16. Clothes line?: HOW DO I LOOK ?
24. Tag line?: YOU'RE IT.
37. Border line?: PASSPORTS PLEASE.
46. Pick-up line?: WHERE TO ?
59. Defensive line?: I DIDN'T DO IT.
Joe constructed last Saturday's themeless. If you aren't a Saturday solver, take a few moments to read Joe's comments. Now, back to today... A fairly easy Friday, don't you think ? Let's call that a confidence builder.
Also, did you notice ? Joe gave us a pangram !
Across:
1. River past the Museo Galileo: ARNO.
5. Wipe out: ERASE.
10. "Antiques Roadshow" airer: PBS. I like how they show old clips from earlier seasons, updated with the currently appraised values.
13. Half of rock's '60s "it" couple, per Time: CHER. The other half would be Sonny.
14. "I've got this": LET ME. Martin "Marty" Crane was the pragmatic and salt-of-the-earth father to psychiatrist sons Frasier and Niles Crane on the sitcom Frasier.
In the episode, "A Tsar is Born" they take a clock to the Antiques Roadshow and learn of its history.
15. Chipotle serving, casually: GUAC. Eat This, Not That - Worst Chipotle Menu
18. Approximately: OR SO.
19. County bordering London: ESSEX. British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is from Essex.
20. Ingredient in arròs negre, a squid-and-rice dish: INK. Never saw the clue.
21. Pursuit: QUEST. Do you recall Jonny Quest ?
22. Solidified: FROZE.
26. Able-bodied: HALE.
28. Green of "Casino Royale": EVA. The first of the Daniel Craig Bond movies.
30. Iraq War danger: Abbr.: IED. Improvised Explosive Device.
31. "The Wire" antihero __ Little: OMAR. No idea. Wikipedia tells me The Wire is an American crime drama television series broadcast by the cable network HBO.
32. Think back to: RECALL.
34. Gym surface: MAT. I wanted a wood at first. Oak or Ash.
40. Vague ending: ISH.
41. Bilingual Muppet: ROSITA. No idea, but the perps helped.
42. MD's diagnostic tools: MRIs. Magnetic Resonance Imagings
43. Big bird: EMU. More from Sesame Street. This Big Bird is an oversized canary.
44. Relative of Da and De: VON. Surname prepositions. e.g. Oscar de la Renta. Or, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Or the von Trapp family from the Sound of Music. Da is Portuguese, often seen in names such as da Silva, da Costa, da Bears etc.
45. Leaning: BIAS.
50. Rte. with a Lake Michigan ferry crossing: U.S. TEN. U.S. 10. The S.S. Badger
52. Times New __: ROMAN.
53. Health care provider: Abbr.: LPN. Licensed Practical Nurse
55. "Set Fire to the Rain" singer: ADELE.
58. Beyond regulation play, briefly: IN OT In Overtime.
61. WWII Axis general: TOJO.
62. Kansas Army fort: RILEY. Home of the Big Red One. The 1st Infantry Divison. The 1st Infantry Division Museum is at Cantigny Park in nearby Wheaton, Illinois.
63. Slaughter on the diamond: ENOS.
64. Asian honorific: SRI. Indian honorific.
65. Neglected: SEEDY.
66. Grant's opposite: DENY.
Down:
1. Overexertion symptom: ACHE.
2. Frat letters: RHOs.
3. Ironic "This should come as no surprise ... ": NEWS FLASH.
4. Ones stocking up: ORDERERs. Whoa ! A buyer ? Stocking up for resale, or stocking up on consumables ? That's my best guess. I'll bet blog reader Montana stocks up for the winter in case the highways become impassable.
5. Lilly of drugs: ELI.
6. Bullpen staff: RELIEVERs.
7. Loads: ATON.
8. Like the air around a campfire: SMOKY.
9. "What's THAT?": EEK.
10. Applesauce, e.g.: PUREE.
11. Low singers: BASSI. Singers (being plural) told me it would end in the I.
12. "Waverley" novelist: SCOTT. The Waverley Novels - Sir Walter Scott
15. Squash, for one: GOURD. Versus gored.
Bet he wished he'd picked a different sport. Perhaps squash ?
21. Put down: QUELL.
23. Reset: ZERO OUT.
25. Crankcase reservoirs: OIL PANS.
26. Kachina carver: HOPI.
27. Reddit Q&A sessions: AMAs. Ask Me Anything
29. When Prospero says, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on": ACT IV. Filled in ACT and waited.
33. Blew away: ASTOUNDED.
34. Ford carrier in the mid-'70s: MARINE ONE. Wasn't firing on all cylinders as I tried to recall Ford car models... until I got enough perps to see Marine One. President Gerald Ford, of course.
35. Tibet's place: ASIA.
36. Julia's "Ocean's Twelve" role: TESS. Juila Roberts played Tess Ocean, divorced wife of Danny Ocean, played by George Clooney.
38. Guys who spin: PR MEN. Started with DJ Men spinning records, and ended with Public Relations men spinning the conversation.
39. Like some war correspondents: EMBEDDED. Or videos in this blog.
43. Poetry Muse: ERATO. OwenKL has been struck by the poetry muse. Ditto for Chairman Moe, Haiku Harry and Limerick Larry.
46. Court directives: WRITS.
47. Esteem: HONOR.
48. Heart Eyes or OK Hand: EMOJI. Definitely needed perps, and then it was, "Aha, now the clue makes sense !"
49. "Yesterday," today: OLDIE. Nailed it. From falling in love to the heartache, Beatles style:
"Eight Days A Week"
Oh, I need your love, babe
Guess you know it's true
Hope you need my love babe
Just like I need you
"I Feel Fine"
Baby's good to me, you know
She's happy as can be, you know
She said so
I'm in love with her and I feel fine
"Ticket to Ride"
I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad
Is going away
"Yesterday"
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
51. Bit of body art: TAT. Tat or ink.
54. Stack: PILE.
56. Safari sight: LION.
57. Online marketplace: ETSY. Started with eBay. 50 % wrong.
59. Returns home?: IRS. Great clue. The Internal Revenue Service is where you send your tax returns.
60. Big Apple team, on crawl lines: NYY. NY and wait for the perp. Could have been G, J, or M and possibly others. Sports news crawl lines.
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