Theme: CAPE (66A: Action hero's garb, and what each first word in this puzzle's four longest answers is.)
20A: Cornucopia: HORN OF PLENTY
34A: Supplement that some claim eases arthritis: COD LIVER OIL
43A: Texas governor before George W. Bush: ANN RICHARDS
56A: 1973 Erica Jong novel: FEAR OF FLYING
I used to confuse CAPE HORN with CAPE of Good Hope, which is in the southern tip of Africa. Learned CAPE COD from reading various JFK biographies. Saw CAPE ANN in a puzzle before. CAPE Fear (bottom) is new to me. It's on the coast of North Carolina, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Why Fear? Prone to shipwrecks?
Easy solving this morning. This puzzle makes me feel smart. All of the theme entries were gimmes to me. COD LIVER OIL has concentrated amount of Omega-3 fatty acids. Good for arthris, good for heart too. ANN RICHARDS once described President Bush as "born with a silver foot in his mouth".
Here is a list of Clever Clues of the Month from Crosswordese.com. You can also click here for the complete list of Word of Day. They are in alphabetical order. Every one of them has a great picture and lots of other interesting information. Send Paul an email if you want his free word-of-the day delivery. Today his word is ORT (70A: Morsel).
Across:
1A: Aquanaut's workplace: SEALAB. First time I met aquanaut. Whom does he work for? US Navy?
7A: Arabic for "son of": IBN. Like the former Saudi king IBN Saud. Same as the Scottish Mac. BIN is also "son of", right? Like Osama BIN Laden.
10A: Software prototype: BETA. Alpha is for the internal software testers.
14A: "1984" author: ORWELL. Just realized this morning that George ORWELL is his penname. His real name is Eric Arther Blair. Do you know what Cary Grant's real surname is? Leach! Archibald Alec Leach.
16A: Campground arrival, briefly: RVER. Many PGA golfers travel in RV. I've never seen them called as RVer though.
17A: Pleasure dome site of verse: XANADU. From Coleridge's poem "Kublai Khan". Xanadu is a very exotic way to spell Shangdu, the summer palace of Kublain Khan. It's located in current Inner Mongolia in north China. China has the shape of a rooster. Our administrative division is called PROV (47A: Ont. or Que.) too.
18A: Most energetic: PEPPIEST. And LOOSER (23D: Not as tight). I bet we won't see more than two Er, est suffixes in a Rich Norris puzzle.
25A: Via: BY WAY OF
29A: Poivre partner: SEL. French for salt. Poivre is French for pepper.
38A: "Bali __": HAI. Here is the clip. Bloody Mary sang it to Lieutenant Cable to lure him to into Bali HAI to become her son-in-law. Her daughter Liat is very pretty.
39A: Italian cheese: ASIAGO. Named after the Italian region where the cheese originated.
40A: Tender poultry: CAPONS. I don't think I've had CAPON before. Sounds cruel to castrate chickens just for their meat.
42A: Stereotypical pirate leg: PEG. I suppose this refers to Long John Silver of "Treasure Island".
50A: Former big name on "The View": ROSIE (O'Donnell). She is too much for me. I only like her in "Sleepless in Seattle".
55A: Mag. employees: EDS. I think Anna Wintour is the coolest editor of any magazine.
61A: Crooner Julio: IGLESIAS. Father of Enrique IGLESIAS, who is married to Anna Kournikova.
62A: What pupils do in the dark: DILATE
67A: Lunes, por ejemplo: DIA. Lunes is Spanish for Monday. French Monday is lundi.
69A: Prolific autho.?: ANON. Yes, indeed. I like this clue.
71A: Grand Prix site: LE MANS. Learned where LE MANS is last time when MLLES was clued as "Le Mans lasses". Quite close to Paris.
Down:
1D: White __: SOX. And ERA (2D: Pitching stat). I like how they parallel.
3D: Barley bristle: AWN
4D: Sister of Rachel: LEAH. Both are Jacob's wives. LABAN was often clued as "Father of Leah and Rachel" in our old puzzle.
6D: Book jacket promo: BLURB. Crossword sub-title is also called a BLURB. Right, Fred?
7D: Running the country: IN POWER
8D: Hybrid meat: BEEFALO. Beef & buffalo. Also called cattalo (cattle & buffalo). Completely new to me.
