Theme: The Doors - all the words on the edges of the grid are types of doors as the hint has it:
38A. Not alfresco, and what this puzzle is vis-à-vis its border answers : INDOORS
The Corner's own C6D6 Peg is the constructor-in-residence today. Great word-play with the theme - all the non-theme answers are "Indoors" Artfully done and some nice fill - EXCELLED AT, COOK STRAIT, KEYNOTE and my favorite MALINGER. Good job.
We were having a discussion last week about people's different solving methods - I tend to go once across and once down, then fill in what's left, so I thought you might like to see my first pass across. I used to be a lot more careful about checking crosses when I solved on pen and paper, but now there's no inkblots I just have at it. You can see the central east was going to cause some rework, but nothing slowed me down too badly.
Let''s see what else Peg cooked up for us, or rang the bells:
Across:
1. Support financially : BACK
5. Hurricane, e.g. : STORM. Here's Rory Storm and the Hurricanes playing at the Jive Hive in 1960. That's Ringo Starr on the drums.
10. Drainpipe section : TRAP. P-Trap, not for what you might think. It's shaped like a "P"
14. Face cream additive : ALOE
15. Medicare component : PART A. Fill in PART and go back for A/B
16. Leaping critter : HARE
17. Depend (on) : RELY
18. Had superior skills in : EXCELLED AT
20. Word on really bright Crayolas : NEON. Brightens up your day:
21. Jazz great Montgomery : WES
22. Helen Reddy's "__ Woman" : I AM
23. Commentary page : OP-ED Someone asked last week what OP-EDS meant, I didn't really explain. Opinion pieces opposite the editorial page of a newspaper.
25. Turned out to be : ENDED UP
29. Blew hard : GUSTED
32. Way back when : AGES AGO. I progressed from LONG thru EONS to AGES. Got there in the end. The long way around.
33. Helped start the pot : ANTE'D
34. Comic Johnson : ARTE. See "almost Natick'ed" at 25D
36. Big __ : MAC. Oh, not SUR then. Darn. I confess that I recently ordered a Big Mac and Fries via Uber Eats when I'd spent the evening out with some friends and was home and had the munchies. It was either get back in an Uber and go get it myself, or save myself the Uber ride back and forth. Sometimes, junk food is just what you need. Delivered to your door.
37. Regret : RUE. I didn't rue the Big Mac.
41. Craft built in the 2014 film "Noah" : ARK. I tried "Bagel Delivery Van" but it didn't fit.
42. Nile snake : ASP
43. Yemeni seaport : ADEN
44. Speed : HASTE
46. Become resentful : GET SORE
49. Vampire's bed? : CASKET. Corrected my COFFIN misstep.
50. Painter Manet : EDOUARD Started to fill this in and then hesitated about the spelling; I think my first thought was right. This is "A bar at the Folies-Bergère" in London's National Gallery. Back when I was impoverished and making a pittance at my first real job, I was amazed to find that London's public galleries and museums were free. I spent quite some time looking at this painting trying to figure out if the off-kilter reflection of the server was the result of a warped mirror or just playful imagery by Manet.
51. Sketch material : GAGS
52. Commuter org. in the Loop : C.T.A. Chicago Transit Authority.
53. __ Butterworth : MRS
54. "Wild Blue Yonder" mil. group : USAF
58. Waterway between the major islands of New Zealand : COOK STRAIT. I couldn't pull this out of my brain bank on my first pass across the puzzle. I've sailed in the Cook Strait - on an America's Cup yacht. The decks were teflon-coated, not easy to stay in one place!
62. Leg-covering skirt : MAXI
63. Green Gables heroine : ANNE
64. Boardroom prop : EASEL
65. Part of FEMA: Abbr. : EMER. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Came in for a lot of criticism in the afterrmath of Hurricane Katrina
66. Caboose place : REAR. Back of the train. We call them guard's vans back in the old country. Because they were vans. And they had a guard in them.
67. Broadway platform : STAGE. All the world is one.
68. Fries, for instance : SIDE. Big Mac. Fries. Uber Eats. Yay!
Down:
1. Silo neighbor : BARN
2. Toward protection, at sea : ALEE. Also the side of the boat to be if you feel a touch of the mal de mer.
3. Great Sand Dunes National Park st. : COLO. rado. Can't you ski down them? Yes, apparently you can:
4. Pinnacle of a lecture series : KEYNOTE
5. Erupted : SPEWED. I'd make a connection to 2D but it's breakfast time for many.
6. Strained : TAXED
7. Tolkien henchmen : ORCS. Not exactly men. Hench-things.
8. GPS suggestion : RTE
9. Feign illness to avoid work : MALINGER. Great word. My mom used to accuse us of malingering when we tried to skip a day of school. She was right most of the time, until the time I came down with measles and she wouldn't hear a word of it.
