Theme: DATE
17A: Date: TAKE OUT SOCIALLY
39A: Date: PALM TREE FRUIT
62A: Date: DAY MONTH AND YEAR
Nope, could not get on Anderson's wavelength today. ACH, what does it mean? Alas? Oh no? Knew Chinese word for YOKOHAMA (横浜市), not English. The crossing of these 2 words drove me nuts. This "H" is very hard to fish it out. I toyed with T, K, G, never even though of H.
Got SINÉAD easily as I love her "Nothing Compared 2 U" (Tell me baby where did I go wrong?). But I've never met with 25D: ENTERIC before, and ANDRÉ Gide was a complete étranger to me. Vaguely remembered 54A: ESCARP, but could not retrieve it easily from my brain, esp letter "A" as I was not familiar with NAPALM either. So a total disaster at very heart of this puzzle. Too panicky to enjoy any of the dates, so I decided to turn to Mr. Google for comfort.
Across entries:
1A: Check words: PAY TO
14A: Cancel, as a launch: ABORT. Would be NO GO if it's 4-letter I gather?
20A: Cheri of "SNL": OTERI. She definitely craves crossword solvers' constant attention.
21A: Shea corners: BASES. Good clue. Shea Stadium (METS).
22A: German exclamation: ACH. No idea.
24A: Singer O'Connor: SINÉAD. She should not have torn Pope John Paul II's picture into pieces in front of a live performance. But she has suffered enough!
29A: Swedish auto: SAAB
31A: Writer Gide: ANDRÉ. Nobel Literature winner in 1947. Is it a gimme for you?
33A: Mal de__: MER. Or Debussy work La __. Or "MER, sexe, soleil" should you dare! J'adore Gainsbourg.
37A: Udder ends: TEATS. Audacious enough!
43A: Arab leader: var. EMEER. Or EMIR. Literally "prince" in Arabic.
44A: Ashe's game: TENNIS
46A: Matter form: GAS
49A: Poker player's declaration: ALL IN
54A: Steep slope: ESCARP. It was clued as "Slope of a rampart" before. It's "a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification''. Derived from French "escarper" (to cut).
58A: Tapestry in "Hamlet": ARRAS
60A: Sphere of wisdom?: PEARL. Great clue. Would be better if it were in plural form. Pearls of wisdom.
65A: Summer on the Somme: ÉTÉ. Good one. Alliteration. "Somme river" is in northern France. Let's try "Sand's summer" next time. George Sand, the French writer.
69A: Lag behind: TRAIL
70A: French annuity: RENTE. French for "pension", "annuity". Our "rent" is "loyer" in French, like "loyer mensuel" (monthly rent).
71A: The German: DER. Another good clue. Masculine form of "the" in German. "DIE" is the feminine form and "DAS" is the neuter form. Learned this from Dennis.
72A: Witch trial city: SALEM
73A: Sen. Kefauver: ESTES. Does ESTES park (CO) have something to do with Sen. Kefauver and his family?
Down entries:
1D: Sajak of "Wheel of Fortune": PAT. Don't know him. Pure guess. I've never watched "Wheel of Fortune".
3D: City on Tokyo Bay: YOKOHAMA. Major port in Japan, together with Kobe, Osaka, Tokyo.
4D: Waste allowance: TRET
5D: Nebraska Sioux: OTOES
6D: Membrane of the inner eye: RETINA
7D: Hesitant sounds: ERS. Lots of "R' in today's puzzle, 22.
9D: FEMA command facility: EOC (Emergency Operations Center)
11D: Aromatic fir: BALSAM. Saw this clue before.
12D: Assert to be true: ALLEGE. Are you curious about who is Client No. 8 or Client No. 10?
13D: Yellowstone Park sight: GEYSER. See this picture, so misty.
18D: Tell's canton: URI. Or Swiss Canton. Tell is William Tell, the legendary archer. He was forced to shoot an apple from his son's head with bow and arrow.
19D: Bern's river: AAR
23D: Goldfish relative: CARP. The ornamental carp I suppose. This carp is way too big.
25D: Intestinal: ENTERIC. This word screwed up the whole grid for me! The noun is "enteron" (the alimentary canal; the intestines)
26D: "Zip- __-Doo-Dah": A DEE. Nope, I've never heard of it.
27D: Working copy: DRAFT
30D: Ill humor: BILE
32D: To be, in Toulon: ÊTRE. or Raison d'___.
33D: Mme. Bovary: EMMA. Ah, the danger and thrill of adultery! The only Flaubert's work I've read.
36D: Engrave slab: STELE. Look at this piece from Xi'An Forest of Stele Museum, beautiful calligraphy. Those texts are from the Confucian classics.
41D: Audaciously rude: INSOLENT
42D: Tiny birds: TITS. Pretty, isn't it? (Thomas, I did not know the slang meaning of "tit", so I was at sea when you warned me earlier.)
46D: Arranged in steps: GRADED
47D: Expose to oxygen: AERATE. Have to ask this question again: Why green keepers aerate the greens in fall rather than spring? Where have you been Alex in PGA?
48D: More agile: SPRYER. Can also be spelled as SPRIER.
50D: Flame-thrower fluid: NAPALM. No idea. It's "a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc". From Na (phthene)+PALM (itate). All gibberish to me.
53D: Senator Nunn: SAM. No, I've never heard of him. He left the Senate before I arrived here. SAM Snead tomorrow?
55D: Stimpy's pal: REN. Repeat offender.
56D: San Diego pro: PADRE. What's their record this season? 8-6, not bad. Twins bullpen sucks!!
64D: Latvian chess master: TAL (Mikhail). Not Russian?
67D: Legal thing: RES. Latin.
Quip, or quote, that's the question, for tomorrow.
