Thursday, November 14, 2024, Lynn Lempel

 

 A SIMPLE THEME

Today veteran Lynn Lempel returns with a simple letter insertion theme.  Each of her 3 themers is clued with a perfectly reasonable question and the resulting 2 word fill is a pun on the clue, prefixed with the letter 

... which when removed results in a new in the language phrase.  This was a helpful theme and if you found the reveal it made the puzzle easier to solve.  Here are Lynn's themers ...

16A. Reason for copyright suits filed by Atari?: APING PONG.  I recall playing Atari's PONG in college back in the 60's at a local eatery in College Park, MD.   It was one of the very first video games.  I'm sure it was often imitated, but I don't know if Atari actually sued anyone for APING it. It was played on a computer controlled CRT mounted in a table top and looked like this ...

24A. Where squirrels stash treats?: ACORN HOLE.  Where else would they stash them?  OTOH Corn Hole is a game -- here's how it's played ... 

34A. Shenanigans in the physics lab?: ATOM FOOLERY.  The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tell us that these shenanigans are a very dangerous game that the world is playing with itself.  But drop the A and Merriam Websters tells us it's all just playful or foolish behavior.  Let's hope MW is right!

47A. Rueful remark after losing on the Strip?: ALAS VEGAS.  Stop me if I've told you this before ... I don't gamble, but I was on a business trip in VEGAS years ago and decided to play the slots just for the thrill of it.  I cashed in a 5 dollar bill for nickels and played the slots until they were all gone.  After plugging my last nickel into that one armed bandit, I hit the jackpot and got them all back!  The next day I stacked them into neat piles and left them for the maid.  VEGAS has a way of bringing out generosity in people. 😀

Here's Lynn's reveal ...

57A. "Haven't seen that before," and an apt title for this puzzle: IT'S A FIRST.  Need I say more?

Here's the grid ...
 

Here's the rest ...

Across:
1. Hit-the-water sound: PLOP.  Like this ...

5. Falafel bread: PITA.  Here's Dr. Sonali's recipe.

Falafel sandwiches

9. Bio. branch: ECOL.  Ecology (from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) 'house' and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology addresses the full scale of life, from tiny bacteria to processes that span the entire planet. 

Ecologists study many diverse and complex relations
 among species, such as predation and pollination.
The diversity of life is organized into different habits,

from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems.

13. Waiter's place: LINE.  CAFE fit, but didn't perp.

14. Japanese noodle: UDON.  SOBA fit, but didn't perp.  Here is the difference between the two.

15. Wassail spice: CLOVE.  Wassail is a beverage made from hot mulled cider, ale, or wine and spices, drunk traditionally as an integral part of wassailing, an ancient English Yuletide drinking ritual and salutation either involved in door-to-door charity-giving or used to ensure a good harvest the following year.  Here's Lauren's recipe.

Wassail

16. [Theme clue]

18. "The Right Kind of Wrong" singer LeAnn: RIMES.  Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She originally rose to success as a country music artist at the age of 13 and has since crossed over into pop, contemporary Christian, and other musical genres.

19. Prehistoric tools: STONES.  This is a broad area of study and anyone wishing for a deep dive of prehistoric tools around the world might find this Wikipedia article interesting.  Closer to home are the stone tools developed by the Clovis culture, during the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years ago.  These indigenous Americans created spear points, hand axes, and other tools call Clovis points by flaking cryptocrystalline varieties of quart such as flint, chert, jasper, and chalcedony with deer antlers. Clovis points got their name from the high concentration of tools found in Clovis, New Mexico.  The tools were not only very functional, but many were quite beautiful ...

Clovis points explained

20. Pelvic bones: ILIA.  The ilium (pl.: ilia) is the uppermost and largest region of the coxal bone, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds.

22. Dash of flavor?: MRS.  A Dash a day helps keep salt away.

23. "Impression, Sunrise" artist: MONET.  Impression, Sunrise is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown and is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement.

Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet, 1872

24. [Theme clue]

  26. Vague quantity: ANY.

27. Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail: SAL. Blueberries for Sal is a classic children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey in 1948. The story is set in Maine, following the adventures of a young girl named Sal and a bear cub named Little Bear as they both go blueberry picking with their respective mothers before winter. The book was awarded the Caldecott Honor in 1949.

First Edition cover

29. Allen who was the 2017 NFL Comeback Player of the Year: KEENAN.  Keenan Alexander Allen (born April 27, 1992) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears before leaving after his junior year. He was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft.  Allen won multiple rookie honors after setting Chargers' records for receptions and receiving yards by a rookie. In 2017, he was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

Keenan Allen
Rookie year 2013

30. Amble: STROLL.

33. "The Sound of Music" range: ALPS.  Here's the inspiring finale of the movie ...

