Theme: BALONEY SANDWICHES: But not entirely edible (Blogged by Argyle)
23A: Baloney sandwich: BAGUETTE HOKUM BAGUETTE
43A: Baloney sandwich: WHEAT TOMFOOLERY WHEAT
71A: Baloney sandwich: SOURDOUGH ROT SOURDOUGH
92A: Baloney sandwich: BAGEL BALDERDASH BAGEL
118A: Baloney sandwich: ROLL HORSEFEATHERS ROLL
(Note from C.C.: Click March 1, 2009 Sunday for this Newsday puzzle. S.N. is Stan the Man himself. Click on the bottom PDF file if you want to print out the puzzle.)
Across:
1A: What “-phile” means: LOVER e.g., audiophile, a person who is especially interested in high-fidelity sound reproduction. Anglophile likes anything English.
6A: Hole punchers: AWLS examples
10A: Great weight: HEFT noun form
14A: Informal farewells: TATAS Chiefly British
19A: Wine’s nose: AROMA
20A: Emphatic denial: THAT’S A LIE
22A: Cologne’s river: RHINE Cologne, Germany
23A: Baloney sandwich: BAGUETTE HOKUM BAGUETTE traditional HOKUM - out-and-out nonsense; bunkum. It is thought the term, hokey came from hokum.
26A: Winter bugs: FLUS FLU is the brief form of influenza. We have a woman on a local radio station that would read “flus” and pronounce it as rhyming with “plus”.
27A: “___ the fields we go…: O’ER
28A: Zilch: NIL
29A: Two-Oscar actor: LEMMON Jack Lemmon, Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts (1955) and Best Actor for Save the Tiger (1973)
30A: Yale student: ELI Hard to believe that William F. Buckley and George H. Bush both went to Yale.
31A: Theater genre: COMEDY tragedy and comedy masks
33A: Hair cutter: RAZOR
36A: Gershwin’s “Concerto ___”: IN ‘F’ Excerpt (2:57 min.)
37A: Flip-chart holder: EASEL
39A: Bake-sale sponsor: PTA
40A: Beer maker: BREWER
42A: Half of CDIV: CCII 404/2=202
43A: Baloney sandwich: WHEAT TOMFOOLERY WHEAT Tomfoolery is foolish or silly behavior. A simpleton can be described as a Tom fool but why should Tom be singled out for this degradation? There seems to be no answer. Tom appears to have been chosen for no identifiable reason, similar to "John Doe".
47A: Mail ctr.: GPO mail center - General Post Office, the main post office that also has branch post offices.
48A: Part of IRS: INT Internal Revenue Service
49A: Off-Broadway award: OBIE From O.B., abbreviation for off-Broadway.
50A: Close down: END
53A: Swanky sports suite: SKY BOX Interior view
57A: “Face the Nation” network: CBS Columbia Broadcasting System
60A: Builds: ERECTS
64A: Move suddenly: DART
66A: Wasn’t consistent: YOYOED vacillated
68A: Computer program, for short: APP An application program is used for a particular application (opposed to system program).
70A: Moral values: ETHIC
71A: Baloney sandwich: SOURDOUGH ROT SOURDOUGH Something absurd or fatuous is ROT. Making your own sourdough is delicious.
75A: Fire-gone conclusion: EMBER Nice take on fore-gone conclusion.
76A: Feel bad about: RUE
77A: Aussie gal: SHEILA Chosen for no identifiable reason, similar to "John Doe" and “Tom the Fool”.
78A: Internalize anger: STEW
79A: European capital, to natives: LISBOA Portuguese for Lisbon, seaport and capital of Portugal
81A: AMA members: MDS American Medical Association members are Medicīnae Doctors in New Latin; is that the proper way to make a plural in New Latin, by adding an “S”.
83A: Doing nothing: IDLING
85A: Chapter of history: ERA
86A: Do nothing: LOLL
88A: Soviet space station: MIR
90A: Expected: DUE
92A: Baloney sandwich: BAGEL BALDERDASH BAGEL Balderdash is senseless, stupid talk or writing. It once meant a muddled mixture of liquors.
102A: Greek goddess of strife: ERIS Goddess of discord; sister of Ares, god of war.
103A: Isn’t caught by: EVADES
104A: “Bali __”: HAI Bali Ha'i, also spelled Bali Hai, is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It is the name of a fictional island with two volcanoes.
105A: Nomad: ROVER
107A: Dash lengths: EMS In printing, the space needed for an “M” is used as the measure of a dash.
