Theme: Over and Over (Blogged by Argyle)
23A: Resumé accompaniment: COVER LETTER
42A: Cowboy: CATTLE DROVER
64A: President from New Jersey: GROVER CLEVELAND
90A: Bill Holman comic strip: SMOKEY STOVER
111A: “Lethal Weapon” sidekick: DANNY GLOVER
14D: Road arrangement: CLOVERLEAF
71D: Bulldozer: EARTHMOVER
Theme Song
Across:
IA: Rice dish: PILAF. Chow Time
6A: Defensive or end: ZONE. Defensive zone: hockey. End zone: football.
10A: Pilot’s place: PALM. Redneck Palm Pilot
14A: Leader Guevara: CHE. Castro’s amigo.
17A: Peninsular mideast region: ARABIA. map
19A: He finishes the cake: ICER.
20A: Steel support: I BEAM.
22A: Fall behind: LAG.
23A: Resumé accompaniment: COVER LETTER. A letter to coalesce the various items in the resume.
25A: Hugo hero: QUASIMODO. Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and Quasimodo was the hunchback.
27A: Compass pt.: E N E.
28A: Wells vegetarians: ELOI. The Eloi are one of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine ; the other race, the Morlocks, are not vegetarians.
29A: Beyond help: SUNK. A goner.
30A: “When ___ Cry”: DOVES. The “Artist” Prince has muted all YouTube versions of his song so here are some originals.
31A: Wise ___ owl: AS AN. Wise as an owl.
32A: Acted like a chick: PEEPED. They’re coming soon. PEEPS!
35A: Actress Moorehead: AGNES. Agnes Moorehead, on the radio version of The Shadow in 1937, portrayed Margo Lane, The Shadow's confidant. The Shadow’s famous ability to "cloud men's minds," made him an invincible crime fighter, a figure never seen, only heard. Very convenient for radio!
36A: Ooze: SEEP.
39A: “Pal Joey” author: O’HARA. Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary(written as a series of letters) novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name.
40A: Enter the picture: APPEAR. This reminds me of a clip I saw. Two elderly women are dozing in chairs at the beach; their camera on the table beside them. Some boys come along and one sneaks up and takes the camera.
“Oh,” you think to yourself, “he’s stealing the camera.” But instead he takes a picture of another boy ‘mooning’ the camera and then puts it back on the table and they go on down the beach.
I would have liked to have been there when the women got those photos back.
42A: Cowboy: CATTLE DROVER. One who drives cattle to market.
46A: Spruce: NEAT. Spruce, meaning smart, neat, fashionable, and spruce, the tree, come from the same root(Prussia) but by very different roads. The word, Pruce, indicates from Prussia, where the spruce fir came from. Also, a very fine leather came from Prussia and apparel made with 'spruce leather' was neat and dapper.
47A: ___ Cruces, NM: LAS. Famous for it's breathtaking sunsets.
50A: Fireplace residue: ASH.
51A: Spur: INCITE. The cattle drover spurred his horse and incited it to move faster.
52A: “The Lion King” villain: SCAR. Animated Disney movie
53A: Gave for a while: LENT. ‘Gave up for a while’ time?: LENT
54A: Creepy Christopher: LEE. He doesn't look so creepy...wait a minute...yes, he does!
55A: “The Jungle Book” bear: BALOO. Nothing scary about this bear.
56A: Does nothing: IDLES.
58A: Paul Anka hit: DIANA. 1957, singing about his babysitter.
59A: Grasso or Raines:ELLA. Ella Grasso, 1919 – 1981, was an American politician, and first woman elected governor of Connecticut. She was elected governor "in her own right," without being the wife or widow of a past governor. Ella Raines, 1920 – 1988, was an American actress. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for movies, the other for TV.
61A: Wire gauge: MIL. one mil = 0.001 of an inch
62A: Inter ___: ALIA. Inter Alia, means among other things, in Latin.
63A: Go into a huddle: CONFER.
64A: President from New Jersey: GROVER CLEVELAND. Stephen Grover Cleveland, 1837 – 1908, was both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–89 and 1893–97) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.
