Theme: “Clothing Closures"
17A: Kind of cookie: GINGER SNAP
61A: Michale J. Fox sitcom: FAMILY TIES
10D: Navel: BELLY BUTTON
24D: Peter Pan's arch enemy: CAPTAIN HOOK
Yawner, yawner, yawner! Too many crosswordese, hard for me to get excited about.
TLC (63D: Gentle treatment) needs a "Briefly" in the clue. And ERAS (29D: Important periods) needs to be changed to "Pitchers' stats" or something else because of the answer PERIOD (46A: Full stop).
Not a bad theme idea, but why TIES (61A) is in plural form while the other theme answers are all in singular form? Where is the consistency?
Across:
10A: Huffed and puffed: BLEW. "Boy you really BLEW my mind..., I think I'm in love with you. I been doin' silly things when it comes to you..." Lovely lyrics. Do you like Jessica Simpson? My favorite Jessica song is "I Wanna Love You Forever".
14A: Likeness: IMAGE. "Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his IMAGE", so true.
24A: Today's OSS: CIA. Have you seen Robert De Niro/Matt Damon's "The Good Shepherd"? It's indeed "The Godfather of CIA movies".
25A: Gardner's Mason: PERRY. ERLE Stanley Gardner.
26A: Truth, vis-a-vis fiction?: STRANGER. Good clue. Truth is STRANGER than fiction. Only learned this morning that this saying comes from Byron's poem "Don Juan".
35A: "East of Eden" twin: ARON. No idea. I got it from down fills.
37A: Actress Irene: DUNNE. Learned from doing Xword. I've never seen any of her movies.
41A: Ensnare: TRAP. And 5D: Catch by persistence: REEL IN
48A: Offered sympathy to: CONSOLED. I penned in CONDOLED first.
53A: You go girl!: RIGHT ON. Are they really interchangeable?
57A: AKA's commerce cousin: DBA (Doing Business As). No, I've never heard of it. Where will you see this acronym?
67A: Unassuming: MEEK. I don't think they are synonyms, do you?
Down:
1D: Way up: HIGH. Hmm, does this clue/answer bring to your mind U2's Mysterious Way: "...If you want to kiss the sky. Better learn how to kneel. On your knees boy..."
9D: Documents: PAPERS. PAPER CLIP would be a great theme answer too.
23D: 2005 MVP: AROD. Ah, Madonna, Lenny Kratz, what a SNAFU (51D: Major glitch).
26D: Throw out: SCRAP. Saw it clued as "Deep-Six" before. Six is a very interesting number, esp in Swedish & Latin languages.
25D: Grocery section: PRODUCE. The precious MOREL is placed at the PRODUCE section in our local grocery store.
43D: Lampblack: SOOT. Thought of Santa and his chimney.
47D: Clumsy clod: DOOFUS
49D: Accept a proposal: SAY YES. Why not?
56D: Yearn to see again: MISS. "How can I MISS you if you don't go away?"
58D: ___ around the block: BEEN. I've never heard of this idiom before.
C.C.
17A: Kind of cookie: GINGER SNAP
61A: Michale J. Fox sitcom: FAMILY TIES
10D: Navel: BELLY BUTTON
24D: Peter Pan's arch enemy: CAPTAIN HOOK
Yawner, yawner, yawner! Too many crosswordese, hard for me to get excited about.
TLC (63D: Gentle treatment) needs a "Briefly" in the clue. And ERAS (29D: Important periods) needs to be changed to "Pitchers' stats" or something else because of the answer PERIOD (46A: Full stop).
Not a bad theme idea, but why TIES (61A) is in plural form while the other theme answers are all in singular form? Where is the consistency?
Across:
10A: Huffed and puffed: BLEW. "Boy you really BLEW my mind..., I think I'm in love with you. I been doin' silly things when it comes to you..." Lovely lyrics. Do you like Jessica Simpson? My favorite Jessica song is "I Wanna Love You Forever".
14A: Likeness: IMAGE. "Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his IMAGE", so true.
24A: Today's OSS: CIA. Have you seen Robert De Niro/Matt Damon's "The Good Shepherd"? It's indeed "The Godfather of CIA movies".
25A: Gardner's Mason: PERRY. ERLE Stanley Gardner.
26A: Truth, vis-a-vis fiction?: STRANGER. Good clue. Truth is STRANGER than fiction. Only learned this morning that this saying comes from Byron's poem "Don Juan".
35A: "East of Eden" twin: ARON. No idea. I got it from down fills.
37A: Actress Irene: DUNNE. Learned from doing Xword. I've never seen any of her movies.
41A: Ensnare: TRAP. And 5D: Catch by persistence: REEL IN
48A: Offered sympathy to: CONSOLED. I penned in CONDOLED first.
53A: You go girl!: RIGHT ON. Are they really interchangeable?
57A: AKA's commerce cousin: DBA (Doing Business As). No, I've never heard of it. Where will you see this acronym?
67A: Unassuming: MEEK. I don't think they are synonyms, do you?
Down:
1D: Way up: HIGH. Hmm, does this clue/answer bring to your mind U2's Mysterious Way: "...If you want to kiss the sky. Better learn how to kneel. On your knees boy..."
9D: Documents: PAPERS. PAPER CLIP would be a great theme answer too.
23D: 2005 MVP: AROD. Ah, Madonna, Lenny Kratz, what a SNAFU (51D: Major glitch).
26D: Throw out: SCRAP. Saw it clued as "Deep-Six" before. Six is a very interesting number, esp in Swedish & Latin languages.
25D: Grocery section: PRODUCE. The precious MOREL is placed at the PRODUCE section in our local grocery store.
43D: Lampblack: SOOT. Thought of Santa and his chimney.
47D: Clumsy clod: DOOFUS
49D: Accept a proposal: SAY YES. Why not?
56D: Yearn to see again: MISS. "How can I MISS you if you don't go away?"
58D: ___ around the block: BEEN. I've never heard of this idiom before.
C.C.
