Theme: Full Monty Monday (Blogged by Argyle)
20A: Auto door safety feature: CHILD PROOF LOCK
34A: Cheap per-share buy: PENNY STOCK
42A: Brewery container: BEER BARREL
51A: With "the," what the ends of 20-,34- and 42-Across suggest: WHOLE ENCHILADA.
It seems funny to have LOCK, STOCK and BARREL after HANG FIRE yesterday since they both refer to early firearms. I feel that The WHOLE ENCHILADA is more West Coast influence; back East they are more likely to say The Whole Ball of Wax.
Anyway, they all mean that something is taken as a whole entity.
Across:
1A: Alpha follower: BETA. If this had been NATO code, it would be Bravo (other than the fact it wouldn't fit).
5A: Advanced math subj.: CALC. Calculus And 17A: Geom. shape: RECT. Rectangle All these others are formed by shotening the orignal word. 47A: NFL gains: YDS. yards, 48A: Lawyer: Abbr.: ATT. attorny, 49A: Part of a college yr.: SEM. semester, 2D: Corp. officer: EXEC. executive, 3D: PC troubleshooter: TECH. technician, 12D: Kind of engr.: ELEC. electricity
9A: Metal fastener: RIVET.
15A: Birth state of seven presidents: OHIO. William Henry Harrison, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Abram Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Warren Gamaliel Harding
16A: Amtrak speedster: ACELA. Acela is a made-up name, not an acronym or Latin or Greek. 46A: Greek letters after mus: NUS. Now that was Greek to me!
18A: Skipper who landed on Ararat: NOAH. Mount Ararat.
24A: Korean carmaker: KIA.
28A: Places to sleep: Abbr.: BRS. bedrooms
30A: Son-of-a-gun: SO AND SO.
39A: __ Jima: IWO. In the South Pacific
41A: Hogwarts messengers: OWLS. Owls always knew where the adressee could be found. Harry's owl, Hedwig, was a snowy owl.
59A: Playful poke: NUDGE.
60A: R&B singer India.__: ARIE. India.Arie Why the dot in her name I wonder?
61A: Tax: LEVY.
63A: Oven setting: BROIL.
64A: Paw bottoms: PADS.
65A: Big name in do-it-yourself furniture: IKEA.
66A: Gillette Trac II successors: ATRAS. A new clue for an old answer.
Down:
1D: Watering hole, so to speak: BAR. And where you can 36D: Run a tab: OWE.
5D: Andean vultures: CONDORS. 11 foot wingspan, Wow, Looks like a transmitter on his wing.
8D: Great Lakes salmon: COHO. The average adult Great Lakes coho salmon weighs eight pounds. Like the chinook, coho are native to the Pacific coast of North America, and to parts of Asia. They were introduced into the Great Lakes in 1873.
9D: Basket fiber: RAFFIA. Basket. Also, raphia. A fiber obtained from the leaves of the raffia palm.
10D: Reykjavik native: ICELANDER. I hope the natives are friendly.
11D: White House rejection: VETO.
21D: Tripoli's country: LIBYA.
26D: Cat calls: MEOWS.
27D: "I give up!": UNCLE. The origin is traced to the Irish anacol, meaning an act of mercy or quarter. So, to say uncle appears to be a folk etymology that arose in North America from Irish immigrants; or nobody really knows.
30D: Disdain: SCORN.
31D: Fictional Maine town in many Stephen King stories: DERRY. If you see this sign while driving in Maine, for God's sake, turn around!
35D: Sentimental yearning for the past: NOSTALGIA.
40D: Sales meeting prop: EASEL.
42D: Beast, in Bordeaux: BETE.
43D: Like the most active bee?: BUSIEST. "Busy as a bee."
45D: Braces (oneself): STEELS.
50D: Sasha Obama's big sister: MALIA. I'll bet we see more of the girls in our grids.
51D: Org. with the N.Y. Liberty and L.A. Sparks: WNBA. Women's National Basketball Association. The league was founded in 1996 as the women's counterpart to the NBA. League play started in 1997; the regular season is played from June to September with the playoffs starting in mid-September and running into October.
54D: California wine county: NAPA.
55D: Scuttling crustacean: CRAB. Our favorite crab.
57D: Tricky hockey maneuver: DEKE. On the ice; on the field, it's a juke.
58D: Affirm confidently: AVER.
62D: NBA center __ Ming: YAO. 7 ft 6 in, Weight, 310 lb.
