Kevin Christian interview with C.C.
Brad Wilber interview with C.C.
The SW corner was a real struggle for me with TRIGRAM, MAZIER and RAGAS in one area but I just had to
1. "Dust yourself off and hang tough!": COWBOY UP and get through it. Good advice to all puzzle solvers!
Let's see what else these two masters have concocted:
Across:
9. Ford muscle cars, familiarly: STANGS - Hmmm... Do I really need the 700+ HP in this street-legal 2019 MUSTANG?
15. Reluctant acquiescence: OKAY SURE - "Look, we can get by with a Ford Probe"
16. Walk-off hit situation, perhaps: TWO OUT - A walk-off occurs when the home team ends the game by taking the lead in the bottom of the last inning irrespective of the number of OUTS at the time
17. Note-taking aid: LEGAL PAD.
18. Country by the River Shribble: NARNIA - It's on the northern border of this literary country
19. "Hands off!" in an ad slogan: L'EGGO - A natural tie-in
20. "Hamburger Hill" setting, briefly: NAM.
22. Clue room: STUDY - "Professor Plum in the STUDY with a revolver?"
23. For __: not gratis: A FEE - I swear my lawyer would want a FEE to tell me the time of day
24. Had to miss school, perhaps: AILED - After many kids were missing school thursday, my school canceled for Friday
26. All over: ANEW - We Husker fans have been waiting for 20 years to start ANEW
27. Rare color: RED - I'm a medium kind of guy and would gladly send it back if the meat is brown all the way through
28. Bismarck's realm: PRUSSIA
30. Sworn statement: I DO.
31. Fit: TRIM.
32. Having memorized the script, in theater lingo: OFF BOOK - Brando could not go OFF BOOK as he did not memorize his lines. Here you see Robert Duvall holding the lines for Marlon in The Godfather
34. "Funky Monkeys" musical: THE WIZ - The Funky Monkeys in the original Broadway production of THE WIZ.
37. Pipe edge: FLANGE - Six FLANGES bolted together
38. Was unmanageable: RAN AMOK - Black Friday norm
40. Schnitzel meat: VEAL.
41. "__ seen better": I'VE.
42. Ready: ON ALERT.
44. __ pocket: HIP - Al Capone had many police officials and politicians in his HIP pocket
47. Start of something: GERM and 24. Brand that sells Arnold Palmers: ARIZONA - "Hey, somebody put lemonade in my iced tea! Wait a minute..."
50. Traje de __: Seville swimsuit: BANO - Spanish to English translation - bathing suit, swimming suit, bathing shorts, swim suit, swimming costume... including a 61. Small suit maker: SPEEDO
51. Indian improvisations: RAGAS - Here ya go
53. __-country: music genre: ALT - Somewhere between Hank Williams and Brittney Spears
54. Boston and Chicago, but not San Francisco: BANDS.
55. Negative feeling: ANIMUS - Speaking of politics...
57. Triumphant GIF phrase: KILLIN' IT - She seems to think she's all that and a bag 'o chips
59. More intricate: MAZIER - One of my COWBOY UP moments
60. "Hate to run, but ... ": I GOTTA GO.
62. Suit seller: MEN'S SHOP.
Down:
1. Priesthood symbol: COLLAR.
2. Michael of "Caddyshack": O'KEEFE - Michael getting advice from Chevy Chase
3. Went back and forth: WAGGED - Dikembe Mutombo wagged his finger back and forth when he blocked a shot implying, "Don't try that against me!"
4. How a sommelier might sort wine: BY AGE.
5. Peace Prize city: OSLO.
6. "You betcha!": YUP.
7. Heaviest naturally occurring element: URANIUM.
8. They often get depressed: PEDALS - Ford's Model A had a lot of them
9. Stop on a line: Abbr.: STN - On 81 days/baseball season, the Addison St. STN on the Red Line in Chicago gets a lot of activity
10. "__ wondrous pitiful": "Othello": TWAS - The full quote
11. Vital supply line: AORTA.
12. Unorganized, in a way: NON-UNION - When Hormel's went NON-UNION in our town, wages dropped precipitously
13. Unticketed plane passenger: GUIDE DOG - This one got to visit the cockpit
14. Be sensitive to social injustice, in slang: STAY WOKE.
21. Middle: Pref.: MESO.
25. Holds another view: DIFFERS.
28. Top-drawer: PRIMO.
29. Key of Chopin's first Opus 25 étude: A-FLAT - Winter Wind!!
31. Flier for 71 years: TWA - More if you're interested
33. Acct. amount: BAL(ance)
34. Most phone button groupings: TRIGRAMS - Groups of three consecutive letters, numbers or symbols. I had to COWBOY UP HERE too but it makes sense
35. Drop off midday, say: HAVE A NAP
36. Fill with life: ENERGIZE.
39. Hindu god of desire: KAMA - KAMA Sutra, hmmm...
40. Trace: VESTIGE - You know that tail bone that you have...
43. Notorious B.I.G. discovered her in 1994: L'IL KIM - I googled her lyrics and, yes, she can be as profane and violent as the male rappers.
44. Storm on ESPN: HANNAH.
45. Purplish blue: INDIGO - Listening to Duke Ellington's Mood INDIGO will be a welcome addition to your day
46. After surg.: POST OP.
48. Bess, __, Jackie ...: MAMIE - One of these women had an unquestionably faithful husband
50. Pushes the buttons of: BAITS - Nobody did it better!
52. Started an action: SUED.
54. Layered lunches: BLTS - You had me at Bacon
56. Sign of being packed?: SRO - Standing Room Only tickets for the Washington Nationals World Series Games last month cost hundreds of dollars
58. Actor Chaney: LON - The man of a thousand faces
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