108A: Deliver a speech: ORATE
109A: Frisked, with “down”: PATTED Just watch the TV show, “COPS”, you’ll get the idea.
111A: “Now ___ seen everything!”: I’VE
112A: ‘70s Minnelli musical: THE ACT It was a 1977 Broadway show, "concept musical" about a has-been movie star trying to make a comeback. Liza Minnelli won a Tony Award for Best Musical Actress.
114A: Totally: ALL tot ALLy, could we have a better clue here, please?
116A: Guerilla Guevara: CHE Ernesto "Che" Guevara 1928 – 1967, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After death, his stylized image became countercultural symbol worldwide.
117A: Pet pest: FLEA
118A: Baloney sandwich: ROLL HORSEFEATHERS ROLL An euphemism for horses**t, rubbish; nonsense; bunk.
124A: “Oklahoma!” aunt: ELLER “Oklahoma!” is a theatrical musical and movie. The female lead's Aunt Eller Murphy is a peppy and friendly middle-aged ranch owner who pretty much knows everyone, and everyone respects her. song (you may have to turn up the volume.)
125A: Highest point in Wash.: MT RAINIER Finally a gimme for the you West Coasters. Mount Rainier in the state of Washington
126A: Dogma: TENET
127A: Caterpillar competitor: DEERE Cat dozer, John Deere dozer
128A: Plaintiff: SUER
129A: Hay bundle: BALE A painting of hay bales.
130A: None too trusting: LEERY
Down:
1D: Tuition add-on: LAB FEE
2D: Unwritten rules: ORAL LAW
3D: Chic: VOGUISH I checked; it is a word.
4D: Ostrich kin: EMUS
5D: Soul singer Corinne Bailey ___: RAE British singer: one of her songs.
6D: Try: ATTEMPT
7D: Cabbie’s query: WHERE TO
8D: __-di-dah: LAH
9D: Like some stares: STONY
10D: Drag along: HAUL
11D: Massachusetts state tree : ELM
12D: Minor misstatement: FIB Is that what Sen. Burris made; some minor misstatements?
13D: It may be bagged: TEA Good clue.
14D: More devoted: TRUER Not so good clue.
15D: Throat-clearing sound: AHEM
16D: Chickadee relatives: TITMICE Two chickadees and a tufted titmouse at the feeder.
17D: Cather title character: ANTONIA The final book(first published in 1918) of Willa Cather's prairie trilogy, My Antonia, is considered her greatest accomplishment. Antonia is a bold and free-hearted young woman.
18D: Deemed appropriate: SEEN FIT
21D: Snow board: SKI
24D: Overly: TOO
25D: “Goodness gracious!”: GLORY BE
31D: Gives it up (for) : CLAPS It took awhile to get the clue. Applauds.
32D: Stop up: DAM
33D: Fam. Member: REL Family member; relative.
34D: Leave agape: AWE
35D: Zilch: ZERO
38D: Brain-scan letters: EEG electroencephalogram
40D: Good, in Grenoble: BON Grenoble, France, map
41D: Coll. marchers: ROTC College marchers, (not the protesters but the protestees) Reserve Officers Training Corps
42D: Party-snack brand: CHEETOS Cheese puffs; I prefer the chrunchy.
44D: 1964 Summer Olympics site: TOKYO Tokyo, Japan map
45D: Repairperson: FIXER
46D: Cable-ready: WIRED
50D: ‘50s Ford: EDSEL Late ‘50s lemon: never before a car like it
51D: Singer Judd: NAOMI Ashley, Wynonna, Naomi
52D: Defeats decisively: DRUBS
54D: Part of FYI: YOUR For Your Information
55A: Mild oath: BY GUM
56D: Showed pleasure: OOHED
58D: Founded: BASED
59A: Turn bad: SPOIL
61D: Water-park slide: CHUTE
62D: Princeton athlete: TIGER
63D: Dull sound: SCHWA From German Schwa, ultimately from Hebrew. shewa "a neutral vowel quality," literary "emptiness." for pronunciation
65D: Multiplies by three: TREBLES Yes, I had triples first.
67D: Requirements: DOS As in, DOS and don'ts, customs, rules, or regulations. The do’s are needed and the don’ts are inadvisable.
69D: Hungarian dog: PULI What a puli dog looks like. Wait, I still can’t tell. They are suppose to be a sheep herding dog.
72D: Be overly avid: DROOL Presents a rather crude picture, hey?
73D: Bronze place: THIRD An obvious answer…once you get it. Gold medal, silver medal, and bronze medal.