... in reality their hike in the ALPS was a diversion to keep the Nazis from realizing that they were leaving the country.  At some point in the hike they were able to reach a train station and they left the country by rail.

34. [Theme clue]

37. "12 Monkeys" network: SYFY.  12 Monkeys is a 1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Terry Gilliam from a screenplay by David Peoples and Janet Peoples, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée. It stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer (who BTW also starred in 33A). Set in a post-apocalyptic future devastated by disease, the film follows a convict who is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.  Here's a trailer

39. Aboriginal emblems: TOTEMS.  Reports by European explorers of the totems of the Northwest coast Indigenous peoples date back at least to the 18th century.  They were a highly developed art at that time and the tradition of creating is returning.

40. Liquefies: PUREES.

43. "Gross!": UGH.

44. "1883" actor Elliott: SAM.  1883 is an American Western drama miniseries created by Taylor Sheridan that premiered on December 19, 2021, on Paramount+. 

47. [Theme clue].

50. Scale mark: OUNCE.

52. Retailer with an "Uncommon Path" blog: REI.  New to camping?  There's an app for that.

53. Make at work: EARN.

54. Worth remembering: OF NOTE.

55. Church official: ELDER.  In Christianity, an elder is a person who is valued for wisdom and holds a position of responsibility and authority in a Christian group. In some Christian traditions (e.g., Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Methodism) an elder is an ordained person who serves a local church or churches and who has been ordained to a ministry of word, sacrament and order, filling the preaching and pastoral offices. In other Christian traditions (e.g., Presbyterianism, Churches of Christ, Plymouth Brethren), an elder may be a lay person serving as an administrator in a local congregation, or be ordained and serving in preaching (teaching during church gatherings) or pastoral roles.

57. [Theme reveal]

59. Like a cloud forest: MOSSY.  A cloud forest is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level. Cloud forests often exhibit an abundance of mosses covering the ground and vegetation, in which case they are also referred to as mossy forests.  Olympic National Park in Washington State, has a cloud forest called the Hoh Rainforest.  It's the wettest destination in the lower 48 US states, receiving 12–14 feet of rain per year, plus 30 inches of fog and mist. It is blanketed by moss and ferns.  

Hoh Rainforest
Olympic National Park

60. "Now you see it, now you don't!": POOF.

61. Side: TEAM.

62. Versatile celeb's feat: EGOT.  Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony -- here's a list of the winners.

63. Terminal points: ENDS.

64. Irish Gaelic: ERSE.  A Celtic language spoken in Scotland and Ireland.  What is Irish?

Pct. of those who said they could speak Irish
 in the Republic of Ireland and
Northern Ireland censuses of 2011

Down:

1. Resource stored in some banks: PLASMA.  In this case, blood banks.  Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume.  

2. Tazo alternative: LIPTON.  Lipton is a brand named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton who started an eponymous grocery retail business in the United Kingdom in 1871. The brand was used for various consumer goods sold in Lipton stores, including tea from 1890 for which the brand is now best known.  It was the brand preferred by my English Mum whenever she had a spot of tea.

3. Like a classic French soup: ONIONY.  Here's Jenn's classic recipe made with caramelized onions, rich beef broth, and toasty bread topped with melted cheese.

French onion soup

4. Pasta with lisce and rigate versions: PENNE.  DNK these variations.  Lisce (smooth) vs rigate (ridged) PENNE pastas both have ends cut like a quill pen, "penne" being Italian for "quilled".  

Rigate Penne pasta

And since the pasta's ready, here's a recipe for Penne Puttanesca (anchovies optional) to go with the French onion soup.

5. Young seals: PUPS. 

Awwwh!

6. Union agreement?: I DO.  And after 55 years we still do!

7. Fizzy mixer: TONIC.

8. __-Frisian: West Germanic language group: ANGLO.  Thank you perps! The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots, Fingallian, and Yola) and Frisian (North Frisian, East Frisian, and West Frisian) varieties of the West Germanic languages.  Here is the distribution of the modern versions of these languages ...

Perhaps the best way to describe the relationships between these languages is this family tree ...

9. Country quartet __ Young Band: ELI.  Eli Young Band is an American country music band composed of members who met while students at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas: Mike Eli (lead vocals, guitar), James Young (guitar), Jon Jones (bass guitar), and Chris Thompson (drums). Here's their Crazy Girl, the Billboard top country song of 2011 ...

