Theme: Beware the IDES OF MARCH (56A Today, to Caesar - and a hint to the hidden word appearing in this puzzle 15 times (including the one in this answer) - IDE is hidden and marching around in 15 different places.
16A Kids' game with an "it": HIDE AND SEEK
20A Curving pitch: SLIDER
36A Author André: GIDE. Nobel Literature winner 1947.
37A Fall apple drink: CIDER
41A Group of lions: PRIDE
44A 9-Down footballer: RAIDER. 9D. San Francisco Bay city: OAKLAND.
3D Bike outing: RIDE
10D Wedding party member: BRIDESMAID
14D As above, in footnotes: IDEM
26D Like most modern TVs, picturewise: WIDE SCREEN
28D Square's four: SIDE
31D Drop in pronunciation: ELIDE
40D Oceanic reflux: EBB TIDE
49D What's on your mind: IDEA
Another puzzle from our editor Rich Norris himself. Lila Cherry, one of his alias names, is an anagram of "Really Rich".
Very creative interpretation of "Ides of March" (the day Caesar was killed) and deliberate use of 15 as the number of IDE words/phrases. Perfect puzzle for March 15. Great crossing with DOOM (46. Dire fate) as well.
Among the IDE entries, four longest ones are symmetrically placed, and SIDES and CIDER are placed in the very middle of the grid crossing each other.
Brain dead Argyle here. I hope C.C. is up early enough to fix my mistakes today. For the longest tine, I could only find 14 Ides! Thank goodness most of the clue/answers are straightforward.
Across:
1. Month with showers: APRIL
6. Auctioned auto, briefly: REPO. (repossessed)
10. Journalist Nellie: BLY
13. Egypt's capital: CAIRO
14. Ancient Greek district: IONIA
15. Corned beef bread: RYE
18. Nest egg item, for short: IRA
19. Bridge supports: TRESTLES
22. Garment bottom: HEM
23. Suffix with meth- or prop-: ANE
24. Alley competitor: BOWLER. Bowling alley.
28. Backyard play apparatus: SWING SET
33. Like some college walls: IVIED
34. Employed: HIRED
35. Caesar's 1,051: MLI. One more Caesar reference.
38. Pass's opposite: FAIL
39. Single: ONE
40. City on the Ruhr: ESSEN
42. Nuclear treaty subjects: TEST BANS
45. Corn discard: COB
46. The Atty. General is head of it: DOJ. Department of Justice.
47. Low-level clouds: STRATI
50. Icy formation at either extremity of the Earth's axis: POLAR CAP
55. Peeper: EYE
58. Classic Jaguar model: XKE
59. Jeans material: DENIM
60. "What's in __?": Juliet: A NAME
61. Japanese money: YEN
62. Has a sandwich: EATS
63. Brawn: SINEW
Down
1. Eight, in Berlin: ACHT
2. Twosome: PAIR
4. Enrages: IRES. Verb, Groan!
5. Despised: LOATHED
6. Perot of politics: ROSS. Or H. ROSS Perot.
7. Denver-to-Chicago dir.: ENE
8. Crusty desserts: PIES
11. Old Greek stringed instrument: LYRE
12. 365 days: YEAR
17. Met, Nat or Card: NLer
21. Beethoven's "Minuet __": IN G
24. Archie Bunker type: BIGOT
25. Like lambs and rams: OVINE
27. Reb general: LEE. And 37. 27-Down's org.: CSA.
29. Birdhouse songbird: WREN
30. Suffix with bombard: IER
32. Flooring specialist: TILER
34. Yokel's possessive: HIS'N
38. End of most work wks.: FRI.
41. Dr. Denton's, e.g.: PAJAMAS
43. Ode title starter: TO A
44. Massage deeply: ROLF. Named after Ida Rolf, a U.S. physiotherapist who invented the techniques.
47. Like a sheer negligee: SEXY
48. Small child: TYKE
50. Trident-shaped letters: PSIS PSI
51. Hindu princess: RANI
52. Prefix with apple: CRAN
53. Summit: ACME
54. Relieved cry: "PHEW!"
57. Tolkien tree creature: ENT
Answer grid.
