Theme: QUOTE
17A: Start of Abram Chasins quote: THE MORE
28A: Part 2 of quote: YOU LOVE MUSIC
45A: Part 3 of quote: THE MORE MUSIC
61A: End of quote: YOU LOVE
Finally a QUOTE! I just get headache when facing a QUIP theme. But what a boring QUOTE! And so many repeat offenders. Stuffy! Nothing melodious and nothing sparkling. In fact, it feels very noisy. Look:
24A: Commotions: ADOS
56A: Uproarious commotion: HOO-HAH
62A: Corrida call: OLE
46D: Cacophony: RACKET
And I always associate 31D: MAORI with the roaring MAORI Haka dance, so this whole puzzle is just too loud for me. As for 32D: Skedaddles: SCATS, why not jazz up the clue musically to fit in your theme? The same with 58D: Soft drink: POP. You don't like POP music?
The only highlight is to see I DOS (24A) parallel LOVE and intersect APPROVE (8D) and CHOOSE (9D). I also like how YES (61D) echoes I DOS.
ACROSS:
1A: Even more saccharine: MUSHIER
14A: Baltic republic: ESTONIA. Do you like Carmen Kass? Dior' J'adore girl perfume girl. She is from ESTONIA.
16A: Actor Torn: RIP. What a strange name, isn't RIP and TORN the same?
18A: "The Bells" poet: POE. I've never read this poem. Lots of bells in the poem. Are you familiar with Poe's "The Fall of the House of USHER"?
21A: Like some humor: IRONIC
25A: Colorful salamander: NEWT
36A: Supermarket passageway: AISLE. I think I prefer "Lover's lane?" clue with today's LOVE MUSIC theme. In fact, I won't complain if it's clued as 2D's lane.
37A: Synagogue singer: CANTOR. No idea. Got it from down clues. It's "the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos".
40A: Be part of the cast of: ACT IN. I am happy any time a preposition or a definite article is clued in the grid.
49A: Game point situation: AD IN. Another tennis related clue is 52D: Rod of tennis: LAVER.
64A: Stored fodder: ENSILED
65A: LAX setting: PST (Pacific Standard Time)
67A: Some hunting dogs: SETTERS. Hmm, STREET & TESTER, interesting.
DOWN:
2D: Theater worker: USHER. YEAH, this constructor must be very old. Or he simply could not INTERPRET (34D: Give meaning to) USHER's Confessions.
3D: Inscribed pillar: STELA. Variation of STELE. I did not known before.
4D: Inspirational discourse: HOMILY
6D: Hibernia: EIRE Latin for Ireland. Why did they give such a wintry name to Ireland? I think I am a mild a hibernophile. I have an irrational interest in IRA, and I love listening the Corrs when I am feeling lonely. Where do you go when you are blue?
8D: OK: APPROVE.
9D: Take one from Column B: CHOOSE. Does this clue feel alright to you?
11D: Puts through a procedure: PROCESSES
22D: Indigenous Canadian: INUIT
26D: Novelist Cather: WILLA. Unknown to me. Just found out earlier that she wrote O Pioneers! She got Pulitzer for her One of Ours.
27D: Immune syst. component: T CELL. T stands for thymus. Belong to white blood cells. I don't know this, very gettable though.
31D: Native New Zealand: MAORI. Have you seen MAORI Haka dance in person? Earsplitting! I guess it's OK on the Rugby field, like this one.
47D: Calm yourself!: COOL IT! And 39A: I'm all ears: DO TELL. Very colloquial. I like them both.
53D: Molts: SHEDS. I kind of like the "Drop Down" clue after reading Crockett1947's "When that EIDER duck molts, he certainly drops down" comment.
55D: Man or Dogs: ISLE. Saw this clue before. ISLE of Dogs is in the east of London.
56D: Make a point?: HONE. Nice clue.
57D: Throw out: OUST. Wanted TOSS.
Happy Birthday Mkat & Justin Morneau (Great home run last night)!
