Theme: Shady Deals - Three ways that you can be conned.
20A: Prospecting swindle: SALTING THE MINE Planting bits of gold in the ground to make the mark think that a mine is valuable.
37A: Multilevel investment swindle: PYRAMID SCHEME This is not the same as a Ponzi scheme which investors are paid out from the funds from new investors. In a pyramid scheme, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly. (In fact, failure to recruit typically means no investment return.) It is bound to collapse because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it.
53A: Sleight-of-hand sidewalk swindle: THREE-CARD MONTE The mark has to pick the target card from the three face-down cards presented to him. The three shells and the pea is a similar swindle. TUTORIAL
Argyle here. Trust me.
Across:
1A: Ringing phone on stage, e.g.: PROP A classic blooper from the days of live TV was the phone that wouldn't stop ringing even after it was picked up.
5A: Place to unwind: SAUNA
10A: Complacent: SMUG
14A: Medal recipient: HERO Finally, a HERO that isn't a sandwich.
15A: Panama divider: CANAL Bisects the country
16A: Ice cream parlor order: CONE I like this clue for CONE better then a construction site marker, especially if it's chocolate.
23A: USN rank: ENS Navy Ensign.
25A: Shadow: UMBRA Nothing shady about this shadow.
27A: Suffix with farm or home: STEAD I guess you could have a homestead on the farmstead. Currier and Ives
29A: Fly in the ointment: SNAG
32A: North Pole toy maker: ELF They better be busy!
33A: Thinner, as smoke: WISPIER
36A: Temptation on a hook: BAIT
40A: Stratagem: PLOY
41A: Accomplished with a single try: ONE SHOT
43A: Quiche base: EGGS
44A: Inuit craft: KAYAK Inuit are members of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
48A: Essence of roses: ATTAR
50A: Sigma follower: TAU Greek alphabet.
52A: King beater: ACE
58A: Brit's elevator: LIFT
59A: Cube or sphere: SOLID
60A: Similar (to): AKIN
61A: Load to bear: ONUS
62A: Reclassified planet: PLUTO
63A: Golfer Ballesteros: SEVE Spanish professional golfer has announced that he is planning to play in the 2010 Open Championship at St Andrews. He has been treated for a brain tumor. Now he's 66A: Ready to drive, as a golf ball: TEED
64A: Like the stepsisters in "Cinderella": UGLY
65A: Red Sea republic: YEMEN
Down:
1D: Parts of a cycle: PHASES
2D: Stinging crawler: RED ANT
4D: Big name in breakfast cereal: POST They began in 1895 with the first Postum, a "cereal beverage". The first cereal, Grape-Nuts, was developed in 1897
5D: Barely adequate: SCANT
6D: Stereotypical pirate's cry: AARGH!
8D: Poet Ogden: NASH A short NASH poem: "Fleas" Adam had 'em.
10D: Curtain material: SCRIM Not familiar with this word. The Dictionary has two main entries; the second is: "A transparent fabric used as a drop in the theater to create special effects of lights or atmosphere."
11D: Ray from a natural satellite: MOON BEAM Ray Walston
12D: Be situated beneath: UNDERLIE
13D: "My goodness": "GEE"
21D: Gandhi's land: INDIA
22D: Java holder: MUG
26D: Shipboard direction: AFT
28D: Bad way for plans to go: AWRY
29D: Go-with dishes: SIDES
30D: Loch of lore: NESS North-West of St Andrews.
31D: St. Louis's Gateway __: ARCH
35D: Bullet-on-metal noise: PING Also, makers of golf clubs. I think our constructor today might be a golfer.
36D: Second in a series: BETA
37D: Cooking up a coup: PLOTTING Jeannie, do you have a recipe for cooking up a coup?
38D: Like kids' enthusiasm: YOUTHFUL
39D: Folderol: HOKUM Not a good match.
40D: Actress Zadora: PIA In her younger days
43D: Before, of yore: ERE
45D: Derek Jeter, e.g.: YANKEE
46D: Busy: ACTIVE
47D: Wailed: KEENED
49D: Culturally pretentious: ARTSY Old coots would say someone was artsy-fartsy.
20A: Prospecting swindle: SALTING THE MINE Planting bits of gold in the ground to make the mark think that a mine is valuable.