69A: See 107 Down: SEEGER. 107 Down: PETE. An American folk singer and song writer. as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer ", and "Turn, Turn, Turn!". Pete Seeger with his wife Toshi Seeger, founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., an organization that seeks to protect the Hudson River through advocacy and public education.
72A: Med subj.: ANAT.. Medical subject: anatomy: the study of the structure of animals.
73A: Fled: RAN.
74A: Eastern discipline: YOGA. In Hinduism, a set of mental and physical exercises aimed at producing spiritual enlightenment.
78A: Actor Delon: ALAIN. Alain Delon is a César Award-winning French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 he was garnering comparisons to famed French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot.
79A: Reno or Jackson: JANET. Janet Reno was the Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). Janet Jackson is an American recording artist and entertainer. She is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians.
81A: Velvety fabric: PANNE. A soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
83A: Down in the dumps: LOW.
84A: Bog: MIRE.
85A: Foodless day: FAST.
86A: Stuck one’s neck out: RISKED.
87A: “___ Sentimental Mood”: IN A. A jazz composition by Duke Ellington. I expect someone to give us a link to their favorite version of this composition.
88A: Tuck into a torte: EAT. Tuck into is a verb phrase meaning to eat with gusto and a torte a rich cake made with many eggs and little flour and usually containing chopped nuts.
89A: Big rig: SEMI. Tractor-trailer While we use the term semi to indicate the whole rig, it is more exact to call it just the trailer. A semi-trailer is a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. A full trailer is a trailer supported entirely by its own wheels.
90A: Bill Holman comic strip: SMOKEY STOVER. Smokey Stover was a comic strip written and drawn by Bill Holman from the 1930s until he retired in 1973. Distributed through the Chicago Tribune, it featured the misadventures of the titular fireman, and had the longest run of any strip in the screwball genre.
93A: Priam’s wife: HECUBA. She was the wife of Priam, King of Troy therefore she was the queen in Greek Mythology. Priam and Hecuba had nineteen children. Nadya Suleman hasn't caught up with her...yet.
95A: Moisten the marigolds: WATER.
96A: Collie’s concern: HERD. Look at those eyes.
97A: Inlay: EMBED. Embed has more meanings than just inlay.
98A: Less benevolent: MEANER.
100A: London district: SOHO. Soho has the densest concentration of restaurants, cafés, clubs and bars in central London, and represents the vibrant, bustling heart of the city. The area immediately surrounding Old Compton Street in the southern part of Soho is widely recognized as London's premier gay village.
103A: Decorate: ADORN.
104A: “Schindler’s ___”: LIST. movie, 1993, Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes. It is about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jews.
105A: Celebration: GALA.
106A: Choose, with for: OPT.
109A: Religious observances: DEVOTIONS.
111A: “Lethal Weapon” sidekick: DANNY GLOVER. As Sergeant Roger Murtaugh, he is afraid that Sergeant Martin Riggs(Mel Gibson) will get him killed in this series of films.
115A: In accord: ONE.
116A: Mead’s milieu: SAMOA. Margaret Mead authored of Coming of Age in Samoa.
117A: “Rigoletto” rendition: ARIA. “Rigoletto”, an opera (1851) with music by Giuseppe Verdi but not an individual aria so I feel this is a bad clue.
118A: Fly: AVIATE. You can’t be an aviator unless you aviate.
119A: Ukr., formerly: SSR. Ukraine is an independent country in Eastern Europe now, but at one time, it was a Soviet Socialist Republic.
120A: Not any, with a: NARY. I always heard it as “nary a one”.
121A: Make money: MINT. In debt, just mint more money(reserved for government use only).
122A: Where cats congregate: ALLEY. But at one time, they were on Broadway!
Down:
ID: Single step: PACE.
2D: Nutritional need: IRON.
3D: Wash: LAVE.
4D: Saperstein or Vigoda: ABE. Abe Saperstein was founder, owner, and coach of the Harlem Globetrotters Basketball Team. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970. Abe Vigoda is an American movie and television actor. He's best known for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on TV’s “Barney Miller”.