74D: Motown music: R AND B Rhythm and Blues
80D: Fujimori of Peru: ALBRTO Alberto Fujimori is a Peruvian of Japanese descent born in Lima, Peru, in1938. He served as President from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability. Unfortunately, he also was charged with human rights violations. under arrest
82D: “Peter Pan” pirate: SMEE
84D: Basketball position: GUARD
87D: Igneous-rock source: LAVA
89D: Apr. payee: IRS April 15, pay to the order of Internal Revenue Service (Why in the world is it called a service?
91D: Swelled head: EGO
92D: Clearly embarrassed: BEET RED
93D: Shirt part: ARM HOLE
94D: Coveted ballet role: GISELLE The role of Giselle is one of the most sought-after in ballet. To win the role, a ballerina must have near perfect technique, outstanding grace, and great drama skills. Giselle revolves around the themes of forest spirits, forces of nature, and death. The second act of the ballet, in which everyone is wearing white, is known as the "white act." First performed in Paris in 1841.
95A: Back muscle, for short: LAT LATissimus dorsi muscles.
96D: Five-star monogram: DDE Dwight David Eisenhower was a five star General.
97D: Light-dawning cry: A-HA
98D: Small bag: SATCHEL Satchel Paige
99D: Informal greeting: HI THERE
100D: Fiend: EVIL ONE
101D: Evening device: LEVELER This clue bedeviled me.
106D: Houses, land, etc.: REALTY
108D: Painter’s pigment: OCHER
109D: Back-up strategy: PLAN B
110D: -arian relative: -EER -arian: denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; librarian; vegetarian.
-EER: denoting a person who produces, handles, or is otherwise significantly associated the base word (auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer).
113D: Oriole, for one: ALER American Leaguer
114D: A great distance: AFAR
115D: Orchid product: LEI OK, more like a product that uses orchids.
117D: For the asking: FREE
119D: B&B offerings: RMS Bed and Breakfast inns, often in a private house and you are treated more like a guest than a customer. You can get a ROOM and something to eat in the morning.
120D: Alphabetic trio: STU
121D: Afore: ERE
122D: Acapulco aunt: TIA
123D: Mo. City: STL Saint Louis, Missouri. Looks funny spelled out, doesn’t it?
Argyle
23A: Baloney sandwich: BAGUETTE HOKUM BAGUETTE
43A: Baloney sandwich: WHEAT TOMFOOLERY WHEAT
71A: Baloney sandwich: SOURDOUGH ROT SOURDOUGH
92A: Baloney sandwich: BAGEL BALDERDASH BAGEL
118A: Baloney sandwich: ROLL HORSEFEATHERS ROLL
(Note from C.C.: Click March 1, 2009 Sunday for this Newsday puzzle. S.N. is Stan the Man himself. Click on the bottom PDF file if you want to print out the puzzle.)
Across:
1A: What “-phile” means: LOVER e.g., audiophile, a person who is especially interested in high-fidelity sound reproduction. Anglophile likes anything English.
6A: Hole punchers: AWLS examples
10A: Great weight: HEFT noun form
14A: Informal farewells: TATAS Chiefly British
19A: Wine’s nose: AROMA
20A: Emphatic denial: THAT’S A LIE
22A: Cologne’s river: RHINE Cologne, Germany
23A: Baloney sandwich: BAGUETTE HOKUM BAGUETTE traditional HOKUM - out-and-out nonsense; bunkum. It is thought the term, hokey came from hokum.
26A: Winter bugs: FLUS FLU is the brief form of influenza. We have a woman on a local radio station that would read “flus” and pronounce it as rhyming with “plus”.
27A: “___ the fields we go…: O’ER
28A: Zilch: NIL
29A: Two-Oscar actor: LEMMON Jack Lemmon, Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts (1955) and Best Actor for Save the Tiger (1973)
30A: Yale student: ELI Hard to believe that William F. Buckley and George H. Bush both went to Yale.
31A: Theater genre: COMEDY tragedy and comedy masks
33A: Hair cutter: RAZOR
36A: Gershwin’s “Concerto ___”: IN ‘F’ Excerpt (2:57 min.)
37A: Flip-chart holder: EASEL
39A: Bake-sale sponsor: PTA
40A: Beer maker: BREWER
42A: Half of CDIV: CCII 404/2=202
43A: Baloney sandwich: WHEAT TOMFOOLERY WHEAT Tomfoolery is foolish or silly behavior. A simpleton can be described as a Tom fool but why should Tom be singled out for this degradation? There seems to be no answer. Tom appears to have been chosen for no identifiable reason, similar to "John Doe".