Argyle
16A Kids' game with an "it": HIDE AND SEEK
20A Curving pitch: SLIDER
36A Author André: GIDE. Nobel Literature winner 1947.
37A Fall apple drink: CIDER
41A Group of lions: PRIDE
44A 9-Down footballer: RAIDER. 9D. San Francisco Bay city: OAKLAND.
3D Bike outing: RIDE
10D Wedding party member: BRIDESMAID
14D As above, in footnotes: IDEM
26D Like most modern TVs, picturewise: WIDE SCREEN
28D Square's four: SIDE
31D Drop in pronunciation: ELIDE
40D Oceanic reflux: EBB TIDE
49D What's on your mind: IDEA
Another puzzle from our editor Rich Norris himself. Lila Cherry, one of his alias names, is an anagram of "Really Rich".
Very creative interpretation of "Ides of March" (the day Caesar was killed) and deliberate use of 15 as the number of IDE words/phrases. Perfect puzzle for March 15. Great crossing with DOOM (46. Dire fate) as well.
Among the IDE entries, four longest ones are symmetrically placed, and SIDES and CIDER are placed in the very middle of the grid crossing each other.
Brain dead Argyle here. I hope C.C. is up early enough to fix my mistakes today. For the longest tine, I could only find 14 Ides! Thank goodness most of the clue/answers are straightforward.
Across:
1. Month with showers: APRIL
6. Auctioned auto, briefly: REPO. (repossessed)
10. Journalist Nellie: BLY
13. Egypt's capital: CAIRO
14. Ancient Greek district: IONIA
15. Corned beef bread: RYE
18. Nest egg item, for short: IRA
19. Bridge supports: TRESTLES
22. Garment bottom: HEM
23. Suffix with meth- or prop-: ANE
24. Alley competitor: BOWLER. Bowling alley.
28. Backyard play apparatus: SWING SET
33. Like some college walls: IVIED
34. Employed: HIRED
35. Caesar's 1,051: MLI. One more Caesar reference.
38. Pass's opposite: FAIL
39. Single: ONE
40. City on the Ruhr: ESSEN
42. Nuclear treaty subjects: TEST BANS
45. Corn discard: COB
46. The Atty. General is head of it: DOJ. Department of Justice.
47. Low-level clouds: STRATI
50. Icy formation at either extremity of the Earth's axis: POLAR CAP
55. Peeper: EYE
58. Classic Jaguar model: XKE
59. Jeans material: DENIM
60. "What's in __?": Juliet: A NAME
61. Japanese money: YEN
62. Has a sandwich: EATS
63. Brawn: SINEW
Down
1. Eight, in Berlin: ACHT
2. Twosome: PAIR
4. Enrages: IRES. Verb, Groan!
5. Despised: LOATHED
6. Perot of politics: ROSS. Or H. ROSS Perot.
7. Denver-to-Chicago dir.: ENE
8. Crusty desserts: PIES
11. Old Greek stringed instrument: LYRE
12. 365 days: YEAR
17. Met, Nat or Card: NLer
21. Beethoven's "Minuet __": IN G
24. Archie Bunker type: BIGOT
25. Like lambs and rams: OVINE
27. Reb general: LEE. And 37. 27-Down's org.: CSA.
29. Birdhouse songbird: WREN
30. Suffix with bombard: IER
32. Flooring specialist: TILER
34. Yokel's possessive: HIS'N
38. End of most work wks.: FRI.
41. Dr. Denton's, e.g.: PAJAMAS
43. Ode title starter: TO A
44. Massage deeply: ROLF. Named after Ida Rolf, a U.S. physiotherapist who invented the techniques.
47. Like a sheer negligee: SEXY
48. Small child: TYKE
50. Trident-shaped letters: PSIS PSI
51. Hindu princess: RANI
52. Prefix with apple: CRAN
53. Summit: ACME
54. Relieved cry: "PHEW!"
57. Tolkien tree creature: ENT
Answer grid.
Argyle
