Theme: Giant Leap For Mankind
16A: 57-Across, 12-Down or 24-Down: ASTRONAUT
35A: Landing site of 7/20/1969: TRANQUILITY BASE
57A: 16-Across Neil: ARMSTRONG
12D: 16-Across Buzz: ALDRIN
24D: 16-Across Michael: COLLINS
42D: __ 11, mission celebrated in this puzzle: APOLLO
Bonus fill : 9D: 35-Across is on it: MOON. Where they landed. Its symmetrical partner EERO (53D: Architect Saarinen) is not part of the theme, hence bonus.
Argyle here.
It was forty years ago today when, at 02:56 UTC on July 21 (9:56pm CDT, July 20), 1969, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon's surface and spoke his famous line "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". See this picture of the APOLLO 11 crew.
Across:
1A: Federal job safety org.: OSHA. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
15A: Early programming language: COBOL. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
18A: Secretly stock up on: HOARD.
19A: Wicker furniture maker: CANER.
20A: One of a crab's grabbers: PINCER. PINCERS pinch.
21A: Gaza Strip gp.: PLO. Palestine Liberation Organization. Hamas controls West Bank.
23A: TV kid "in the middle": MALCOLM. A sitcom on the Fox Network, the series was first broadcast on January 8, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006. Frankie Muniz as Malcolm. "Boss of Me Now", theme song by 'They Might Be Giants'. (Full Version)
26A: Sch. with a Providence campus: URI. University of Rhode Island. Hey, Dr. Dad.
27A: Holy, in Le Havre: SACRE. SACRE bleu!
32A: Dawdling type: DALLIER; 48A: More foamy, as soap: SUDSIER; 43D: More squarish: BOXIER.
40A: What bikinis expose, informally: TUMMIES. And 42A: Sit-up targets: ABS. On the beach.
41A: Informed about: IN ON.
45A: Yemen city: ADEN.
46A: Pretentious one: PSEUD. Shortened pseudointellectual: a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
47A: "The Tell-Tale Heart" author: POE.
51A: Naval noncom: Abbr.: CPO. Chief Petty Officer.
52A: Yoked beasts, collectively: OX TEAM.
56A: It's slightly larger than a quart: LITER.
61A: Ogles: LEERS.
62A: Asian desert: GOBI.
66A: Mother of Castor and Pollux: LEDA. LEDA's twin sons are famous for their fraternal affection and regarded as the protectors of persons at sea. LEDA is also mother of Helen of Troy.
Down:
1D: "...man __ mouse?": OR A.
3D: Wintertime drink: HOT COCOA.
4D: Gillette razor: ATRA. What would constructors do without this Gillette razor?
5D: Sleep disorder: APNEA.
6D: Oyster's gem: PEARL.
7D: __ de Cologne: EAU.
8D: Former fast flier, for short: SST.
10D: Beaded calculator: ABACUS.
11D: Bullring VIP: TORERO.
15D: Sweep's milieu: CHIMNEY. The environment or a setting for the worker cleaning your flue is the CHIMNEY.
17D: "Drinks are __": ON ME. Not heard often enough!
20D: Braids: PLAITS.
21D: Sibilant "Hey!": PSST.
25D: Hardy of Laurel and Hardy: OLLIE.
32D: Kind of bullet that expands on impact: DUMDUM. The Hague Convention prohibits the use in international warfare of DUMDUMS.
33D: Got ready to fire: AIMED.
34D: Score-producing stats: RBIS.
36D: Highly luminous cosmic objects: QUASARS. Quas(i-stell)ar.
37D: Often-amusing story: ANECDOTE. Don't take it for poison; there you need an antidote.
38D: Gazpacho, e.g.: SOUP.
39D: Within: Pref.: ENDO. Opposite ECTO.
44D: Part of a living room set: SETTEE.
46D: Methodist, e.g.: Abbr.: PROT. Methodist is one of the PROTestant churches.
49D: Poetry feet: IAMBS. Metrical feet.
50D: Borden mascot: ELSIE. Elsie, the cow, and family.
55D: Russia's __ Mountains: URAL.
57D: Part of USDA: Abbr.: AGR. United States Department of AGRiculture
58D: French king: ROI. The oldest son of a French ROI is called DAUPHIN.
60D: Coll. student's concern: GPA. Grade Point Average.
Answer grid.
