Good Morning, Cruciverbalists. Malodorous Manatee here with today's Friday recap. I.E. commentary. I.E. summary. Today's constructor, I.E. puzzle setter, is Katie Hale who recently visited us on both October 9th and November 27th of this year. In keeping with the trend that Ch. Moe commented on a week ago, today's puzzle once again exhibits wordplay. At five places within the grid Katie has added the letters I and E to common expressions and, thereby, created humorous definitions to the clues. Three of those five answers completely traverse the 15-square grid. Brava, Katie!
It is quite interesting that just yesterday one of the themed answers (at 25 Across) was "It Is What It Is". A mere coincidence? I do not know but, in any event, Id est quod id est.
Below are the five themed answers:
17 Across: Gourmet chefs' argument about plating?: FOODIE FIGHT. Foodie, i.e. gourmet
24 Across: Paying attention to the portraits in a social media feed?: SELFIE CONSCIOUS. SELF CONSCIOUS, i.e. aware.
38 Across: Photographers who specialize in permanent markers?: SHARPIE SHOOTERS. SHARPIE, i.e. marking pen. A photo shoot.
49 Across: Patches on one's favorite sweatshirt?: HOODIE ORNAMENTS. Well, I'll be darned. There actually are HOODIE (Christmas Tree) ORNAMENTS.
60. Exclamation before putting on one's favorite pajamas?: NIGHTIE TIME.
Here is how all of this looks in the grid. Please ignore the red and yellow highlighting at 58 Across. I have had to use a new .puz file solving site for this recap and I have not yet figured out how to format everything in the ways that I would prefer.
. . . and here is the rest of the story:
Across:
1. Obama daughter: SASHA. Malia is also five letters long with two A's in the same places as SASHA so it took a perp to determine which daughter it would be.
6. Tried to get home, say: SLID. A baseball reference.
10. Pester: NAG.
13. Removes, as a brooch: UNPINS. Or from the task bar.
15. Loosen (up): EASE. As restrictions. I.E. precautions.
16. End of a Harvard address: EDU. Not an address (speech) that might be delivered by an orator. In this case, an email address.
19. Formal accessory: TIE. A fashion accessory that can be traced to the Croats. Utterly useless for a manatee.
20. Romeo's last words: I DIE. "Here's to my love. (drinks the poison) O' true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I DIE."
21. High-sided cookware: WOK.
22. "The Princess Bride" co-star: ELWES.
28. X-ray kin: MRI. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
29. __ Hebrides: OUTER. A geographer reference. See 62 Down
30. Hong Kong neighbor: MACAU. . . . and another
34. Jenna's role on "The Office": PAM. Unknown to this solver. Thanks, perps.
35. Sketch: SKIT. Not a pencil drawing. A bit of acting.
42. Drug cop: NARC.
43. CBS forensic drama: CSI.
44. Sea Breeze need: VODKA.
45. Noble __: GASES. Hand up for initially thinking PRIZE. Wait, that's spelled Nobel. Colorless, odorless, tasteless and nonflammable. Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon.
47. "Despicable Me" supervillain: GRU.
56. Blanched: ASHEN.
57. Have: EAT. As in consume food. Have certainly does have a good number of meanings depending on the context.
58. Wet bar?: SOAP. The clue is to be taken literally.
59. Mil. morale booster: USO. Abbreviated clue and answer.
Certificate from 1947
64. Zero, in soccer: NIL. What do zero and NIL have in common. Absolutely nothing.
65. Fencing blade: EPEE. A weapon often seen in crossword puzzles. Four letters three of which are E's.
66. "I won't be long": ONE SEC. Abbreviated answer but not clue. But it is something that people might say so, perhaps, that convention does not apply.
67. "Ideas worth spreading" org.: TED.
68. Floor plan unit: ROOM.
69. Closing documents: DEEDS. A real estate reference.
4. Film option, for short: HI DEF. HIgh DEFinition
5. Singer DiFranco: ANI. A frequent visitor due to two vowels out of three letters.
6. Omega rival: SEIKO. Wristwatch brands. See also 34 Down.
7. Streaming issue: LAG. A technical problem suffered frequently in our puzzles.
8. Kinda: ISH. I.E. sorta.
9. Get a hint of: DETECT. What are similar to windows but can instantly DETECT the most common computer problems? Mirrors.
10. Made professional connections: NETWORKED.
11. "Farewell, mon ami!": ADIEU. French in the clue. French in the answer.
