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.
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.
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.
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
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