Theme: Echo-o-o-o A word echoed in each theme clue
17A. Workshop sticker : EPOXY RESIN. This stuff. The red bits (scientific term!) are the hardener.
27A. Kitchen sticker : FRIDGE MAGNET. Here's one of mine from a winery near Santa Maria (no surprise there!)
43A. Mailroom sticker : POSTAGE STAMP. Here is the world's most valuable stamp, the British Guyana 1¢ Magenta. It sold at auction in 2014 for $9.5m. That's some return on your one-cent investment back in 1856.
58A. Desk-bottom sticker : CHEWING GUM. Yuck.
Nice theme-in-the-clue pangrammatic puzzle from Mark. There's a lot of fresh fill too, much more than a usual Thursday. I enjoyed the variety in the four "stickies". Let's see what else we've got.
Across:
1. Eye-related prefix : OPTI
5. Acht minus sechs : ZWEI. If you want to clearly differentiate between "two" and "three" (drei) in German, you use "zwo" instead. I've heard the guy counting down a skier at the start of the Hannenkahm downhill in Kitzbühel incanting "drei-zwo-ein".
9. Con : SCAM
13. Rock guitarist Eddy : DUANE
15. Make : EARN
16. Dracula costume item : CAPE
19. Major in astronomy? : URSA. Nice clue.
20. 64-Across's realm : RUSSIA. Filled in easily enough once I'd got to the end of the "Across" clues and found TSAR.
21. Pacified : QUELLED
23. CBS maritime drama : NCIS. Never seen it, but I know it stands for "Naval Criminal Investigative Service". Was Tom Cruise an NCIS agent in "A Few Good Men?"
26. Lay bare : EXPOSE
32. Personal assistant : AIDE
33. "Zounds!" : EGADS! Yikes!
34. __ Mahal : TAJ
37. Had already learned : KNEW
38. City north of Memphis : CAIRO. 20 miles away. Here's a few old rocks in Memphis - actually, they're the remains of columns from a temple to Rameses.
39. Pacific island where much of "Lost" was filmed : OAHU. Where you can chow down on pupus.
40. Scrape (out) : EKE
41. "Wheel of Fortune" name : VANNA. Speaking of which, the proffered answer of "On The Spot Dice Spin" didn't win this one. Indiana U. fail.
42. Half-note feature : STEM
46. Kicks out : EXPELS
49. Water source : WELL
50. I-15 city between Los Angeles and Las Vegas : BARSTOW. Name-checked on the song "Route 66."
52. Service interruption : OUTAGE
57. Stage direction : EXIT. Stage Left.
61. Icy coating : RIME. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is not referring to frost on his beard.
62. Numbers game : KENO
63. Knife hawked on infomercials : GINSU. I think I've seen the commercials - isn't this the knife that cuts through a can and then cuts tomatoes? I hate to see knife abuse of this sort!
64. Old despot : TSAR
65. Try to find : SEEK
66. Is appropriate : FITS
Down:
1. River through Frankfurt : ODER
2. __ platter : PUPU. Food! A Hawai'ian staple. Make sure there's a couple of Spam musubi on there for me.
3. City near Ghost Ranch, a favorite Georgia O'Keeffe retreat : TAOS.
4. "Devil Inside" band : INXS. My first wife worked for their record company. They were pronounced "Ink-sis" by the folks at the label, so as not to been seen taking the talent too seriously.
5. Crazy consonant? : ZEE. And with "Z" this puzzle becomes a pangram, all letters of the alphabet appear today.
6. Used to be : WAS
7. La Salle of "Under the Dome" : ERIQ. I know him from "House."
8. Subtle slur : INNUENDO.
9. Make busts : SCULPT. Not a Victoria's Secret Uplift Semi Demi bra?
10. Producer Ponti : CARLO. Thank you, crosses.
11. Spots for religious statues : APSES
12. Civil War general : MEADE. Famous for Gettysburg and building lighthouses. He was born in Cadiz, Spain, which may or may not explain the lighthouse fascination.
14. Getting a good look at : EYING
18. 10K, say : RACE. Fun Run for some, Agony Run for others, Race for the select few.
22. They may not be on speaking terms : EXES. Especially if they live in Texas.
24. Clarifying words : I MEANT ...
25. City "it took me four days to hitchhike from," in Paul Simon's "America" : SAGINAW. I heard this five minutes ago - the song is currently being used in a VW car commercial.