9D: Dover diaper: NAPPY. The answer reviewed itself. I don't know British call diaper as NAPPY. The constructor picked up the seaport Dover for alliteration purpose.
10D: Boxer's alternatives: BRIEFS
21D: Org. at 11 Wall St.: NYSE. Oh well, what else could it be?
22D: Daisy Mae's creator: AL CAPP
24D: Spectrum color: INDIGO. Reminds me of the INDIGO Girls. They love crossword also. You should see "Wordplay" if you have not.
27D: She, in Lisbon: ELA. Ha ha, no more "Guido's high note" any more.
28D: Latvian capital: RIGA. The Latvian chess master Mikhail TAL is called "The Magician from RIGA".
31D: First words of the "Mr. Ed" theme: A HORSE. Anther easy guess. I've never seen "Mr. Ed".
32D: "___ Camera": CANDID
35D: From, in German names: VON. Same as French de and Italian da. How about Greta VAN Susteren? Hers is VAN.
36D: Former transp. regulator: ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission). 1887-1996. Learned from doing Xword.
37D: Cowardly lion portrayer: LAHR. Just found out this morning that Bert LAHR's original name is Irving Lahrheim.
45D: Lays into: RAILS AT. "Lay into" is a new phrase to me.
48D: "Pippin" Tony winner Ben: VEREEN. He looks awfully familiar. I must have googled him before.
53D: "Don't mind __": IF I DO. I got the answer. Have no idea what it means. Sounds self-conflictory.
56D: Pay stub abbr.: FICA
57: Alaska's first governor: EGAN. Gimme. Learned this fact long time ago. William Allen Egan was the first (1959 to 1966) and 4th governor (1970-1974) of Alaska.
58D: Brand for Fido: ALPO
60D: Get hold of, with "onto": GLOM. The past tense is GLOMMED. A new word I learned from T. Frank.
63D: Altar in the sky: ARA. See this diagram. ARA is Latin for Altar.
64D: Former Opry network: TNN. Another easy guess. Wikipedia says TNN changed into Spike in 2003. Owned by Viacom.
65D: Alpine curve: ESS. Not much wordplay today.
Answer grid.
C.C.
20A: Cornucopia: HORN OF PLENTY
34A: Supplement that some claim eases arthritis: COD LIVER OIL
43A: Texas governor before George W. Bush: ANN RICHARDS
56A: 1973 Erica Jong novel: FEAR OF FLYING
I used to confuse CAPE HORN with CAPE of Good Hope, which is in the southern tip of Africa. Learned CAPE COD from reading various JFK biographies. Saw CAPE ANN in a puzzle before. CAPE Fear (bottom) is new to me. It's on the coast of North Carolina, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Why Fear? Prone to shipwrecks?
Easy solving this morning. This puzzle makes me feel smart. All of the theme entries were gimmes to me. COD LIVER OIL has concentrated amount of Omega-3 fatty acids. Good for arthris, good for heart too. ANN RICHARDS once described President Bush as "born with a silver foot in his mouth".
Here is a list of Clever Clues of the Month from Crosswordese.com. You can also click here for the complete list of Word of Day. They are in alphabetical order. Every one of them has a great picture and lots of other interesting information. Send Paul an email if you want his free word-of-the day delivery. Today his word is ORT (70A: Morsel).
Across:
1A: Aquanaut's workplace: SEALAB. First time I met aquanaut. Whom does he work for? US Navy?
7A: Arabic for "son of": IBN. Like the former Saudi king IBN Saud. Same as the Scottish Mac. BIN is also "son of", right? Like Osama BIN Laden.
10A: Software prototype: BETA. Alpha is for the internal software testers.
14A: "1984" author: ORWELL. Just realized this morning that George ORWELL is his penname. His real name is Eric Arther Blair. Do you know what Cary Grant's real surname is? Leach! Archibald Alec Leach.
16A: Campground arrival, briefly: RVER. Many PGA golfers travel in RV. I've never seen them called as RVer though.
17A: Pleasure dome site of verse: XANADU. From Coleridge's poem "Kublai Khan". Xanadu is a very exotic way to spell Shangdu, the summer palace of Kublain Khan. It's located in current Inner Mongolia in north China. China has the shape of a rooster. Our administrative division is called PROV (47A: Ont. or Que.) too.