47A: Mail ctr.: GPO mail center - General Post Office, the main post office that also has branch post offices.
48A: Part of IRS: INT Internal Revenue Service
49A: Off-Broadway award: OBIE From O.B., abbreviation for off-Broadway.
50A: Close down: END
53A: Swanky sports suite: SKY BOX Interior view
57A: “Face the Nation” network: CBS Columbia Broadcasting System
60A: Builds: ERECTS
64A: Move suddenly: DART
66A: Wasn’t consistent: YOYOED vacillated
68A: Computer program, for short: APP An application program is used for a particular application (opposed to system program).
70A: Moral values: ETHIC
71A: Baloney sandwich: SOURDOUGH ROT SOURDOUGH Something absurd or fatuous is ROT. Making your own sourdough is delicious.
75A: Fire-gone conclusion: EMBER Nice take on fore-gone conclusion.
76A: Feel bad about: RUE
77A: Aussie gal: SHEILA Chosen for no identifiable reason, similar to "John Doe" and “Tom the Fool”.
78A: Internalize anger: STEW
79A: European capital, to natives: LISBOA Portuguese for Lisbon, seaport and capital of Portugal
81A: AMA members: MDS American Medical Association members are Medicīnae Doctors in New Latin; is that the proper way to make a plural in New Latin, by adding an “S”.
83A: Doing nothing: IDLING
85A: Chapter of history: ERA
86A: Do nothing: LOLL
88A: Soviet space station: MIR
90A: Expected: DUE
92A: Baloney sandwich: BAGEL BALDERDASH BAGEL Balderdash is senseless, stupid talk or writing. It once meant a muddled mixture of liquors.
102A: Greek goddess of strife: ERIS Goddess of discord; sister of Ares, god of war.
103A: Isn’t caught by: EVADES
104A: “Bali __”: HAI Bali Ha'i, also spelled Bali Hai, is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It is the name of a fictional island with two volcanoes.
105A: Nomad: ROVER
107A: Dash lengths: EMS In printing, the space needed for an “M” is used as the measure of a dash.
108A: Deliver a speech: ORATE
109A: Frisked, with “down”: PATTED Just watch the TV show, “COPS”, you’ll get the idea.
111A: “Now ___ seen everything!”: I’VE
112A: ‘70s Minnelli musical: THE ACT It was a 1977 Broadway show, "concept musical" about a has-been movie star trying to make a comeback. Liza Minnelli won a Tony Award for Best Musical Actress.
114A: Totally: ALL tot ALLy, could we have a better clue here, please?
116A: Guerilla Guevara: CHE Ernesto "Che" Guevara 1928 – 1967, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After death, his stylized image became countercultural symbol worldwide.
117A: Pet pest: FLEA
118A: Baloney sandwich: ROLL HORSEFEATHERS ROLL An euphemism for horses**t, rubbish; nonsense; bunk.
124A: “Oklahoma!” aunt: ELLER “Oklahoma!” is a theatrical musical and movie. The female lead's Aunt Eller Murphy is a peppy and friendly middle-aged ranch owner who pretty much knows everyone, and everyone respects her. song (you may have to turn up the volume.)
125A: Highest point in Wash.: MT RAINIER Finally a gimme for the you West Coasters. Mount Rainier in the state of Washington
126A: Dogma: TENET
127A: Caterpillar competitor: DEERE Cat dozer, John Deere dozer
128A: Plaintiff: SUER
129A: Hay bundle: BALE A painting of hay bales.
130A: None too trusting: LEERY
Down:
1D: Tuition add-on: LAB FEE
2D: Unwritten rules: ORAL LAW
3D: Chic: VOGUISH I checked; it is a word.
4D: Ostrich kin: EMUS
5D: Soul singer Corinne Bailey ___: RAE British singer: one of her songs.
6D: Try: ATTEMPT
7D: Cabbie’s query: WHERE TO
8D: __-di-dah: LAH
9D: Like some stares: STONY
10D: Drag along: HAUL
11D: Massachusetts state tree : ELM
12D: Minor misstatement: FIB Is that what Sen. Burris made; some minor misstatements?
13D: It may be bagged: TEA Good clue.
14D: More devoted: TRUER Not so good clue.
15D: Throat-clearing sound: AHEM
16D: Chickadee relatives: TITMICE Two chickadees and a tufted titmouse at the feeder.
