17. *Wall-hidden sliding portal: POCKET DOOR. Side pocket and door side.
39. *Serve, as stew: DISH OUT. Side dish and outside.
11. *Fixture on a ceiling rail: TRACK LIGHT. Sidetrack and sidelight.
28. *Google Maps option: STREET VIEW. Street side and sideview.
60. Together, and a hint to both parts of the answers to starred clues: SIDE BY SIDE.
I guess we could also have side door, track side and side street. Any others ?
Across:
1. "We burger as good as we pancake" chain: IHOP. The International House of Pancakes' publicity stunt of changing their logo to IHOb and using social media to create the buzz turned out to be marketing magic. Hamburger sales quadrupled and same-store sales increased nearly 1 percent.
5. Ring-shaped reef: ATOLL.
10. www code: HTML. An initialism for Hypertext Markup Language. Click the blue hypertext link to read the Wikepedia article on the co-inventor of the concept of markup languages.
14. The "M" of MSG: MONO. Monosodium glutamate. The flavor enhancer. The MSG Symptom Complex - No definitive evidence.
15. Greek played by Anthony Quinn: ZORBA.
16. Badly damaged Asian sea: ARAL.
19. Food truck snack: TACO. and 5d, Ancient Mexican: AZTEC. Aztec Dave's is a popular rolling cocina Mexicano in Chicago.
20. Prepared (oneself), as for a difficult task: STEELED.
21. Planned with little detail: SKETCHY.
23. Thanksgiving Day Parade sponsor: MACY'S.
25. Pedaled in a triathlon: BIKED. Swim, cycle and run.
26. Trowel wielder: MASON. My friend enlisted in the Air Force and signed up for electronics. Testing revealed he was shade blind, so they made him a mason instead. After the Air Force he became a programmer. He still denies that he is shade blind. The colors clash on the walls in his home.
29. Remove the rind from: UNPEEL.
32. Letter-routing abbr.: ATTN.
33. "The Bathers" painter: RENOIR. Easily perped. Wouldn't have known it from the clue.
35. Suppositions: IFs. A few IFs in this Easy Listening song:
38. Feb. follower: MAR.
40. Old Prizm maker: GEO. Under the trimmings, the Prizm was basically a Toyota Corolla
41. Sports drink suffix: ADE.
42. Wedding venues: ALTARS. According to Wikipedia, the aforementioned song by Bread, If, became very popular at weddings and receptions.
43. Back in the day: THEN.
44. Writer Hemingway: ERNEST.
46. Like craft shows: ARTSY. Etsy is full of artsy creations. You knew that.
47. Sean who played a hobbit: ASTIN. He played Samwise Gamgee. Wilbur Charles probably knew that.
49. Reef explorer's gear: SCUBA. My first exposure to scuba was on the TV program Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges.
52. Split, as the loot: DIVVY UP. Chicagoans and her suburbanites know Divvy as the bicycle sharing program.
55. Oyster season, so they say: R MONTHS. Months that have the letter R.
59. "Would __ to you?": I LIE. The Eurythmics. Annie Lennox and David Stewart. Synthopop and R&B. Jinx referenced another hit song for the Eurythmics yesterday in his comments. That was their "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" song.
62. Above: OVER.
63. Gladden: ELATE. Dan Gladden of the Minnesota Twins elated fans with his Game 1 Grand Slam in the '87 World Series, and with his aggressive base running that led to the only run scored in Game 7 of the '91 World Series. The Twins won both World Series, besting the Atlanta Braves each time in 7 games. The 1991 World Series has been hailed by ESPN as the Greatest World Series of All Time.
64. "My treat": ON ME.
65. Wood cutters: SAWS.
66. Meal with matzo: SEDER.
67. "Downton Abbey" employee: MAID.
Down:
1. Rascals: IMPS.
2. Laugh-a-minute: HOOT.
3. __ and for all: ONCE. Expressed using other words... "Now, and for the last time."
4. Critters hunted in a 2016 mobile app: POKEMON. Pokemon Go was an augmented reality game that launched in 2016. Wildly popular among gamers, it was much criticized by authorities as trespasses, accidents and fatalities ensued.
6. Hot spiced drink: TODDY. Irish Whisky, Honey, Lemon and a dash of Cloves.
7. "__ y Plata": Montana motto: ORO.
8. Wall St. deals: LBOs. Leveraged Buyouts at Investopedia.
9. Small songbird: LARK.
10. McDaniel of "Gone With the Wind": HATTIE. No idea. Perps.
12. Papier-__: MACHE. Fun for children and the artsy-crafty people that sell on Etsy.
13. Frank __ Wright: LLOYD.
18. Panache: ELAN. As exhibited by the 2019 Supra that will be coming to showrooms later this year.
22. Movie critic Roger: EBERT.
24. Broad-brimmed beach bonnets: SUN HATS. I don wide-brimmed straw hats when mowing the lawn and gardening. Yeah, that sounds awkward. "I wear " sounds better. Just don't forget to doff your hat to the ladies.
26. Cry from a crib: MAMA.
27. Just barely: A TAD.
30. American-born Jordanian queen: NOOR. Queen Noor of Jordan at Biography.com
31. Name of 12 popes: PIUS. The list is copied from Wikipedia.
There have been 12 Roman Catholic Popes named Pius. Click the links if you want to learn about each papacy.
- Pope Pius I (c. 140–154; officially listed as 142/146 – 157/161)
- Pope Pius II (1458–1464)
- Pope Pius III (1503)
- Pope Pius IV (1559–1565)
- Pope Pius V (1566–1572)
- Pope Pius VI (1775–1799)
- Pope Pius VII (1800–1823)
- Pope Pius VIII (1829–1830)
- Pope Pius IX (1846–1878)
- Pope Pius X (1903–1914)
- Pope Pius XI (1922–1939)
- Pope Pius XII (1939–1958)
34. Appraisal amts.: ESTS. Amounts / Estimates.
36. Professional charges: FEES.
37. PlayStation maker: SONY. Is this the the original ?
39. "__ Boy": Irish song: DANNY.
43. Narrow window: TRANSOM. Typically over doors and windows, as shown here with a pair of sidelights adjacent the door.
45. Mississippi and Missouri: RIVERS. A couple of ems, and a lot of esses and ies.
46. "It's __!": nursery cry: A BOY.
47. Pablo's parting: ADIOS. Actually, Pablo was bi-lingual, and had crossed the Pyrenees to visit friends in France. Upon leaving, he bade his friends adieu. That's my excuse for having to change the answer when the perps didn't fit.
48. Thriller writer Daniel: SILVA. No clue for me, but the perps were solid. Daniel Silva Books: The Complete Listing
50. Minos' kingdom: CRETE. It's all Greek (mythology) to me. Only a passing interest.
51. "Raw" pigment: UMBER. Originally from the region of Umbria, Italy.
53. Applications: USES.
54. Heap: PILE.
56. Singer Turner: TINA. Here with Ike singing Proud Mary:
57. Port on many TVs: HDMI. High-Definition Multimedia Interface. The proprietary digital implementation replacing analog video signals.
58. Start of a flower: SEED.
61. Family man: DAD.
