Tuesday September 28, 2021 Catherine Cetta

 Theme: 56. With 58-Across, salad fixings ... and what you'll find aptly hidden in puzzle rows 4, 6 and 10: CHOPPED. And 58. See 56-Across: VEGGIES. (Onion, Tomato and Carrot are chopped up by the black squares.)

20. Typically tricolored ice cream dessert: SPUMONI. And 22. Really tough, as tasks: ONEROUS.

26. Made to order: CUSTOM. And  29. Do penance: ATONE.

47. Witty Wilde: OSCAR.And 48. Bad to the core: ROTTEN.

Boomer here again. Hahtoolah will be back next Tuesday. She had a long drive back home from New England.  

Just a note about Spumoni Ice Cream.  I was addicted when my Mom worked at a pizza place they served it on the dessert menu, and I was hooked.  Later when I worked for a different pizza restaurant, desserts were not on the menu.

Across:

1. Hissed "Over here, behind the sofa!": PSST.  That's what a mouse might say.

5. Notable Titanic casualty: ASTOR.  The Waldorf - Astoria is named for him.  

10. Stir up: RILE.  Sometimes I like to RILE a dish of ice cream.

14. Latin "others": ALIA.  Four years of High School Latin and I did not know this.

15. Actress __ Neal of "Law & Order: SVU": DIANE.  ADA Casey Novak.

16. Give off: EMIT.

17. Unrefined sort: BOOR.

18. Trooper automaker: ISUZU.  They quit making cars in 2009.  I think they might still make trucks.

19. "Ooh, fun!": WHEE.  Okay to say on a roller coaster, but please stop saying it at the bowling center.

24. Either Bush, e.g.: TEXAN.  Always in the news.  Some good and some not.

25. Exhausts: DOES IN.

32. FreeCell or Snapchat: APP.

35. Sewn line: SEAM.

36. Multilevel, as wedding cakes: TIERED.  I watched the Gophers blow one at "Huntington Bank" Stadium last Saturday.  The Stadium was TIERED and the fans were TEARED up.

37. Auditioner's hope: PART.

39. Barcelona buddy: AMIGO.  My golf and bowling buddy, JORGE from Chile calls me AMIGO.

41. Rig on the road: SEMI.  Does that mean it is half a truck??

42. Sounds from sties: SNORTS.

44. Gaming novice, slangily: NOOB. Newbie.

46. Bambi's mother: DOE.  "A Deer, a female deer, Re, a drop of golden sun"  The hills are alive with "The Sound of Music".

50. Crowns for some queens: TIARAS.

52. Andes or Rockies: RANGE.  Hotpoint or General Electric?

60. For all of us: OURS.  In our home it is "For both of us."

61. __ curls: arm exercises: BICEP.  I do not do this.  Too weak.

63. Observes: SEES.

64. Unmitigated joy: GLEE.  Spent a few years in the Benilde H.S. GLEE Club.  I had a few solos.

65. Together: AS ONE.

66. Teen woe: ACNE.  Never had it when I was young, but now the cancer med is causing a few bumps.

67. Bathtub bubbles: SUDS.

68. __ Island Rams: Atlantic 10 conference baseball team: RHODE.

69. Chai and rooibos: TEAS.  C.C. is the TEA expert in our home.  I drink Folgers.

Down:

1. Part of PBR: PABST.  "What'll you have??"  Not me.  Years ago when I lived in Hardheim Germany I drank wine.  Never developed a taste for beer.  "Old King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he.  He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl and he called for his privates three.  Beer, beer, beer said the privates happy men are we.  There's none so fair as can compare to the fighting infantry."   

2. Slippery __: risky course of action: SLOPE.  "We'll have real ones in Minnesota soon"

3. Iowa's __ City: SIOUX.  I have been through there, also the city in South Dakota named after the Sioux.

4. Airport surface: TARMAC.

5. Favorable score for a server: AD IN.  They do not have "AD IN" in bowling or golf.

6. Maria's ayes: SISI.

7. Letter after sigma: TAU.

8. Like many 2020 meetings: ON ZOOM.  I have heard about this but never used it. Although sometimes I hit the gas pedal a bit too hard.

9. Meet up in 25 years, maybe: REUNE.  Just had my 56th High School last month.  We spelled it differently though. I'm 9th from the left on the back row.

 

10. Second drafts, say: REWRITES.

11. "This is very flattering!": I'M HONORED.

12. Stead: LIEU.

13. Nice summers: ETES. French city Nice.

21. Burden: ONUS.

23. "Ozark" actor Morales: ESAI.  I liked him in NYPD Blue.

25. Pizza Hut competitor: DOMINO'S.  I can make better at home with product from Trader Joe's.

27. Red and Black: SEAS.  I have been watching the Ryder Cup last weekend from Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. I suggest they call Lake Michigan a SEA.

28. Scot's cap: TAM.  Goes great with a bagpipe.

30. Memorable captain's name that's a sign backwards: NEMO. Omen.

31. Actress Falco: EDIE.

32. Lhasa __: APSO.

33. Thumbs-down reviews: PANS.  Teflon are the best.

34. Monitored, as an exam: PROCTORED.

36. Little honk: TOOT.

38. Walks aimlessly: TRAIPSES.  I am not drunk, it's that doggone oral chemo - 4 capsules each day.

40. Understood: GOT.

43. Tough-to-get-out-of situation: TRAP.

45. Glacier chunk: BERG.

48. Peppery root: RADISH.  Goes great in potato salad.

49. Bugs: NAGS AT.

51. Concrete-reinforcing rod: REBAR.

53. Dorothy, to Em: NIECE.  "We're off to see the Wizard ..."

54. Thelma portrayer Davis: GEENA.

55. Mississippi quartet: ESSES.  Lots of things named after our river.  Even a whole state down south.

56. Wheel teeth: COGS.  I don't think they put studs on tires any more.  I think they ruined the roads.

57. "Castle Rock" airer: HULU.

58. Sell: VEND.  Out of a machine.

59. Duel tool: EPEE.

62. Pigeon sound: COO.  I thought a dove made it too.

Boomer