Saturday Themeless by Nate Cardin and Matthew Stock and Nate Cardin
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Matthew is a teacher from Gainesville, FL who has taken time out to work on his Masters.
Nate is a chemistry teacher in L.A.
What a struggle! Some of cluing was fiendish and my ignorance of a fictional soccer team made the middle a muddle. I could get AMERICA at the first and ICELAND in the partial fill at the end but alas neither were correct.
1. Make-up artist's talent: ADLIB - Nothing came to mind about applying make-up and so was thinking about a liar but no, it was more subtle than that.
6. __ store: DIME - Make that The Dollar Store today
10. Posts: JOBS.
14. Celine's "Beauty and the Beast" counterpart: PEABO.
17. Dining option: PATIO - Alfresco
18. The best of times: GOLDEN ERA - They don't make 'em like this any more and the box office decline shows it.
19. Star clusters: A-LISTS. These people usually bring their 32. Height of one's ability: A-GAME
21. "I like it": NICE.
22. Brief downtime: R 'N R.
23. 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee Maya: LIN - She won the competition for designing the Vietnam Memorial.
24. HBO's "__ Espookys": LOS.
26. Wailing figure of folklore: BANSHEE Irish Folklore
28. Relaxed: LOOSENED UP.
31. Hall __: PASS - You sure you have to go?
33. Employ: HIRE.
34. Fictional soccer club playable in FIFA 23: AFC RICHMOND - Ted Lasso's imaginary team was completely unknown to this solver and left a big hole in my early solving.
37. Colored outside the lines: BLED 😀
38. Animal whose name comes from the Dharug word for "no water": KOALA.
39. Derivative work, for short?: CALC 😀
40. "Fingers crossed!": WISH ME LUCK.
45. Postelection figure: ALSO RAN - I saw the L first and ELECTOR fit right in.
47. 2022 NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion __ Toppin: OBI - An old Japanese crossword regular gets bumped by an obscure athlete
48. Symbol for magnetic flux: PHI.
49. Little tater: TOT.
50. "Wolf Like Me" actress Fisher: ISLA.
52. Molé peppers: ANCHOS - Ghost Peppers too.
54. Social media account?: SNAP STORY - A compilation of Snapchat pictures (we say pictures and not photos around here)
57. Snacks with limited-edition flavors: OREOS.
58. Personal gripes: PET PEEVES.
59. Like the sacred tree Yggdrasil: NORSE - The NORSE tree of life
60. Votes of affirmation: AYES.
61. Wax figure: SEAL.
62. Pointers for a fight choreographer?: EPEES 😀 The pointers were the fencing weapons not instructions
Down:
1. Floor: APPALL.
2. "What's the __?": DEALIO.
3. Like some winners of a Pura Belpré Award: LATINO.
4. Bird associated with the Egyptian god Thoth: IBIS.
5. Criminal record?: BOOTLEG CD.
6. Be into: DIG.
7. Menu image: ICON.
8. Topanga neighbor: MALIBU.
9. Sight before walking down the aisle: ENDCAP 😀 Gotta love it!
10. Podcaster/comedian Kirkman: JEN.
11. Scrambled alternative: OVER HARD.
12. __ mountain dog: BERNESE - They do grow into those paws
13. Toms' neighbors: SNARES 😀
16. __ Vogue: TEEN - This older edition autographed by a very young Taylor Swift can be had for $2,000
20. Help in finding subs: SONAR 😀
25. Prefix with permeable: SEMI.
27. __ fluid: SPINAL.
29. Mariners' realm, once: SAFECO 😀 - The Seattle Mariners played in SAFECO Field for about 20 years and then T-Mobile bought the naming rights and it is now T-Mobile Park. I saw the baseball connection right away but needed letters to help with SAFECO.
30. Starship Enterprise levels: DECKS.
33. Ace of clubs?: HOLE IN ONE 😀 I've had three of these. The first two had human witnesses and the third one only squirrels and barn swallows.
34. Progressive rival: ALL STATE - They all accuse the other insurance companies of overcharging.
35. Hostess offering: HO HO.
36. Cobra kin: MAMBA.
37. "Horsefeathers!": BALONEY.
39. Siberian resort?: CAT SPA 😀
40. Runs through: WASTES - The amount of money our government runs through/WASTES is mind boggling!
41. One way to fall: IN LOVE 🥰
42. Message from on high?: UP HERE 😀 UP HERE, Stanley!
43. Go for: CHOOSE.
44. Pays lip service to?: KISSES 💋
46. Climb: RISE.
51. Sod buyer's calculation: AREA.
53. Take sides?: CROP - Here are some of our bird feeders on the left and the star of the show in the CROPPED version as he is eating Welch's Grape Jelly
55. Letter writer's addendum: PPS.
56. Couture initials: YSL - Our crossword couture
Notes from C.C.:
Happy
58th birthday to Barry G, who was very active posting in the early days
of our blog. Still with the same company, Barry? How's Joshua?