12. Brand with a question mark in its logo: GUESS.
14. Waste line: SEWER.
Andy Dufresne
18. Hubs: FOCI.
23. Leads up the garden path: LIES TO. Idiomatic. I.E. to deceive. I.E. to trick. Oddly, "leads down the garden path" has the same meaning.
25. "That's my cue!": I'M UP. Sometimes we get I'M ON.
26. Stewart's "The Daily Show" successor: NOAH.
Trevor Noah and Jon Stewart
27. Honbasho sport: SUMO. Honbasho was unknown but it sounded Japanese so this one filled quickly with the perps.
30. Bing provider: MSN. Microsoft's browser. MSN is the abbreviation for Microsoft Network.
31. Cry of discovery: AHA. AHA, it's not OHO.
32. Container store?: CARGO HOLD. Not a shop to go to purchase bins and organizers. A place to store containers.
33. Burlington __: London shopping destination: ARCADE. Opened in March, 1819.
34. Omega preceder: PSI. A rudimentary knowledge of the Greek alphabet can be helpful to solvers.
36. Bother: IRK.
37. Liquid-confiscating org., at times: TSA.
39. Slushy treat: ICEE.
40. Petrol brand: ESSO. A trading name for Exxon-Mobil. Originally used by its predecessor, Standard Oil. I.E. S.O. or, spelled out, ESSO.
41. Egg cell: OVUM.
46. Confessional visitor: SINNER.
Oy!
47. Buzzing pest: GNAT.
48. Probability expression: RATIO.
49. Favorite hangout: HAUNT. I.E. club. I.E. stomping ground.
50. "Cotton Comes to Harlem" director Davis: OSSIE. Bette would have fit but it would not perp.
51. Take up again: RE-HEM. Not revisiting an old hobby. Shortening a skirt or a dress, for example.
52. Cosmetics name: ESTEE.
53. Cacophony: NOISE.
54. Domesticated: TAMED.
55. Technical details: SPECS. SPECificationS
61. Market debut, for short: IPO. Stock Market. Initial Public Offering
62. Grapher's prefix: GEO. GEOgrapher
63. Conclude: END. Fitting. I.E. apt. Indeed.
Katie Hale, you are invited to post anything you'd like to share about this puzzle, its evolution, the theme, or whatever, in the Comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.
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Notes from C.C.:
Happy birthday to our witty and caring Hahtoolah (Susan), whose images and comments always brightens our days.
This will mark 43rd appearance of David Alfred Bywaters in the LA Times crosswords. He was one of the first constructors I blogged
and I always find his puzzles a delight. David's puzzles make
extensive use of wordplay, with less use of obscure people and places.
Since I have no puzzle to solve on Thursdays I always go to his website
for a puzzle. He hosts one of the most beautiful sites on the web and it's always worth a visit.
Today he teases us with 4 clues for the names of SAWS, tools commonly found in a wood shop and then gets his fill by riffing on another meaning of the word SAW: a MAXIM or PROVERB.
For those interested I've linked pictures of the tools into the clues,
and then followed with annotations of David's punny fill:
20A. Band saw?: UNITED WE STAND. The Band of Brothers
in the 2001 HBO American war drama stood united in their struggle
against the tyranny of Hitler in WWII. The series was based on the 1992
non-fiction book of same the name by historian Stephen E. Ambrose. Here's a trailer from the mini-series, created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers. It won the 2001 Emmy and Golden Globe awards for best miniseries.
25A. Circular saw?: IT IS WHAT IT IS. An example of circular reasoning - a logical fallacy often referred to as "begging the question". But in 1949 the term It is what it is morphed into an idiom meaning:"Deal with it": a response to a frustrating or challenging situation that a person
believes cannot be changed and must just be accepted. Here's where the phrase originated.
56A. Coping saw?: ONE DAY AT A TIME.
An approach to dealing with obsessive thoughts about the past or the
future. A phrase often heard in addiction therapy settings. And good
advice from our 16th President:
Here's the grid:
Across:
1. Courteous title: MAAM. An elision of MADAM.
5. "Make tracks!": SCRAM.
10. Be rife (with): TEEM. Whenever we go to the National Aquarium, we always visit the Australian Exhibit and head for the tank TEEMING with Archerfish. You sport fishermen out there could learn a few tricks from these remarkable animals:
14. __ mater: ALMA. Alma mater (Latin: alma mater, lit. 'nourishing
mother'; is an allegorical Latin phrase used to identify a school,
college or university that one formerly attended or/and graduated from;
also the name of the school song. Hand up if you're a Columbia grad!
