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Jul 9, 2010

Friday July 9, 2010 Jascha Smilack

Theme: Give 'em H, Harry - Letter H is inserted after letter S, in an orderly A, E, I, O, U pattern. Total 28 Hs in the puzzle, a record!

17A. "The herring ate my homework," e.g.? : SHAD EXCUSE. Sad Excuse. I had no idea that shad belongs to the herring family.

24A. Number on a bag of walnuts? : SHELL-BY DATE. Sell-By Date.

35A. Stumbling block for a beauty pageant contestant? : DEADLY SHINS. Deadly Sins.

48A. Really needing to do laundry? : OUT OF SHORTS. Out of Sorts.

58A. Reason to eat lunch alone? : MIDDAY SHUN. Midday Sun.

H is inserted into the first word in the first two theme entries, and the second word in the last three. Today's theme title came from Argyle. I've never heard of the slogan: Give 'em Hell, Harry!

No single black square in this puzzle. Quite unusual. Also, same as the Dan Naddor puzzle yesterday, the constructor divided his left and right edges into 2 rather than our normal 3 sections, resulting in several paralleled long entries, which always please Dennis/Clear Ayes, and a total low themeless-like 72 word count .

Several math references today:

21A. Cubic meter : STERE

52A. Highest degree : NTH

32D. H.S. math course : ALG

44D. Greek mathematician : EUCLID

Across:

1. Command, to Shakespeare : HEST. Only know "behest". Wanted BIDE.

5. Drei doubled : SECHS. German for 6. Drei = 3. I am sure it's a gimme for Kazie/Spitzboov. I was lost.

10. __ money : HUSH

14. Lit. collection : ANTH (Anthology)

15. Comment before a swim, maybe : I'M HOT. I don't swim. Afraid of water.

16. Yours: Fr. : A TOI. Jerome, the surprising cook on our blog, was just asking for the validity of this fill some time ago.

19. Restraining order : HALT

20. Role for Harrison : HAN (Solo)

22. "Say what?" : HUH

23. Like Brahms's Symphony No. 3 : IN F. Came with crossers.

28. Cases (out) : SCOPES

30. "My Fair Lady" lyricist : LERNER. Alan Jay Lerner.

31. Frequently embroidered pronoun : HERS

32. Pilot : AVIATE. Verb "Pilot".

39. Linguistic habits : USAGES

40. Hunk of tobacco : CHAW. PLUG too.

43. Like some collisions : HEAD-ON

46. Much of Libya : SAHARA

53. Pres. during the 1929 market crash : HCH (Herbert Clark Hoover). Did not know his middle name.

54. A, in Israel : ALEPH. Followed by Beth.

55. Letters seen next to a 4 : GHI. On a phone.

56. Maker of Regenerist skin products : OLAY. I am using Regenerist. Anti-aging.

60. Rear : HIND

61. Inuit relative : ALEUT

62. Hopping game? : HARE. Game here refers to "hunter's game". Nice clue.

63. Handicapper's concern : ODDS

64. Hyssop and catnip, e.g. : HERBS

65. Sign of a leak : HISS

Down:

1. Hemp extract : HASHISH. New word to me. Drug?

2. Heighten : ENHANCE

3. Silicon Valley school : STANFORD. JimmyB just mentioned Stanford yesterday.

4. Ecclesiastical deg. : TH. D. Doctor of Theology.

5. Some pizza slices : SIXTHS

6. Host : EMCEE

7. Rude dude : CHURL. Rhyme.

8. Golf club socket : HOSEL. See this diagram. Jazzbumpa is going to sink some putts today. Hope they are for birdies.

9. __-Thérèse, Quebec : STE

10. Taunting laugh : HAH

11. Hatch in the Senate, e.g. : UTAHAN. Orrin Hatch.

12. The sugar in your latte, say : SOLUTE. Also a new word. Same root as "solution" I suppose.

13. "Hie thee __, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear": "Macbeth" : HITHER. I just hate Shakespeare quote clues. Never know what the dude wanted to say.

18. Being, to Ovid : ESSE. Latin.

25. Humdrum : BLAH

26. Hairy Asian giant : YETI. The Abominable Snowman.

27. Bathe, as in sunlight : DRENCH. Hot here.

29. False start? : PSEUDO. As in pseudoscience.

33. "The Return of the Native" vamp Eustacia __ : VYE. Means nothing to me. "The Return of the Native", novel by Thomas Hardy.

34. Edition: Abbr. : ISS (Issue)

36. Starting from : AS OF

37. Rather and others : DANS. Dan Rather.

38. Kidnap, in a way : SHANGHAI

41. 1880s first family : ARTHURS. Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885). Another mysterious middle name!

42. Some surfers : WAHINES.

43. Words after "jolly," in an old jingle : HO HO HO. The Jolly Green Giant jingle. I saw the Green Giant statue when we traveled by. Ho Ho Ho!'

45. Nearby : AT HAND

46. Parade occasion, for short : ST PATS

47. Hardly healthy-looking : ASHY

49. Selassie of Ethiopia : HAILE

50. Having gone around the block more : OLDER. Thought it means "more experienced", not necessarily older.

51. Provide a new soundtrack for : REDUB

57. NFL stat : YDS

58. __-jongg : MAH. So noisy.

59. "Zip it!" : SHH. This last entry made me have an extra look at the plethora of letter Hs.

Answer grid.

Pictures of the Day: Here are a few great pictures Kazie took during her trip to Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Click each one. The photo will enlarge. Thanks for the captions, Kazie!

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