10. Motifs : THEMES
11. "Far out, dude!" : RAD!
12. Notre Dame's Parseghian : ARA
13. Kennel guest : PET
19. Put on board : LADE. I think it's a 17th-century typo that no-one bothered to fix.
24. Spa treatment : PEDI
25. Big name in stationery : EATON. I was almost Natick'ed with T here. I did a full alphabet run until on the second pass EATON almost sounded familiar. It was my best guess so in it went.
26. Ornamental fabric : DAMASK
27. Lorre's "Casablanca" character : UGARTE. Thank you crosses, I always forget this.
28. Pita feature : POCKET Food! The gyro is one of my favorite sandwiches.
29. Tech company's origin, perhaps : GARAGE. Apple, HP and Microsoft all started off in garages. Dell started off in Michael Dell's dorm room at the University of Texas
30. On the shelf : UNUSED
31. Move in the direction of : STEP TO
34. Threw in : ADDED
35. Sushi roll topping : ROE. Food! I like to top my sushi rolls with Sujiko roe, from the salmon, and the tiny Tobiko roe from flying fish.
39. Tells a story : NARRATES
40. Layered do : SHAG
45. Takes for granted : ASSUMES
47. Lollipop : SUCKER
48. Feed bag feed : OATS
49. Once-per-player chess move : CASTLE. King side or Queen side if I recall from my youth. I haven't played chess for years.
51. "Norwegian Dances" composer : GRIEG
53. Tamale dough : MASA. I buy mine from the local Vallarta market, it's much lighter than when I tried to make my own.
55. Scandinavian language : SAMI. Nailed it! Remembered this from a little while ago. The road signs need a lot of lettering:
56. Used a hatchet on : AXED
57. Cause for alarm : FIRE
58. Honda or Hyundai : CAR. My current car is a Hyundai. It's the Genesis brand, so it doesn't actually have a Hyundai badge on it.
59. Pepsi product that's also its calorie count : ONE
60. Springsteen's "Working __ Dream" : ON A. Not sure I know this one from The Boss.
61. Scoundrel : RAT
That was fun, thanks Peg! Here's the grid and I'm done!
Steve
38A. Not alfresco, and what this puzzle is vis-à-vis its border answers : INDOORS
The Corner's own C6D6 Peg is the constructor-in-residence today. Great word-play with the theme - all the non-theme answers are "Indoors" Artfully done and some nice fill - EXCELLED AT, COOK STRAIT, KEYNOTE and my favorite MALINGER. Good job.
We were having a discussion last week about people's different solving methods - I tend to go once across and once down, then fill in what's left, so I thought you might like to see my first pass across. I used to be a lot more careful about checking crosses when I solved on pen and paper, but now there's no inkblots I just have at it. You can see the central east was going to cause some rework, but nothing slowed me down too badly.
Let''s see what else Peg cooked up for us, or rang the bells:
Across:
1. Support financially : BACK
5. Hurricane, e.g. : STORM. Here's Rory Storm and the Hurricanes playing at the Jive Hive in 1960. That's Ringo Starr on the drums.
10. Drainpipe section : TRAP. P-Trap, not for what you might think. It's shaped like a "P"
14. Face cream additive : ALOE
15. Medicare component : PART A. Fill in PART and go back for A/B
16. Leaping critter : HARE
17. Depend (on) : RELY
18. Had superior skills in : EXCELLED AT
20. Word on really bright Crayolas : NEON. Brightens up your day:
21. Jazz great Montgomery : WES
22. Helen Reddy's "__ Woman" : I AM
23. Commentary page : OP-ED Someone asked last week what OP-EDS meant, I didn't really explain. Opinion pieces opposite the editorial page of a newspaper.
25. Turned out to be : ENDED UP
29. Blew hard : GUSTED
32. Way back when : AGES AGO. I progressed from LONG thru EONS to AGES. Got there in the end. The long way around.
33. Helped start the pot : ANTE'D
34. Comic Johnson : ARTE. See "almost Natick'ed" at 25D
36. Big __ : MAC. Oh, not SUR then. Darn. I confess that I recently ordered a Big Mac and Fries via Uber Eats when I'd spent the evening out with some friends and was home and had the munchies. It was either get back in an Uber and go get it myself, or save myself the Uber ride back and forth. Sometimes, junk food is just what you need. Delivered to your door.
