Theme: Hide from GOgres: Three kinds of bedding, three little words hiding beneath them.
As you can see in the grid, the word "GO" is found beneath three sets of covers as the reveal explains:
62A. What narcs may do ... or what can literally be found in three pairs of puzzle answers : GO UNDER COVER
Agnes, AKA Irish Miss here on the blog and C.C. back with another joint effort. Neat theme and smooth fill. I did look a little askance at "EMB" but it's not an uncommon entry, so no harm, no foul. What else? Let's hide and go seek:
Across:
1. Wines that can be white or red : PINOTS. Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio, for example. Some of the best Pinot Noirs come from the Santa Ynez Valley here in California. I go up there wine tasting two or three times a year. I've got a couple of 2010's in magnum that I should be thinking about drinking soon. Here's one signed by the winemaker, Kathy Joseph.
7. Greetings : HI'S
10. Lighthouse view : SEA
13. Widely recognized : ICONIC. Nice word, nice letter progression for a crossword.
14. Sleep on it : SERTA. Mattress brand.
16. Immediate caregiver, briefly : EMT
17. Highlighted publication part : CENTER SPREAD. Fresh entry, never before seen in the LAT, and a themer to boot.
19. "All Things Considered" airer : NPR
20. Mongrel : CUR
21. Brest bestie : AMIE. Brittany port city. It's really an effort to go to Brest, it's on the west coast of France and not on the way to anywhere else. Any further and you'll fall into the Atlantic Ocean.
22. Howe of hockey : GORDIE. GO Gordie!
24. Singer DiFranco : ANI
25. Halves of some master-servant relationships : GENII. If I tell you that my first try for 6D was SCRAP, then you'll understand why I was a little surprised when a different word appeared here.
27. Little pitchers have big ones, per an old maxim : EARS
28. Pioneering computer : ENIAC. A few computer throwback entries today. All a stroll in the park for me.
30. Stick-in-the-mud : WET BLANKET
33. Cabbage : MOOLAH
35. Insect stage : IMAGO. GO insect emerging from your pupa!
36. Quarterback Roethlisberger : BEN. Pittsburgh Steelers' signal-caller.
37. Nice and easy : NO HASSLE
40. Degree for Dr. Oz : MBA, And an MD. He obtained both degrees when he graduated from Penn in 1984. That's quite some achievement.
43. Southwestern lizards : GILAS
44. Traveling from gig to gig : ON TOUR. I saw U2 on their "Joshua Tree" tour at the Rose Bowl the weekend before last. That's quite a tour, I lost count of the number of big rigs that trucked in the staging and lighting and were parked outside the bowl.
46. Score keeper? : SHEET MUSIC. Nice clue.
51. Takes care of : TENDS
52. Boss of fashion : HUGO. GO suit designer!
53. Procedures involving suction, familiarly : LIPOS
55. FDR agency : NRA
56. "How nice!" : I'M GLAD
59. Bridge, e.g. : GAME. Took a while for the penny to drop on this one.
60. Dandy : FOP
61. Sought office : RAN
66. "Microsoft sound" composer : ENO. Brian, co-producer of "The Joshua Tree" album. Here's the opening track.
67. Meanies : OGRES
68. Result of a big hit : BRUISE
69. Circle div. : SEG.
70. Vicious of the Sex Pistols : SID. The various "Sid and Nancy" documentaries were fascinating and depressing all at the same time.
71. Levels of society : STRATA
Down:
1. Short movie? : PIC
2. Quebec Winter Carnival race vehicle : ICE CANOE. Total guess. Never heard of one. Looks like hard work!
3. Like some workers in an open shop : NON-UNION. Was thinking along the "suntanned" or "frostbitten" lines at first.
4. Seeking exoneration, in a way : ON TRIAL
5. Deadlock : TIE
6. Skinny sort : SCRAG
7. "I found the place!" : HERE IT IS!
8. Wrath : IRE
9. Deer fellow : STAG
10. "Where the Wild Things Are" author : SENDAK
11. Rome, once : EMPIRE
12. Not moving : AT REST
14. Chiropractor's concern : SPINE
15. Bother : ADO
18. Fish-eating duck : SMEW. Pretty-looking thing, unless you're a fish.
23. Truckee Meadows city : RENO. I thought it was a city in its own right, but nope, it's part of Reno.
26. Pioneering PCs : IBMS. They set the standard for commercially-available personal computers. We got one of the first when I worked at a bank in London. We found we had to go buy the operating system DOS which didn't come in the box and the computer didn't have a hard drive, just two floppy drives. Ever wondered why your hard drive is drive C? That's because the two floppies were A and B.