5D: Occasions for alarms: FIRES.
6D: Rigatoni relative: ZITI.
7D: UN Day month: OCT.. United Nations Day is the 24th of October.
8D: Society-page word: NEE.
9D: Stray: ERR.
10D: Stimulate: PIQUE.
11D: Plenty: ABUNDANCE.
12D: News source: LEAK.
13D: Bell and Barker: MAS. “Ma” Bell refers generally to all AT&T companies. “Ma” Barker’s sons went on a crime spree but she is thought to have not been involved in any actual crime. After she was killed in a shootout, J. Edgar Hoover tried to portray her as the leader to justify her death.
14D: Road arrangement: CLOVERLEAF. Interchange
15D: Pluto’s place: HADES. Pluto was the Roman version of the Greek God, Hades. The Romans called the underworld Hades. Confused yet?
16D: Inflatable items?: EGOS. Cute clue.
18D: ___ breve: ALLA. Alla Breve is tempo marking indicating a quick duple meter with the half note rather than the quarter note getting the beat (2/2 rather than 4/4). I’m sure somebody will explain it better in the comments section.
21D: Very small: MIDGET. Very small for its kind.
24D: Years on end: EON. Comprised of two or more eras.
26D: ___ Lisa: MONA. Aw, you know what she looks like.
29D: Practice punching: SPAR.
31D: Inclined: APT.
32D: Snapshot: PHOTO.
33D: Roof edge: EAVE.
34D: Poetic preposition: ERE. Before.
35D: On ___ with: equal to: A PAR.
36D: It’ll give you a weigh: SCALE. Clever.
37D: Art supporter?: EASEL. Used to be clever.
38D: Merman or Mertz: ETHEL. Ethel Merman, 1908 – 1984, was an American actress and singer known for musical theatre; well known for her powerful voice. Ethel Mertz is a fictional character played by Vivian Vance in the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy, where she was Lucy’s friend and landlady.
39D: Baltimore Batsman: ORIOLE. A baseball player on the Baltimore Orioles team.
41D: Soup veggies: PEAS.
43D: Prog.: LIB.. I think they meant a member of a PROGressive party. Party members are LIBerals.
44D: Captivate: ENAMOR.
45D: CCXVIII tripled: DCLIV. 218 X 3 = 654
48D: Prince Philip’s daughter: ANNE. Prince Philip is Queen Elizabeth’s husband and their four children are Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.
49D: Show-stopper: STAR. But the show must go on.
52D: Eastern European: SLAV.
53D: Jitterbug dance: LINDY. This is NOT how we did it at our record hops.
56D: ___ ease: uncomfortable: ILL AT. Ill at ease; socially uncomfortable
57D: Spare fare: DIET. Another clever clue.
58D: Oxford bigwig: DON. The English have Dons instead of Deans like American Universities.
60D: Certain marble: AGGIE.
62D: Sebaceous gland problem: ACNE. Sebaceous is such an icky word.
63D: Cinema site: CANNES. I pondered this clue for awhile, thinking they wanted a type of theater. The Cannes Film Festival is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held usually in the month of May at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.
65D: Stimpy’s pal: REN. The Ren and Stimpy Show is an American/Canadian animated television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. The series first aired on MTV before going to Nickelodeon. They had a reputation for controversy, mostly stemming from imagery and cartoon violence. They pushed TV animation to new, borderline-tastelessness with episodes such as “Stimpy’s First Fart.”
66D: Carry on: RANT.
67D: School item: ERASER. Often a crossword item, also.
68D: Like Lincoln: LANKY. There is talk of getting some Lincoln’s DNA to see if he did, in fact, have Marfan’s syndrome.
69D: Identical: SAME.
70D: Literary pseudonym: ELIA. The pen name of Charles Lamb, 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
71D: Bulldozer: EARTHMOVER. Early Japanese bulldozer.
75D: Popeye’s favorite color?: OLIVE. Popeye’s favorite gal, Olive Oyl.
