Theme: HOME STRETCH (59. Last leg of a race ... or a hint to the circled letters) - H, O, M, E are stretched out in each theme answer.
17. Studio feature that produces reverb: ECHO CHAMBER.
25. Very popular movie star, e.g.: HOT NUMBER.
37. 2017 Day-Lewis film with multiple Oscar nominations: PHANTOM THREAD.
50. Talk Like a Pirate Day greeting: AHOY, MATEY.
Boomer here.
We
are still dealing with the Covid-19 and our Governor has ordered us to
stay HOME. I expect the same advice or command for most of you also.
Also the Major Leagues have been delayed unfortunately so we will not
hear Joe Nuxhall "Rounding third and heading for HOME." I do not have a
Gene Autry CD or tape singing "HOME, HOME on the Range" So all I can
do is hope that you are all Safe at Home. It's a baseball thing.
Across:
1. Run __ of the law: get in trouble: AFOUL. Return to home plate after hitting A FOUL.
6. Seized SUV, say: REPO. Hopefully the stimulus will help folks pay their bills so they do not suffer a REPO.
10. Pumpkin dessert: PIE. Thanksgiving. Don't forget a little Cool Whip on top.
13. Style: MANNER. Mind your MANNERs while eating that pie.
15. Wind instrument in Donovan's "Jennifer Juniper": OBOE. Donovan was a bit of a weird duck, but I liked some of his songs.
16. "__ ideas?": ANY. to deal with coronavirus ? Stay HOME.
19. GPS choice: RTE. Get your kicks, on RTE66.
20. AFL partner: CIO.
21. Pool-filling aid: HOSE.
Remember when Kevin Costner grabbed a HOSE and created a rainout in
"Bull Durham". They did not have coronavirus to cancel their game.
22. Spa sigh: AAH.
23. Fifty percent: HALF.
30. Advanced in age: ELDERLY. They say they are most vulnerable to the virus.
33. Museum of Natural __: HISTORY.
"Jeopardy" has HISTORY categories frequently. Who was the first U.S.
President to give the State of the Union address on Television ?
34. Goat's cry: MAA. I thought it was BAA, but I never owned a goat.
35. Pasta sauce brand: RAGU. Lots of this in our fridge and cupboard.
36. Poe's "Annabel __": LEE. Who remembers Pinky LEE ?
41. True master: PRO. I am also missing the PGA on TV. They show reruns, but it's just not the same.
42. Days, to Diego: DIAS.
43. Famous Downing Street address: TEN.
If your not yet sick of me mentioning the virus, Boris Johnson, PM of
the UK at 10 Downing Street got a positive shortly after Prince Charles
received the same.
44. Bone-muscle connectors: TENDONS.
46. Like moody Romantic heroes, as first described in the works of a British lord: BYRONIC. Lord Byron.
52. Centers of activity: LOCI. Keep six feet apart and no more than 10.
53. Before, to poets: ERE. "And I heard him exclaim ERE he rode out of site"
54. Untidy condition: MESS. Clean it up!!
57. __ Van Winkle: RIP. Sew it up!!
58. Sassy West: MAE.
63. SUV's "U," briefly: UTE.
64. "Easy to Be Hard" musical: HAIR. "I'm HAIRY noon and nighty Night Night, HAIR is a fright". The Cowsills.
65. Way out of jail: PAROLE. Or just draw a "get out of jail free" in Monopoly.
66. Ed.'s backlog: MSS.
67. "Don't move, Rover!": STAY. Do people still name their dogs "Rover"?
68. More sensible: SANER.
Down:
1. "Cocoon" co-star Don: AMECHE.
2. Spa skin-care treatment: FACIAL. Need not go to a SPA. Just watch TV commercials.
3. Waiting for a phone rep, maybe: ON HOLD. Our stimulus payments are ON HOLD for about three weeks I am told.
4. Tres menos dos: UNO. Three minus two.
5. Solidarity's Walesa: LECH. Created a "Solidarity" movement in Poland, now he is removed from politics - retired in Poland, age 76.
6. Juliet's love: ROMEO. "Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou ROMEO"
7. Tidal reflux: EBB. Caused by the moon.
8. "Nevermore" poet: POE. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary," (That's all I remember). Freshman English was hard.
9. Poet's contraction: O'ER. "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."
10. Geometry curve: PARABOLA. Freshman Geometry was just as hard.
11. Losing money, colorfully: IN THE RED.
Many portfolios IN THE RED right now, but they are coming back. Don't
listen to me, I am not a financial advisor but I do watch CNBC.
12. Organ with a pupil: EYE.
14. Letter after pi: RHO. That's Greek to me.
18. Pallid: ASHY. I quit smoking many years ago, so my home and car are not ASHY.
22. Check no.: AMT.
24. National Preparedness Month org.: FEMA. Counting on them for help.
26. "Is __ legal?": THAT.
27. First of two nearly identical words to a tucked-in tot: NIGHTY. See 64A, I'm Hairy noon and NIGHTY night, night.
28. Loan shark: USURER.
29. Whiskey grain: RYE. No Whiskey left hear, but I do have part of a Rye loaf. Left over after Reuben sandwich season.
31. Hit-or-miss: RANDOM.
32. Rita Moreno, e.g.: LATINA.
35. Apt. ad count: RMS. Must be tough on people living in apartments.
37. Warms in advance: PRE-HEATS.
We got a new stove, and the view shows the oven temp while it is
warming up. When it gets to the requested temp, it beeps like crazy -
about 6 times.
38. Award recipients: HONOREES.
39. Hops kiln: OAST.
40. Organic compound: ENOL.
41. School support org.: PTA. Jeannie C. Riley - "The day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA"
45. Color, as hair: DYE.
46. Tournament passes: BYES. The entire Major League Baseball is getting a BYE right now.
47. McAfee rival: NORTON. Ralph Kramden's buddy who worked in the sewer.
48. Frozen spike: ICICLE. We get many off our gutters over the winter. They are all gone now.
49. Coded writing: CIPHER.
51. Nail-filing board: EMERY. Never used one. I have clippers.
55. Car care brand: STP. Saint Paul.
56. Mex. ladies: SRAS.
58. "The word" in silence: MUM. The GEICO's Gecko has a MUM who makes small biscuits. It's a secret recipe.
59. FDA overseer: HHS. Or the High School of every city that starts with "H".
60. Breakfast grain: OAT. General Mills Cheerios are very tasty. I'm stuck on Wheat Chex for now. Hy Vee had a big sale.
61. Hamm of soccer: MIA.
62. Important period: ERA. Important Stat for a pitcher if they ever get going.
Boomer