27. Hoops move : FAKE
28. Zamboni domain : RINK. The Zamboni was invented, and is still manufactured right here in Southern California, in Paramount.
29. __ fixe : IDÉE. An obsession. I didn't notice this during the puzzle, crosses filled it in for me.
30. Meadow drops : DEW
31. Parking place : GARAGE
34. "Cheerio!" : TA-TA! I just finished watching all six seasons of "Downton Abbey" after a few years' delay. Jolly good! I cried in every episode. I cry all time in movies; I even cried in the first "Toy Story." I went to see "The Cider House Rules" at the AMC Theater in Burbank when it was first released wearing a light gray t-shirt. When I came out, the front was dark gray due to my tearful sobbing.
35. "Shh!" relative : AHEM
36. Head start : JUMP
38. Full-length clerical garments : CASSOCKS. I wore one of these in my days as an altar boy. See below for parental dragging-by-the-ear reference.
39. East of Essen : OST. A couple or three Germanic references today. I like the play on "East of Eden" in the clue.
41. Electric Chevy : VOLT
43. Annoy : PESTER
44. Childlike race in "The Time Machine" : ELOI
45. Thrown : SLUNG
46. Critic Roger : EBERT. One of the thumbs up. Or down.
47. Line on which y = 0 : X-AXIS.
48. Ballerina descriptor : PRIMA. Top banana at the barre.
51. "This is fun!" : WHEE!
53. "What a brutal week!" : TGIF! Thank Go[odness] it's Friday!
54. Lambs, in Latin : AGNI. I think this one is a tad obscure. I knew it because of my Catholic parents dragging me to church by the ear and therefore knowing the "Agnus Dei", married with the fact I was taught Latin at school, so I could figure out the plural. Tough one.
55. A strong one may invert an umbrella : GUST. Tried GALE, was wrong.
56. Big birds : EMUS
59. Hydrocarbon suffix : -ENE
60. Asian pan : WOK. Don't get a non-stick one - you want to be able to push food up the sides and have it stay there rather than sliding back to the bottom like Sysyphus' boulder.
And with that, my work here is done. Here's the grid!
Steve
17A. Workshop sticker : EPOXY RESIN. This stuff. The red bits (scientific term!) are the hardener.
27A. Kitchen sticker : FRIDGE MAGNET. Here's one of mine from a winery near Santa Maria (no surprise there!)
43A. Mailroom sticker : POSTAGE STAMP. Here is the world's most valuable stamp, the British Guyana 1¢ Magenta. It sold at auction in 2014 for $9.5m. That's some return on your one-cent investment back in 1856.
58A. Desk-bottom sticker : CHEWING GUM. Yuck.
Nice theme-in-the-clue pangrammatic puzzle from Mark. There's a lot of fresh fill too, much more than a usual Thursday. I enjoyed the variety in the four "stickies". Let's see what else we've got.
Across:
1. Eye-related prefix : OPTI
5. Acht minus sechs : ZWEI. If you want to clearly differentiate between "two" and "three" (drei) in German, you use "zwo" instead. I've heard the guy counting down a skier at the start of the Hannenkahm downhill in Kitzbühel incanting "drei-zwo-ein".
9. Con : SCAM
13. Rock guitarist Eddy : DUANE
15. Make : EARN
16. Dracula costume item : CAPE
19. Major in astronomy? : URSA. Nice clue.
20. 64-Across's realm : RUSSIA. Filled in easily enough once I'd got to the end of the "Across" clues and found TSAR.
21. Pacified : QUELLED
23. CBS maritime drama : NCIS. Never seen it, but I know it stands for "Naval Criminal Investigative Service". Was Tom Cruise an NCIS agent in "A Few Good Men?"
26. Lay bare : EXPOSE
32. Personal assistant : AIDE
33. "Zounds!" : EGADS! Yikes!
34. __ Mahal : TAJ
37. Had already learned : KNEW
38. City north of Memphis : CAIRO. 20 miles away. Here's a few old rocks in Memphis - actually, they're the remains of columns from a temple to Rameses.
39. Pacific island where much of "Lost" was filmed : OAHU. Where you can chow down on pupus.
40. Scrape (out) : EKE
41. "Wheel of Fortune" name : VANNA. Speaking of which, the proffered answer of "On The Spot Dice Spin" didn't win this one. Indiana U. fail.
