Theme: Words to the "wise" - the theme entries all comprise two words (both of three syllables) ending in "Y".
17A. Dishonest memoir, e.g. : LITERARY FORGERY. One of the most famous in my lifetime were the "Hitler Diaries" purchased by the German news magazine Stern which then sold serialization rights to many newspapers, most prominently the Sunday Times in Britain. The (then) respected historian Hugh Trevor-Roper declared them genuine. They weren't.
26A. Place for permanent storage : SECONDARY MEMORY. Permanent as long as the storage device doesn't fail, then it's a place for permanently-lost data. Hard drives, CD-Roms and the like are secondary memory.
46A. Part of West Point's curriculum : MILITARY HISTORY. Seems reasonable. Other parts include marching, being shouted at and hat-wearing.
58A. One of anatomy's great vessels : PULMONARY ARTERY. Carries de-oxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs. Quite important in the grand scheme of things.
Nice, rhythmic, no-reveal theme. My title doesn't really do justice to the -ARY -E/ORY echoes with the theme entries but I couldn't find a snappy way to explain it. My clumsy bad, but the best I could do.
Four grid-spanning 15's and some interesting fill. Quite a few unknown or couldn't-remember proper names for me - SEIJI, ERVIN, EDER, RADNER, BERG, IOLANI and GENA - but the crosses were fair and I managed to WAG the potential natick of RADNER/EDER so no harm, no foul. Let's see what else we've got going on:
Across:
1. It precedes Romans : ACTS. Both clue and answer refer to shortened names of the books in the Bible's New Testament - "Paul's Letters to the Romans" and "Acts of the Apostles". Paul was a prolific letter-writer, sending off his missives to the Romans, the Thessalonians, Corinthians, Galacians, Phillipians and many more. We'd probably call it spam today.
5. Maestro Ozawa : SEIJI. Chinese-born Japanese conductor with hall-of-fame hair:
10. __ de somme: beast of burden : BÊTE. Not the most common French word and only clued this way once before in the LAT.
14. "__ luck!" : WHAT
15. '50s-'70s senator who wrote "Humor of a Country Lawyer" : ERVIN. North Carolina senator Sam.
16. Shuffle, for one : IPOD
20. Ancient amulet : SCARAB. Symbolizing the holy beetle in Egypt.
21. Dark clouds, perhaps : OMENS
22. Pulitzer-winning book critic Richard : EDER
24. Bear's team : BAMA. Paul "Bear" Bryant, legendary head coach of the University of Alabama football team.
33. Dedicatee of an 1810 piano manuscript : ELISE. Beethoven's Für Elise.
34. Brand that includes N-Strike blasters : NERF
35. Sarah McLachlan song : ADIA. Let's have some of Sarah's lovely voice.
36. Gun : REV
37. Genre descended from the cakewalk : RAGTIME
40. Gift subject to skepticism : E.S.P. No abbreviation designation in the clue?
41. Aussie colleges : UNIS. Contraction of Universities. Brits use the same word.
43. "Lulu" composer : BERG
44. "__ Toward Tomorrow": 1996 TV movie with Christopher Reeve : A STEP. Thank you, crosses.
49. Merged news agency : TASS. The Russian news agency. I'm not sure about the "merged" definition here - ITAR-TASS, as the agency was known post-breakup of the Soviet Union is not two organizations, it's two names for the same organization. Wikipedia explains.
50. Convenient carrier : TOTE
51. Garden gadget : EDGER
54. Extent : LENGTH
63. Classical theaters : ODEA. I always want to put "ODEONS", then rapidly run out of room.
64. Southwestern New York city : OLEAN. Has a population of just over 14,000 which seems pretty small in "city" terms.
65. Linear : ONE-D. Took me a second to parse this one out - ONED looked a tad weird.
66. Filter : SEEP
67. "South Pacific" co-star Gaynor : MITZI
68. Bunker tool : RAKE. Here's Sergio Garcia raking his own bunker. Maybe he lost a bet with his caddy: "If I miss this putt I'll carry my own clubs and rake my own bunkers. If I make it, you buy dinner". "Doh!".
Down:
1. Leatherworker's set : AWLS
2. Smart : CHIC
3. Part of TTFN : TA TA. For now.
4. Man cave features : STEREOS. Probably would be a little dated now. If your man cave doesn't boast Dolby 7.1 surround sound connected to a bazillion gigawatt home theater system your friends probably don't want to come over and watch the game.
5. Wreckage resting place : SEA BED
6. Throw the ball away, say : ERR
7. Campus climber : IVY
8. Smucker's spread : JIF. Laura Scudder's Old-Fashioned Nutty for me in the PB stakes. I like the ritual of stirring the oil back in when you open a new jar.
