"SMILE"
17. *Wonderland feline known for disappearing: CHESHIRE CAT.
11. *"Have a nice day" graphic: HAPPY FACE.
33. *Celtic peepers of song: IRISH EYES. "When Irish eyes are smiling, sure, they steal your heart away..."
JJM's children. Smiling Irish eyes !
48. Expression shared by the answers to starred clues: SMILE.
I hope that Peter's puzzle brought a smile to your face.
Across:
1. Brewery in Golden, Colorado: COORS. Looks like a pretty big operation.
6. Fast-food package deal: COMBO.
11. Color variant: HUE.
14. Gelatin garnish: ASPIC.
15. French word of farewell: ADIEU.
16. 24-hr. cash source: ATM. Mixed messages here:
19. Nonstick spray brand: PAM.
20. "Hints from" columnist: HELOISE.
21. Weaken from disuse: ATROPHY.
23. Manhattan area to the right of Central Park, on maps: EAST SIDE.
25. __ a soul: NARY.
26. Corp. symbols: TMS. Trademarks.
27. Stopgap remedy: QUICK FIX.
31. Small jazz groups: TRIOS.
34. "Designing Women" actress Delta: BURKE. She played Susan Sugarbaker.
35. Senate approval: AYE.
36. One of a bath towel pair: HERS.
37. Rocky outcroppings: CRAGS.
38. Capone facial mark: SCAR. Chicago's Public Enemy # 1 in 1930.
39. Prefix with dermis: EPI.
40. Laundry slide: CHUTE.
41. 7-Down and such: POEMS.
42. Virus-transmitting insect: MOSQUITO. The most dangerous creature on earth.
44. __ Francisco: SAN. Capone spent four and a half years at a little island off the San Francisco coast.
45. Sting or smart: HURT.
46. Musical wrap-ups: REPRISES.
51. Free sample restriction: ONE EACH. “1.46 pounds of summer sausage and beef stick samples.”
54. Title savant in a 1988 Oscar-winning film: RAIN MAN. The movie won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Leading Role for Dustin Hoffman as Rain Man (Raymond). CSO to Rainman (Ray Hedrick) on this blogspot who co-constructed crosswords with C.C. and Mark McClain.
55. Invest in: BUY.
58. Scratch (out): EKE.
59. Dog-__: folded at the corner: EARED.
60. In finer fettle: HALER.
61. "Absolutely": YES.
62. Swiped: STOLE.
63. Gothenburg native: SWEDE.
Down:
1. Secret stash: CACHE.
2. "Straight Outta Compton" actor __ Jackson Jr.: O'SHEA. "The son of O'Shea Jackson, Sr., actor __ Jackson Jr." would have made the answer too obvious.
He played his father in the movie.
3. Some German cars: OPELS.
4. Italian rice dishes: RISOTTOS.
5. Religious rifts: SCHISMS.
6. Gave a darn: CARED.
7. Neruda wrote one to common things: ODE.
- Ode to things
- Ode to the table
- Ode to the chair
- Ode to the bed
- Ode to the guitar
- Ode to a violin in California
- Ode to the dog
- Ode to the cat
- Ode to some yellow flowers
- Ode to a cluster of violets
- Ode to the gillyflower
- Ode to a bar of soap
- Ode to a pair of socks
- Ode to the dictionary
- Ode to a pair of scissors
- Ode to a box of tea
- Ode to the spoon
- Ode to the plate
- Ode to the orange
- Ode to the apple
- Ode to bread
- Ode to the artichoke
- Ode to the onion
- Ode to the tomato
- Ode to French fries.
8. Layered mineral: MICA.
9. '50s-'60s nonconformists: BEATNIKS.
10. Run faster than: OUT RACE. No woman has ever run faster than Florence Griffith-Joyner. She ran the women's 100 meter dash in a world record 10.49 seconds in 1988. She also set the 200m world record that year.
In 2009, Usain Bolt set the men's world record for the 100 meter dash with a time of 9.58 seconds. He was clocked at at an amazing 27.58 MPH - fast enough to get a speeding ticket in a school zone ! He also set the 200m record that year.
Those four records still stand. But when it comes to running fast, no land animal can out race a cheetah. It can go 0 to 60 MPH in about 3 seconds. That's faster than most production cars.
12. Great Salt Lake state: UTAH.
13. TV award: EMMY.
18. Egyptian fertility goddess: ISIS.
22. "Mork & Mindy" planet: ORK.
24. Largest ring of latitude: EQUATOR.
28. Hard-to-ignore impulse: URGE.
29. Start of Popeye's existential maxim: I YAM.
30. Gen-__: post-boomers: X'ERS.
31. The bad guys: THEM.
32. Auctioned auto, perhaps: REPO. A repossession for an unpaid loan.
34. Champagne choice: BRUT.
37. Idle talk: CHIT-CHAT. Small talk. Fiddle-faddle. In the study of languages, the phrase chit-chat is an example of reduplication. Other examples would be ding-dong, zig-zag, boob-tube, hip-hop and kitty-cat. Thought Co: Reduplicative Words
38. Kin by marriage: SON-IN-LAW.
40. Oversees, as a gallery collection: CURATES.
41. Social outcasts: PARIAHS.
43. "__ Sera, Sera": QUE. Such a pretty voice.
44. Stretch across: SPAN.
47. Slowly wear down: ERODE.
49. Relaxed, as rules: EASED.
50. Hunter's trap: SNARE.
51. Do as you're told: OBEY.
52. Zap for dinner: NUKE.
53. Courageous one: HERO.
57. Country singer Tillis: MEL. Let's have some honky-tonk music with a steel guitar. "You walked across my heart like it was Texas." Ah, sing it Mel.
Note from C.C.:
The prostate cancer surgery for Nina's (Inanehiker) brother is now re-scheduled to 12:30 today at the VA hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Please continue keeping him in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you!
