eurasian weasel: ERMINE.


56. Snitch: NARC - A NARC can NARC on someone.

58. Former capital of Brazil: RIO.


59. Type of PED: ROID - Short for Performance Enhancing Drugs like steroids which can lead to


60. Asset turned liability?: ROGUE AGENT.


63. Bit of critique: NOTE - TV shows and movies routinely get NOTES from producers and others that suggest changes.

64. Structure installed to annoy a neighbor: SPITE FENCE.


65. Ambulance team: Abbr.: EMTS.

66. "Absolutely relatable behavior right there": AS ONE DOES.


Down:

1. Performed silently: MIMED.

2. Most widespread species of penguin: ADELIE.


3. Puzzle invented by Tetsuya Miyamoto: KENKEN How to play


4. Celebrate Eid al-Fitr, e.g.: EAT - Following Ramadan fasting 

5. "Sadly ... ": ALAS.

6. Bits of trickery: WILES.


7. "Please tell me the shower's available": I SMELL.

8. Show place: STADIUM.

9. Word with single or home: HIT.

10. Question from a troll: U MAD.


11. "Twinsies!": SAME HERE.

12. Gander-herding call?: EYES ON ME - Don't be gandering!


13. Volleyball teams, e.g.: SEXTETS - Here a Nebraska VB SEXTET playing in front of 92,000 fans last year. 


15. Overcome, in a way: CHOKED UP.

22. Experience that might include hallucinations: LSD TRIP.

24. Lorna __: DOONE.

26. Home, informally: CRIB.

29. Alma mater of Stacey Abrams: SPELMAN.


33. Formal bottoms: TROUSERS - Yeah, for both genders


35. Park with a reproduction torii gate and stave church: EPCOT - One is in the Japan pavilion and the other is in the Norway pavilion. 

 

36. Comment when things are heating up: GET A ROOM.


37. Protection when things are heating up: OVEN MITT.

40. Cox of "Orange Is the New Black": LAVERNE -  I knew of this character but not the character's name


41. "About that ... ": THING IS.

45. Mindlessly: ON AUTO 😀

47. "One Day at a Time" star: MORENO - The Netflix reboot and the original cast


48. Royals prospect?: PRINCE 😀

51. Light that never stops?: GREEN 😀

53. Bags often given as swag: TOTES.

55. Time to beware: IDES.


57. Feature of some bookstores: CAFE.


61. Celebratory Greek cry: OPA.


62. Goal for some night sch. students: GED.