Monday, June 15, 2015 Mark McClain

Theme: Hey whipper-snapper, who you callin' ... - take your choice of the first part of our theme entries.

17A. "Three strikes you're out" place of song, with "the" : "OLD BALL GAME"

27A. Civilization of Plato and Aristotle : ANCIENT GREECE

45A. Many an elder statesman : SENIOR SENATOR

61A. Spanish doubloons, e.g. : ANTIQUE GOLD

Geezer Argyle here. Mark gave us a change up from his first puzzles with us but appropriate for a Monday. He did throw in some curves though. And anyone complaining about my use of 'who' instead of 'whom' can step outside.

Across:

1. Blue Ribbon brewer : PABST

6. Japanese fish dish : SUSHI

11. Cone-producing evergreen : FIR

14. Stan's comic partner : OLLIE. (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy)

15. Standard Windows typeface : ARIAL

16. Simpson trial judge Lance : ITO

19. Miracle Mets manager Hodges : GIL. 44A. Longtime Dolphins coach Don : SHULA. Two Super Bowl victories and a perfect season.

20. Extreme anger : RAGE

21. Things on a list : ITEMS

22. Sandy slope : DUNE

23. Tach measure : RPM. (revolutions per minute)

25. Human chest : THORAX. Not to be confused with the Lorax.

33. Iranian religion : BAHÁ'Í

34. Pronoun before or after "truly" : YOURS

35. Mar.-to-Nov. hrs. : DST. (Daylight Saving Time)

38. Traditional square dance site : BARN

39. Grey Cup sports org. : CFL. ( Canadian Football League )

40. Goes a-courting : WOOs

41. "Give me __!": start of a Hawkeye cheer : AN I. (Iowa)

42. "... ring, __ wed" : I THEE

48. Painter : ARTIST

50. Folding bed : COT

51. Finely sharpened : KEEN

52. Equally distant : AS FAR "as far as the east is from the west"

56. Ending with chick : ADEE. (chickadee)(dee)(dee)

60. More than trotted : RAN

63. Shelley poem : ODE

64. Knife hawked on TV : GINSU

65. "What are you gonna do about it?!" : "SUE ME!"

66. Actor Beatty : NED

67. Selassie worshiper : RASTA. "O yeah man!"

68. Boxing's "Iron Mike" : TYSON

Down:

1. Penniless : POOR

2. "It's __ big mistake!" : ALL A. Not this puzzle, I hope.

3. Apt. house : BLDG

4. __ Husky : SIBERIAN

5. Brewed soother : TEA

6. Fries sprinkling : SALT

7. Hard-to-ignore impulse : URGE

8. Thailand, formerly : SIAM

9. Pet on a wheel : HAMSTER

10. Land in la mer : ILE

11. Made sense of : FIGURED OUT

12. Turner memoir : I, TINA"

13. Oft-imitated pricey watch : ROLEX

18. Depict by drawing : LIMN

22. ER VIP : DOC

24. Architect I.M. __ : PEI

26. "For __ a jolly ..." : HE'S

27. Palindromic pop quartet : ABBA

28. Indian flatbread : NAAN

29. Baptized : CHRISTENED

30. Danish astronomer Brahe : TYCHO. "...he lost his nose in a duel, and he died after his bladder burst." Read more.

31. Errand runner : GOFER. Go for this, go for that. (go for coffee)

32. Wears the crown : RULES

36. Unaccompanied : SOLO

37. Russian despot : TSAR

40. "That fellow is the best!" : "WHAT A GUY!"

42. Shoo-__: sure winners : INS

43. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" queen : TITANIA. Yellowrocks.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite overcanopied with luscious wood-bine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine :

There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,

Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight ;

And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

~Wm. Shakespeare

44. __-cone : SNO

46. German "a" : EIN

47. Beige shade : ECRU

48. Ohio rubber city : AKRON, Ohio.

49. Aptly named novelist Charles : READE. Aptly old.

53. Bus sched. listings : STNs. (station)

54. Clenched hand : FIST

55. Blue-green color of water : AQUA

57. Deer girls : DOEs

58. "Sesame Street" giggler : ELMO

59. Biblical garden : EDEN

61. Farming-related: Abbr. : AGR. (agricultural)

62. Approx. repair cost : EST. (estimate)

Argyle

Notes from C.C.:

Congratulations to Carl Voss who won the Fourth Minnesota Crossword Tournament yesterday. Andrew Ries (very very talented constructor) finished second and Mike Weepie finished third.

Local tournament constructors: : C.C., Tom Pepper, George Barany, Victor Barocas, Michael David & David Liben-Nowell. 

Constructor is introduced before each puzzle. Here is Tom Pepper.

 

Solving has started.

Constructors are mingling in the back.
 Victor Barocas, David Liben-Nowell & Michael David

  C.C. & George Barany 

Big Screen Display of all constructors for the tournament.

Click here for a few more tournament pictures.

Boomer and I also said hello to a few Peanuts friends before the tournament. It's 87 F outside, so those bronze statues are hot.

                                                      Boomer & Peppermint Patty

 

Charlie Brown & Snoopy