28. Diplomatic HQ : EMB.
29. "Oh, be quiet!" : CAN IT!
31. Composer Schifrin : LALO. Thank you, crosses.
32. Secret Service title : AGENT. I think there was a chance to cross-reference this with the puzzle reveal; perhaps Agnes and C.C. decided against it.
34. Fighter Holly who ended Ronda Rousey's undefeated streak : HOLM. I wouldn't want to run into either of them in a bad mood in a dark alley.
38. Schlep : HAUL
39. Given as homework : ASSIGNED
40. African capital named for an American president : MONROVIA. Learning moment. The capital of Liberia and one of only two national capitals to be named for a U.S. president. Hmm, I wonder which is the other?
41. Capital on the Danube : BUDAPEST. Two cities, Buda and Pest as we've explored before.
42. Horace's "__ Poetica" : ARS
43. Natural sci. : GEOL
45. "Copy that" : TEN-FOUR
46. British counties : SHIRES. A lot of them, but not all. Devon, Cornwall, Avon, Essex, Norfolk are some non-conformists that spring to mind. And remember the lesson I taught you about how to pronounce Worcestershire? You can apply the same principals to Leicestershire. Now Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Hampshire? A dearth of hurricanes. Also, a dearth of enunciating "shire" in the first two counties. Good luck trying to figure out.
47. Compassionate : HUMANE
48. Creamy quaff : EGG NOG. Staple of the holiday season.
49. Popular tablets : IPADS
50. Show up : COME
54. Some Croatians : SERBS
57. In the past : AGO
58. Ballpark fare : DOGS. GO Dodgers! Or should that be OG Dodgers?!
63. The Rams of the Atlantic 10 Conf. : URI. University of Rhode Island.
64. Old PC component : CRT. Cathode Ray Tube display.
65. Blues-rocker Chris : REA. Let's play out with one of his hits.
That was a fun ride, definitely not a "Road to Hell" - here's the grid!
Steve
As you can see in the grid, the word "GO" is found beneath three sets of covers as the reveal explains:
62A. What narcs may do ... or what can literally be found in three pairs of puzzle answers : GO UNDER COVER
Agnes, AKA Irish Miss here on the blog and C.C. back with another joint effort. Neat theme and smooth fill. I did look a little askance at "EMB" but it's not an uncommon entry, so no harm, no foul. What else? Let's hide and go seek:
Across:
1. Wines that can be white or red : PINOTS. Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio, for example. Some of the best Pinot Noirs come from the Santa Ynez Valley here in California. I go up there wine tasting two or three times a year. I've got a couple of 2010's in magnum that I should be thinking about drinking soon. Here's one signed by the winemaker, Kathy Joseph.
7. Greetings : HI'S
10. Lighthouse view : SEA
13. Widely recognized : ICONIC. Nice word, nice letter progression for a crossword.
14. Sleep on it : SERTA. Mattress brand.
16. Immediate caregiver, briefly : EMT
17. Highlighted publication part : CENTER SPREAD. Fresh entry, never before seen in the LAT, and a themer to boot.
19. "All Things Considered" airer : NPR
20. Mongrel : CUR
21. Brest bestie : AMIE. Brittany port city. It's really an effort to go to Brest, it's on the west coast of France and not on the way to anywhere else. Any further and you'll fall into the Atlantic Ocean.
22. Howe of hockey : GORDIE. GO Gordie!
24. Singer DiFranco : ANI
25. Halves of some master-servant relationships : GENII. If I tell you that my first try for 6D was SCRAP, then you'll understand why I was a little surprised when a different word appeared here.
27. Little pitchers have big ones, per an old maxim : EARS
28. Pioneering computer : ENIAC. A few computer throwback entries today. All a stroll in the park for me.
30. Stick-in-the-mud : WET BLANKET
33. Cabbage : MOOLAH
35. Insect stage : IMAGO. GO insect emerging from your pupa!
36. Quarterback Roethlisberger : BEN. Pittsburgh Steelers' signal-caller.
37. Nice and easy : NO HASSLE
40. Degree for Dr. Oz : MBA, And an MD. He obtained both degrees when he graduated from Penn in 1984. That's quite some achievement.
