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Apr 8, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020, Zachary David Levy
Theme: IT'S A CAKEWALK
17. Early stage of most tornados: FUNNEL CLOUD.
24. Bikini Bottom fry cook: SPONGE BOB.
36. Common nickname for a redhead: CARROT TOP.
51. Hashtag symbol: POUND SIGN.
60. Easy-peasy ... or a hint to the start of 17-, 24-, 36- and 51-Across: PIECE OF CAKE.
Melissa here. What a sweet puzzle, self-explanatory theme. I don't know about you but now I'm hungry. These pics may inspire bakers with some extra time on their hands this month. You're welcome.
Across:
1. Continent with 11 time zones: ASIA. Wow.
5. Gift for a creative kid: ART SET.
11. Slyly include in an email, for short: BCC. Blind carbon copy.
14. Textile machine: LOOM.
15. "Who __ thunk it?": WOULDA.
16. Significant time span: ERA.
19. Smallish batteries: AAS.
20. Knotted up: TIED.
21. Actress Basinger: KIM.
22. Former Clannad singer: ENYA. A little obscure. From 1980 to 1982, Clannad operated as a six-piece band with Enya Brennan on additional keyboards and vocals, before she left the group to pursue a solo career.
23. Terrible twos, one hopes: PHASE.
27. Pacific current: EL NINO.
29. "Fan-cee!": OOLALA.
30. Curiosity org.: NASA. Curiosity is the car-sized rover designed to explore the crater Gale on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
31. Practitioner of total patient care: HOLIST. Tricky. I've never seen the noun form of this word.
35. Neon or Freon: GAS.
39. "Oh, puh-leeze!": HAH.
42. Congregation leader: PASTOR.
43. Fail to include: OMIT.
47. Turkish inn: IMARET. Another obscure word. Dictionary.com says, In Turkey, a hospice for pilgrims and travelers. Wikipedia doesn't mention Turkey, but says it is one of a few names used to identify the public soup kitchens built throughout the Ottoman Empire from the 14th to the 19th centuries. The imarets gave out food that was free of charge to specific types of people and unfortunate individuals.
49. At full volume: ABLARE.
55. Dog-__: folded at the corner: EARED. A no-no for library books.
56. Ward of "Sisters": SELA.
57. SADD concern: DUI.
58. "The Grouchy Ladybug" writer Carle: ERIC. He also wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
59. "Conan" channel: TBS. Rather than cease production during the pandemic, the shows are being shot remotely on an iPhone, without an audience and with guest interviews being filmed via video chat.
64. Seine water: EAU.
65. Puts into law: ENACTS.
66. At once, in many poems: ANON.
67. Sales __: REP.
68. Some digital watches: CASIOS.
69. Polliwog home: POND.
Down:
1. ET from Melmac: ALF.
2. Watts Towers neighborhood, briefly: SOUTH LA. Having lived in California most of my adult life, I did not know about the Watts Towers.
3. Greek islanders of old: IONIANS.
4. "Who am I?" speaker, perhaps: AMNESIAC.
5. Leatherworking tool: AWL.
6. Is totally awesome: ROCKS. Cute.
7. Dutch flower: TULIP. Anyone been to the tulip fields in Amsterdam?
8. MLB replay aid: SLO MO. Slow motion.
9. College URL suffix: EDU.
10. Bit: TAD.
11. Pliable seat: BEANBAG.
12. Coloring name since 1903: CRAYOLA.
13. Winter melons: CASABAS.
18. Paradise: EDEN.
22. Skinny swimmer: EEL.
23. Home near a barn: PEN.
25. Cosa __: NOSTRA. The Sicilian Mafia.
26. Show up for: GO TO.
28. "Darn it all": OH RATS.
32. Surg. centers: ORS. Operating Rooms.
33. Used car site: LOT.
34. "Who am __ judge?": I TO.
37. Pretended to be: APED.
38. Icy end-of-the-world region: POLAR CAP.
39. Trendy type often parodied on "Portlandia": HIPSTER.
40. Slide organisms: AMOEBAE.
41. Calls on the carpet: HAULS UP. Have never heard this phrase.
44. Rivera in Cooperstown: MARIANO. Mariano Rivera was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY on July 21, 2019.
45. "Seems to me," in dialect: I RECKON.
46. Danson of "The Good Place": TED.
48. Genetic "messenger" initials: RNA.
50. Most steaks: BEEF. Followed by a slice of one of those cakes up top.
52. Notions: IDEAS. Not sewing.
53. Fashion brand identified by interlocking G's: GUCCI.
54. 2012-'18 Mexican president: NIETO.
60. Push-up target, for short: PEC.
61. __ bind: stuck: INA.
62. CIA forerunner: OSS.
63. Close: END. And that's the end.
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