Theme: No Reveal Monday - Last names that start with various body parts.
20A. Record-setting aviator of the 1930s : AMELIA EARHART. Ear
29A. 2007-'14 E! comedy talk show host : CHELSEA HANDLER. Hand
46A. Looney Tunes rooster with a Southern accent : FOGHORN LEGHORN. Leg
56A. First to walk on the moon : NEIL ARMSTRONG. Arm
Argyle here. A simple theme that is somewhat hidden due lack of connectedness. The fact they are external parts that usual comes in pairs doesn't really do it. OTH, on the whole the puzzle seemed a bit crunchy to me.
Across:
1. Car roof accessory : RACK
5. __ Romeo: sports car : ALFA
9. Go Fish request : TWOs
13. Cybermessage : E-NOTE
15. Agreement to shake hands on : DEAL
16. Shabbat service site : SHUL. The Yiddish word for synagogue.
17. Hercules types : HEMEN
18. Jazz trumpeter Al : HIRT
19. Opposite of stuffy, roomwise : AIRY
23. Started to eat, with "into" : BIT
24. Apr. is in it : SPR. Is it to early to think spring?
25. Old nuclear agcy. : AEC. (Atomic Energy Commission)
26. Sixth sense, for short : ESP. (ExtraSensory Perception)
33. Hammerhead parts : PEENS. If it's a hammer and not a shark.
34. "All My Children" vixen : ERICA. All My Children (1970–2011); Erica Kane played by Susan Lucci. A crossword regular in the day.
35. Letterhead design : LOGO
38. RBI and ERA : STATS. Baseball
41. Sunset direction : WEST ergo 57D. Sunrise direction : EAST
42. King's decree : EDICT
44. Separate by percolation : LEACH. Home owners know all about perc tests and leach fields. Learn more HERE. Update: Homeowners with city plumbing, not so much. D-O
51. Singer's syllable : TRA
52. Word before a birth name : NÉE
53. Modern: Ger. : NEU. Are they looking for NEUARTIG? Update: Yes they were. Not just NEW because the German in the clue was abbreviated, hence the answer must be an abbreviation . What I have found is NEUARTIG can mean novel or never seen before. It appears in several spots that German for Modern is ... modern or moderne.
54. Move it, old-style : HIE
60. Letter after epsilon : ZETA
62. Et __: and others : ALIA
63. Down-yielding duck : EIDER
64. Showy perennial : IRIS
65. Half a picking-up tool : TONG
66. Cubic meter : STERE
67. Treaty : PACT
68. Concludes : ENDS
69. Mgr.'s underling : ASST.
Down:
1. Detox program : REHAB
2. Feeble : ANEMIC
3. O'Neill's "The Iceman __" : COMETH
4. "As seen on TV" record co. : K-TEL. CSO to Canada-eh. K-TEL is Canadian. Wiki.
5. Supporter : ADHERENT
6. Sci-fi princess : LEIA. RIP
7. Fawcett who played one of Charlie's Angels : FARRAH
8. Tennis Hall of Famer Gibson : ALTHEA
9. Russian ruler until 1917 : TSAR
10. "Little" deception : WHITE LIE
11. Couple's word : OUR
12. Guileful : SLY
14. Maroon, as after a shipwreck : ENISLE. Long "I"
21. Vaulted church areas : APSES
22. Stridex target : ACNE
27. "Gimme a few __": "Be right there" : SECS
28. Rear end in a fall? : PRAT
30. Pleistocene period : EPOCH
31. __ get-out: to the utmost degree : AS ALL
32. BBC time traveling hero : DR. WHO
35. Hit the road : LEFT
36. You may get a whiff of one : ODOR
37. Humongous : GIGANTIC
39. "Popstar!" and "Tiger Beat," casually : TEEN MAGs
40. Wise guys? : SAGEs
43. Novelist Morrison : TONI. POLITICAL Interview with Charlie Rose, CLIP(3:00) POLITICAL
45. Ladders partner in a kids' board game : CHUTES
47. Empathize : RELATE
48. "SNL" alum Kevin : NEALON. Matt LeBlanc and Kevin Nealon’s have a new CBS comedy, “Man with a Plan”.
49. Colossus island : RHODES. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue. Then Hollywood got a hold of it.
50. Bay Area NFLers : NINERS. 49
55. Marsh denizen : EGRET
58. Watermelon cover : RIND
59. "Lovely" Beatles ticket writer : RITA
60. Nil : ZIP
61. Victorian __ : ERA
Argyle