33. Trail behind: LAG. Sometimes clued as "Internet problem".
36. Photographer Leibovitz: ANNIE. Anna-Lou Leibovitz(born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer
best known for her engaging portraits, particularly of celebrities,
which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses.
Annie Leibovitz 2008
37. Incline: SLANT.
38. Concerning: IN RE.
40. Zenith's opposite: NADIR. If you're fortunate enough to live
far from the light pollution of big cities and you go outside after
dark and look up, you'll be looking at the Zenith. If you're not sure what you're looking at, one of these cellphone apps might help. Even though I have poor visibility in my neighborhood, I still occasionally use one called Startracker to verify the identity of planets, which I can still see. One neat feature of these apps is that they can look down through the earth past your sky's NADIR,
and straight through to the Zenith in the Southern Hemisphere to see
what celestial objects are rising and setting. BTW, those touting trips
to the GOBI Desert (17A) claim that it has the clearest night skies in the world.
42. Place to build: SITE. E.g. if you want to create a web SITE, you'd build it on a web server..
43. Back up an apology, say: ATONE. I.e. make amends.
45. Pampering treatments for feet, informally: PEDIS. A CSO to our Lucina.
47. Sad: LOW. Or a sound that cattle make.
48. [Theme clue].
51. Spot for a sleeve tattoo: ARM. I've seen people with these, but didn't know they had a name. Hand up if you have a tattoo! ARM up if you have a sleeve tattoo.
52. Abates: EASES.
56. [Theme clue]
61. Stylish: CHIC. People with sleeve tattoos? YMMV.
68. "Cheers" bartender Woody: BOYD. Woodrow Tiberius Boyd is a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Woody came to Cheers at the beginning of the fourth season of Cheers in 1985 in the episode "Birth, Death, Love and Rice". A goodhearted goof:
Woody
69. Accounting giant __ & Young: ERNST. I'm only giving them all this press because they're based in Baltimore.
70. Finishes: ENDS. Thus ENDS the Acrosses.
Down:
1. Wizard: MAGUS. Three visited a stable one snowy night in Bethlehem a long time ago.
2. Unaccompanied: ALONE. For 4 letter fill use SOLO.
5. Surface for beach volleyball: SAND. One of my granddaughters started playing volleyball on SAND, but now plays it indoors at her high school. Here are the rules.
9. Words of incantation: MANTRA. A mantra is a sacred utterance, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit, Pali
and other languages believed by practitioners to have religious,
magical or spiritual powers. Some mantras have a syntactic structure and
literal meaning, while others do not. Christianity also has analogous repetitive sayings, e.g. the Jesus Prayer, common among Orthodox
sects. All of these can be thought of as ways to calm the mind,
empty it of distracting thoughts, and make it a space for the Divine. Perhaps the most well-known
mantra is this one:
Om
10. Canvases for 45-Across: TOENAILS.
11. "Zounds!": EGAD. Both are expressions of astonishment.
12. Make a blunder: ERR.
13. Chaps: MEN.
21. James who sang "At Last": ETTA. I've linked the clue song before for ETTA, so how about Something's Got a Hold On Me (lyrics):
22. Inhabitants of a classroom "farm": ANTS. We had these critters a while back clued as "Animals in a farm". It stirred up a real ants nest.
26. Travel guide listing: INN.
27. Round closers on a onesie: SNAPS. SNAP is versatile fill. Just last week it was clued as "Show appreciation at a poetry slam".
28. Not as narrow: WIDER.
29. Former North Dakota senator Heitkamp: HEIDI. Mary Kathryn "Heidi" Heitkamp (HYTE-kamp;
born October 30, 1955) is an American politician who served as a United
States senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. OK so she may be
obscure to most of us. Does anyone from North Dakota visit the
Corner?
Heidi Heitkamp
30. Long part of a comet: TAIL. Comets are frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system composed of dust, rock, and ices. They range from a few miles to tens of
miles wide, and as they orbit closer to the Sun, they heat up and spew
gases and dust into a glowing head that can be larger than a planet.
This material forms a TAIL that stretches millions of miles. The most famous of comets, Halley's Comet appears at intervals of approximately 75 years. It last appeared in 1986 and is due to return in 2061.
Halley's Comet 1982
31. Very much a fan of: INTO. I'm very much INTOMaurice Ravel. Here's his Gaspard de la nuit, about which he said: “Listen!
