Theme: DIETARY DUOS - Food pairings you might consume in the course of a day.
16A: Breakfast pair: COFFEE AND DONUTS
24A: Lunch pair: SOUP AND SANDWICH
41A: Dinner pair: MEAT AND POTATOES
54A: Evening ball game snack pair: BEER AND PRETZELS
Argyle again. Today's Dan Naddor Index (total non-theme entries with 6 or more letters) is 12, lower than last week's. Similar stacks of 6's on the left and right edges of the grid.
Besides the above theme entries, we also have:
9A: Saran, for one: WRAP. Or a type of sandwich you might have with your SOUP.
13A: Layered cookie: OREO. Good anytime (with milk).
40A: Pilot light site: STOVE. Cooking!
46A: Fancy burger beef: ANGUS. Strictly a beef breed (Their meat would go well with those potatoes).
30D: Want badly, as chocolate: CRAVE. Have some dark one. It's healthy.
52D: Diner orders, for short: BLTS. Crossing the last theme answer.
Very tasty Tuesday treat Dan has served up for us. All the four grid spanning theme answers are delicious!
Across:
1A: Leaders in the dugout: Abbr.: MGRS. Managers. It's about this time of year when heads start to roll in the dugouts.
5A: Univ. hot shot: BMOC. Big Man On Campus
14A: Dainty embroidered mat: DOILY.
15A: McKellen and Fleming: IANS. Sir Ian McKellen, English actor and Ian Fleming, English author.
19A: Apt to shy, as a horse: SKITTISH. Don't spook the horse. Shy – verb (used without object) (esp. of a horse) to start back or aside, as in fear.
20A: Like a dark room: UNLIT.
21A: HBO competitor: SHO. Trademarks. Home Box Office and SHOwtime: cable channels
22A: Japanese sleuth Mr. __: MOTO. Mr. MOTO is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand
32A: Don, as apparel: PUT ON.
33A: Keep one's __ the ground: EAR TO. Try to keep informed about something, especially if there are rumours or uncertainties. The expression "keep your Ear To the ground" comes from the way American Indians did this action to feel for the vibrations of herds of animals on the run so they would hear the vibration of hooves(at least, in the movies).
34A: Miracle-__: garden product: GRO. Plant food. Not for use on zucchinis.
35A: Bickering: AT IT. Again.
36A: When Juliet drinks the potion: ACT IV. Clever & tricky clue.
37A: Former Fed chairman Greenspan: ALAN.
38A: Incite to attack, with "on": SIC. You would SIC a dog on something with the command, "SIC 'em".
39A: Rocket engineer Wernher von __: BRAUN.
49A: Just in case: IF NEED BE.
59A: Feedbag fill: OATS. More food.
60A: "Benevolent" fraternal order: ELKS. The Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.
61A: Orchestral reed: OBOE.
62A: Estimate phrase: OR SO.
Down:
1D: Comfy soft shoes: MOCS. What Santa wants.
2D: Understand, in slang: GROK. Origin: coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961).
3D: Mortgage payment-lowering strategy, briefly: REFI. Shortening of refinance.
4D: Sentimental place in the heart: SOFT SPOT.
5D: Fluffy stoles: BOAS.
6D: Ho Chi __: MINH.
8D: Dancer Charisse: CYD. How 'bout them gams? Her nickname "Sid" was taken from a sibling trying to say "Sis". (It was later spelled "Cyd" at MGM to give her an air of mystery.) From Wikipedia.
9D: Separate grain from chaff: WINNOW. WH, you explain it.
10D: __ Julia, who played Gomez Addams: RAUL. Take a call on the Addams Family.
14D: Football's "Prime Time" Sanders: DEION. His Rookie Card doesn't look like he was ready for "Prime Time".
17D: Wharton's "__ Frome": ETHAN. Ethan Frome is a novel set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. It was published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton.
22D: Former quarterback Dan: MARINO. American Hall of Famer played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. 1983–1999
23D: Being aired, as a sitcom: ON TV.
24D: Muscle cramp, e.g.: SPASM.
25D: Noticeable navel: OUTIE. Hmm, another quarterback.
26D: City near Syracuse: UTICA.
28D: Stopped slouching: SAT UP.
29D: Domed Arctic home: IGLOO.
36D: River of Florence: ARNO. Ah, the flower of Florence.
37D: Where to see wild animals in cages: AT THE ZOO. Simon and Garfunkel
39D: Modeler's wood: BALSA. Light weight and easy to carve.
40D: "America's Funniest Home Videos" host Bob: SAGET. FYI: Former "America's Funniest Home Videos" host Bob Saget is returning to the show as a guest co-host for an episode to film in October.
42D: Zodiac bull: TAURUS. Also, the Ford Taurus, an automobile manufactured by Ford introduced in the 1986.
43D: Adjusted the pitch of, as a piano: TUNED.
47D: Armstrong in space: NEIL. The first human to set foot on the Moon back in July 1969.
48D: Nerd: GEEK.
49D: __ facto: IPSO. By the fact itself.
50D: Gratis: FREE.
51D: Start of many a letter: DEAR.
53D: Old U.S. gas: ESSO.
55D: Prefix with natal: NEO.
56D: Brylcreem bit: DAB. In this ad, catch the phrase "disturbingly healthy".