Argyle
16A: 57-Across, 12-Down or 24-Down: ASTRONAUT
35A: Landing site of 7/20/1969: TRANQUILITY BASE
57A: 16-Across Neil: ARMSTRONG
12D: 16-Across Buzz: ALDRIN
24D: 16-Across Michael: COLLINS
42D: __ 11, mission celebrated in this puzzle: APOLLO
Bonus fill : 9D: 35-Across is on it: MOON. Where they landed. Its symmetrical partner EERO (53D: Architect Saarinen) is not part of the theme, hence bonus.
Argyle here.
It was forty years ago today when, at 02:56 UTC on July 21 (9:56pm CDT, July 20), 1969, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon's surface and spoke his famous line "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". See this picture of the APOLLO 11 crew.
Across:
1A: Federal job safety org.: OSHA. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
15A: Early programming language: COBOL. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
18A: Secretly stock up on: HOARD.
19A: Wicker furniture maker: CANER.
20A: One of a crab's grabbers: PINCER. PINCERS pinch.
21A: Gaza Strip gp.: PLO. Palestine Liberation Organization. Hamas controls West Bank.
23A: TV kid "in the middle": MALCOLM. A sitcom on the Fox Network, the series was first broadcast on January 8, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006. Frankie Muniz as Malcolm. "Boss of Me Now", theme song by 'They Might Be Giants'. (Full Version)
26A: Sch. with a Providence campus: URI. University of Rhode Island. Hey, Dr. Dad.
27A: Holy, in Le Havre: SACRE. SACRE bleu!
32A: Dawdling type: DALLIER; 48A: More foamy, as soap: SUDSIER; 43D: More squarish: BOXIER.
40A: What bikinis expose, informally: TUMMIES. And 42A: Sit-up targets: ABS. On the beach.
41A: Informed about: IN ON.
45A: Yemen city: ADEN.
46A: Pretentious one: PSEUD. Shortened pseudointellectual: a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
47A: "The Tell-Tale Heart" author: POE.
51A: Naval noncom: Abbr.: CPO. Chief Petty Officer.
52A: Yoked beasts, collectively: OX TEAM.
56A: It's slightly larger than a quart: LITER.
61A: Ogles: LEERS.
62A: Asian desert: GOBI.
66A: Mother of Castor and Pollux: LEDA. LEDA's twin sons are famous for their fraternal affection and regarded as the protectors of persons at sea. LEDA is also mother of Helen of Troy.
Down:
1D: "...man __ mouse?": OR A.
3D: Wintertime drink: HOT COCOA.
4D: Gillette razor: ATRA. What would constructors do without this Gillette razor?
5D: Sleep disorder: APNEA.
6D: Oyster's gem: PEARL.
7D: __ de Cologne: EAU.
8D: Former fast flier, for short: SST.
10D: Beaded calculator: ABACUS.
11D: Bullring VIP: TORERO.
15D: Sweep's milieu: CHIMNEY. The environment or a setting for the worker cleaning your flue is the CHIMNEY.
17D: "Drinks are __": ON ME. Not heard often enough!
20D: Braids: PLAITS.
21D: Sibilant "Hey!": PSST.
25D: Hardy of Laurel and Hardy: OLLIE.
32D: Kind of bullet that expands on impact: DUMDUM. The Hague Convention prohibits the use in international warfare of DUMDUMS.
33D: Got ready to fire: AIMED.
34D: Score-producing stats: RBIS.
36D: Highly luminous cosmic objects: QUASARS. Quas(i-stell)ar.
37D: Often-amusing story: ANECDOTE. Don't take it for poison; there you need an antidote.
38D: Gazpacho, e.g.: SOUP.
39D: Within: Pref.: ENDO. Opposite ECTO.
44D: Part of a living room set: SETTEE.
46D: Methodist, e.g.: Abbr.: PROT. Methodist is one of the PROTestant churches.
49D: Poetry feet: IAMBS. Metrical feet.
50D: Borden mascot: ELSIE. Elsie, the cow, and family.
55D: Russia's __ Mountains: URAL.
57D: Part of USDA: Abbr.: AGR. United States Department of AGRiculture
58D: French king: ROI. The oldest son of a French ROI is called DAUPHIN.
60D: Coll. student's concern: GPA. Grade Point Average.
Answer grid.
Argyle
