Theme: MOVIE TRAILERS (49. "Coming attractions" offerings, and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues)
20. *Opening night Hollywood event: PREMIERE PARTY. Movie premiere.
33. *Recognizable face associated with a cause: POSTER CHILD. Movie poster.
40. *Photographer's concern: CAMERA ANGLE. Movie camera.
Boomer here.
Hi
everyone. I am looking forward to the first day of summer coming soon.
In our daily routines, C.C. eats mostly healthy food while I prefer junk
food like pizza and brats. But there is one sign of summer that we both
crave. The pallets of seedless watermelon invading the produce
department of the grocery stores. They are not grown in Minnesota. The
farmers thought about growing seedless watermelon, but they did not know
what to plant.
Across:
1. Noisy blue birds: JAYS. Toronto's baseball team. Needs a little help this season.
5. What a wizard may cast: SPELL.
I suppose you read about the spelling bee which became an eight way tie
when they ran out of words. Each of the contestants received $50,000.
10. Magic charm: MOJO.
14. Stand watch for, say: ABET. Now that James is gone from Jeopardy. I suppose he is back home making a bet.
15. Shire of "Rocky": TALIA.
16. State firmly: AVOW.
17. Lugosi of "Dracula" fame: BELA.
18. MLB app for watching live baseball games: AT BAT. Sorry I watch them on TV. I do not like the computer version.
19. Farmer's place, in a kids' song: DELL. Hi-Ho the dairy O.
23. VIP vehicle: LIMO.
I remember going to the 1987 World Series at the Metrodome. I found a
place to park about half a mile away. When we approached the parking
lot of the dome, there were at least 50 limos there. Spoiled brat
baseball players!!
24. Smash into: RAM. Play football in L.A.
25. Current unit: AMPERE. I am not sure about this. I believe a current unit is a volt. An ampere is the load.
28. Practice in the ring: SPAR. Move that "S" to the rear of the word and give me some on the golf course.
30. Mil. bravery medal: DSC.
Distinguished Service Cross. Must be pretty special because I have
never seen one. Closest I came was a Vietnam vet came into my unit with
a Silver Star.
35. Brew ordered by its initials: IPA.
36. Periods often named for music genres: ERAS. Also mentioned in pitchers stats.
37. __-Ida Tater Tots: ORE. I suppose this references Oregon and Idaho, but I know most potatoes are grown in Idaho. Not sure what happens in Oregon.
38. Colored eye part: IRIS. See also 61. Eye parts with 38-Acrosses: UVEAS.
39. Double-crosser: RAT. Cannot help thinking of James Cagney when I see this.
44. Part of CBS: Abbr.: SYS. Columbia Broadcasting is the other part.
45. Run __: go wild: AMOK.
46. Number of feet between baseball bases: NINETY.
47. Times two, a Gabor: ZSA.
"She had twenty husbands, five of them hers. What kind of life is
that?" I think Chad Mitchell Trio sang that about Liz Taylor. Zsa Zsa
lived to the ripe old age of 99. Wow!!
48. Work with freight: LADE.
55. "Right away!" letters: ASAP. Maple trees have this. We still miss Argyle who would send us a bottle of homemade maple syrup.
56. Well in advance: EARLY.
MLB Hall of Fame Pitcher Mr. Wynn Began his career with Washington and
if he had stayed he may have become a Minnesota Twin. But he left the
Senators for Cleveland and finished his career with the White Sox. (then
back to Cleveland for a cup of coffee and win #300.)
57. Life partner: MATE.
60. Bit of lingerie: SLIP. Did you ever walk in Minnesota in the winter?
62. Most of the time: A LOT.
63. Fit for sainthood: HOLY.
64. Respond: REACT. Think about those Broadway plays. Those folks have to re act every performance
65. Verne sea captain: NEMO. Played by Michael Caine and Omar Sharif. I always thought he was a real person that lived before my time.
Down:
1. Elbow poke: JAB.
2. Mount Rushmore prez next to Teddy: ABE.
Shame on me. I have driven through Rapid City, SD many times and even
once stopped at the casino in Deadwood. But I never drove the extra
miles to see this fabulous carving in a mountain. It should be one of
the seven wonders of the world. Let's at least give it number 8.