C.C.
17A: Start of Abram Chasins quote: THE MORE
28A: Part 2 of quote: YOU LOVE MUSIC
45A: Part 3 of quote: THE MORE MUSIC
61A: End of quote: YOU LOVE
Finally a QUOTE! I just get headache when facing a QUIP theme. But what a boring QUOTE! And so many repeat offenders. Stuffy! Nothing melodious and nothing sparkling. In fact, it feels very noisy. Look:
24A: Commotions: ADOS
56A: Uproarious commotion: HOO-HAH
62A: Corrida call: OLE
46D: Cacophony: RACKET
And I always associate 31D: MAORI with the roaring MAORI Haka dance, so this whole puzzle is just too loud for me. As for 32D: Skedaddles: SCATS, why not jazz up the clue musically to fit in your theme? The same with 58D: Soft drink: POP. You don't like POP music?
The only highlight is to see I DOS (24A) parallel LOVE and intersect APPROVE (8D) and CHOOSE (9D). I also like how YES (61D) echoes I DOS.
ACROSS:
1A: Even more saccharine: MUSHIER
14A: Baltic republic: ESTONIA. Do you like Carmen Kass? Dior' J'adore girl perfume girl. She is from ESTONIA.
16A: Actor Torn: RIP. What a strange name, isn't RIP and TORN the same?
18A: "The Bells" poet: POE. I've never read this poem. Lots of bells in the poem. Are you familiar with Poe's "The Fall of the House of USHER"?
21A: Like some humor: IRONIC
25A: Colorful salamander: NEWT
36A: Supermarket passageway: AISLE. I think I prefer "Lover's lane?" clue with today's LOVE MUSIC theme. In fact, I won't complain if it's clued as 2D's lane.
37A: Synagogue singer: CANTOR. No idea. Got it from down clues. It's "the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos".
40A: Be part of the cast of: ACT IN. I am happy any time a preposition or a definite article is clued in the grid.
49A: Game point situation: AD IN. Another tennis related clue is 52D: Rod of tennis: LAVER.
64A: Stored fodder: ENSILED
65A: LAX setting: PST (Pacific Standard Time)
67A: Some hunting dogs: SETTERS. Hmm, STREET & TESTER, interesting.
DOWN:
2D: Theater worker: USHER. YEAH, this constructor must be very old. Or he simply could not INTERPRET (34D: Give meaning to) USHER's Confessions.
3D: Inscribed pillar: STELA. Variation of STELE. I did not known before.
4D: Inspirational discourse: HOMILY
6D: Hibernia: EIRE Latin for Ireland. Why did they give such a wintry name to Ireland? I think I am a mild a hibernophile. I have an irrational interest in IRA, and I love listening the Corrs when I am feeling lonely. Where do you go when you are blue?
8D: OK: APPROVE.
9D: Take one from Column B: CHOOSE. Does this clue feel alright to you?
11D: Puts through a procedure: PROCESSES
22D: Indigenous Canadian: INUIT
26D: Novelist Cather: WILLA. Unknown to me. Just found out earlier that she wrote O Pioneers! She got Pulitzer for her One of Ours.
27D: Immune syst. component: T CELL. T stands for thymus. Belong to white blood cells. I don't know this, very gettable though.
31D: Native New Zealand: MAORI. Have you seen MAORI Haka dance in person? Earsplitting! I guess it's OK on the Rugby field, like this one.
47D: Calm yourself!: COOL IT! And 39A: I'm all ears: DO TELL. Very colloquial. I like them both.
53D: Molts: SHEDS. I kind of like the "Drop Down" clue after reading Crockett1947's "When that EIDER duck molts, he certainly drops down" comment.
55D: Man or Dogs: ISLE. Saw this clue before. ISLE of Dogs is in the east of London.
56D: Make a point?: HONE. Nice clue.
57D: Throw out: OUST. Wanted TOSS.
Happy Birthday Mkat & Justin Morneau (Great home run last night)!
C.C.