C.C.
17A: Date: TAKE OUT SOCIALLY
39A: Date: PALM TREE FRUIT
62A: Date: DAY MONTH AND YEAR
Nope, could not get on Anderson's wavelength today. ACH, what does it mean? Alas? Oh no? Knew Chinese word for YOKOHAMA (横浜市), not English. The crossing of these 2 words drove me nuts. This "H" is very hard to fish it out. I toyed with T, K, G, never even though of H.
Got SINÉAD easily as I love her "Nothing Compared 2 U" (Tell me baby where did I go wrong?). But I've never met with 25D: ENTERIC before, and ANDRÉ Gide was a complete étranger to me. Vaguely remembered 54A: ESCARP, but could not retrieve it easily from my brain, esp letter "A" as I was not familiar with NAPALM either. So a total disaster at very heart of this puzzle. Too panicky to enjoy any of the dates, so I decided to turn to Mr. Google for comfort.
Across entries:
1A: Check words: PAY TO
14A: Cancel, as a launch: ABORT. Would be NO GO if it's 4-letter I gather?
20A: Cheri of "SNL": OTERI. She definitely craves crossword solvers' constant attention.
21A: Shea corners: BASES. Good clue. Shea Stadium (METS).
22A: German exclamation: ACH. No idea.
24A: Singer O'Connor: SINÉAD. She should not have torn Pope John Paul II's picture into pieces in front of a live performance. But she has suffered enough!
29A: Swedish auto: SAAB
31A: Writer Gide: ANDRÉ. Nobel Literature winner in 1947. Is it a gimme for you?
33A: Mal de__: MER. Or Debussy work La __. Or "MER, sexe, soleil" should you dare! J'adore Gainsbourg.
37A: Udder ends: TEATS. Audacious enough!
43A: Arab leader: var. EMEER. Or EMIR. Literally "prince" in Arabic.
44A: Ashe's game: TENNIS
46A: Matter form: GAS
49A: Poker player's declaration: ALL IN
54A: Steep slope: ESCARP. It was clued as "Slope of a rampart" before. It's "a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification''. Derived from French "escarper" (to cut).
58A: Tapestry in "Hamlet": ARRAS
60A: Sphere of wisdom?: PEARL. Great clue. Would be better if it were in plural form. Pearls of wisdom.
65A: Summer on the Somme: ÉTÉ. Good one. Alliteration. "Somme river" is in northern France. Let's try "Sand's summer" next time. George Sand, the French writer.
69A: Lag behind: TRAIL
70A: French annuity: RENTE. French for "pension", "annuity". Our "rent" is "loyer" in French, like "loyer mensuel" (monthly rent).
71A: The German: DER. Another good clue. Masculine form of "the" in German. "DIE" is the feminine form and "DAS" is the neuter form. Learned this from Dennis.
72A: Witch trial city: SALEM
73A: Sen. Kefauver: ESTES. Does ESTES park (CO) have something to do with Sen. Kefauver and his family?
Down entries:
1D: Sajak of "Wheel of Fortune": PAT. Don't know him. Pure guess. I've never watched "Wheel of Fortune".
3D: City on Tokyo Bay: YOKOHAMA. Major port in Japan, together with Kobe, Osaka, Tokyo.
4D: Waste allowance: TRET
5D: Nebraska Sioux: OTOES
6D: Membrane of the inner eye: RETINA
7D: Hesitant sounds: ERS. Lots of "R' in today's puzzle, 22.
9D: FEMA command facility: EOC (Emergency Operations Center)
11D: Aromatic fir: BALSAM. Saw this clue before.
12D: Assert to be true: ALLEGE. Are you curious about who is Client No. 8 or Client No. 10?
13D: Yellowstone Park sight: GEYSER. See this picture, so misty.
18D: Tell's canton: URI. Or Swiss Canton. Tell is William Tell, the legendary archer. He was forced to shoot an apple from his son's head with bow and arrow.
19D: Bern's river: AAR
23D: Goldfish relative: CARP. The ornamental carp I suppose. This carp is way too big.
25D: Intestinal: ENTERIC. This word screwed up the whole grid for me! The noun is "enteron" (the alimentary canal; the intestines)
26D: "Zip- __-Doo-Dah": A DEE. Nope, I've never heard of it.
27D: Working copy: DRAFT
30D: Ill humor: BILE
32D: To be, in Toulon: ÊTRE. or Raison d'___.
33D: Mme. Bovary: EMMA. Ah, the danger and thrill of adultery! The only Flaubert's work I've read.
36D: Engrave slab: STELE. Look at this piece from Xi'An Forest of Stele Museum, beautiful calligraphy. Those texts are from the Confucian classics.
41D: Audaciously rude: INSOLENT
42D: Tiny birds: TITS. Pretty, isn't it? (Thomas, I did not know the slang meaning of "tit", so I was at sea when you warned me earlier.)
46D: Arranged in steps: GRADED
47D: Expose to oxygen: AERATE. Have to ask this question again: Why green keepers aerate the greens in fall rather than spring? Where have you been Alex in PGA?
48D: More agile: SPRYER. Can also be spelled as SPRIER.
50D: Flame-thrower fluid: NAPALM. No idea. It's "a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc". From Na (phthene)+PALM (itate). All gibberish to me.
53D: Senator Nunn: SAM. No, I've never heard of him. He left the Senate before I arrived here. SAM Snead tomorrow?
55D: Stimpy's pal: REN. Repeat offender.
56D: San Diego pro: PADRE. What's their record this season? 8-6, not bad. Twins bullpen sucks!!
64D: Latvian chess master: TAL (Mikhail). Not Russian?
67D: Legal thing: RES. Latin.
Quip, or quote, that's the question, for tomorrow.
C.C.