10. As a rule: COMMONLY.

11. Cover some of the same territory: OVERLAP.

12. Diminishes: LESSENS.

15. Marsh bird: CRANE.  One particular species of this marsh bird, the Whooping Crane, was of special interest to Marylanders.   By 1964 only 42 of the birds were left in the wild and their prospects were grim.  In a effort to help the species survive, the Maryland Patuxent Wildlife Research Center established a breeding program using eggs taken from the remaining wild birds (it had been discovered that they usually laid 2 eggs, but only one would survive and removing the 2nd egg didn't harm the wild birds' prospects).  By the time the program ended in 2017 the Center had managed to rear 72 birds in captivity.  While we never got to see any of these magnificent creatures in Maryland, years later we were thrilled to see many in Texas on an aquatic birding trip to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, where they migrate each Winter.  They are still endangered and the work to save them continues to this day.

Whooping Cranes
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

17. Reaches: GETS TO.

21. Peeve: IRK.  A verb. IRKS could also be a synonym for 17D

24. Up in the air: ALOFT.

25. Learns via the grapevine: HEARS.  That's where Marvin Gaye heard it ...

28. Sleeve tattoo spot: ARM.  If you're not into pain you can buy these a set of 6 of these faux tattoos from Amazon for only $4.99 + taxes and handling ...

Faux sleeve tattoos

30. Eye sores: STYES.

31. Bath bathroom: LOO. LAV fit but didn't perp.  Opinions are divided among Brits over which is preferred.

32. Seated yoga pose: LOTUS.  It's more than just sitting cross legged ...

34. "Sorry, but it's true": AFRAID SO.

35. Part of a right triangle: LEG.

36. Second Gentleman Doug: EMHOFF.  Not for long.  He didn't make it to First Gentleman, so his days as Second Gentleman are numbered.

37. "Stop with all those details!": SPARE ME.  TMI was too short.

38. Cake also called bûche de Noël: YULE LOG.  Here's Sally's recipe.  You've only got 41 days to make yours ...

bûche de Noël
Yule Log

41. Not just some: EVERY.

42. Copious quantity: SEA.

44. Unpopular camper: SNORER. 

45. Fills in for: ACTS AS.  In As You Like It Shakespeare suggests that we're all acting as ourselves.

46. Terse invitation to get together: MEET ME. 

48. Complain: GRIPE.

49. Writer Chekhov: ANTON.  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classic plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard.  Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

Anton Chekhov

51. Wed: UNITE.

54. lummoxes: OAFS.  Our dinosaur agrees, finding only one 4 letter synonym for "lummoxes".

56. Inexact fig.: EST.

58. Grass farm output: SOD.

Cheers,

Bill

And as always, thanks to Teri for proof reading and for her constructive criticism.

waseeley

Thursday, November 7, 2024, Simon Marotte, Trenton Lee Stewart

  

Making Ends Meet

 

As near as I can tell today's constructors Simon Marotte and Trenton Lee Stewart are both making their debuts in the LA Times, although they have previously published with the NYT here and here.  Their 4 themers remind us that even famous people had to take odd jobs to make ends meet when they were starting out.  Each clue consists of two famous people, tells us what their (fictional) side hustle was, and plays on it to give us a punny two word fill ...

17A. Earnhardt and Andretti work as ushers?: DRIVERS SEAT.  Ralph Dale Earnhardt (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001) was an American professional stock car driver and racing team owner, who raced from 1975 to 2001 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series.  Sadly, Earnhardt died in a racing accident in 2001.

Dale Earnhardt

Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an American former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982.

Mario Andretti

27A. Gerwig and DuVernay work at the barbershop?: DIRECTOR'S CUT.  Greta Celeste Gerwig (born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director.  She is most famous for directing the 2023 film Barbie, from which we featured a brief clip with Issa Rae as President Barbie just last week.

Greta Gerwig

Ava Marie DuVernay (born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe.

Ava DuVernay

44A. Austen and Morrison choreograph a play?: WRITERS BLOCK.  I started off on the wrong track trying to determine what "choreography" had to do with plays and sent an SOS to C.C. who discovered that     blocking is the precise staging of actors to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera.  Jane Austen and Toni Morrison are not well known for their plays, but did in fact write some. 

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was of course the famous English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Jane Austen

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993

Toni Morrison

59A. Hook and Kirk haul timber?: CAPTAINS LOG.  In this case not only is the side hustle fictional, but our famous people are as well.  Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy. 