43. Southwestern lizards : GILAS
44. Traveling from gig to gig : ON TOUR. I saw U2 on their "Joshua Tree" tour at the Rose Bowl the weekend before last. That's quite a tour, I lost count of the number of big rigs that trucked in the staging and lighting and were parked outside the bowl.
46. Score keeper? : SHEET MUSIC. Nice clue.
51. Takes care of : TENDS
52. Boss of fashion : HUGO. GO suit designer!
53. Procedures involving suction, familiarly : LIPOS
55. FDR agency : NRA
56. "How nice!" : I'M GLAD
59. Bridge, e.g. : GAME. Took a while for the penny to drop on this one.
60. Dandy : FOP
61. Sought office : RAN
66. "Microsoft sound" composer : ENO. Brian, co-producer of "The Joshua Tree" album. Here's the opening track.
67. Meanies : OGRES
68. Result of a big hit : BRUISE
69. Circle div. : SEG.
70. Vicious of the Sex Pistols : SID. The various "Sid and Nancy" documentaries were fascinating and depressing all at the same time.
71. Levels of society : STRATA
Down:
1. Short movie? : PIC
2. Quebec Winter Carnival race vehicle : ICE CANOE. Total guess. Never heard of one. Looks like hard work!
3. Like some workers in an open shop : NON-UNION. Was thinking along the "suntanned" or "frostbitten" lines at first.
4. Seeking exoneration, in a way : ON TRIAL
5. Deadlock : TIE
6. Skinny sort : SCRAG
7. "I found the place!" : HERE IT IS!
8. Wrath : IRE
9. Deer fellow : STAG
10. "Where the Wild Things Are" author : SENDAK
11. Rome, once : EMPIRE
12. Not moving : AT REST
14. Chiropractor's concern : SPINE
15. Bother : ADO
18. Fish-eating duck : SMEW. Pretty-looking thing, unless you're a fish.
23. Truckee Meadows city : RENO. I thought it was a city in its own right, but nope, it's part of Reno.
26. Pioneering PCs : IBMS. They set the standard for commercially-available personal computers. We got one of the first when I worked at a bank in London. We found we had to go buy the operating system DOS which didn't come in the box and the computer didn't have a hard drive, just two floppy drives. Ever wondered why your hard drive is drive C? That's because the two floppies were A and B.
28. Diplomatic HQ : EMB.
29. "Oh, be quiet!" : CAN IT!
31. Composer Schifrin : LALO. Thank you, crosses.
32. Secret Service title : AGENT. I think there was a chance to cross-reference this with the puzzle reveal; perhaps Agnes and C.C. decided against it.
34. Fighter Holly who ended Ronda Rousey's undefeated streak : HOLM. I wouldn't want to run into either of them in a bad mood in a dark alley.
38. Schlep : HAUL
39. Given as homework : ASSIGNED
40. African capital named for an American president : MONROVIA. Learning moment. The capital of Liberia and one of only two national capitals to be named for a U.S. president. Hmm, I wonder which is the other?
41. Capital on the Danube : BUDAPEST. Two cities, Buda and Pest as we've explored before.
42. Horace's "__ Poetica" : ARS
43. Natural sci. : GEOL
45. "Copy that" : TEN-FOUR
46. British counties : SHIRES. A lot of them, but not all. Devon, Cornwall, Avon, Essex, Norfolk are some non-conformists that spring to mind. And remember the lesson I taught you about how to pronounce Worcestershire? You can apply the same principals to Leicestershire. Now Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Hampshire? A dearth of hurricanes. Also, a dearth of enunciating "shire" in the first two counties. Good luck trying to figure out.
47. Compassionate : HUMANE
48. Creamy quaff : EGG NOG. Staple of the holiday season.
49. Popular tablets : IPADS
50. Show up : COME
54. Some Croatians : SERBS
57. In the past : AGO
58. Ballpark fare : DOGS. GO Dodgers! Or should that be OG Dodgers?!
63. The Rams of the Atlantic 10 Conf. : URI. University of Rhode Island.
64. Old PC component : CRT. Cathode Ray Tube display.
65. Blues-rocker Chris : REA. Let's play out with one of his hits.
That was a fun ride, definitely not a "Road to Hell" - here's the grid!
Steve