76D: Hopeless case: GONER.
77D: Oscar or Tony: AWARD. Oscar is awarded for achievements in motion picture production and performance. Tony is awarded for achievements in theatrical production and performance.
79D: Door part: JAMB.
80D: Near East: ASIA MINOR.
81D: Tightwad: PIKER.
82D: NY hours: EDT. Eastern Daylight-saving Time.
85D: Clan clash: FEUD.
86D: Learning method: ROTE.
89D: Hunts like a hound: SCENTS.
90D: Ruth’s sultanate?: SWAT. The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, The Colossus of Clout
91D: Chess piece: MAN.
92D: Triumphant cry: OHO.
94D: Spanish river: EBRO. The main river (Rio Ebro) of northern Spain.
97D: Barbara and Anthony: EDEN. Barbara Eden is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. This is one outfit that never made it on to television. Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, 1897 – 1977, was a British Conservative politician, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957.
99D: English-class assignment: ESSAY.
100D: Utter: SAY.
101D: Gymnast Korbut: OLGA. Olga Korbut, Gold Medalist 1972 Olympics, the Munchkin of Munich.
102D: Turkish treat: HALVA. A confection consisting of crushed sesame seeds in a binder of honey.
103D: Commotions: ADOS.
104D: ___ Linda, Cal: LOMA. Here
105D: Pesky insect: GNAT.
106D: Egg-shaped: OVAL.
107D: With 69 Across, “Turn! Turn! Turn” composer: PETE.
108D: Deck member: TREY. As in a deck of cards, the three. If there had been nautical clues/answers in the area, this could have been a stinker.
110D: Rock musician ___ Hunter: IAN. Ian Hunter was formerly frontman of Mott the Hoople;
111D: Beaver’s construction: DAM.
112D: Onassis’ nickname: ARI.
113D: Diarist Anais: NIN. Anais Nin (1903-1977). She wrote Delta of Venus which has been called porno for poets.
114D: It may be crude: OIL.
Argyle
23A: Resumé accompaniment: COVER LETTER
42A: Cowboy: CATTLE DROVER
64A: President from New Jersey: GROVER CLEVELAND
90A: Bill Holman comic strip: SMOKEY STOVER
111A: “Lethal Weapon” sidekick: DANNY GLOVER
14D: Road arrangement: CLOVERLEAF
71D: Bulldozer: EARTHMOVER
Theme Song
Across:
IA: Rice dish: PILAF. Chow Time
6A: Defensive or end: ZONE. Defensive zone: hockey. End zone: football.
10A: Pilot’s place: PALM. Redneck Palm Pilot
14A: Leader Guevara: CHE. Castro’s amigo.
17A: Peninsular mideast region: ARABIA. map
19A: He finishes the cake: ICER.
20A: Steel support: I BEAM.
22A: Fall behind: LAG.
23A: Resumé accompaniment: COVER LETTER. A letter to coalesce the various items in the resume.
25A: Hugo hero: QUASIMODO. Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and Quasimodo was the hunchback.
27A: Compass pt.: E N E.
28A: Wells vegetarians: ELOI. The Eloi are one of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine ; the other race, the Morlocks, are not vegetarians.
29A: Beyond help: SUNK. A goner.
30A: “When ___ Cry”: DOVES. The “Artist” Prince has muted all YouTube versions of his song so here are some originals.
31A: Wise ___ owl: AS AN. Wise as an owl.
32A: Acted like a chick: PEEPED. They’re coming soon. PEEPS!
35A: Actress Moorehead: AGNES. Agnes Moorehead, on the radio version of The Shadow in 1937, portrayed Margo Lane, The Shadow's confidant. The Shadow’s famous ability to "cloud men's minds," made him an invincible crime fighter, a figure never seen, only heard. Very convenient for radio!
36A: Ooze: SEEP.
39A: “Pal Joey” author: O’HARA. Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary(written as a series of letters) novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name.
