Theme: Three's Company -
17. Red bonus square on the Scrabble board: TRIPLE WORD SCORE.
26. Serious injury for a firefighter: THIRD-DEGREE BURN.
47. 1975 made-for-TV horror anthology starring Karen Black:
TRILOGY OF TERROR.
61. Appetizer-entrée-dessert serving: THREE- COURSE MEAL.
Boomer here. Congratulations on David Distenfeld's LA Times debut.
As you read this, I am probably playing in my golf league. It is a nine hole par THREE course and I occasional score a par THREE on one of the holes. Two weeks ago I had a THIRD par by the fourth hole. Bur last week I suffered two TRIPLE bogeys. There were a few TRIPLE bogeys at Winged Foot over the weekend at the 2020 U.S. Open.
Across:
1. New York deli namesake Willy: KATZ.
5. Nobel __: PRIZE. I believe the PRIZE fund for the above
mentioned U.S. Open was 53 Million Dollars with Three Million to the
winner.
10. Pack of cards: DECK. I played many games of bridge with my
co-workers years ago. We changed to a fresh deck several times per
month.
14. Wind instrument: OBOE. I have heard of them but they don't
seem to fit in with piano or guitars.
15. "Superbad" co-screenwriter Seth: ROGEN.
16. Pulitzer author Jennifer: EGAN. Reminds me of the city of
Eagan, MN just south of St, Paul near the Minnesota River.
20. Soak in the tub: BATHE. I fear that our friends in the Gulf
Coast are not needing a tub.
21. Casino wheel: ROULETTE. I have never liked ROULETTE.
Craps is my favorite table game.
22. Michelle of "Crazy Rich Asians": YEOH.
25. Sleep acronym: REM. Sorry, I generally have to get up and use
the toilet before the Rapid Eye Movement takes over.
34. Go bad: ROT.
35. Brazilian mountain chain: SERRA. Huge mountains. I do
not think they are populated however. No Covid risk there.
36. Pop star whose name used to be spelled with a dollar sign:
KESHA. Singer who had a contract with Kemosabe records. Do
people buy records anymore ??
37. Army outfit: UNIT. We generally referred to our Army UNITS as
Companies.
39. Particulars, informally: DEETS.
41. DEA bust: RAID. Target has roach killer by the same name.
42. "What a shame": SO SAD. Prayers for Abejo from me and all of
us.
44. Descendant: SCION.
46. Ending with hero or alp: INE. Half of a word ?
50. Online guffaw: LOL. A lot of on line acronyms are pretty
tired.
51. "Seize the day" acronym: YOLO. "You Only Live Once'"
52. Dual-purpose: TWO-IN-ONE. In golf, you cannot get a TWO in
ONE shot.
57. Royally named singer with the #1 album "Melodrama": LORDE.
64. Wine bottle date: YEAR. I do not drink wine. There does
not seem to be a date on my Pepsi can.
65. Divided Asian peninsula: KOREA. We have been looking at a
Hyundai Santa Fe. I've bought American for over 50 years, but we rented
a Santa Fe in Vegas a few years ago and I liked it. Comments??
66. Happy hour places: BARS. Sorry but I think the Covid dangers
are still too high.
67. Camera part: LENS.
68. Wintry and white: SNOWY. Yup, I live in Minnesota and in a
few months, we will put up with SNOWY. However it certainly is not as
dangerous as the West Coast and the Gulf Coast over the past few weeks.
69. Geometry class calculation: AREA. Length times Width.
Down:
1. "Today" co-anchor Hoda: KOTB.
2. Incantation opener: ABRA. Kadabra
3. "Nothing __!": "Easy!": TO IT. Making a par by Rory Mcllroy
4. Gentle breeze: ZEPHYR.
5. Start to fix?: PRE. Prefix.
6. Use oars: ROW. You would not believe the ROWS of baseball
cards that I have sorted.
7. Hunchbacked lab assistant: IGOR.
8. Love, in tennis: ZERO. Also a private in "Beetle Bailey"
9. Last a long time: ENDURE.
10. Month in which Kwanzaa starts: DECEMBER. Christmas is coming,
the geese are getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man's hat.
11. Four-award acronym: EGOT. An on deck batter to a strikeout
victim. "What's EGOT"?
12. Golfer's transport: CART. Yup, every round I play because of
the meds I take. Interesting, this year, every golfer gets his/her own
cart because of Covid. Unless family players.
13. Leg joint: KNEE. Rah, Rah, Ree, kick 'em in the KNEE.
Rah Rah Rass, Kick 'em in the other knee.
18. __ United: English soccer team: LEEDS.
19. Smooth and glossy: SLEEK. Chevrolet Corvette. I cannot
afford one.
23. Had too much, briefly: OD'ED.
24. Joan of Arc's crime: HERESY.
26. Put faith in: TRUST. I usually hear it in names of financial
institutions.
27. "It's an __ just to be nominated": HONOR. Lots of HONOR on
ballots in every state. Some old, some new, some red and some blue.
28. Formal "Who's there?" reply: IT IS I. "IT IS ME" did not fit.
29. Spanish artist El __: GRECO.
30. Okay, as a treaty: RATIFY.
31. Delta rival renamed in 1997: US AIR. We have not visited an
airport since the virus was hatched. I hope the airlines survive though,
we might need them again.
32. Safari beast: RHINO. RHINO Page is an excellent left handed
PBA Bowler.
33. Consumerist Ralph: NADER. Harvard-educated. Appeared in
the movie "Fun with Dick and Jane".
38. Scorekeepers, at times: TALLIERS. In bowling the scores are
all kept by computers.
40. Explorer Hernando de ___: SOTO. I am so old I remember De
SOTOs. A Chrysler product, but I never owned one.
43. Lorna of literature: DOONE. "I'd fly to the moon, for a Lorna
DOONE" !!
45. Portia de Rossi's "Ally McBeal" role: NELLE.
48. Austrian pistols: GLOCKS.
49. Self-moving vacuum: ROOMBA. C.C. uses the push style
vacuum. When you live in a four-level townhome, a ROOMBA is not a good
idea, unless it can climb stairs.
52. Texter's "Chat soon": TTYL. "Talk to you Later, Alligator"!!
53. Roller coaster cry: WHEE. We have a Roller Coaster at our
Valley Fair Amusement park. It's very old and not worth a WHEE.
54. Algerian seaport: ORAN.
55. Midday: NOON.
56. French franc successor: EURO. Once I bought a bunch on
eBay, I thought they might be worth something someday. But I think
I resold them at face value.
58. Fanny: REAR.
59. Have the nerve: DARE. My favorite DARE devil was Evel Knievel
60. Lioness of film: ELSA.
62. VCR go-back button: REW.
63. Come out with: SAY. PLEEZE !!
Boomer
