We have a Friday add a letter theme presented in a pinwheel grid. This is our fourth puzzle from Winston (the name of my grandpuppy who turned 10 years old yesterday-picture below) and his second already this year. Today's feature is different than his earlier Friday, and I found pretty doable. I never heard of the Fugard play, but the rest filled in with just a few perps. I did learn a bit and enjoyed some of the longer fill like DELISTS, EMANUEL, ANDRETTI, SEAHORSE, ASSERTIVE, and STENCILED. So we are off...
16A. Social media buzz about Alfred E. Neuman?: MAD CHATTER (10). I have never been to a chat room. Mad HATTER is an Alice in Wonderland reference.
62A. Jalopy that still works?: GOING CRATE (10). Going RATE is an in the language phrase and CRATE is ok.
9D. Vegan regimen for a willowy look?: CATKINS DIET (11). The controversial ATKINS diet morphs into a flowering spike of trees such as willow and hazel.
22D. Trysting place?: CHEATING PAD (11). A simple HEATING pad becomes a den of iniquity.
With a reveal:
With a reveal:
67A. Grade describing the four longest puzzle answers?: C PLUS (5).
1. Dip with a kick: SALSA. Not if you live with a Thai chef.
6. Highest: NTH.
9. Video segment: CLIP.
13. "A Lesson From __": Fugard play: ALOES. New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best Play of the Year, in 1980, I think. FUGARD was a South African and outspoken critic of Apartheid.
14. Electronic music effect: WAWA. My son, Devin. uses his wah-wah pedal (or simply wah pedal) which is a type of electric guitar effects pedal that alters the tone and frequencies of the guitar signal to create a distinctive sound, mimicking the human voice saying the onomatopoeic name "wah-wah".
15. Helper: AIDE. Even if you are not in the Senate.
18. Labor: TOIL.
19. Montgomery-to-Macon dir.: ENE. I have made this drive.
20. Founded: BASED. The theory was founded on the assumption...
21. Tie feature: KNOT. Silly; they do not come with knots. Oh, I guess if you are wearing one.
22. Fiscal exec: CFO.
24. Removes from the exchange: DELISTS. Delisting occurs when listed security is removed from the exchange on which it trades. A stock may be removed from an exchange if the company for which the stock is issued is not in compliance with the listing requirements of the exchange. The criteria to remain listed on an exchange differs from one exchange to another. On the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), for instance, if a security's price closed below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days then the exchange would initiate the delisting process.
26. It's not an equine: SEAHORSE.
31. Directed: RAN.
32. Forceful: ASSERTIVE.
34. "There's many __ 'twixt the cup and the lip": old proverb: A SLIP. The origin STORY. It is cool in a semi-sad way.
38. About one-third of Earth's land area: ASIA. This is where the above story comes from, as well as my beautiful wife.
39. Slyly disparaging: SNIDE. My favorite.
41. Monopoly pieces: DICE. Who thinks of the dice as a piece?
42. Tops: BESTS.
44. Like some posters: STENCILED. This took many perps.
46. Windows competitor: iOS. iOS (formerly iPhone OS ) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the second most popular mobile operating system globally after Android.
48. Big name in auto racing: ANDRETTI. Mario and his sons.
49. Chicago mayor since 2011: EMANUEL. This MAN.
53. Addams cousin: ITT. A Hairy clue.
54. Actress Helgenberger: MARG. From China Beach to CSI.
55. Case, often: DOZEN. Beer, soda and a clecho with 69A. Case, for example: Abbr.: SYNtax is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. Nothing to do with 29 Down. Or as the majority has voted, it was a little play on words using the "for" to tell you that CASE is a SYNONYM for example. I am tired and like the old Burger King Commercial - you can have it your way.
58. Hanoi holiday: TET.
61. Radar readout feature: BLIP.
65. "Frozen" princess: ELSA.
66. Grandson of 33-Down exiles: ENOS. do we all know this biblical figure now?
68. Marsh plant: REED. I think of them from the Bible and Moses. The clecho. 47D. Marsh plants: SEDGES.
70. Permissible: LICIT. For once not illicit.
Down:
1. Matching: SAME.
2. Jackson of country: ALAN. My Thai wife listens.
4. Holding-on period?: SEC.
5. 49-Down remnant: ASH.
6. Expos, now: NATS. The Washington Nationals.
7. Rough material: TWEED.
8. Taking more time, probably, as a test: HARDER.
10. Ford Field team: LIONS. Sorry to all their fans, but DETROIT is not a successful team.
11. Nitwit: IDIOT.
12. Trapper's collection: PELTS.
14. Athletic org. founded by Billie Jean King: WTA. Women's Tennis Association. LINK.
17. Ends prematurely: ABORTS.
23. Pro: FOR.
25. Mike Trout's team, on scoreboards: LAA. Los Angeles Angels. The angels angels.
26. Swedish auto: SAAB. The car is now GONE.
27. Latin I verb: ESSE. To be or not to be, that is the question.
28. Craigslist caveat: AS IS. Also very important in Real Estate purchases and law.
29. Sloth and the like: SINS. Some say there are 7 deadly ones, but that would be religion.
30. Musical narrated by Che: EVITA. Hard to beleive this is more than 20 years ago.
33. Paradise: EDEN. More Bible.
35. Rhythmic cadence: LILT.
36. Tracy Marrow's stage name: ICE-T.
37. Salon offering: PEDI. How many of the men out there have had one or more? I have taken the cure.
40. Outcome: ENDING.
43. Trifling amount: SOU. French penny, basically.
45. Old PC monitor: CRT. Cathode Ray Tube.
49. Eventual 5-Down: EMBER.
50. "Atlantic City" director Louis: MALLE. A very famous and controversial film DIRECTOR who went from shooting underwater with Jacques Cousteau to many sexually themed movies like Pretty Baby. He was married to Candice Bergen.
51. Stand: ARISE.
52. More than a little silly: LOONY. Etymology: also loonie, looney, luny, "crazy; silly and eccentric," 1853, American English, short for lunatic, but also influenced by loon (n.2) and perhaps loon (n.1), the bird is noted for its wild cry and method of escaping from danger. As a noun by 1884, from the adjective. Slang loony bin "insane asylum" is by 1909. Looney left in reference to holders of political views felt to be left-wing in the extreme is from 1977. Looney Tunes, Warner Bros. studios' animated cartoon series, dates from 1930.
56. Angels Landing's national park: ZION. The angels are obviously a hearty group. MORE.
57. Nation borders?: ENS. Nation. The absence of the 's was the giveaway.
58. Soothing application: TALC. Unless you use it on your body in a personal way. LINK.
59. Notions case: ETUI. This has become quite popular again.
60. Acid __: TEST.
63. Half of D: CCL. Roman numeral math...glue.
64. Hudson Riv. engineering school: RPI. We end with a common CSO to our Corner friends. Cool.
My Winston as a puppy and then him now He is a boxer black lab mix
I think I did it again; hope you enjoyed my tour and Winston's creation. I await your comments. Lemonade out.