40A: Enter the picture: APPEAR. This reminds me of a clip I saw. Two elderly women are dozing in chairs at the beach; their camera on the table beside them. Some boys come along and one sneaks up and takes the camera.
“Oh,” you think to yourself, “he’s stealing the camera.” But instead he takes a picture of another boy ‘mooning’ the camera and then puts it back on the table and they go on down the beach.
I would have liked to have been there when the women got those photos back.
42A: Cowboy: CATTLE DROVER. One who drives cattle to market.
46A: Spruce: NEAT. Spruce, meaning smart, neat, fashionable, and spruce, the tree, come from the same root(Prussia) but by very different roads. The word, Pruce, indicates from Prussia, where the spruce fir came from. Also, a very fine leather came from Prussia and apparel made with 'spruce leather' was neat and dapper.
47A: ___ Cruces, NM: LAS. Famous for it's breathtaking sunsets.
50A: Fireplace residue: ASH.
51A: Spur: INCITE. The cattle drover spurred his horse and incited it to move faster.
52A: “The Lion King” villain: SCAR. Animated Disney movie
53A: Gave for a while: LENT. ‘Gave up for a while’ time?: LENT
54A: Creepy Christopher: LEE. He doesn't look so creepy...wait a minute...yes, he does!
55A: “The Jungle Book” bear: BALOO. Nothing scary about this bear.
56A: Does nothing: IDLES.
58A: Paul Anka hit: DIANA. 1957, singing about his babysitter.
59A: Grasso or Raines:ELLA. Ella Grasso, 1919 – 1981, was an American politician, and first woman elected governor of Connecticut. She was elected governor "in her own right," without being the wife or widow of a past governor. Ella Raines, 1920 – 1988, was an American actress. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for movies, the other for TV.
61A: Wire gauge: MIL. one mil = 0.001 of an inch
62A: Inter ___: ALIA. Inter Alia, means among other things, in Latin.
63A: Go into a huddle: CONFER.
64A: President from New Jersey: GROVER CLEVELAND. Stephen Grover Cleveland, 1837 – 1908, was both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–89 and 1893–97) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.
69A: See 107 Down: SEEGER. 107 Down: PETE. An American folk singer and song writer. as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer ", and "Turn, Turn, Turn!". Pete Seeger with his wife Toshi Seeger, founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., an organization that seeks to protect the Hudson River through advocacy and public education.
72A: Med subj.: ANAT.. Medical subject: anatomy: the study of the structure of animals.
73A: Fled: RAN.
74A: Eastern discipline: YOGA. In Hinduism, a set of mental and physical exercises aimed at producing spiritual enlightenment.
78A: Actor Delon: ALAIN. Alain Delon is a César Award-winning French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 he was garnering comparisons to famed French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot.
79A: Reno or Jackson: JANET. Janet Reno was the Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). Janet Jackson is an American recording artist and entertainer. She is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians.
81A: Velvety fabric: PANNE. A soft, lustrous, lightweight velvet with flattened pile.
83A: Down in the dumps: LOW.
84A: Bog: MIRE.
85A: Foodless day: FAST.
86A: Stuck one’s neck out: RISKED.
87A: “___ Sentimental Mood”: IN A. A jazz composition by Duke Ellington. I expect someone to give us a link to their favorite version of this composition.
88A: Tuck into a torte: EAT. Tuck into is a verb phrase meaning to eat with gusto and a torte a rich cake made with many eggs and little flour and usually containing chopped nuts.
89A: Big rig: SEMI. Tractor-trailer While we use the term semi to indicate the whole rig, it is more exact to call it just the trailer. A semi-trailer is a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. A full trailer is a trailer supported entirely by its own wheels.
90A: Bill Holman comic strip: SMOKEY STOVER. Smokey Stover was a comic strip written and drawn by Bill Holman from the 1930s until he retired in 1973. Distributed through the Chicago Tribune, it featured the misadventures of the titular fireman, and had the longest run of any strip in the screwball genre.
93A: Priam’s wife: HECUBA. She was the wife of Priam, King of Troy therefore she was the queen in Greek Mythology. Priam and Hecuba had nineteen children. Nadya Suleman hasn't caught up with her...yet.