18A: Most energetic: PEPPIEST. And LOOSER (23D: Not as tight). I bet we won't see more than two Er, est suffixes in a Rich Norris puzzle.
25A: Via: BY WAY OF
29A: Poivre partner: SEL. French for salt. Poivre is French for pepper.
38A: "Bali __": HAI. Here is the clip. Bloody Mary sang it to Lieutenant Cable to lure him to into Bali HAI to become her son-in-law. Her daughter Liat is very pretty.
39A: Italian cheese: ASIAGO. Named after the Italian region where the cheese originated.
40A: Tender poultry: CAPONS. I don't think I've had CAPON before. Sounds cruel to castrate chickens just for their meat.
42A: Stereotypical pirate leg: PEG. I suppose this refers to Long John Silver of "Treasure Island".
50A: Former big name on "The View": ROSIE (O'Donnell). She is too much for me. I only like her in "Sleepless in Seattle".
55A: Mag. employees: EDS. I think Anna Wintour is the coolest editor of any magazine.
61A: Crooner Julio: IGLESIAS. Father of Enrique IGLESIAS, who is married to Anna Kournikova.
62A: What pupils do in the dark: DILATE
67A: Lunes, por ejemplo: DIA. Lunes is Spanish for Monday. French Monday is lundi.
69A: Prolific autho.?: ANON. Yes, indeed. I like this clue.
71A: Grand Prix site: LE MANS. Learned where LE MANS is last time when MLLES was clued as "Le Mans lasses". Quite close to Paris.
Down:
1D: White __: SOX. And ERA (2D: Pitching stat). I like how they parallel.
3D: Barley bristle: AWN
4D: Sister of Rachel: LEAH. Both are Jacob's wives. LABAN was often clued as "Father of Leah and Rachel" in our old puzzle.
6D: Book jacket promo: BLURB. Crossword sub-title is also called a BLURB. Right, Fred?
7D: Running the country: IN POWER
8D: Hybrid meat: BEEFALO. Beef & buffalo. Also called cattalo (cattle & buffalo). Completely new to me.
9D: Dover diaper: NAPPY. The answer reviewed itself. I don't know British call diaper as NAPPY. The constructor picked up the seaport Dover for alliteration purpose.
10D: Boxer's alternatives: BRIEFS
21D: Org. at 11 Wall St.: NYSE. Oh well, what else could it be?
22D: Daisy Mae's creator: AL CAPP
24D: Spectrum color: INDIGO. Reminds me of the INDIGO Girls. They love crossword also. You should see "Wordplay" if you have not.
27D: She, in Lisbon: ELA. Ha ha, no more "Guido's high note" any more.
28D: Latvian capital: RIGA. The Latvian chess master Mikhail TAL is called "The Magician from RIGA".
31D: First words of the "Mr. Ed" theme: A HORSE. Anther easy guess. I've never seen "Mr. Ed".
32D: "___ Camera": CANDID
35D: From, in German names: VON. Same as French de and Italian da. How about Greta VAN Susteren? Hers is VAN.
36D: Former transp. regulator: ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission). 1887-1996. Learned from doing Xword.
37D: Cowardly lion portrayer: LAHR. Just found out this morning that Bert LAHR's original name is Irving Lahrheim.
45D: Lays into: RAILS AT. "Lay into" is a new phrase to me.
48D: "Pippin" Tony winner Ben: VEREEN. He looks awfully familiar. I must have googled him before.
53D: "Don't mind __": IF I DO. I got the answer. Have no idea what it means. Sounds self-conflictory.
56D: Pay stub abbr.: FICA
57: Alaska's first governor: EGAN. Gimme. Learned this fact long time ago. William Allen Egan was the first (1959 to 1966) and 4th governor (1970-1974) of Alaska.
58D: Brand for Fido: ALPO
60D: Get hold of, with "onto": GLOM. The past tense is GLOMMED. A new word I learned from T. Frank.
63D: Altar in the sky: ARA. See this diagram. ARA is Latin for Altar.
64D: Former Opry network: TNN. Another easy guess. Wikipedia says TNN changed into Spike in 2003. Owned by Viacom.
65D: Alpine curve: ESS. Not much wordplay today.
Answer grid.
C.C.