Do you know what you hear? Handfuls of rain that I've thrown against
your window, thrown by me, Ondine, spirit of the water.”32. Crockpot dish: STEW.
33. Hemsworth of "The Hunger Games": LIAM. Here's the trailer with Hemsworth and his co-star Jennifer Lawrence (BTW 68A is in it too):
34. Opposed to: ANTI.
35. Rum-and-water quaff: GROG. A definitive guide to grog, which uses the same spirit as the Mai Tai at 4D. Also the object of Captain Stratton's Fancy, a song byPeter Warlock, here sung by the late, great baritone John Shirley-Quirk (lyrics):
GROG is also the name of an ingredient used in most clay bodies
to add strength and texture. It also reduces shrinkage, cracking and
warping, the latter particularly important in tile making.
39. Made better: ENHANCED.
41. Drilling structure: RIG. Not a SEMI this time, but one of these:
Oil Rig
44. Raison d'__: ETRE. PURPOSE, lit. "Reason for being", today's metaphysical French lesson.
46. Home of the N.Y. Mets until 2008: SHEA. Now they're in CITI FIELD, which is adjacent to the location of the old stadium, which was demolished in 2009. Full disclosure -Teri and I use their sponsor's credit card.
Citi Field
49. "Stick a fork in me": I'M DONE. Not quite. Just eleven more clues to go ...
50. Spill the beans: TATTLE.
53. Tornado watch sound: SIREN. We rarely get tornadoes in Maryland, but in areas where they are common they can be deadly. Have a plan for staying safe in a tornado, before the SIREN sounds.
55. Botanic beginnings: SEEDS. I wonder how they do that?
56. Unctuous: OILY. A characteristic of a dirty rotten scoundrel, an apparently timeless story. You'd need a 41D to extract all the oil in these two guys:
57. Aspire notebook maker: ACER.
58. Show fatigue: YAWN. Hang in there, you've only got to stay awake for 4 more clues ...
59. Many taps in a brewpub: ALES. Okay, so DAB does occasionally imbibe a little crosswordese.
60. Fruit-filled dessert: TART. And I'm sure he likes desserts.
61. Taxi: CAB.
62. "Barry" cable network: HBO. I hope HBO is paying the LA Times advertising fees. Here's Barry and here's the trailer:
Cheers, Bill
As always, thanks to Teri
for proof reading and for her constructive criticism.
waseeley
David Alfred Bywaters, you are invited to post anything you'd like to share about this puzzle,
its evolution, the theme, or whatever, in the Comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.
Notes from C.C.:
1) Belated "Happy birthday" to Lucina!
2) Happy 76th birthday to dear Jazzbumpa (Ron)! Ron has been faithfully
guiding us on Wednesdays since Jan 2011. He's a total pro.
Theme - I can't do any better than the unifier, and it will make things easier to present it first.
14 D. Food named for how it's baked, and a hint to each set of circles: UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE. A cake that is baked "upside-down" in a single pan, with its toppings at the bottom of the pan. When removed from the oven, the finished upside-down preparation is flipped over and de-panned onto a serving plate, thus "righting" it, and serving it right-side up.
In this theme, the relevant answers, with circled letters, are fragments of down fill, read from the bottom up, indicating types of cakes spelt in reverse. Hope you got the circles. Otherwise this would be extremely opaque. It is an uncommon gimmick, but it is not unheard of, and requires the theme entries to be in the down orientation. Let's have some cake.
4. Itinerary for touring speakers: LECTURE CIRCUIT. A euphemistic reference to a planned schedule of regular lectures and keynote speeches given by celebrities, often ex-politicians, for which they receive an appearance fee.
A rice cake may be any kind of food item made from rice that has been shaped, condensed, or otherwise combined into a single object. A wide variety of rice cakes exist in many different cultures in which rice is eaten and are particularly prevalent in Asia.
8 D. Brunch dish with ham and peppers: WESTERN OMELET. Beaten eggs cooked without stirring until set and served folded in half, containing other flavor elements as described. Now you're just egging me on.
Lemon cake is a dense, flavorful and very popular cake. Lemon is used to provide its unique flavor to a variety of cakes, including bundt, angel food or white cakes. However, lemon cake commonly refers to loaf cake with a tighter grain and more elastic crumb, much like a pound cake.
16. Flatbed scanner relative: BAR-CODE READER. An optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and decode the data contained in the barcode to a computer.