95A: Moisten the marigolds: WATER.
96A: Collie’s concern: HERD. Look at those eyes.
97A: Inlay: EMBED. Embed has more meanings than just inlay.
98A: Less benevolent: MEANER.
100A: London district: SOHO. Soho has the densest concentration of restaurants, cafés, clubs and bars in central London, and represents the vibrant, bustling heart of the city. The area immediately surrounding Old Compton Street in the southern part of Soho is widely recognized as London's premier gay village.
103A: Decorate: ADORN.
104A: “Schindler’s ___”: LIST. movie, 1993, Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes. It is about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jews.
105A: Celebration: GALA.
106A: Choose, with for: OPT.
109A: Religious observances: DEVOTIONS.
111A: “Lethal Weapon” sidekick: DANNY GLOVER. As Sergeant Roger Murtaugh, he is afraid that Sergeant Martin Riggs(Mel Gibson) will get him killed in this series of films.
115A: In accord: ONE.
116A: Mead’s milieu: SAMOA. Margaret Mead authored of Coming of Age in Samoa.
117A: “Rigoletto” rendition: ARIA. “Rigoletto”, an opera (1851) with music by Giuseppe Verdi but not an individual aria so I feel this is a bad clue.
118A: Fly: AVIATE. You can’t be an aviator unless you aviate.
119A: Ukr., formerly: SSR. Ukraine is an independent country in Eastern Europe now, but at one time, it was a Soviet Socialist Republic.
120A: Not any, with a: NARY. I always heard it as “nary a one”.
121A: Make money: MINT. In debt, just mint more money(reserved for government use only).
122A: Where cats congregate: ALLEY. But at one time, they were on Broadway!
Down:
ID: Single step: PACE.
2D: Nutritional need: IRON.
3D: Wash: LAVE.
4D: Saperstein or Vigoda: ABE. Abe Saperstein was founder, owner, and coach of the Harlem Globetrotters Basketball Team. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970. Abe Vigoda is an American movie and television actor. He's best known for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on TV’s “Barney Miller”.
5D: Occasions for alarms: FIRES.
6D: Rigatoni relative: ZITI.
7D: UN Day month: OCT.. United Nations Day is the 24th of October.
8D: Society-page word: NEE.
9D: Stray: ERR.
10D: Stimulate: PIQUE.
11D: Plenty: ABUNDANCE.
12D: News source: LEAK.
13D: Bell and Barker: MAS. “Ma” Bell refers generally to all AT&T companies. “Ma” Barker’s sons went on a crime spree but she is thought to have not been involved in any actual crime. After she was killed in a shootout, J. Edgar Hoover tried to portray her as the leader to justify her death.
14D: Road arrangement: CLOVERLEAF. Interchange
15D: Pluto’s place: HADES. Pluto was the Roman version of the Greek God, Hades. The Romans called the underworld Hades. Confused yet?
16D: Inflatable items?: EGOS. Cute clue.
18D: ___ breve: ALLA. Alla Breve is tempo marking indicating a quick duple meter with the half note rather than the quarter note getting the beat (2/2 rather than 4/4). I’m sure somebody will explain it better in the comments section.
21D: Very small: MIDGET. Very small for its kind.
24D: Years on end: EON. Comprised of two or more eras.
26D: ___ Lisa: MONA. Aw, you know what she looks like.
29D: Practice punching: SPAR.
31D: Inclined: APT.
32D: Snapshot: PHOTO.
33D: Roof edge: EAVE.
34D: Poetic preposition: ERE. Before.
35D: On ___ with: equal to: A PAR.
36D: It’ll give you a weigh: SCALE. Clever.
37D: Art supporter?: EASEL. Used to be clever.
38D: Merman or Mertz: ETHEL. Ethel Merman, 1908 – 1984, was an American actress and singer known for musical theatre; well known for her powerful voice. Ethel Mertz is a fictional character played by Vivian Vance in the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy, where she was Lucy’s friend and landlady.
