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Nov 25, 2015

Wednesday, November 25, 2015, Victor Borocas

THEME: BABY I'M YOURS!

Victor's clever Thanksgiving Eve offering takes the phrase BODY AND SOUL and uses these words to precede corresponding words in two-word fill phrases. 

17. Yorkshire pudding or bangers and mash : ENGLISH FOOD or 
BODY ENGLISH (Yaz '75)
SOUL FOOD (Beats Haggis!)
31. Game-ending declaration : CHECKMATE or
BODY CHECK
SOUL MATE (Mine!)
49. Genre of the '60s hits "Pipeline" and "Wipe Out" : SURF MUSIC or
                                                         BODY SURF
SOUL MUSIC
THEME REVEAL:

65. Wholeheartedly, or words that can precede the first and second parts, respectively, of 17-, 31- and 49-Across : BODY AND SOUL - Also a 1930 Jazz Standard covered recently by these two
Across      
   
1. Stop the launch : ABORT - When things aren't AOK


6. Perfume compound : ESTER


11. Sailor : TAR


14. Off-the-cushion shot : CAROM - What the hockey players are doing above


15. Usually multilayered dessert : TORTE


16. Load off one's mine? : ORE - C'mon, that's cute!

19. Sundial topper : XII - Oh my, I'm late, it's V after XII already!


20. Classic Belafonte song opening : DAYO - Heard in baseball parks today because fans want the runner to come home (
Daylight come and me wan' go home)



21. Not tricked by : ONTO - Fool me once...

22. Homeric classic : ILIAD


24. Where heros are made : DELI


26. __ button : PANIC 


28. Sufferer healed by Jesus : LEPER - There's a powerful scene in the 1959 movie Ben-Hur showing a LEPER colony

35. Bledel of "Gilmore Girls" : ALEXIS 


37. Creative output : ART


38. Where billions live : ASIA - Over half the world lives inside this circle




39. Watch someone's kids : SIT - Care.com says the avg. babysitting rate is $13/hr


40. Lightweight shirts : CAMISES - I had a great time looking for examples but I'll leave it to you


43. Television : SET


44. Ellington's "Take __ Train" : THE A - "Soon you'll be on Sugar Hill in Harlem"


46. "Et alia" lang. : LAT


47. Letter-erasing key : DELETE

52. Wyoming's __ Range : TETON


53. Benjamin of "Law & Order" : BRATT - What a team!




54. Ibuprofen target : ACHE 

56. Trapdoor location : FLOOR - "Uh, we decided to work as a duo"



58. Capital south of Lillehammer : OSLO - "How do I clue thee? Let me count the ways?"


60. Ottawa-based law gp. : RCMP


64. Not in the clergy : LAY

68. __ well : OIL - Awl if you're from the oil patch 


69. Actress Téa : LEONI


70. "Inferno" poet : DANTE


71. Opposite of post- : PRE - Way to go, Paul (whoever you are)!




72. Diving ocean birds : ERNES

73. Prince Charming's mount : STEED - One cartoonish member of the RCMP had a STEED he named, uh, Horse


Down


1. More than just passed : ACED


2. See 25-Down : BANA - Okay


3. Frenzied revelry : ORGY


4. Low-tech card file : ROLODEX


5. "No more details, please" : TMI - "Then after they opened my lower colon..."


6. Sharing a common culture : ETHNIC


7. Low on the Mohs scale : SOFT - From talc to diamonds


8. Highway officers : TROOPERS - For a real time warp hoot, play these episodes on YouTube!




9. WWII area : ETO - European Theater of Operations

10. Symbol of losses : RED INK - Ken (64A) was in the (68A) business and accumulated a lot of this


11. Dead weight in a portfolio : TOXIC ASSET - Owning a company with a lot of 10D


12. Opera number : ARIA


13. Senator Harry : REID


18. Sun, in Sonora : SOL - A sunny taco?




23. Peru's largest city : LIMA - 73F forecast for today


25. With 2-Down, "Hulk" star : ERIC - Okay


27. Did something : ACTED - Carpe Diem for crying out loud!!


28. Endures : LASTS


29. Philanthropist Yale : ELIHU - Some on his campus want its John C. Calhoun Resident College renamed 



30. "Everybody Loves Raymond" actor : PETER BOYLE


32. French-speaking island country : HAITI - Annual per capita income is $350


33. Connect with : TIE TO - A POSSE might TIE their STEEDS TO this




34. Consumed : EATEN


36. Pierre's toast : SALUT - or "
à votre santé" - To your health!

41. Elephant ancestor : MASTODON


42. Son of Adam : SETH - Genesis says when  Adam was 130 yrs. old, he  had SETH to replace Abel


45. __-American : AFRO


48. Ogles obliquely : LEERS AT


50. Sculptor's medium : MARBLE - The David took Michelangelo 2 years after he took over the project


51. French port on the Strait of Dover : CALAIS - One ETO strategy was to convince Hitler that D-Day would occur at the much closer Calais. p.s. Do you see some cwd friends on this map?




55. Sell a bridge to, say? : CON


56. Producer's nightmare : FLOP


57. Hideaway : LAIR - Remnants of Hitlers first military headquarters - The Wolf's LAIR




59. Word sung after the ball drops : SYNE


61. Construction area marker : CONE


62. Remote button : MUTE   


63. Begged : PLED


66. Not 'neath : OER


67. Canine doc's deg.? : DDS - Am I the only one who chose DVM first?


Arts/Sports crossover - I'll bet most of you know the Broadway play where Joe Boyd (Avg. Joe?) received a BODY to be a great baseball player by selling his SOUL to the devil.