9. Suffix with neutr- : INO
10. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" matriarch : BIG MAMA. Thank you, crosses.
11. One-on-one sport : EPÉE. En garde! Touché!
12. Conflicted : TORN
13. Slow Churned ice cream : EDY'S. We call it Dreyer's out here in the west, but it's the same stuff.
18. 1978 "SNL" Emmy winner : RADNER. I always think of Rita Rudner, and forget Glida Radner. I'll try not to next time.
19. European capital : ROME. Not Oslo this time.
23. 1994 Stanley Cup winners : RANGERS. The New York team captained at the time by the legendary Mark Messier.
24. Properly : BY RIGHT
25. Radio toggle switch : AM/FM
26. Hospital supply : SERUM
27. Nicholas Gage memoir : ELENI. Thank you, crosses.
28. __ suit : CIVIL
29. Hear again : RETRY
30. Tribute title words : ODE TO
31. Flight segment : RISER. Part of a staircase. I got rebuked in the comments a little while ago for mentioning that stairs have many interestingly-named parts without naming them all. Oops, I did it again. What a recividist I am.
32. Like some small dogs : YAPPY
38. "__ le roi!": French Revolution cry : À BAS. Down with the King!
39. It's to dye for : EASTER
42. Website directory : SITE MAP
45. Loud speaker : STENTOR. I'd not heard the noun before, but I knew the adjective "stentorian" so it filled in quite easily.
47. Poi source : TARO. Food!
48. Honolulu's __ Palace : IOLANI. Residence of the Hawai'ian kings. Much poi was doubtless consumed here.
51. Long narrative poem : EPOS
52. Dandy : DUDE
53. High spirits : GLEE
55. Rowlands of "The Notebook" : GENA
56. 94-day undertaking in the Cheryl Strayed memoir "Wild" : TREK. Tried HIKE, then WALK and finally TREK. I enjoyed the book and admired the brutal honesty of the author confronting her fears and behaviors.
57. Classic fictional villain : HYDE
59. Nice handle? : NOM. When you see "Nice" at the start of a clue, it's often referring to the french city. Handle = name, thence "nom".
60. "Prince __": "Aladdin" song : ALI
61. U.S. Army rank qualifier : RET.
62. Bosox legend : YAZ. Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox. See, that's why "Bosox' Yaz" is much easier.
I think that wraps it up from me. I'll leave you with the grid and my WAG of the "D" to finish off:
Steve
17A. Dishonest memoir, e.g. : LITERARY FORGERY. One of the most famous in my lifetime were the "Hitler Diaries" purchased by the German news magazine Stern which then sold serialization rights to many newspapers, most prominently the Sunday Times in Britain. The (then) respected historian Hugh Trevor-Roper declared them genuine. They weren't.
26A. Place for permanent storage : SECONDARY MEMORY. Permanent as long as the storage device doesn't fail, then it's a place for permanently-lost data. Hard drives, CD-Roms and the like are secondary memory.
46A. Part of West Point's curriculum : MILITARY HISTORY. Seems reasonable. Other parts include marching, being shouted at and hat-wearing.
58A. One of anatomy's great vessels : PULMONARY ARTERY. Carries de-oxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs. Quite important in the grand scheme of things.
Nice, rhythmic, no-reveal theme. My title doesn't really do justice to the -ARY -E/ORY echoes with the theme entries but I couldn't find a snappy way to explain it. My clumsy bad, but the best I could do.
Four grid-spanning 15's and some interesting fill. Quite a few unknown or couldn't-remember proper names for me - SEIJI, ERVIN, EDER, RADNER, BERG, IOLANI and GENA - but the crosses were fair and I managed to WAG the potential natick of RADNER/EDER so no harm, no foul. Let's see what else we've got going on:
Across:
1. It precedes Romans : ACTS. Both clue and answer refer to shortened names of the books in the Bible's New Testament - "Paul's Letters to the Romans" and "Acts of the Apostles". Paul was a prolific letter-writer, sending off his missives to the Romans, the Thessalonians, Corinthians, Galacians, Phillipians and many more. We'd probably call it spam today.
5. Maestro Ozawa : SEIJI. Chinese-born Japanese conductor with hall-of-fame hair:
10. __ de somme: beast of burden : BÊTE. Not the most common French word and only clued this way once before in the LAT.
14. "__ luck!" : WHAT
15. '50s-'70s senator who wrote "Humor of a Country Lawyer" : ERVIN. North Carolina senator Sam.