3. Shrill bark: YELP.
4. Hollywood hopefuls, back in the day: STARLETS. The Sun is our biggest star. I suppose we could call the little ones starlets.
5. Speak haltingly: STAMMER. My uncle Howie had a terrible one. Difficult to understand.
6. Outdoor party area: PATIO. A lot of patios have now been replaced by decks on multi-story homes.
7. Hamburg's river: ELBE. The Elbe flows through Northern Germany. I was farther south, near Frankfurt.
8. False witness: LIAR. Pants on fire.
9. Like sideways gridiron passes: LATERAL. We don't see these in the NFL too much anymore.
10. "__ Secretary": TV drama: MADAM.
11. No longer hung up on: OVER. I know they did not spell it this way, but I cannot help but think of Peter Graves in "Airplane."
12. Rude awakening: JOLT. I don't know if it is still on the market, but I remember a high caffeine soft drink by this name.
13. Big-eyed: OWLY. Stan -" I brought you some hard boiled eggs and nuts"
21. Celt's land: EIRE. Rory McIlroy's homeland. Speaking of whom - What a great performance in the RBC Canadian Open this weekend.
22. Western chum: PARD.
25. Imitators: APERS.
26. Tropical eel: MORAY.
27. Exams for sophs and jrs.: PSATS. I don't remember these as underclassmen. I think I took SATs as a senior.
28. Filmdom ogre: SHREK.
29. Spot to fish from: PIER. In Minnesota we fish from docks. Lot of lakes, not too many piers.
30. Somber song: DIRGE. I wonder why a Batman villain never got this name.
31. Like milk on the floor: SPILT.
32. "Mighty" Mudville dud: CASEY.
Absolutely my favorite classic poem of all time. I rewrote it once and
changed it to the "Twinville nine". I also rewrote a bowling version
where "Striking out" is a good thing.
34. Crooner Perry: COMO. My sister Barbara's all time favorite. Her son, my nephew visited from San Francisco just last week.
38. Source of a masculine sense of self: INNER MAN. Or a floatation device Inner Tube.
40. 12 bottles of wine: CASE. I wouldn't know. I never liked wine much. Never enough to buy a case.
41. Nonprofessional: AMATEUR. That's me. Amateur bowler, golfer, and speller. C.C. is a pro blogger.
42. Investment firm figure: ANALYST. I have never found an investment firm that fit me.
43. Classroom helper: AIDE. Not a classroom, but there are many of these, mostly volunteers, at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis.
47. Lively: ZIPPY. We don't have a Zippy's restaurant up North. I hear they are in Hawaii.
48. Pastel purple: LILAC. "Each lilac of green turns to one that is blue. Love like the Lilacs can change colors too." Chad Mitchell Trio.
49. Prepare, as potatoes: MASH. "The game of life is hard to play" (M.A.S.H. theme song)
50. Capital on a fjord: OSLO. I believe this was the home of Ole and Sven.
51. Rockies ski resort: VAIL. Mile High, I think they have year round snow.
52. "Must-see" review: RAVE.
53. Polygon measure: AREA. Polygons are fairly assorted and complex. I think you would need a laser to calculate the area of some.
54. It may result in a commission: SALE. Red Sox pitcher Chris is having a tough year.
58. Patriots' Brady: TOM. Was not one of the "Brady Bunch", but now I think the Patriots are.
59. DDE's WWII command: ETO.
European Theater of Operations. I was too young to remember, but of
course Eisenhower was president in 1954 on the ten year remembrance of
D-Day. (June 6th). He did not participate in the remembrance because
it was too emotional for him. A number of the veterans who stormed the
beach that day were on hand for the 75th remembrance last week. Of
course they are in their nineties now. God bless them.
Boomer
Note from C.C.:
Boomer had one more Zometa infusion last Wednesday. Here he is looking cheerful, ready to deal with the drug and its awful side effects.
Boomer had one more Zometa infusion last Wednesday. Here he is looking cheerful, ready to deal with the drug and its awful side effects.
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| Boomer, June 5, 2019 |
