Theme: Breakfast Items (Country & Food)
19A: B. C. Breakfast item?: Canadian Bacon
32A: European breakfast item?: French Toast
43A: Caribbean breakfast item?: Cuban Coffee
58A: European breakfast item?: English Muffin
French toast sounds very appealing to me this morning. Serve with sliced peaches with maple syrup drizzled all over.
I breezed through this one. Had only one hiccup with the letter G in 55D: "BUGSY MALONE" and 64A: "g FORCE". I dodged a few bullets this morning by getting a few tough ones from either the across clues or the down clues.
1A: "Ulalume" author: POE. Never read this poem. The only Poe poem I like is Annabel Lee.
4A: Check fig.: AMT (Amount)
10A: Ring decision letters: TKO (Technical Knockout)
13A: More firm: SOLIDER
17A: St __ of Avila: THERESA. Is it a Spanish spelling of Teresa?
18A: Impetuses: MOMENTA. Wow, I never knew the plural form of momentum is momenta. Besides medium/media, datum/data, I can not think of another word with a similar single/plural form, at this moment.
23A: D. C. VIP: SEN (Senator). Lots of lobbyists wield more power than those wobbly senators.
28A: Sch. in Fort Worth: TCU (Texas Christian University). Bush picks up SMU (Southern Methodist University) for his future library.
31A: Dundee dagger: SNEE. Sometimes it's dirk. Here is a picture. Is snee an obsolete word for dagger? Do those Scottish highlanders still use snee now?
37A: March madness org.: NCAA. Raw passion and enthusiasm.
40A: Poetic eyeball: ORB
48A: Medicinal fluids: SERA. Single form is serum.
50A: D-Day craft: LST (Landing Ship Tank)
51A: Pelts: SKINS. Pelt here means untanned hide of an animal or just human skin.
52A: Covers a room: CEILS. I never used ceil as a verb before. I guess I only knew ceiling.
54A: Seller's $ equivocation: OBO (Or Best Offer). I bought quite a few items with BO on Craig's List.
63A: Shakespearean tragedy: OTHELLO. The evil Iago appears on crosswords from time to time.
64A: Lift-off stresses: g FORCE. Never heard of this. Here is more information for you. Interesting, it says "the symbol g is properly written in lowercase and italic, to distinguish it from the symbol G, the gravitational constant, which is always written in uppercase; and from g, the symbol for gram, which is not italicised."
67A: Crude dwelling: LEAN-TOS. Kind of wooden shed. This is an image of a lean-to.
68A: Those on a quest: SEEKERS. Those who seek shall find. Indeed.
69A: Limb: ARM
70A: Hardened: SET
Down entries:
3D: One voted in: ELECTEE. Just don't expect them to do what they say they will do.
4D: Port of Yemen: ADEN. See this map if you don't want to forget next time.
5D: Tablelands: MESA
6D: One-for-one deal: TRADE
7D: Columnist Bombeck: ERMA. I tend to confuse her with Irma Rombauer (Joy of Cooking author)
8D: One of these days: SOON
9D: Pyramids and Mausoleums: TOMBS
10D: Metal containers: TIN CANS. Tin can is also a navy term for a Destroyer.
11D: Diabetic's concern: KETONES. I got it from across clues. Would not have known this. I only knew that diabetics are very concerned with their blood sugar (or sometimes blood pressure) numbers.
14D: Nest-egg $: IRA. They just keep shrinking and shrinking, since last Oct or even earlier.
21D: Clodhopper: OAF
22D: Group of wds.: PHR (Phrase)
26D: Jillian or Landers: ANN
27D: L times XVI: DCCC (50 *16 = 800)
29D: Normandy town: CAEN. Its neighbor is St. Lo, which sneaks into the crossword occasionally.
30D: Branch of the mil.: USMC (United States Marine Corps). The few, the proud.
33D: Drag forcibly: HAUL
34D: Slot fillers: TABS
35D: Spanish uncles: TIOS. Aunt is Tia.
39D: 6/6/68 assassination victim: RFK. Gutsy & aggressive.
40D: Seminole chief: OSCEOLA. Unknown to me. Got it from across clues.
41D: Come back in: REENTER
42D: Young of Utah: BRIGHAM
45D: Partner-to-be: FIANCEE. The first image that came to my mind is a young lawyer toiling hard in the wee hours to become a partner in a law firm.
46D: Minnesota's twins? ENS. Great. Now I am waiting for them to clue Twins' first baseman Justin Morneau into a puzzle. That'll give you lots of vowels.
49D: "Interiors" director: ALLEN. Never saw this movie from Woody Allen. Personal life aside, I like this guy. Enjoy a large majority of his works.
53D: Delta deposits: SILTS
55D: "___" Malone: BUGSY. Unknown to me. It's a musical film made in 1976. The best film about the exploits of Al Capone is probably The Untouchable, in my opinion.
56D: Proposal: OFFER
59D: __ gin fizz: SLOE. "Well, Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain't love then tell me what is".
Have a great Monday.
(Added later: I forgot to mention earlier that there are lots of 3-letter words in this puzzle (I counted 27). look at how the first line and the last line were broken.)