37A: Multilevel investment swindle: PYRAMID SCHEME This is not the same as a Ponzi scheme which investors are paid out from the funds from new investors. In a pyramid scheme, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly. (In fact, failure to recruit typically means no investment return.) It is bound to collapse because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it.
53A: Sleight-of-hand sidewalk swindle: THREE-CARD MONTE The mark has to pick the target card from the three face-down cards presented to him. The three shells and the pea is a similar swindle. TUTORIAL
Argyle here. Trust me.
Across:
1A: Ringing phone on stage, e.g.: PROP A classic blooper from the days of live TV was the phone that wouldn't stop ringing even after it was picked up.
5A: Place to unwind: SAUNA
10A: Complacent: SMUG
14A: Medal recipient: HERO Finally, a HERO that isn't a sandwich.
15A: Panama divider: CANAL Bisects the country
16A: Ice cream parlor order: CONE I like this clue for CONE better then a construction site marker, especially if it's chocolate.
23A: USN rank: ENS Navy Ensign.
25A: Shadow: UMBRA Nothing shady about this shadow.
27A: Suffix with farm or home: STEAD I guess you could have a homestead on the farmstead. Currier and Ives
29A: Fly in the ointment: SNAG
32A: North Pole toy maker: ELF They better be busy!
33A: Thinner, as smoke: WISPIER
36A: Temptation on a hook: BAIT
40A: Stratagem: PLOY
41A: Accomplished with a single try: ONE SHOT
43A: Quiche base: EGGS
44A: Inuit craft: KAYAK Inuit are members of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
48A: Essence of roses: ATTAR
50A: Sigma follower: TAU Greek alphabet.
52A: King beater: ACE
58A: Brit's elevator: LIFT
59A: Cube or sphere: SOLID
60A: Similar (to): AKIN
61A: Load to bear: ONUS
62A: Reclassified planet: PLUTO
63A: Golfer Ballesteros: SEVE Spanish professional golfer has announced that he is planning to play in the 2010 Open Championship at St Andrews. He has been treated for a brain tumor. Now he's 66A: Ready to drive, as a golf ball: TEED
64A: Like the stepsisters in "Cinderella": UGLY
65A: Red Sea republic: YEMEN
Down:
1D: Parts of a cycle: PHASES
2D: Stinging crawler: RED ANT
4D: Big name in breakfast cereal: POST They began in 1895 with the first Postum, a "cereal beverage". The first cereal, Grape-Nuts, was developed in 1897
5D: Barely adequate: SCANT
6D: Stereotypical pirate's cry: AARGH!
8D: Poet Ogden: NASH A short NASH poem: "Fleas" Adam had 'em.
10D: Curtain material: SCRIM Not familiar with this word. The Dictionary has two main entries; the second is: "A transparent fabric used as a drop in the theater to create special effects of lights or atmosphere."
11D: Ray from a natural satellite: MOON BEAM Ray Walston
12D: Be situated beneath: UNDERLIE
13D: "My goodness": "GEE"
21D: Gandhi's land: INDIA
22D: Java holder: MUG
26D: Shipboard direction: AFT
28D: Bad way for plans to go: AWRY
29D: Go-with dishes: SIDES
30D: Loch of lore: NESS North-West of St Andrews.
31D: St. Louis's Gateway __: ARCH
35D: Bullet-on-metal noise: PING Also, makers of golf clubs. I think our constructor today might be a golfer.
36D: Second in a series: BETA
37D: Cooking up a coup: PLOTTING Jeannie, do you have a recipe for cooking up a coup?
38D: Like kids' enthusiasm: YOUTHFUL
39D: Folderol: HOKUM Not a good match.
40D: Actress Zadora: PIA In her younger days
43D: Before, of yore: ERE
45D: Derek Jeter, e.g.: YANKEE
46D: Busy: ACTIVE
47D: Wailed: KEENED
49D: Culturally pretentious: ARTSY Old coots would say someone was artsy-fartsy.
50D: Hackneyed: TRITE
51D: Home builder's afterthought: ADD-ON
54D: Notice: ESPY
55D: Nat or Natalie: COLE
56D: School reunion attendee: ALUM
57D: Hops oven: OAST
58D: Singer Rawls: LOU R&B and Soul.
Answer grid.
Argyle
