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
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
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
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
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