C. C.
19A: B. C. Breakfast item?: Canadian Bacon
32A: European breakfast item?: French Toast
43A: Caribbean breakfast item?: Cuban Coffee
58A: European breakfast item?: English Muffin
French toast sounds very appealing to me this morning. Serve with sliced peaches with maple syrup drizzled all over.
I breezed through this one. Had only one hiccup with the letter G in 55D: "BUGSY MALONE" and 64A: "g FORCE". I dodged a few bullets this morning by getting a few tough ones from either the across clues or the down clues.
1A: "Ulalume" author: POE. Never read this poem. The only Poe poem I like is Annabel Lee.
4A: Check fig.: AMT (Amount)
10A: Ring decision letters: TKO (Technical Knockout)
13A: More firm: SOLIDER
17A: St __ of Avila: THERESA. Is it a Spanish spelling of Teresa?
18A: Impetuses: MOMENTA. Wow, I never knew the plural form of momentum is momenta. Besides medium/media, datum/data, I can not think of another word with a similar single/plural form, at this moment.
23A: D. C. VIP: SEN (Senator). Lots of lobbyists wield more power than those wobbly senators.
28A: Sch. in Fort Worth: TCU (Texas Christian University). Bush picks up SMU (Southern Methodist University) for his future library.
31A: Dundee dagger: SNEE. Sometimes it's dirk. Here is a picture. Is snee an obsolete word for dagger? Do those Scottish highlanders still use snee now?
37A: March madness org.: NCAA. Raw passion and enthusiasm.
40A: Poetic eyeball: ORB
48A: Medicinal fluids: SERA. Single form is serum.
50A: D-Day craft: LST (Landing Ship Tank)
51A: Pelts: SKINS. Pelt here means untanned hide of an animal or just human skin.
52A: Covers a room: CEILS. I never used ceil as a verb before. I guess I only knew ceiling.
54A: Seller's $ equivocation: OBO (Or Best Offer). I bought quite a few items with BO on Craig's List.
63A: Shakespearean tragedy: OTHELLO. The evil Iago appears on crosswords from time to time.
64A: Lift-off stresses: g FORCE. Never heard of this. Here is more information for you. Interesting, it says "the symbol g is properly written in lowercase and italic, to distinguish it from the symbol G, the gravitational constant, which is always written in uppercase; and from g, the symbol for gram, which is not italicised."
67A: Crude dwelling: LEAN-TOS. Kind of wooden shed. This is an image of a lean-to.
68A: Those on a quest: SEEKERS. Those who seek shall find. Indeed.
69A: Limb: ARM
70A: Hardened: SET
Down entries:
3D: One voted in: ELECTEE. Just don't expect them to do what they say they will do.
4D: Port of Yemen: ADEN. See this map if you don't want to forget next time.
5D: Tablelands: MESA
6D: One-for-one deal: TRADE
7D: Columnist Bombeck: ERMA. I tend to confuse her with Irma Rombauer (Joy of Cooking author)
8D: One of these days: SOON
9D: Pyramids and Mausoleums: TOMBS
10D: Metal containers: TIN CANS. Tin can is also a navy term for a Destroyer.
11D: Diabetic's concern: KETONES. I got it from across clues. Would not have known this. I only knew that diabetics are very concerned with their blood sugar (or sometimes blood pressure) numbers.
14D: Nest-egg $: IRA. They just keep shrinking and shrinking, since last Oct or even earlier.
21D: Clodhopper: OAF
22D: Group of wds.: PHR (Phrase)
26D: Jillian or Landers: ANN
27D: L times XVI: DCCC (50 *16 = 800)
29D: Normandy town: CAEN. Its neighbor is St. Lo, which sneaks into the crossword occasionally.
30D: Branch of the mil.: USMC (United States Marine Corps). The few, the proud.
33D: Drag forcibly: HAUL
34D: Slot fillers: TABS
35D: Spanish uncles: TIOS. Aunt is Tia.
39D: 6/6/68 assassination victim: RFK. Gutsy & aggressive.
40D: Seminole chief: OSCEOLA. Unknown to me. Got it from across clues.
41D: Come back in: REENTER
42D: Young of Utah: BRIGHAM
45D: Partner-to-be: FIANCEE. The first image that came to my mind is a young lawyer toiling hard in the wee hours to become a partner in a law firm.
46D: Minnesota's twins? ENS. Great. Now I am waiting for them to clue Twins' first baseman Justin Morneau into a puzzle. That'll give you lots of vowels.
49D: "Interiors" director: ALLEN. Never saw this movie from Woody Allen. Personal life aside, I like this guy. Enjoy a large majority of his works.
53D: Delta deposits: SILTS
55D: "___" Malone: BUGSY. Unknown to me. It's a musical film made in 1976. The best film about the exploits of Al Capone is probably The Untouchable, in my opinion.
56D: Proposal: OFFER
59D: __ gin fizz: SLOE. "Well, Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain't love then tell me what is".
Have a great Monday.
(Added later: I forgot to mention earlier that there are lots of 3-letter words in this puzzle (I counted 27). look at how the first line and the last line were broken.)
C. C.
