Theme: "I WANT CANDY" 1:49
18-Across. Where Cal Ripken's consecutive game record was set : CAMDEN YARDS. I just linked this stadium a couple weeks ago. And I actually remembered it!
24-Across. Color named for a bird : CANARY YELLOW. My favorite.
40-Across. "Calm down!" : CONTROL YOURSELF. Straight from the Dalai Lama's mouth.
50-Across. Taxing period, usually : CALENDAR YEAR. Some years are more taxing than others...
62-Across. Immature 20-something, say : CALLOW YOUTH.
"Youth is wasted on the young."
George Bernard Shaw.
And if you didn't get the theme by now, there is a reveal to help:
69-Across. Sweet, or, read another way, a hint to five long puzzle answers : CANDY, or "C" AND "Y". Each phrase consists of two words, beginning with those two letters.
Marti here. Pretty straightforward theme, and some interesting fill made this an enjoyable puzzle for me. Let's see why.
Across:
1. Big head : EGO.
4. Fancy dance : BALL.
8. Bad hair day feature : FRIZZ. Like this?
13. Hauler's unit : TON. I'll have sixteen of those, please. 2:33
14. Beatnik's dough : BREAD. Does the dough have to be cooked before it becomes bread?
16. French name meaning "born again" : RENEE. We often see "nee" in x-words, but I never connected the name RE-NEE to being born again. Cool!
17. Day off from sch. : HOL.iday.
20. Brief mea culpa : I DID. (it?)
22. Candidate list : BALLOT.
23. Repair quote: Abbr. : EST.imate.
27. Showy lily : SEGO. I thought of fermatprime with her blue calla lily.
28. "Godmother of Punk" Smith : PATTI. Doesn't sound very "punk" to me. 3:38.
32. Back in time : AGO. Disco Ago-go?
33. Bitter : ACIDIC. Like LSD?
39. Ray or Flay : CHEF. Two of my favorites on The Food Network. Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay.
43. Ristorante menu word : ALLA. I like to BBQ alla Flay.
44. Pitch add-on : BLENDE. Pitchblende, source of Uranium.
45. ___ Khan: Rita Hayworth's husband : ALY.
46. Peaceful scene : IDYLL.
48. Newspaper section : ARTS.
57. Scary snake : ASP.
60. Copy room supplies : TONERS.
61. Plucked strings, in Padua : ARPA. You are probably familiar with this.
65. Vampire's alter ego : BAT. "Die Fliedermaus" ("The BAT") is one of my favorite operettas by Strauss.
66. Sap : DRAIN. I was going in the other direction: Patsy? Chump?
67. Actress Dickinson : ANGIE. She was a big hit with the guys in the 70's. I wonder why?
68. Profitable rock : ORE. Like pitchBLENDE.
70. Hyphenated IDs : SSNs. Soc-ial Sec-ur-i-ty Num-bers.
71. Cadillac luxury sedan : XTS. "Car and Driver" review.
Down:
1. Personal creed : ETHIC.
2. Reliable : GOOD AS GOLD. and 31-Down. Not reliable : IFFY.
3. Like many magazines, nowadays : ONLINE ONLY.
4. "East Enders" airer : BBC. British Broadcasting Corp., or "The Beeb," as we have come to know and love in xword puzzles.
5. Sheikdom in a jazz standard : ARABY. Fats Waller did it as good as anyone. 3:08
6. WWII Air Force general Curtis ___ : LEMAY.
7. Minestrone server : LADLE. Anyone else want Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi"?
8. Grill on a stove : FRY TOP.
9. Blues-rocker Chris : REA. Lots of music today!
10. Brief words? : IN RE. Legal brief, that is.
11. Heart of a London puzzle? : ZEDS. In the US, we call them "zees." Do Brits "catch some zeds" when they need a nap?
12. Joie de vivre : ZEST.
15. Wooded valley : DELL.
19. Lon of Cambodia : NOL. Marshal Lon Nol led the coup against Sihanouk in 1970.
21. NYC's ___ Hammarskjöld Plaza : DAG.
25. Guffaw : ROAR. I love to guffaw - it's good for what ails you!
26. "My best soldiers": MacArthur : WACS. Women's Army Corps.
29. Loge : THEATER BOX.
30. Knows the difference between : TELLS APART.
32. Beneficial berry : ACAI.
34. Picnic discard : COB.
35. Peaked : ILL. Do you pronounce it peekt or pee-kid?
36. Turn blue, perhaps : DYE. If you are really peaked.
37. Physicist's particle : ION.
38. Chewed-over material : CUD.
41. Soapstone, mostly : TALC.
42. Place for stragglers : REAR.
47. Rte. for many a red-eye : L.A. - TO - N.Y. Anyone have a hard time figuring out what a "LATONY" was? (From C.C.: Thanks, Marti, I googled LATONY afterwards and could not make any sense of it!)
49. Handwoven rug : RYA.
51. Vile : LOW.
52. Former member of the Irish band Clannad : ENYA. Another song for today.
53. Old Dodge compacts : NEONS.
54. What dispensaries dispense : DRUGS.
55. Sean who played a hobbit : ASTIN. He played Frodo's friend Samwise Gamgee.
56. Has status : RATES.
57. ELO relative? : AC-DC. Cute comparison! You get your pick of songs here: Electric Light Orchestra 4:21 or AC-DC. 4:15
58. Paretsky who writes V.I. Warshawski detective novels : SARA. Detective novels are not on my reading list, so this was all perps.
59. Think ahead : PLAN.
63. Trunk cover : LID.
64. Blokes : HES. I didn't even see this entry as I was solving...and that's a good thing.
That's all for now. See you next week!
Hugs,
Marti
Note from C.C.:
Happy 92nd birthday to Jazzbumpa's amazing mother! Jazzbumpa (Ron) took this photo last Sunday. I hope you have a wonderful celebration today!
This is another great picture from her birthday last year. Click here to read Ron's musing.
Happy 92nd birthday to Jazzbumpa's amazing mother! Jazzbumpa (Ron) took this photo last Sunday. I hope you have a wonderful celebration today!
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| Mother's Day, 2013 |
This is another great picture from her birthday last year. Click here to read Ron's musing.
