Words: 70 (missing J,Q)
Blocks: 32
Lots of white on the first across pass today, and with a fair number of
names and "?" clues, I was not feeling this one until my down pass,
which gave me a smattering of letters to help with the long fill. Only
two letters gave me trouble in the end. Brad & Doug are becoming
regular Saturday contributors; today their field was dominated by
11-letter triples, and a pair of 10-letter downs:
1. Fashionable heelless footwear : BALLET FLATS - do you consider ballet flats fashionable? I thought they were talking about these, which I think are ugly
15. Liqueur used to color a Bloody Smurf cocktail : BLUE CURACAO - never had one; here's the recipe
17. Pejorative nickname for one supporting a cause via unproductive feel-good measures : SLACKTIVIST - cute
58. Sitcom about the Buchmans : MAD ABOUT YOU - I loved this show until the baby came along
62. Stand firm in the face of defeat : BRAZEN IT OUT
64. "Prepare to be amazed!" : ABRACADABRA - musical link
12. Drive nuts : EXASPERATE - straight up; I thought it might be PUT IN A RAGE, since I had the RA-E to start
27. Road trip listening : AUDIO BOOKS - I keep meaning to try this out on my tablet, but I haven't even used the device for my Home Inspection business yet
and Onward~!
ACROSS:
12. "The Sixth Sense" sense : ESP - Meh, I don't like "Sense", "sense" and "-sensory" in this one
16. It's at the top of many a round face : XII - Twelve, on a clock 'face'; it's 5 o'clock somewhere~!
16. It's at the top of many a round face : XII - Twelve, on a clock 'face'; it's 5 o'clock somewhere~!
18. Place for a gondola : ALP - ARGH~!!! I could not find a three-letter word for the boat, or the railroad car....THIS gondola
19. Pub.'s client : AUTHor - and their publisher - anyone miss the "."?
20. Showed some hustle : MADE HASTE
22. Peerage member : EARL
24. Legal defendant: Abbr. : RESP.ondent - Right, Lemon?
25. Chain that makes a lot of dough : SBARRO - I was looking for the "S" at the end, thinking it's "let's eat at Sbarro's" - BZZT~!
28. Only British prime minister of Jewish birth : DISRAELI
32. "I'm with you!" : "COUNT ME IN~!"
34. Infamous 2001 shredders : ENRON - Popular this week
35. So-so connection? : AND - So-and-so
36. Conjure up : EVOKE - like 64A?
38. Teddy's Mount Rushmore neighbor : ABE - some humor
39. Voltaire's world-view : DEISM - more here
42. Glass, vis-Ã -vis electricity : INSULATOR - electricity cannot flow through glass; around here some of the insulators on the telephone poles are still glass, not ceramic
45. Like carry-ons : STOWABLE
47. Most unusual : RAREST
48. Adriatic port : BARI - map
49. Pasta suffix, commercially : RONI - Rice-a-Roni, Pasta-Roni
50. It was spawned by the Manhattan Project : ATOMIC AGE - I put in "ATOM BOMB"; only later did I see that I was short one letter
54. Precious ones : GEMS
57. Statesman in a Warhol series : MAO
61. Word of repulsion : ICK - I tried UGH first
63. Buns, e.g. : DOs - Hair-dos, although Princess Leia is the only person I know with two buns in one do
DOWN:
1. Small magazine articles? : BBs - HAR-HAR, that kind of magazine....but in my experience, I wouldn't really call it a magazine, more like a reservoir
2. __ parmigiana : ALLA - Had VEAL to start, then OLLA
3. Island blast : LUAU
4. Speaking point? : LECTERN
5. Aaron of "Love Happens" : ECKHART - Also in "The Dark Knight", and "Thank You For Smoking"
6. Syllable of disapproval : TUT
7. Czech composer Rudolf : FRIML - This guy
8. Hot rock : LAVA
9. Biting : ACID
10. Police weapons : TASERS
11. "What'd I tell you?" : "SO THERE~!"
13. Dredger's target : SILT - not GOLD; I got caught up in those shows on History Channel
14. Hanger in a rack : PIPE
21. Likeness words : AS AN
23. Punic Wars victor : ROME - wasn't TROY - I was thinking of the Iliad, not this conflict
25. A heap : SCADS
26. "High Fidelity" actress Lisa : BONET
28. Saturn satellite : DIONE
29. Signs : INKS
30. University of New Mexico team : LOBOS - seemed like a sensible W.A.G. to me
31. Slower than 43-Down : INERT
33. Like many a movie genius : EVIL - My personal favorite
40. Crawled, say : SWAM - nailed it
41. Xylophone relative : MARIMBA
43. Listless : LANGUID
44. Short operatic piece : ARIETTA
46. Post-bender dose : BICARB - Hair of the Dog? Me, I used to just tough it out with the pounding headache and body pains
49. Pear-shaped fiddle : REBEC
50. Surrounded by : AMID
51. Fiesta fare : TACO
52. Hebrew winter month : ADAR
53. City captured in the Six-Day War : GAZA
55. Brief "Don't ask so many questions!" : MYOB - Mind Your Own Business
56. Turn in the fridge : SOUR
59. __ whim : ON A
60. Hagen of the stage : UTA
--- On a personal note, my HR guy came around yesterday to offer me a driving position at UPS - my road test is Monday, 10am. - Splynter