A crab cake is a variety of fishcake that is popular in the United States. It is composed of crab meat and various other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, mayonnaise, mustard, eggs, and seasonings. The cake is then sautéed, baked, grilled, deep fried, or broiled.
Our constructor, Rick Norris, has provided a variety of unrelated cake types, along with an omelet, to fulfill all our culinary desires. We recognize Rich as the recently retired editor of the L.A.Times Crossword, returning now as a constructor. Here is a link to C. C.'s interview with him, back in 2009.
Across:
1. GI on the lam: AWOL. A military person Absent Without Official Leave.
5. Annual festival in Austin, TX: SXSW. South by Southwest, an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas,
9. Tot's crumb catcher: BIB.
12. Rural strolling spot: LANE. A narrow road, especially in a rural area.
13. Short dog, for short: PEKE. The Pekingese is a breed of toy dog, originating in China. The breed was favored by royalty of the Chinese Imperial court as a companion dog, and its name refers to the city of Peking where the Forbidden City is located. The breed has several characteristics and health issues related to its unique appearance.
14. Forearm bone: ULNA. The bone spans from the elbow to the wrist on the medial side of the forearm when in anatomical position. In comparison to the radius, the ulna is described to be larger and longer.
15. French preposition: AVEC. It means "with."
16. Rationale: BASIS. A set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action or a particular belief.
17. Gloomy aura: PALL. Literally, a dark cloud or covering of smoke, dust, or similar matter.
18. Nissan sedans since 1982: SENTRAS. A series of automobiles manufactured by the Japanese automaker Nissan since 1982. Since 1999, the Sentra has been categorized as a compact car, while previously it occupied the subcompact class. Until 2006, Sentra was a rebadged export version of the Japanese Nissan Sunny, but since the 2013 model year, Sentra is a rebadged export version of the Sylphy. The Sentra nameplate is not used in Japan.
20. Put away, as loot: STASHED. Stored safely and secretly in a specified place.
22. "Blade Runner" actor Rutger __: HAUER. Rutger Oelsen Hauer [1944 - 2019] was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century.
23. Lives: EXISTS. Survives, perhaps.
24. Take away: DETRACT. Diminish the worth or value of something.
26. Brought up: BRED. Reared in a specified environment or way.
27. "Night" author Wiesel: ELIE. Elie Wiesel [1928 - 1916] was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
28. Finance guru Suze: ORMAN. Susan Lynn "Suze" Orman [b. 1951] is an American financial advisor, author, and podcast host. In 1987, she founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. Her work as a financial advisor gained notability with The Suze Orman Show, which ran on CNBC from 2002 to 2015.
30. 1815 classic whose title character is played by Anya Taylor-Joy in a 2020 film: EMMA. A novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings, written by Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families.
34. Common interest group: BLOC. A combination of countries, parties, or groups sharing a common purpose.
35. "Same": DITTO. Used to say that whatever you have said about one person or thing is also true of another person or thing.
36. Campus bigwig: DEAN. The head of a college or university faculty or department.
37. Novelist Morrison: TONI. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison [1931 - 2019], known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award
38. Derby town in Surrey, England: EPSOM. The principal town of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about 13.5 miles south of central London. The town is first recorded as Ebesham in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner.
39. Frigg's husband: ODIN. A widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. His name is rendered in several, loosely phonetically related ways in various germanic languages, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Wōðanaz, meaning 'lord of frenzy', or 'leader of the possessed'.
40. Steakhouse order: RARE. the lowest level of doneness when it comes to steaks and burgers. Diners who like extremely tender, flavorful cuts of meat will choose this option. Rare meat has an internal temperature of 125 degrees Fahrenheit. If you order your food rare, the central portion of the meat will be a bright red color.
42. Steakhouse order: RED WINE. To compliment your RARE steak.
44. Database systems giant: ORACLE. An American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization.
47. Jousting weapon: LANCE. A long weapon for thrusting, having a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging.
48. Revenue source in many a free app: POP-UP AD. A form of online advertising on the World Wide Web. A pop-up is a graphical user interface display area, usually a small window, that suddenly appears in the foreground of the visual interface.
50. Counterpoint melody: DESCANT. This is the most common usage of this term whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. Typically, this melody is in the highest pitched voice, and sounded as a harmony line above the main melody of the song.
52. Kid's plea for permission: CAN I? Should properly be "May I?" But, eh -- kids!
53. Fairway chunk: DIVOT. A piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke.
55. "__ girl!": ATTA. An informal expression of encouragement or admiration to a woman or girl. Kinda like: Ya done good, kid!