Answer grid.
Argyle
20A: Auto door safety feature: CHILD PROOF LOCK
34A: Cheap per-share buy: PENNY STOCK
42A: Brewery container: BEER BARREL
51A: With "the," what the ends of 20-,34- and 42-Across suggest: WHOLE ENCHILADA.
It seems funny to have LOCK, STOCK and BARREL after HANG FIRE yesterday since they both refer to early firearms. I feel that The WHOLE ENCHILADA is more West Coast influence; back East they are more likely to say The Whole Ball of Wax.
Anyway, they all mean that something is taken as a whole entity.
Across:
1A: Alpha follower: BETA. If this had been NATO code, it would be Bravo (other than the fact it wouldn't fit).
5A: Advanced math subj.: CALC. Calculus And 17A: Geom. shape: RECT. Rectangle All these others are formed by shotening the orignal word. 47A: NFL gains: YDS. yards, 48A: Lawyer: Abbr.: ATT. attorny, 49A: Part of a college yr.: SEM. semester, 2D: Corp. officer: EXEC. executive, 3D: PC troubleshooter: TECH. technician, 12D: Kind of engr.: ELEC. electricity
9A: Metal fastener: RIVET.
15A: Birth state of seven presidents: OHIO. William Henry Harrison, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Abram Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Warren Gamaliel Harding
16A: Amtrak speedster: ACELA. Acela is a made-up name, not an acronym or Latin or Greek. 46A: Greek letters after mus: NUS. Now that was Greek to me!
18A: Skipper who landed on Ararat: NOAH. Mount Ararat.
24A: Korean carmaker: KIA.
28A: Places to sleep: Abbr.: BRS. bedrooms
30A: Son-of-a-gun: SO AND SO.
39A: __ Jima: IWO. In the South Pacific
41A: Hogwarts messengers: OWLS. Owls always knew where the adressee could be found. Harry's owl, Hedwig, was a snowy owl.
59A: Playful poke: NUDGE.
60A: R&B singer India.__: ARIE. India.Arie Why the dot in her name I wonder?
61A: Tax: LEVY.
63A: Oven setting: BROIL.
64A: Paw bottoms: PADS.
65A: Big name in do-it-yourself furniture: IKEA.
66A: Gillette Trac II successors: ATRAS. A new clue for an old answer.
Down:
1D: Watering hole, so to speak: BAR. And where you can 36D: Run a tab: OWE.
5D: Andean vultures: CONDORS. 11 foot wingspan, Wow, Looks like a transmitter on his wing.
8D: Great Lakes salmon: COHO. The average adult Great Lakes coho salmon weighs eight pounds. Like the chinook, coho are native to the Pacific coast of North America, and to parts of Asia. They were introduced into the Great Lakes in 1873.
9D: Basket fiber: RAFFIA. Basket. Also, raphia. A fiber obtained from the leaves of the raffia palm.
10D: Reykjavik native: ICELANDER. I hope the natives are friendly.
11D: White House rejection: VETO.
21D: Tripoli's country: LIBYA.
26D: Cat calls: MEOWS.
27D: "I give up!": UNCLE. The origin is traced to the Irish anacol, meaning an act of mercy or quarter. So, to say uncle appears to be a folk etymology that arose in North America from Irish immigrants; or nobody really knows.
30D: Disdain: SCORN.
31D: Fictional Maine town in many Stephen King stories: DERRY. If you see this sign while driving in Maine, for God's sake, turn around!
35D: Sentimental yearning for the past: NOSTALGIA.
40D: Sales meeting prop: EASEL.
42D: Beast, in Bordeaux: BETE.
43D: Like the most active bee?: BUSIEST. "Busy as a bee."
45D: Braces (oneself): STEELS.
50D: Sasha Obama's big sister: MALIA. I'll bet we see more of the girls in our grids.
51D: Org. with the N.Y. Liberty and L.A. Sparks: WNBA. Women's National Basketball Association. The league was founded in 1996 as the women's counterpart to the NBA. League play started in 1997; the regular season is played from June to September with the playoffs starting in mid-September and running into October.
54D: California wine county: NAPA.
55D: Scuttling crustacean: CRAB. Our favorite crab.
57D: Tricky hockey maneuver: DEKE. On the ice; on the field, it's a juke.
58D: Affirm confidently: AVER.
62D: NBA center __ Ming: YAO. 7 ft 6 in, Weight, 310 lb.
Answer grid.
Argyle