42. Half-note feature : STEM
46. Kicks out : EXPELS
49. Water source : WELL
50. I-15 city between Los Angeles and Las Vegas : BARSTOW. Name-checked on the song "Route 66."
52. Service interruption : OUTAGE
57. Stage direction : EXIT. Stage Left.
61. Icy coating : RIME. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is not referring to frost on his beard.
62. Numbers game : KENO
63. Knife hawked on infomercials : GINSU. I think I've seen the commercials - isn't this the knife that cuts through a can and then cuts tomatoes? I hate to see knife abuse of this sort!
64. Old despot : TSAR
65. Try to find : SEEK
66. Is appropriate : FITS
Down:
1. River through Frankfurt : ODER
2. __ platter : PUPU. Food! A Hawai'ian staple. Make sure there's a couple of Spam musubi on there for me.
3. City near Ghost Ranch, a favorite Georgia O'Keeffe retreat : TAOS.
4. "Devil Inside" band : INXS. My first wife worked for their record company. They were pronounced "Ink-sis" by the folks at the label, so as not to been seen taking the talent too seriously.
5. Crazy consonant? : ZEE. And with "Z" this puzzle becomes a pangram, all letters of the alphabet appear today.
6. Used to be : WAS
7. La Salle of "Under the Dome" : ERIQ. I know him from "House."
8. Subtle slur : INNUENDO.
9. Make busts : SCULPT. Not a Victoria's Secret Uplift Semi Demi bra?
10. Producer Ponti : CARLO. Thank you, crosses.
11. Spots for religious statues : APSES
12. Civil War general : MEADE. Famous for Gettysburg and building lighthouses. He was born in Cadiz, Spain, which may or may not explain the lighthouse fascination.
14. Getting a good look at : EYING
18. 10K, say : RACE. Fun Run for some, Agony Run for others, Race for the select few.
22. They may not be on speaking terms : EXES. Especially if they live in Texas.
24. Clarifying words : I MEANT ...
25. City "it took me four days to hitchhike from," in Paul Simon's "America" : SAGINAW. I heard this five minutes ago - the song is currently being used in a VW car commercial.
27. Hoops move : FAKE
28. Zamboni domain : RINK. The Zamboni was invented, and is still manufactured right here in Southern California, in Paramount.
29. __ fixe : IDÉE. An obsession. I didn't notice this during the puzzle, crosses filled it in for me.
30. Meadow drops : DEW
31. Parking place : GARAGE
34. "Cheerio!" : TA-TA! I just finished watching all six seasons of "Downton Abbey" after a few years' delay. Jolly good! I cried in every episode. I cry all time in movies; I even cried in the first "Toy Story." I went to see "The Cider House Rules" at the AMC Theater in Burbank when it was first released wearing a light gray t-shirt. When I came out, the front was dark gray due to my tearful sobbing.
35. "Shh!" relative : AHEM
36. Head start : JUMP
38. Full-length clerical garments : CASSOCKS. I wore one of these in my days as an altar boy. See below for parental dragging-by-the-ear reference.
39. East of Essen : OST. A couple or three Germanic references today. I like the play on "East of Eden" in the clue.
41. Electric Chevy : VOLT
43. Annoy : PESTER
44. Childlike race in "The Time Machine" : ELOI
45. Thrown : SLUNG
46. Critic Roger : EBERT. One of the thumbs up. Or down.
47. Line on which y = 0 : X-AXIS.
48. Ballerina descriptor : PRIMA. Top banana at the barre.
51. "This is fun!" : WHEE!
53. "What a brutal week!" : TGIF! Thank Go[odness] it's Friday!
54. Lambs, in Latin : AGNI. I think this one is a tad obscure. I knew it because of my Catholic parents dragging me to church by the ear and therefore knowing the "Agnus Dei", married with the fact I was taught Latin at school, so I could figure out the plural. Tough one.
55. A strong one may invert an umbrella : GUST. Tried GALE, was wrong.
56. Big birds : EMUS
59. Hydrocarbon suffix : -ENE
60. Asian pan : WOK. Don't get a non-stick one - you want to be able to push food up the sides and have it stay there rather than sliding back to the bottom like Sysyphus' boulder.
And with that, my work here is done. Here's the grid!
Steve