16. Shuffle, for one : IPOD
20. Ancient amulet : SCARAB. Symbolizing the holy beetle in Egypt.
21. Dark clouds, perhaps : OMENS
22. Pulitzer-winning book critic Richard : EDER
24. Bear's team : BAMA. Paul "Bear" Bryant, legendary head coach of the University of Alabama football team.
33. Dedicatee of an 1810 piano manuscript : ELISE. Beethoven's Für Elise.
34. Brand that includes N-Strike blasters : NERF
35. Sarah McLachlan song : ADIA. Let's have some of Sarah's lovely voice.
36. Gun : REV
37. Genre descended from the cakewalk : RAGTIME
40. Gift subject to skepticism : E.S.P. No abbreviation designation in the clue?
41. Aussie colleges : UNIS. Contraction of Universities. Brits use the same word.
43. "Lulu" composer : BERG
44. "__ Toward Tomorrow": 1996 TV movie with Christopher Reeve : A STEP. Thank you, crosses.
49. Merged news agency : TASS. The Russian news agency. I'm not sure about the "merged" definition here - ITAR-TASS, as the agency was known post-breakup of the Soviet Union is not two organizations, it's two names for the same organization. Wikipedia explains.
50. Convenient carrier : TOTE
51. Garden gadget : EDGER
54. Extent : LENGTH
63. Classical theaters : ODEA. I always want to put "ODEONS", then rapidly run out of room.
64. Southwestern New York city : OLEAN. Has a population of just over 14,000 which seems pretty small in "city" terms.
65. Linear : ONE-D. Took me a second to parse this one out - ONED looked a tad weird.
66. Filter : SEEP
67. "South Pacific" co-star Gaynor : MITZI
68. Bunker tool : RAKE. Here's Sergio Garcia raking his own bunker. Maybe he lost a bet with his caddy: "If I miss this putt I'll carry my own clubs and rake my own bunkers. If I make it, you buy dinner". "Doh!".
Down:
1. Leatherworker's set : AWLS
2. Smart : CHIC
3. Part of TTFN : TA TA. For now.
4. Man cave features : STEREOS. Probably would be a little dated now. If your man cave doesn't boast Dolby 7.1 surround sound connected to a bazillion gigawatt home theater system your friends probably don't want to come over and watch the game.
5. Wreckage resting place : SEA BED
6. Throw the ball away, say : ERR
7. Campus climber : IVY
8. Smucker's spread : JIF. Laura Scudder's Old-Fashioned Nutty for me in the PB stakes. I like the ritual of stirring the oil back in when you open a new jar.
9. Suffix with neutr- : INO
10. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" matriarch : BIG MAMA. Thank you, crosses.
11. One-on-one sport : EPÉE. En garde! Touché!
12. Conflicted : TORN
13. Slow Churned ice cream : EDY'S. We call it Dreyer's out here in the west, but it's the same stuff.
18. 1978 "SNL" Emmy winner : RADNER. I always think of Rita Rudner, and forget Glida Radner. I'll try not to next time.
19. European capital : ROME. Not Oslo this time.
23. 1994 Stanley Cup winners : RANGERS. The New York team captained at the time by the legendary Mark Messier.
24. Properly : BY RIGHT
25. Radio toggle switch : AM/FM
26. Hospital supply : SERUM
27. Nicholas Gage memoir : ELENI. Thank you, crosses.
28. __ suit : CIVIL
29. Hear again : RETRY
30. Tribute title words : ODE TO
31. Flight segment : RISER. Part of a staircase. I got rebuked in the comments a little while ago for mentioning that stairs have many interestingly-named parts without naming them all. Oops, I did it again. What a recividist I am.
32. Like some small dogs : YAPPY
38. "__ le roi!": French Revolution cry : À BAS. Down with the King!
39. It's to dye for : EASTER
42. Website directory : SITE MAP
45. Loud speaker : STENTOR. I'd not heard the noun before, but I knew the adjective "stentorian" so it filled in quite easily.
47. Poi source : TARO. Food!
48. Honolulu's __ Palace : IOLANI. Residence of the Hawai'ian kings. Much poi was doubtless consumed here.
51. Long narrative poem : EPOS
52. Dandy : DUDE
53. High spirits : GLEE
55. Rowlands of "The Notebook" : GENA
56. 94-day undertaking in the Cheryl Strayed memoir "Wild" : TREK. Tried HIKE, then WALK and finally TREK. I enjoyed the book and admired the brutal honesty of the author confronting her fears and behaviors.
57. Classic fictional villain : HYDE
59. Nice handle? : NOM. When you see "Nice" at the start of a clue, it's often referring to the french city. Handle = name, thence "nom".
60. "Prince __": "Aladdin" song : ALI
61. U.S. Army rank qualifier : RET.
62. Bosox legend : YAZ. Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox. See, that's why "Bosox' Yaz" is much easier.
I think that wraps it up from me. I'll leave you with the grid and my WAG of the "D" to finish off:
Steve