37. Regret : RUE. I didn't rue the Big Mac.
41. Craft built in the 2014 film "Noah" : ARK. I tried "Bagel Delivery Van" but it didn't fit.
42. Nile snake : ASP
43. Yemeni seaport : ADEN
44. Speed : HASTE
46. Become resentful : GET SORE
49. Vampire's bed? : CASKET. Corrected my COFFIN misstep.
50. Painter Manet : EDOUARD Started to fill this in and then hesitated about the spelling; I think my first thought was right. This is "A bar at the Folies-Bergère" in London's National Gallery. Back when I was impoverished and making a pittance at my first real job, I was amazed to find that London's public galleries and museums were free. I spent quite some time looking at this painting trying to figure out if the off-kilter reflection of the server was the result of a warped mirror or just playful imagery by Manet.
51. Sketch material : GAGS
52. Commuter org. in the Loop : C.T.A. Chicago Transit Authority.
53. __ Butterworth : MRS
54. "Wild Blue Yonder" mil. group : USAF
58. Waterway between the major islands of New Zealand : COOK STRAIT. I couldn't pull this out of my brain bank on my first pass across the puzzle. I've sailed in the Cook Strait - on an America's Cup yacht. The decks were teflon-coated, not easy to stay in one place!
62. Leg-covering skirt : MAXI
63. Green Gables heroine : ANNE
64. Boardroom prop : EASEL
65. Part of FEMA: Abbr. : EMER. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Came in for a lot of criticism in the afterrmath of Hurricane Katrina
66. Caboose place : REAR. Back of the train. We call them guard's vans back in the old country. Because they were vans. And they had a guard in them.
67. Broadway platform : STAGE. All the world is one.
68. Fries, for instance : SIDE. Big Mac. Fries. Uber Eats. Yay!
Down:
1. Silo neighbor : BARN
2. Toward protection, at sea : ALEE. Also the side of the boat to be if you feel a touch of the mal de mer.
3. Great Sand Dunes National Park st. : COLO. rado. Can't you ski down them? Yes, apparently you can:
4. Pinnacle of a lecture series : KEYNOTE
5. Erupted : SPEWED. I'd make a connection to 2D but it's breakfast time for many.
6. Strained : TAXED
7. Tolkien henchmen : ORCS. Not exactly men. Hench-things.
8. GPS suggestion : RTE
9. Feign illness to avoid work : MALINGER. Great word. My mom used to accuse us of malingering when we tried to skip a day of school. She was right most of the time, until the time I came down with measles and she wouldn't hear a word of it.
10. Motifs : THEMES
11. "Far out, dude!" : RAD!
12. Notre Dame's Parseghian : ARA
13. Kennel guest : PET
19. Put on board : LADE. I think it's a 17th-century typo that no-one bothered to fix.
24. Spa treatment : PEDI
25. Big name in stationery : EATON. I was almost Natick'ed with T here. I did a full alphabet run until on the second pass EATON almost sounded familiar. It was my best guess so in it went.
26. Ornamental fabric : DAMASK
27. Lorre's "Casablanca" character : UGARTE. Thank you crosses, I always forget this.
28. Pita feature : POCKET Food! The gyro is one of my favorite sandwiches.
29. Tech company's origin, perhaps : GARAGE. Apple, HP and Microsoft all started off in garages. Dell started off in Michael Dell's dorm room at the University of Texas
30. On the shelf : UNUSED
31. Move in the direction of : STEP TO
34. Threw in : ADDED
35. Sushi roll topping : ROE. Food! I like to top my sushi rolls with Sujiko roe, from the salmon, and the tiny Tobiko roe from flying fish.
39. Tells a story : NARRATES
40. Layered do : SHAG
45. Takes for granted : ASSUMES
47. Lollipop : SUCKER
48. Feed bag feed : OATS
49. Once-per-player chess move : CASTLE. King side or Queen side if I recall from my youth. I haven't played chess for years.
51. "Norwegian Dances" composer : GRIEG
53. Tamale dough : MASA. I buy mine from the local Vallarta market, it's much lighter than when I tried to make my own.
55. Scandinavian language : SAMI. Nailed it! Remembered this from a little while ago. The road signs need a lot of lettering:
56. Used a hatchet on : AXED
57. Cause for alarm : FIRE
58. Honda or Hyundai : CAR. My current car is a Hyundai. It's the Genesis brand, so it doesn't actually have a Hyundai badge on it.
59. Pepsi product that's also its calorie count : ONE
60. Springsteen's "Working __ Dream" : ON A. Not sure I know this one from The Boss.
61. Scoundrel : RAT
That was fun, thanks Peg! Here's the grid and I'm done!
Steve