56. "Law & Order: SVU" co-star: ICE-T. Tracy Lauren Marrow [b.1958], better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and producer. He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s.
57. Storm rescue op: EVAC. Short for evacuation.
58. 2007 U.S. Women's Open winner Cristie: KERR. Cristie Kerr (b.1977) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She has 20 wins on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships, and over $19 million in career earnings. Kerr was the number one-ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings for three time periods in 2010. She is naturally left handed but plays golf right handed.
59. Lil Wayne's "__ Carter V": THA. The twelfth studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne. It was released on September 28, 2018, by Young Money Entertainment and Republic Records.
60. File partner: RANK. Rank and file is military term relating to the horizontal "ranks" (rows) and vertical "files" (columns) of individual foot-soldiers, exclusive of the officers.
61. "Grand" ice cream brand: EDY'S. Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc., is an American ice cream company, founded in 1928 in Oakland, California, where its present-day headquarters office remains. The company's two signature brands, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream and Edy's Grand Ice Cream, are named after its founders, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy
Down:
1. "Sad to say ... ": ALAS. An expression of grief, pity, or concern.
3. Phrase of unity in the Pledge of Allegiance: ONE NATION. Indivisible? You decide.
5. Health club amenities: SPAS. Commercial establishments offering health and beauty treatment through such means as steam baths, exercise equipment, and massage.
6. Crosses (out): XES. Deletes.
7. Winter getaway need, maybe: SKIS. Things are going down hill.
9. Malaise, with "the": BLAHS. I had Blues, which messed up the perps.
10. Cove, e.g.: INLET. A small, sheltered bay.
11. Gets thinner, in a way: BALDS. A condition of hair loss. Relatable.
19. Blues-rocker Chris: REA. Christopher Anton Rea is an English rock and blues singer and guitarist from Middlesbrough. A "gravel-voiced guitar stalwart" known for his slide guitar playing, Rea has recorded twenty five solo albums, two of which topped the UK Albums Chart.
21. Lumberjack competition projectile: AXE.
24. Mortgage balance, e.g.: DEBT. Amount of money owed.
25. Nonsense: TRIPE. Figuratively, something poor, worthless, or offensive.
26. Ulan __: former Anglicization of Mongolia's capital: BATOR. Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia. It’s in the Tuul River valley, bordering the Bogd Khan Uul National Park. Originally a nomadic Buddhist center, it became a permanent site in the 18th century. Soviet control in the 20th century led to a religious purge. Soviet-era buildings, museums within surviving monasteries, and a vibrant conjunction of traditional and 21st-century lifestyles typify the modern city.
29. Matterhorn and Weisshorn: Abbr.: MTS. Mountains. See 33 A. for location.
31. Treated, in a way: MEDICATED. Treated for a sickness or injury.
32. Primary way in: MAIN ENTRY. The entrance from outdoors into a primary building through which most customers or other visitors pass or are expected to pass.
33. Dudek of "Mad Men": ANNE. Anne Louise Dudek [b. 1975] is an American actress. She is known for portraying Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 film White Chicks, Danielle Brookson in the USA Network television series Covert Affairs, Dr. Amber Volakis on the Fox series House, Lura Grant on the HBO series Big Love, and Francine Hanson on the AMC series Mad Men.
41. Matterhorn or Weisshorn: ALP. Named peaks in the Alp mountain range. The Weisshorn in in Switzerland. the Matterhorn straddles the border between Switzerland and Italy.
43. Courtroom VIPs: DAs. District Attorneys. They are public officials who acts as prosecutors for the state or the federal government in court in a particular district.
44. Footnote abbr.: OP CIT. In the work already cited.
45. Jazz drummer Max: ROACH. Maxwell Lemuel Roach [1924 – 2007] was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.
46. Sleep disturbance: APNEA. Temporary cessation of breathing, especially during sleep.
49. Operatic icon: DIVA. Diva is the Latin word for a goddess. It has often been used to refer to a celebrated woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, theatre, cinema, fashion and popular music.
50. Tie up at the pier: DOCK. Literal. Tie up at a dock, especially in order to load or unload passengers or cargo. I'd say moor, but that's all I have.
51. Patches, as a driveway: TARS. Covers a surface with tar, a viscous mixture of organic materials.
54. Part of a moving story: VAN. If you can get emotional about a truck-load of possessions being transported to a new location.
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