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Aug 17, 2016

Wednesday, August 17, 2016, Patricia Moran

TITLE: HOUSE PARTY

Patricia has given us a lovely Wednesday puzzle where she starts two or three-word phrases with a word or words that are an architectural style of a house. Patricia used no reveal for her theme but I have one for you as I have pictured some famous TV houses, 
in the styles our constructor has chosen, and their addresses. The names of each TV show associated with these houses are revealed just above the grid at the end of this write-up *.


THEME ANSWERS:


20. Period preserved by a district in Williamsburg, Virginia : COLONIAL TIMES - A COLONIAL house on 211 Pine Street, Universal Studios Backlot 




29. Title character in a Beatles "White Album" song : BUNGALOW BILL - A BUNGALOW house on 619 S. Runnymeade Avenue, Evansville, 35. Ill. neighbor : IND



46. Snacks with a New England lighthouse on the package : CAPE COD CHIPS - A CAPE COD house on 1164 Morning Glory Circle, West Oak Street, Burbank, CA



56. Dip for veggies : RANCH DRESSING - A RANCH house on 11222 Dilling Street, North Hollywood, California




Husker Gary here, admitting that I did have some issues but came away with a very satisfying "got 'er done". E-TOLL, THANK U and BUNGALOW BILL made for a slow NE.


Across


1. Paper unit : SHEET 

6. "Never Wave at __": Rosalind Russell film : A WAC - A forerunner of Private Benjamin?




10. Trash transport : SCOW - In NYC many of these SCOWS unloaded at Fresh Kills, Staten Island which is to be converted into a park 3X bigger than Central Park


14. Software security update : PATCH


15. Capitale in which "La Dolce Vita" was filmed : ROMA


16. Top-rated : A-ONE


17. Lanai hi : ALOHA - It means hello, goodbye and please check the oil!


18. Soft-spoken painter Bob : ROSS




19. Macramé feature : KNOT


23. Subj. for many an au pair : ESL


24. Ornamental pond fish : KOI


25. Denver-to-Chicago dir. : ENE - A compass heading of 67.5˚


26. Buf-__: facial sponge brand : PUF


32. Treadmill setting : PACE - Our crossword Corgi friends keeping the PACE




36. Doone of fiction and cookies : LORNA


37. Green subj. : ECOL


38. Drained of color : ASHEN


41. Spring : LEAP


42. __ Peachik: flavored vodka : STOLI




44. Tic-tac-toe loser : OXO 


45. Glorifying works : ODES


50. Colour ending : ISE




51. Bump-log link : ON A

52. Mama bear, in Mexico : OSA - Que mamá OSA tiene tres cachorros (That mama bear has three cubs)


53. Newscaster Lindström : PIA - Here shown at the right with her mother Ingrid Bergman who deserted Pia and her dad to marry Roberto Rossellini when Pia was 10. They reconciled when she was 18.




60. Fervor : ZEAL


62. Oodles : A LOT


63. Frugal sort : SAVER


64. "What's gotten __ you?" : INTO - Did you see The Exorcist? The animations I could have posted grossed me out!


65. Predecessors of euros : LIRE


66. Get together in secret? : ELOPE


67. Delight : GLEE


68. Finish a flight : LAND


69. Morning blend : LATTE



Down


1. One usually follows a comma : SPACE



2. Los Angeles Angels, in sportscasts : HALOS

3. Traveling convenience : E-TOLL -Pay up or else...



4. Reverberate : ECHO


5. 1998 Alanis Morissette hit : THANK U


6. Calls before a criminal court : ARRAIGNS


7. Knitting supply : WOOL


8. Dutch beer named for a river : AMSTEL


9. Monaco attraction : CASINO


10. Benefit : SAKE


11. Partnered in crime : CONSPIRED - A none too bright group who CONSPIRED. One of them, however, did change history




12. Lennon's widow : ONO


13. Just painted : WET


21. Ancient Aegean region : IONIA


22. Cry softly : MEWL


27. Arm bones : ULNAE - Bumping ULNAE




28. Book jacket parts : FLAPS

29. "Beauty and the Beast" beauty : BELLE


30. __ committee : AD HOC - Latin for "for this"


31. Ties with clasps : BOLOS


32. "My Cousin Vinny" star : PESCI - Eating his first grit




33. Fill in for : ACT AS


34. Play well with others : COOPERATE


39. Advised urgently : EXHORTED


40. __ pollution : NOISE


43. Desktop image : ICON - The ICONS on my messy desktop




47. Readily available, as a doctor : ON CALL


48. Bright bloom : DAHLIA


49. Bunch : PASSEL


53. Basketball move : PIVOT - Here is a 360 degree PIVOT and "nothin' but net!"




54. Klutzy : INEPT


55. Say yes : AGREE


57. Salve additive : ALOE


58. Michael who played Worf on "Star Trek: T.N.G." : DORN - We baseball peeps know Corbin Bernson's movie DORN better




59. Spanish parlor : SALA


60. Sharp turn : ZIG


61. Shutterfly order: Abbr. : ENL




Now, we will take input from our learned solvers who I know will follow HOUSE RULES:


*Theme house answers


20. COLONIAL - Leave It To Beaver


29. BUNGALOW - Roseanne (Recently for sale for $129,000)


46. CAPE COD - Bewitched


56. RANCH - The Brady Bunch


THE GRID