39D: Baltimore Batsman: ORIOLE. A baseball player on the Baltimore Orioles team.
41D: Soup veggies: PEAS.
43D: Prog.: LIB.. I think they meant a member of a PROGressive party. Party members are LIBerals.
44D: Captivate: ENAMOR.
45D: CCXVIII tripled: DCLIV. 218 X 3 = 654
48D: Prince Philip’s daughter: ANNE. Prince Philip is Queen Elizabeth’s husband and their four children are Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.
49D: Show-stopper: STAR. But the show must go on.
52D: Eastern European: SLAV.
53D: Jitterbug dance: LINDY. This is NOT how we did it at our record hops.
56D: ___ ease: uncomfortable: ILL AT. Ill at ease; socially uncomfortable
57D: Spare fare: DIET. Another clever clue.
58D: Oxford bigwig: DON. The English have Dons instead of Deans like American Universities.
60D: Certain marble: AGGIE.
62D: Sebaceous gland problem: ACNE. Sebaceous is such an icky word.
63D: Cinema site: CANNES. I pondered this clue for awhile, thinking they wanted a type of theater. The Cannes Film Festival is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held usually in the month of May at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.
65D: Stimpy’s pal: REN. The Ren and Stimpy Show is an American/Canadian animated television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. The series first aired on MTV before going to Nickelodeon. They had a reputation for controversy, mostly stemming from imagery and cartoon violence. They pushed TV animation to new, borderline-tastelessness with episodes such as “Stimpy’s First Fart.”
66D: Carry on: RANT.
67D: School item: ERASER. Often a crossword item, also.
68D: Like Lincoln: LANKY. There is talk of getting some Lincoln’s DNA to see if he did, in fact, have Marfan’s syndrome.
69D: Identical: SAME.
70D: Literary pseudonym: ELIA. The pen name of Charles Lamb, 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
71D: Bulldozer: EARTHMOVER. Early Japanese bulldozer.
75D: Popeye’s favorite color?: OLIVE. Popeye’s favorite gal, Olive Oyl.
76D: Hopeless case: GONER.
77D: Oscar or Tony: AWARD. Oscar is awarded for achievements in motion picture production and performance. Tony is awarded for achievements in theatrical production and performance.
79D: Door part: JAMB.
80D: Near East: ASIA MINOR.
81D: Tightwad: PIKER.
82D: NY hours: EDT. Eastern Daylight-saving Time.
85D: Clan clash: FEUD.
86D: Learning method: ROTE.
89D: Hunts like a hound: SCENTS.
90D: Ruth’s sultanate?: SWAT. The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, The Colossus of Clout
91D: Chess piece: MAN.
92D: Triumphant cry: OHO.
94D: Spanish river: EBRO. The main river (Rio Ebro) of northern Spain.
97D: Barbara and Anthony: EDEN. Barbara Eden is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. This is one outfit that never made it on to television. Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, 1897 – 1977, was a British Conservative politician, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957.
99D: English-class assignment: ESSAY.
100D: Utter: SAY.
101D: Gymnast Korbut: OLGA. Olga Korbut, Gold Medalist 1972 Olympics, the Munchkin of Munich.
102D: Turkish treat: HALVA. A confection consisting of crushed sesame seeds in a binder of honey.
103D: Commotions: ADOS.
104D: ___ Linda, Cal: LOMA. Here
105D: Pesky insect: GNAT.
106D: Egg-shaped: OVAL.
107D: With 69 Across, “Turn! Turn! Turn” composer: PETE.
108D: Deck member: TREY. As in a deck of cards, the three. If there had been nautical clues/answers in the area, this could have been a stinker.
110D: Rock musician ___ Hunter: IAN. Ian Hunter was formerly frontman of Mott the Hoople;
111D: Beaver’s construction: DAM.
112D: Onassis’ nickname: ARI.
113D: Diarist Anais: NIN. Anais Nin (1903-1977). She wrote Delta of Venus which has been called porno for poets.
114D: It may be crude: OIL.
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