Captain Hook

James Tiberius Kirk, commonly known as Captain Kirk, is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. Originally played by Canadian actor William Shatner, Kirk first appeared in Star Trek serving aboard the starship USS Enterprise as captain. Kirk leads his crew as they explore new worlds and "boldly go where no man has gone before". 

Captain Kirk

Here's the grid ...

Here's the rest ...

Across:

1. Mobile app for staying mobile: UBER.  Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates in approximately 70 countries and 10,500 cities worldwide.

5. "In your face!": BOOYA.  This fill was not the first thing that popped into my mind for this clue.  It's really an expression of enthusiasm or exuberance.  In fact my researches didn't uncover any connection between the clue and the fill.  What I did uncover was this homophonic recipe and this (automated) exclamation by the famous financial adviser Jim Cramer ...

10. Draw: TIE.

13. __-gazing: NAVEL.  Pejorative slang for meditation.  OTOH NAVAL-gazing is something done by ship captains.

15. "Funeral Blues" poet: AUDEN.  An expression of profound grief by W. H. Auden.

16. Short expression of surprise: OMG.

17. [Theme clue]

19. Snub-nosed dog: PUG.  

Pug puppy

20. Lyricist Gershwin: IRA.  Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. With George, he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love", and "Someone to Watch Over Me". He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess.  Here's Ella Fitzgerald singing Embraceable You ...

Lyrics

21. Assays: TESTS.

22. Mispronounces esses, maybe: LISPS.

24. "Gracias" response: DENADA.  Today's Spanish lesson: "Thank you!"; "You're welcome!"

26. Parcel (out): METE.

27. [Theme clue]

33. "We are not amused" type: PRUDE.  The story behind the song.

36. Potential queens: PAWNS.  Yes, but they're the cannon fodder of  chess board and have many obstacles to overcome (being sacrificed, en passant capture, etc.) before they can ascend to the throne. Here's how it works ... 

37. Sorority letter: RHO.

38. Texted titters: LOLS.  Laughing Out Louds.

39. Eyelashes, anatomically: CILIA.  Cilia is the plural form of  cilium (from the Latin for 'eyelid'), a short hair-like membrane protrusion from many types of eukaryotic cell. (Cilia are absent in bacteria and archaea) The cilium has the shape of a slender threadlike projection that extends from the surface of the much larger cell body. The cilia lining the lungs provide an important function in keeping them free of microbes and debris ...

40. Cry of pain: YEOW.

41. Açai  bowl grain: OAT.  Açaí na tigela (lit. 'Açaí in the bowl') is a sweet Brazilian snack food from Pará and Amazonas. It is a dish made with the frozen and mashed fruit of the açaí palm, described as having an "earthy" or creamy taste. Its texture is granular before blending and it has a tartness from a high acidity content, making its taste appealing. It is served as a smoothie in a bowl, usually mixed with guaraná syrup, and is commonly topped with granola and banana.

Açaí bowl

42. Daytona entry: RACER.

43. Swear words: OATHS. 

44. [Theme clue]

47. Surrounds in a rush: MOBS.  Being surrounded by a MOB can be a scary thing, but these people were unexpectedly delighted by one ...

48. Fools (with): MESSES.

52. Chihuahua, for one: STATE.  A state of Mexico that is ...

Chihuahua, Mexico

The Chihuahua dog breed is named for this state.

54. "Haters __ hate": GONNA.  "Haters gonna hate" is slang for expressing consolation, voicing encouragement, or dismissing criticism. The phrase implies that criticism says more about the critic, or “hater,” than the person being criticized, i.e., that they are making judgements out of jealousy or their own negativity.  -- Dictionary.com.  It's also the title of this song by the band Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! (presumably inspired by Jackson Pollack 😀) ...

57. Pop star Rita: ORA.  Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born Rita Sahatçiu; 26 November 1990) is a British singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. Born in Pristina, modern-day Kosovo, she rose to prominence when she was featured on DJ Fresh's 2012 single, "Hot Right Now", which peaked atop the UK singles chart.  Here's her 2023 hit You & I ...

58. Statues, paintings, etc.: ART.

59. [Theme clue]

62. Mirror image?: YOU.  A selfie that doesn't require a cell phone?

63. Word from the Greek for "chasm": CHAOS.  Also a homophone for the BAD GUYS in the Get Smart series ...

64. Fashion designer Kate: SPADE.  Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan Spade (born Katherine Noel Brosnahan; December 24, 1962 – June 5, 2018) was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.

Kate Spade

65. Total: SUM.

66. Valuable one: ASSET.

67. Aphrodite's consort: ARES.   Here's the dish on this famous couple -- the love story of Ares & Aphrodite: their romance, affairs, children.

