Saturday Themeless by Kyle Dolan
Today we celebrate National Chip and Dip Day. Perhaps we should have celebrated this occasion on Super Bowl Sunday but anything this delicious can stand on its own merit,
Many of the dips I saw online had guacamole and I just haven't developed that taste for that. My plebeian tastes prefer the common combination at the end of this write-up.
Toady's constructor is Dr. Kyle Dolan and it has been my pleasure to blog three previous puzzles he authored here at our word stand!
As his title would indicate, Kyle's puzzles are full of innovation and fiendish cluing coupled wonderful stacked 9's in the NW and SE!
1. Source of moving fare: FOOD TRUCK - When we were in Portland, Oregon we were stunned by the many, many FOOD TRUCKS downtown for lunch
10. Each of its chapters is called a "sura": QURAN - This alternate spelling of KORAN eventually entered my consciousness and opened up QUEEN in 10. Artist with the 2016 album "Lemonade," to fans: QUEEN BEY. I filled the cells but had to Google to obtain this reference to BEYONCE
15. Georgian Bay is part of it: LAKE HURON.
16. Fifth sense?: UMAMI - The 5th sense of taste that has been in our puzzles several times lately
17. "Regardless ... ": AT ANY RATE.
18. Park with an "Innoventions" museum: EPCOT - A EPCOT portmanteau familiar to me
19. Humanities subj.: PSY.
20. Small white toy: MALTESE - Aha, Kyle, you didn't fool me!
22. Time of expectation: EVE.
23. Old Route 66 city: TULSA - Kind of a big deal there
24. Solution: ANSWER.
26. Flag of Chicago quartet: STARS - Who knew?
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29. Mainland Africa's smallest nation: GAMBIA - The bizarre history of Gambia's formation and shape
31. Decorated one: HERO
32. Pot seen in a bar: BEER BELLY - Sometimes indelicately called a "pot gut"
35. Charges up: EXCITES - THAT'S their, uh, charge
37. Whitewater sight, perhaps: KAYAKER.
39. Sit out: TAKE A PASS.
41. Lock fixers: GELS - Locks of hair
42. Maker of Oikos Greek yogurt: DANNON - Granola on top makes it more palatable to me
43. Big Ten team since 2014, familiarly: TERPS - The TERPS and the Huskers joined in the same year
46. Match.com results: DATES - My daughter met a lot of frogs there before her ideal man came along
50. "The Murder Room" author: P.D. JAMES - New author for me
52. Red choice: CAB - In the seventeenth century in southwestern France, an accidental breeding occurred between a red CABernet Franc grape plant and a white Sauvignon Blanc grape plant produced the most popular grape among American red wine drinkers: CABernet Sauvignon.
55. Up: AWAKE.
57. In agreement with the party: ON MESSAGE - Senators and Representatives, abandon your own opinions before you take your seat
59. Jackie's predecessor: MAMIE - Here they are with their spouses and the Prime Minister of Japan and his spouse in 1961
60. Posted: STATIONED - My dad was STATIONED in The Panama Canal Zone during WWII
61. Place: STEAD - During the Civil War, rich men could pay to have others go in their STEAD as a substitute 62. Egg sources: HEN HOUSES
Down:
1. Controversy: FLAP - Any activity these days seems to generate a political FLAP
2. Stable diet: OATS - Lunch for Trigger and Silver
3. "Agreed": OKAY.
4. Show watcher's room: DEN - Wow!
5. Gland essential to T cell maturation: THYMUS - All you need to know
6. Pastoral: RURAL and 7. Range with one end in Kazakhstan: URALS - How do you people who say RULE instead of ROOR AL pronounce this mountain range that divides Europe from Asia? 😏
8. Weekend getaway: COTTAGE - Ah, the destination not the trip
9. Hopping joint?: KNEE - My grandchildren hopped up on my KNEE many times
11. One verifying a tag: UMP - Verified!
12. 20km Summer Olympian: RACE WALKER - One foot must always be in contact with the ground
13. "Don't make __!": A MOVE.
14. Fertilizer ingredient: NITER - NITER is KNO3 below
21. Ballroom dances: SAMBAS -
23. Three-horse carriages: TROIKAS - A TROIKA ride at Pavlovsk Palace Park in St. Petersburg, Russia
25. Preserved fodders: SILAGES - Testing a SILAGE pit is a common practice in Nebraska
27. One might include an emoji: TEXT - I 💘 to TEXT 😊
28. Dance Dance Revolution, e.g.: ARCADE GAME - 14 seconds of it on Big Bang
30. Sacred chests: ARKS - Indiana Jones and Sallah find the ARK of the Covenant (the MacGuffin) in this fun movie
32. More than brushed back: BEANED - Hit a home run, stand at the plate and watch it leave the ball park? This could happen to you the next time you're up!
33. First NHL player with a 100-point season, familiarly: ESPO - Phil ESPOsito has been a starter on the cwd hockey team for years!
34. Site with many pans: YELP - A pan is a bad review. A YELP review of our favorite Omaha restaurant
36. State-of-the-art 1970s bike: TEN SPEED - A coveted possession at that time
38. __ feed: online news aggregator: RSS - Rich Site Summary - RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually.
40. Slowish tempo marking: ANDANTE - Griegg's famous passage from Peer Gynt played ANDANTE
44. 10-Across preachers: IMAMS.
45. Unaccustomed to: NEW AT
47. Jordan's capital: AMMAN - 31/4 hr drive from Tel Aviv
48. Effectiveness: TEETH - Texting while driving violations will only be effective when TEETH are put into its enforcement
51. Rib: JOSH.
52. Recycled items: CANS.
53. "Permit Me Voyage" poet: AGEE - A 1939 compilation of poetry by James Agee. I am much more familiar with Tommy AGEE of the '69 Amazin' Mets!
54. Flower holders: BEDS - Ours will hold forth soon, duly protected from the rabbits
56. Hyundai competitor: KIA - The 2019 Hyundai and KIA below. I don't know which is which. 😁
Time for my low brow chip and dip while you comment:
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