Answer grid.
Argyle
16A: Breakfast pair: COFFEE AND DONUTS
24A: Lunch pair: SOUP AND SANDWICH
41A: Dinner pair: MEAT AND POTATOES
54A: Evening ball game snack pair: BEER AND PRETZELS
Argyle again. Today's Dan Naddor Index (total non-theme entries with 6 or more letters) is 12, lower than last week's. Similar stacks of 6's on the left and right edges of the grid.
Besides the above theme entries, we also have:
9A: Saran, for one: WRAP. Or a type of sandwich you might have with your SOUP.
13A: Layered cookie: OREO. Good anytime (with milk).
40A: Pilot light site: STOVE. Cooking!
46A: Fancy burger beef: ANGUS. Strictly a beef breed (Their meat would go well with those potatoes).
30D: Want badly, as chocolate: CRAVE. Have some dark one. It's healthy.
52D: Diner orders, for short: BLTS. Crossing the last theme answer.
Very tasty Tuesday treat Dan has served up for us. All the four grid spanning theme answers are delicious!
Across:
1A: Leaders in the dugout: Abbr.: MGRS. Managers. It's about this time of year when heads start to roll in the dugouts.
5A: Univ. hot shot: BMOC. Big Man On Campus
14A: Dainty embroidered mat: DOILY.
15A: McKellen and Fleming: IANS. Sir Ian McKellen, English actor and Ian Fleming, English author.
19A: Apt to shy, as a horse: SKITTISH. Don't spook the horse. Shy – verb (used without object) (esp. of a horse) to start back or aside, as in fear.
20A: Like a dark room: UNLIT.
21A: HBO competitor: SHO. Trademarks. Home Box Office and SHOwtime: cable channels
22A: Japanese sleuth Mr. __: MOTO. Mr. MOTO is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand
32A: Don, as apparel: PUT ON.
33A: Keep one's __ the ground: EAR TO. Try to keep informed about something, especially if there are rumours or uncertainties. The expression "keep your Ear To the ground" comes from the way American Indians did this action to feel for the vibrations of herds of animals on the run so they would hear the vibration of hooves(at least, in the movies).
34A: Miracle-__: garden product: GRO. Plant food. Not for use on zucchinis.
35A: Bickering: AT IT. Again.
36A: When Juliet drinks the potion: ACT IV. Clever & tricky clue.
37A: Former Fed chairman Greenspan: ALAN.
38A: Incite to attack, with "on": SIC. You would SIC a dog on something with the command, "SIC 'em".
39A: Rocket engineer Wernher von __: BRAUN.
49A: Just in case: IF NEED BE.
59A: Feedbag fill: OATS. More food.
60A: "Benevolent" fraternal order: ELKS. The Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.
61A: Orchestral reed: OBOE.
62A: Estimate phrase: OR SO.
Down:
1D: Comfy soft shoes: MOCS. What Santa wants.
2D: Understand, in slang: GROK. Origin: coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961).
3D: Mortgage payment-lowering strategy, briefly: REFI. Shortening of refinance.
4D: Sentimental place in the heart: SOFT SPOT.
5D: Fluffy stoles: BOAS.
6D: Ho Chi __: MINH.
8D: Dancer Charisse: CYD. How 'bout them gams? Her nickname "Sid" was taken from a sibling trying to say "Sis". (It was later spelled "Cyd" at MGM to give her an air of mystery.) From Wikipedia.
9D: Separate grain from chaff: WINNOW. WH, you explain it.
10D: __ Julia, who played Gomez Addams: RAUL. Take a call on the Addams Family.
14D: Football's "Prime Time" Sanders: DEION. His Rookie Card doesn't look like he was ready for "Prime Time".
17D: Wharton's "__ Frome": ETHAN. Ethan Frome is a novel set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. It was published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton.
22D: Former quarterback Dan: MARINO. American Hall of Famer played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. 1983–1999
23D: Being aired, as a sitcom: ON TV.
24D: Muscle cramp, e.g.: SPASM.
25D: Noticeable navel: OUTIE. Hmm, another quarterback.
26D: City near Syracuse: UTICA.
28D: Stopped slouching: SAT UP.
29D: Domed Arctic home: IGLOO.
36D: River of Florence: ARNO. Ah, the flower of Florence.
37D: Where to see wild animals in cages: AT THE ZOO. Simon and Garfunkel
39D: Modeler's wood: BALSA. Light weight and easy to carve.
40D: "America's Funniest Home Videos" host Bob: SAGET. FYI: Former "America's Funniest Home Videos" host Bob Saget is returning to the show as a guest co-host for an episode to film in October.
42D: Zodiac bull: TAURUS. Also, the Ford Taurus, an automobile manufactured by Ford introduced in the 1986.
43D: Adjusted the pitch of, as a piano: TUNED.
47D: Armstrong in space: NEIL. The first human to set foot on the Moon back in July 1969.
48D: Nerd: GEEK.
49D: __ facto: IPSO. By the fact itself.
50D: Gratis: FREE.
51D: Start of many a letter: DEAR.
53D: Old U.S. gas: ESSO.
55D: Prefix with natal: NEO.
56D: Brylcreem bit: DAB. In this ad, catch the phrase "disturbingly healthy".
Answer grid.
Argyle
