Theme: Laundry detergents? No, as the reveal explains:
53A. Subject for a news team ... and a description of 19-, 36- or 42-Across? : CURRENT EVENT (I still think "Breeze" and "Surge" would make great names for laundry detergents!)
19A. Subject for a meteorologist : SUMMER BREEZE. I was going to link the Seals & Crofts song, but I just listened to it and it really hasn't aged well.
36A. Subject for an oceanographer : SPRING TIDE. Nothing to do with the season, it's when the difference between the high and low tide is the greatest; typically twice a month after the full and new moons.
42A. Subject for an electrician : POWER SURGE. Did those slab-like surge protectors ever do any good? I never recall having to reset one.
Three different kinds of currents in three different media - wind, sea and electricity.
Neat theme and a nice grid with a lot of across-wise fill. Those triple-stacked 7's and the 6-7-7 atop/beneath the 12-letter themers are very slick. Nicely done, Mr. Lampkin.
Across:
1. Provoke : INCITE
7. Clichéd currency : RED CENT. The smallest amount possible.
14. Cone site : VOLCANO. You can't get much more classically-conical in the stratovolcano world than Mt. Fuji.
16. Crop duster, e.g. : AVIATOR
17. Unhelpful helper : ENABLER
18. Like garden gnomes : KITSCHY. Took me a moment to remember how to spell this correctly.
21. Respiration point : NOSE
22. It's often twisted : YARN. Apparently not all yarns are twisted, but some are filaments (such as silk).
26. Slangy 21-Across : SNOOT. I thought you could cock a snoot, but when I went to find an example I discovered that you cock a snook. Good to know.
30. Holy recess : APSE
34. Holy jurisdiction : SEE. "The ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome". Now you know.
35. Rude dude : LOUT
39. Summed up : IN TOTAL
41. Nullified : NEGATED
44. French sky : CIEL. French 101 - "Le ciel est bleu". (Ou gris, en Angleterre).
45. Cycle starter? : UNI
46. Cry of enlightenment : AH SO
47. Homecoming cry : IT'S ME
48. Kitchenware : POTS
50. Formerly floppy medium : DISC. Funny how these ubiquitous things suddenly disappeared.
61. "Hogwash!" : BALONEY
64. Personal __ : TRAINER
65. Somewhat : A LITTLE
66. Femur or fibula : LEG BONE
67. Butterflies on ankles, say : TATTOOS. People tell me it hurts like hell to get a tattoo on your ankle. I'll take their word for it.
68. Teammate of Duke and Jackie : PEEWEE. Dodgers greats Snider, Robinson and Reese, here with Roy Campanella.
Down:
1. "Concord Sonata" composer : IVES. Charles Ives. Not really a tune you can whistle.
2. Lower-class, to Brits : NON-U. Non-Upper Class. The use of a single word can place you firmly in a particular class. If you say "Pardon?" when you didn't hear something clearly, you're middle class. (The Queen would say "What?", as would working-class Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins".).
3. Chowder bit : CLAM
4. China's DF-31, e.g. : ICBM. Now I'll know what I'm looking at next time I see one whizzing past. Cruise missiles are powered in flight, ballistic ones drop on your head by force of gravity. Both will ruin your day.
5. Gift of the gifted : TALENT
6. Opener for Don Quixote? : ENERO. "January" in Spanish.
7. It has big teeth : RAKE. What about the little ones that come with those desktop Zen gardens?
8. "Gramma" in the comic strip "Stone Soup" : EVIE
9. Chowderhead : DITZ
10. He was on deck when Blake was up : CASEY
11. "And more" letters : ETC.
12. Masked drama : NOH
13. Crack : TRY
15. Space balls : ORBS
20. Raise : REAR
23. The way things stand : AS IT IS
24. Atone for : REDEEM
25. Tease : NEEDLE
26. Wrong move : SLIP-UP
27. "Wrong, wrong, wrong!" : NO! NO! NO!
28. Get the better of : OUTWIT
29. Oklahoma tribe : OTOE. These guys.
31. Sonar pulse : PING
32. "The Mikado" weapon, briefly : SNEE. "Snickersnee", a fighting knife featured in the song "The Criminal Cried as he Dropped him Down".
33. Tube traveler : EGG
36. Ceremonial accessory : SASH
37. And : PLUS
38. Diplomacy : TACT
40. Gay syllable : TRA-
43. Teased : RODE
47. Long cold spell : ICE AGE
49. 2013 Masters champ Adam __ : SCOTT. He subsequently had to change his putting style when the Rules of Golf were thankfully amended to ban the "anchoring" of a long putter.
51. Airport abbr. : INTL.
52. Bad bug : STREP. I had strep throat once, my tonsils were swollen white lumps. It was all I could do to swallow warm water. Awful.
54. Biblical connector : UNTO. Connector?
55. Move, in real estate lingo : RELO
56. Saloon and deli offerings : RYES. Whisky and a sandwich. Lunch of champions!
57. Weird feeling, perhaps : VIBE
58. Plenty of poetry? : ENOW
59. Island goose : NENE
60. Word with farm or house : TREE
61. Stick for 10-Down : BAT
62. In the style of : À LA. "À la mode" means "fashionable" in French. Why is it fashionable to put a scoop of ice cream on your pie?
63. Bombed : LIT. The result of too many ryes in the saloon.
I think I've got all the clues/answers this week, sorry for the missing ones last Thursday; I think the blog gremlins ate them.
Here's the grid!