17D: Cather title character: ANTONIA The final book(first published in 1918) of Willa Cather's prairie trilogy, My Antonia, is considered her greatest accomplishment. Antonia is a bold and free-hearted young woman.
18D: Deemed appropriate: SEEN FIT
21D: Snow board: SKI
24D: Overly: TOO
25D: “Goodness gracious!”: GLORY BE
31D: Gives it up (for) : CLAPS It took awhile to get the clue. Applauds.
32D: Stop up: DAM
33D: Fam. Member: REL Family member; relative.
34D: Leave agape: AWE
35D: Zilch: ZERO
38D: Brain-scan letters: EEG electroencephalogram
40D: Good, in Grenoble: BON Grenoble, France, map
41D: Coll. marchers: ROTC College marchers, (not the protesters but the protestees) Reserve Officers Training Corps
42D: Party-snack brand: CHEETOS Cheese puffs; I prefer the chrunchy.
44D: 1964 Summer Olympics site: TOKYO Tokyo, Japan map
45D: Repairperson: FIXER
46D: Cable-ready: WIRED
50D: ‘50s Ford: EDSEL Late ‘50s lemon: never before a car like it
51D: Singer Judd: NAOMI Ashley, Wynonna, Naomi
52D: Defeats decisively: DRUBS
54D: Part of FYI: YOUR For Your Information
55A: Mild oath: BY GUM
56D: Showed pleasure: OOHED
58D: Founded: BASED
59A: Turn bad: SPOIL
61D: Water-park slide: CHUTE
62D: Princeton athlete: TIGER
63D: Dull sound: SCHWA From German Schwa, ultimately from Hebrew. shewa "a neutral vowel quality," literary "emptiness." for pronunciation
65D: Multiplies by three: TREBLES Yes, I had triples first.
67D: Requirements: DOS As in, DOS and don'ts, customs, rules, or regulations. The do’s are needed and the don’ts are inadvisable.
69D: Hungarian dog: PULI What a puli dog looks like. Wait, I still can’t tell. They are suppose to be a sheep herding dog.
72D: Be overly avid: DROOL Presents a rather crude picture, hey?
73D: Bronze place: THIRD An obvious answer…once you get it. Gold medal, silver medal, and bronze medal.
74D: Motown music: R AND B Rhythm and Blues
80D: Fujimori of Peru: ALBRTO Alberto Fujimori is a Peruvian of Japanese descent born in Lima, Peru, in1938. He served as President from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability. Unfortunately, he also was charged with human rights violations. under arrest
82D: “Peter Pan” pirate: SMEE
84D: Basketball position: GUARD
87D: Igneous-rock source: LAVA
89D: Apr. payee: IRS April 15, pay to the order of Internal Revenue Service (Why in the world is it called a service?
91D: Swelled head: EGO
92D: Clearly embarrassed: BEET RED
93D: Shirt part: ARM HOLE
94D: Coveted ballet role: GISELLE The role of Giselle is one of the most sought-after in ballet. To win the role, a ballerina must have near perfect technique, outstanding grace, and great drama skills. Giselle revolves around the themes of forest spirits, forces of nature, and death. The second act of the ballet, in which everyone is wearing white, is known as the "white act." First performed in Paris in 1841.
95A: Back muscle, for short: LAT LATissimus dorsi muscles.
96D: Five-star monogram: DDE Dwight David Eisenhower was a five star General.
97D: Light-dawning cry: A-HA
98D: Small bag: SATCHEL Satchel Paige
99D: Informal greeting: HI THERE
100D: Fiend: EVIL ONE
101D: Evening device: LEVELER This clue bedeviled me.
106D: Houses, land, etc.: REALTY
108D: Painter’s pigment: OCHER
109D: Back-up strategy: PLAN B
110D: -arian relative: -EER -arian: denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; librarian; vegetarian.
-EER: denoting a person who produces, handles, or is otherwise significantly associated the base word (auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer).
113D: Oriole, for one: ALER American Leaguer
114D: A great distance: AFAR
115D: Orchid product: LEI OK, more like a product that uses orchids.
117D: For the asking: FREE
119D: B&B offerings: RMS Bed and Breakfast inns, often in a private house and you are treated more like a guest than a customer. You can get a ROOM and something to eat in the morning.
120D: Alphabetic trio: STU
121D: Afore: ERE
122D: Acapulco aunt: TIA
123D: Mo. City: STL Saint Louis, Missouri. Looks funny spelled out, doesn’t it?
Argyle