Ares and Aphrodite

Down:
 
1. Overturned: UNDID.

2. Dance studio rail: BARRE.  

Barre

3. Dasani alternative: EVIAN.

4. Fire (up): REV.

5. Barbershop quartet part: BASS .  Here's an update on an old classic.  I think the BASS is the third from the left ...

6. Boot from power: OUST.

7. Praiseful poems: ODES.  An ODE in praise of the tongue.
.
8. Affirmative vote: YEA.

9. Moose feature: ANTLERS.  All about moose antlers ...

Moose with antlers

10. Upper-level clearance level: TOP SECRET.  Here's the process for obtaining a TOP SECRET clearance.  For your eyes only!

11. Cry from the recently roused: I'M UP.  Good!  Don't cry about it -- get to work!

12. Spurs (on): EGGS.  -- "to incite, urge, encourage, instigate," c. 1200, from Old Norse eggja "to goad on, incite," from egg "edge". 

14. Allow to peter out: LET DIE.  A good way to clear out the gas in a lawnmower at the end of the summer -- let it run until the engine dies.  

18. Caboose: REAR.  Slang -- here are some other synonyms for "caboose".

23. "__ not for me to say": IT'S.  An old standard by Robert Allen and Al Stillman made famous by Johnny Mathis ... 

25. Puts in: ADDS.

26. Title at the Louvre: MONA.  Today's Italian lesson -- MONA is a contraction of MA DONNA, "My Lady", and is the title for the woman depicted in the most famous painting in the world.

Mona Lisa
Leonard Da Vinci

28. Heroic accounts: EPICS.  The Epic of Gilgamesh from ancient Mesopotamia is one of the oldest.  Some scholars believe may have been the origin of the Old Testament story of Noah's Flood.

The Deluge tablet
inscribed in in Akkadian

29. McLaughlin of "Stranger Things": CALEB.  Stranger Things is an American television series set in the 1980s.  The series centers on the residents of the fictional small town of Hawkins, Indiana, as they are plagued by a hostile alternate dimension known as the Upside Down, after a nearby human experimentation facility opens a gateway between Earth and the Upside Down. 

Caleb McLaughlin
aka Lucas Sinclair 

30. Take for a spin?: TWIRL.

31. "Whoops!": UH OH.

32. Tugs along: TOWS.

33. Ground-breaking invention: PLOW.  Also spelled PLOUGH. 

Farmer ploughing a field

34. Crowd eruption: ROAR.

35. Demand that rarely ends in compromise: ULTIMATUM.  "OR ELSE" was too short.

39. Pixar film set in Radiator Springs: CARS.  Here's the original 2006 trailer ... 

40. Hairy beasts: YAKS.  We hear from YAKS frequently in crossword puzzles.

42. Only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture: REBECCA.  Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.  The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young, never-named woman who becomes his second wife.  Maxim's first wife Rebecca, who died before the events of the film, is never seen. Her reputation and recollections of her, however, are a constant presence in the lives of Maxim, his new wife and the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.  Here is the original trailer ...

43. Current locations?: OCEANS.  FJORDS fit but didn't perp.

45. Young'un: TOT.

46. Prefix with -vore: OMNI.  CARNI and HERBI didn't fit.

49. Geothermal alternative: SOLAR.  Geothermal resources are reservoirs of hot water that exist or are human-made at varying temperatures and depths below the earth's surface and the heat can be converted for use as energy sources.  Investment in SOLAR arrays has many advantages, but also has some disadvantages.

50. Wear away: ERODE.

51. Learned ones: SAGES.

52. Utters: SAYS.

53. Pants, informally: TROU.  Short for TROUSERS.  Hand up if you've ever heard anybody use this IRL?

54. College figs.: GPAS.  DEANS were too long.

55. Great Plains people: OTOE.  At one time the Otoes and Missourias, along with the Winnebago and Iowa Tribes, were once part of a single tribe that lived in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. In the 16th century the tribes separated from each other and migrated west and south although they still lived near each other in the lower Missouri River Valley.  This article on the history of the Otoe-Missouria tribe will tell you why their name in the native language is a CSO to Husker Gary.
 

The Seven Tribes

56. Cond __: NAST.  Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and now owned by Advance Publications. Its headquarters are located at One World Trade Center in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.

60. Sounds heard at a 61-Down: AHS.

61. Massage locale: SPA.

Cheers,

Bill

And as always, thanks to Teri for proof reading and for her constructive criticism.

waseeley