Steve
53A. Subject for a news team ... and a description of 19-, 36- or 42-Across? : CURRENT EVENT (I still think "Breeze" and "Surge" would make great names for laundry detergents!)
19A. Subject for a meteorologist : SUMMER BREEZE. I was going to link the Seals & Crofts song, but I just listened to it and it really hasn't aged well.
36A. Subject for an oceanographer : SPRING TIDE. Nothing to do with the season, it's when the difference between the high and low tide is the greatest; typically twice a month after the full and new moons.
42A. Subject for an electrician : POWER SURGE. Did those slab-like surge protectors ever do any good? I never recall having to reset one.
Three different kinds of currents in three different media - wind, sea and electricity.
Neat theme and a nice grid with a lot of across-wise fill. Those triple-stacked 7's and the 6-7-7 atop/beneath the 12-letter themers are very slick. Nicely done, Mr. Lampkin.
Across:
1. Provoke : INCITE
7. Clichéd currency : RED CENT. The smallest amount possible.
14. Cone site : VOLCANO. You can't get much more classically-conical in the stratovolcano world than Mt. Fuji.
16. Crop duster, e.g. : AVIATOR
17. Unhelpful helper : ENABLER
18. Like garden gnomes : KITSCHY. Took me a moment to remember how to spell this correctly.
21. Respiration point : NOSE
22. It's often twisted : YARN. Apparently not all yarns are twisted, but some are filaments (such as silk).
26. Slangy 21-Across : SNOOT. I thought you could cock a snoot, but when I went to find an example I discovered that you cock a snook. Good to know.
30. Holy recess : APSE
34. Holy jurisdiction : SEE. "The ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome". Now you know.
35. Rude dude : LOUT
39. Summed up : IN TOTAL
41. Nullified : NEGATED
44. French sky : CIEL. French 101 - "Le ciel est bleu". (Ou gris, en Angleterre).
45. Cycle starter? : UNI
46. Cry of enlightenment : AH SO
47. Homecoming cry : IT'S ME
48. Kitchenware : POTS
50. Formerly floppy medium : DISC. Funny how these ubiquitous things suddenly disappeared.
61. "Hogwash!" : BALONEY
64. Personal __ : TRAINER
65. Somewhat : A LITTLE
66. Femur or fibula : LEG BONE
67. Butterflies on ankles, say : TATTOOS. People tell me it hurts like hell to get a tattoo on your ankle. I'll take their word for it.
68. Teammate of Duke and Jackie : PEEWEE. Dodgers greats Snider, Robinson and Reese, here with Roy Campanella.
Down:
1. "Concord Sonata" composer : IVES. Charles Ives. Not really a tune you can whistle.
2. Lower-class, to Brits : NON-U. Non-Upper Class. The use of a single word can place you firmly in a particular class. If you say "Pardon?" when you didn't hear something clearly, you're middle class. (The Queen would say "What?", as would working-class Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins".).
3. Chowder bit : CLAM
4. China's DF-31, e.g. : ICBM. Now I'll know what I'm looking at next time I see one whizzing past. Cruise missiles are powered in flight, ballistic ones drop on your head by force of gravity. Both will ruin your day.
5. Gift of the gifted : TALENT
6. Opener for Don Quixote? : ENERO. "January" in Spanish.
7. It has big teeth : RAKE. What about the little ones that come with those desktop Zen gardens?
8. "Gramma" in the comic strip "Stone Soup" : EVIE
9. Chowderhead : DITZ
10. He was on deck when Blake was up : CASEY
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat.
From "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
11. "And more" letters : ETC.
12. Masked drama : NOH
13. Crack : TRY
15. Space balls : ORBS
20. Raise : REAR
23. The way things stand : AS IT IS
24. Atone for : REDEEM
25. Tease : NEEDLE
26. Wrong move : SLIP-UP
27. "Wrong, wrong, wrong!" : NO! NO! NO!
28. Get the better of : OUTWIT
29. Oklahoma tribe : OTOE. These guys.
31. Sonar pulse : PING
32. "The Mikado" weapon, briefly : SNEE. "Snickersnee", a fighting knife featured in the song "The Criminal Cried as he Dropped him Down".
33. Tube traveler : EGG
36. Ceremonial accessory : SASH
37. And : PLUS
38. Diplomacy : TACT
40. Gay syllable : TRA-
43. Teased : RODE
47. Long cold spell : ICE AGE
49. 2013 Masters champ Adam __ : SCOTT. He subsequently had to change his putting style when the Rules of Golf were thankfully amended to ban the "anchoring" of a long putter.
51. Airport abbr. : INTL.
52. Bad bug : STREP. I had strep throat once, my tonsils were swollen white lumps. It was all I could do to swallow warm water. Awful.
54. Biblical connector : UNTO. Connector?
55. Move, in real estate lingo : RELO
56. Saloon and deli offerings : RYES. Whisky and a sandwich. Lunch of champions!
57. Weird feeling, perhaps : VIBE
58. Plenty of poetry? : ENOW
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
From "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam" translated by Edward Fitzgerald
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
From "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam" translated by Edward Fitzgerald
59. Island goose : NENE
60. Word with farm or house : TREE
61. Stick for 10-Down : BAT
62. In the style of : À LA. "À la mode" means "fashionable" in French. Why is it fashionable to put a scoop of ice cream on your pie?
63. Bombed : LIT. The result of too many ryes in the saloon.
I think I've got all the clues/answers this week, sorry for the missing ones last Thursday; I think the blog gremlins ate them.
Here's the grid!
Steve
