Theme: Money Matters
19A: Start of a quip: MONEY
25A: Part 2 of quip: IS WHAT THINGS
40A: Part 3 of quip: RUN INTO
51A: Part 4 of quip: AND PEOPLE RUN
61A: End of quip: OUT OF
I am AT A LOSS (44D: Perplexed) for words over this puzzle. There are some quality clues and lively answers. But I really don't grok this quip.
I know PEOPLE can "RUN OUT OF MONEY", but how can things "RUN INTO MONEY"? It does not make any sense to me.
Whatever, MONEY can indeed be a powerful aphrodisiac. I would buy a graded (PSA 7 or better) Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle if I were rich. How about you?
Across:
5A: Poker variation: STUD. STUD is such a virile word, so many ways to play around.
9A: Archipelago member: ISLET. Is "Keys" a kind of ISLET?
16A: Tall military hat: SHAKO. Now, what's the name of that showy red stuff atop the hat? Strange shape, strange position!
20A: Atlanta's transit system: MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority). No idea. I strung the answer together from down clues.
22A: Fleetwood Mac hit: SARA. Here is the song. I've never heard of it before.
28A: Sister/Wife of Zeus: HERA. And their mother is RHEA.
29A: Restaurant employee: MAITRE D'. I like the intersection of this word with RISTORANTE (30D).
33A: Iowa city: AMES. The Cyclones (Iowa State) are here.
38A: Turbulent: ROILY
42A: Haggard novel: SHE. I simply forgot. Saw this clue before. Here is the book cover.
43A: CoverGirl rival: ALMAY. I like CoverGirl's LashBlast.
47A: Tex-Mex menu choice: TOSTADA. This Avocado TOSTADA looks delicious.
59A: Classify: SORT. Does "pegged" in "Have someone pegged" mean "classified" also?
63A: Iron pumper's pride: LATS. I would not have got this one without the down fills. Not a familiar term to me.
67A: Cato's way: ITER
68A: Sundance Kid's girl: ETTA. Have not seen ETTA clued as "Kett of comics" for a long time.
70A: Carolina rail: SORA. Looks like she is ready to attack.
71A: Virginia dance: REEL. Pure guess. Not a familar dance to me.
Down:
1D: Likewise: AS AM I. I wanted ME TOO.
3D: Pushes beyond endurance: OVERWHELMS. Interesting way to define OVERWHELMS.
4D: Cuts canines: TEETHES
6D: L'chaim or prosit: TOAST. Hebrew & German respectively. "Gan Bei" in Chinese.
7D: Bathsheba's Hittite hubby: URIAH. Certainly not a gimme to me. I have such difficulty remembering this Dickens character.
8D: Disadvantage: DETRIMENT
9D: Ending of a belief: ISM. Hmmm, no guts to clue it as "The ending of sex"?
10D: Gives a look at: SHOWS TO. Ha, this answer did not crumble so easily to me at all.
26D: No-no: TABU. Needs a variation mark in the clue.
27D: __d'Italia (bicycle race): GIRO. Another guess. Dimly remember this race at Lance Armstrong's "It's Not About the Bike".
30D: Italian eatery: RISTORANTE. "Restaurant" in Italian. Unknown to me. I pieced it together from the perps.
31D: K-12, in education: ELHI (Elementary & High school). I could picture the frown from KittyB.
46D: Writer of "The Faerie Queene": SPENSER (Edmund). Foreign to me. Easily inferable though. Are you familiar with this poet and his poem?
48D: Toothy deg.: DDS (Doctor of Dental Science/Surgery). Not sure which one is the license to drill.
52D: Muse of lyric poetry: ERATO. "Lovely" name.
62D: Tina of "30 Rock": FEY. She certainly rocks!
C.C.
19A: Start of a quip: MONEY
25A: Part 2 of quip: IS WHAT THINGS
40A: Part 3 of quip: RUN INTO
51A: Part 4 of quip: AND PEOPLE RUN
61A: End of quip: OUT OF
I am AT A LOSS (44D: Perplexed) for words over this puzzle. There are some quality clues and lively answers. But I really don't grok this quip.
I know PEOPLE can "RUN OUT OF MONEY", but how can things "RUN INTO MONEY"? It does not make any sense to me.
Whatever, MONEY can indeed be a powerful aphrodisiac. I would buy a graded (PSA 7 or better) Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle if I were rich. How about you?
Across:
5A: Poker variation: STUD. STUD is such a virile word, so many ways to play around.
9A: Archipelago member: ISLET. Is "Keys" a kind of ISLET?
16A: Tall military hat: SHAKO. Now, what's the name of that showy red stuff atop the hat? Strange shape, strange position!
20A: Atlanta's transit system: MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority). No idea. I strung the answer together from down clues.
22A: Fleetwood Mac hit: SARA. Here is the song. I've never heard of it before.
28A: Sister/Wife of Zeus: HERA. And their mother is RHEA.
29A: Restaurant employee: MAITRE D'. I like the intersection of this word with RISTORANTE (30D).
33A: Iowa city: AMES. The Cyclones (Iowa State) are here.
38A: Turbulent: ROILY
42A: Haggard novel: SHE. I simply forgot. Saw this clue before. Here is the book cover.
43A: CoverGirl rival: ALMAY. I like CoverGirl's LashBlast.
47A: Tex-Mex menu choice: TOSTADA. This Avocado TOSTADA looks delicious.
59A: Classify: SORT. Does "pegged" in "Have someone pegged" mean "classified" also?
63A: Iron pumper's pride: LATS. I would not have got this one without the down fills. Not a familiar term to me.
67A: Cato's way: ITER
68A: Sundance Kid's girl: ETTA. Have not seen ETTA clued as "Kett of comics" for a long time.
70A: Carolina rail: SORA. Looks like she is ready to attack.
71A: Virginia dance: REEL. Pure guess. Not a familar dance to me.
Down:
1D: Likewise: AS AM I. I wanted ME TOO.
3D: Pushes beyond endurance: OVERWHELMS. Interesting way to define OVERWHELMS.
4D: Cuts canines: TEETHES
6D: L'chaim or prosit: TOAST. Hebrew & German respectively. "Gan Bei" in Chinese.
7D: Bathsheba's Hittite hubby: URIAH. Certainly not a gimme to me. I have such difficulty remembering this Dickens character.
8D: Disadvantage: DETRIMENT
9D: Ending of a belief: ISM. Hmmm, no guts to clue it as "The ending of sex"?
10D: Gives a look at: SHOWS TO. Ha, this answer did not crumble so easily to me at all.
26D: No-no: TABU. Needs a variation mark in the clue.
27D: __d'Italia (bicycle race): GIRO. Another guess. Dimly remember this race at Lance Armstrong's "It's Not About the Bike".
30D: Italian eatery: RISTORANTE. "Restaurant" in Italian. Unknown to me. I pieced it together from the perps.
31D: K-12, in education: ELHI (Elementary & High school). I could picture the frown from KittyB.
46D: Writer of "The Faerie Queene": SPENSER (Edmund). Foreign to me. Easily inferable though. Are you familiar with this poet and his poem?
48D: Toothy deg.: DDS (Doctor of Dental Science/Surgery). Not sure which one is the license to drill.
52D: Muse of lyric poetry: ERATO. "Lovely" name.
62D: Tina of "30 Rock": FEY. She certainly rocks!
C.C.
