Monday October 4, 2021 Chris Gross

Theme: ENDS IN A TIE (59. Concludes with no clear winner ... and what each answer to a starred clue does?)

17. *Yellow tomato with red swirls: BIG RAINBOW.

27. *"Our group doesn't agree": WE THINK NOT.

44. *Phillie Phanatic, notably: TEAM MASCOT.

Boomer here. Chris Gross is our own Chairman Moe, who blogs the Friday puzzles for our blog. This is the LA Times debut for Moe. Congrats!

Moe and his girlfriend Margaret

    

Congrats to the Benilde Saint Margaret's High School Bowling team for chalking up a few victories in the best of five matches on Fridays. I get to be one of the coaches.

Across:

1. Card that loses to a trey: DEUCE.  Unless it is wild!

6. Equine control: REIN.

10. Dazzled: AWED.

14. Boo-boo: ERROR.  I miss those stupid ten pin spares frequently but I don't call it a Boo Boo.

15. Besides that: ELSE.  Nothing ELSE is more frustrating. Especially since I just bought a new plastic spare ball from Greg of A-Z Pro Shop.

 Greg & Boomer 9/28/2021

16. Waterslide cry: WHEE.  A bit East of Minnesota is a place called "Wisconsin Dells".  They have huge water park slides that I am afraid of but I like the Miniature Putt Putt golf.

19. Dismiss from work: FIRE.  You should not have started that FIRE in your waste basket!

20. __ coffee: cool drink: ICED.  Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis liked it HOT!

21. Anonymous Jane: DOE.  A Deer, A female deer.  Sound of Music.

22. One-on-one teacher: TUTOR.  I am ONE for about 12 young bowlers.

23. Mortarboard hanger: TASSEL.  Congratulations graduates!

25. Flier's seat choice: AISLE. You can use your cell phone to find the AISLE for the stuff you want to buy.

31. Heed, with "by": ABIDE.

35. Couple's pronoun: OURS.  Not always - "What's hers is hers and what's mine is hers too."

36. Currency for 19 states: EURO.  I bought a few of these when they were first issued.  I thought they might be worth something but they are lying in a box.

38. Dull movie, say: BORE.  "Go off to see the Wizard"  Never a dull moment!

39. "Spider-Man" actress Kirsten: DUNST.

40. Staircase part: STEP.

41. Fish that complains a lot?: CARP.  Catch one in Minnesota?  They are not good to eat but you are not allowed to toss them back into the lake. 

42. One less than nona-: OCTA.  Then how come OCTober is the tenth month?

43. Liability offset on a balance sheet: ASSET.  Seems as though September 2021 reduced a few sheets this year.

47. Environmentally friendly: GREEN.  A place to putt.

48. Highway divider: MEDIAN.  Much safer than a double yellow line.

53. Opposite of old age: YOUTH.  I am really offended clues with "Old Age" in them.

55. Long, long time: EON.  "What more could I do, I'm so inspired by you, I haven't been there for the Longest Time".  Billy Joel.

57. About, on a memo: IN RE.

58. Inuit word for "house": IGLU.  I used to spell it IGLOO.

62. Bosc or Anjou: PEAR.  Bosc and Anjou are a PAIR of PEARS.

63. Snail __: letter carrier's burden: MAIL.  It is not as bad here as it is in say rural Montana, but sometimes we get our MAIL around ten o'clock AM and the next day maybe at suppertime? 

64. Golfer Sam: SNEAD.  A little before my time, but I have some neat Arnie Palmer postage stamps.

65. Arid: SERE.  Is this the lady in the cell phone that tells others where to go?

66. "Do __ others ... ": UNTO.

67. Singer __ Rae Jepsen: CARLY.

Down:

1. Ledger entry: DEBIT.  Wall street hands them out frequently.

2. "Fear of Flying" author Jong: ERICA.

3. Impulses: URGES.  I get them twice a week, to BOWL.

4. Firewood units: CORDS.  As I have mentioned before, I do not use the basement fireplace in our home anymore.  Not worth the mess.

5. Victorian or Elizabethan: ERA.  We older folks are in the IRA ERA.

6. Janet __, attorney general after Barr: RENO.  Great Bowling Center, Buffets, and casinos, but it ain't that other city further south.  

7. Hamburg's river: ELBE.

8. Prefix with metric: ISO.

9. Never been used: NEW.  Now I know "What's New"?

10. Terrible quality: AWFULNESS.  Just throw it away and take the loss.

11. Low-visibility snow events: WHITEOUTS.  We have those in Minnesota.  A little rough on the driving but nowhere near the catastrophe of hurricane IDA in the South and East. 

12. Gateway Arch designer Saarinen: EERO.

13. Bucks in a forest: DEER.  Those are the animals with the horns.  You are not allowed to shoot DOES in Minnesota..

18. Doing nothing: IDLE.  I cannot remember the last time I did nothing.

22. "For shame!": TSK.

24. Meadow mom: EWE.  Those are the sheep without horns.

25. Respiratory cavity: AIR SAC.  Do not let Covid get in them.

26. MIT's "I": Abbr.: INST.

28. Froot Loops mascot __ Sam: TOUCAN.  Kellogg's seems to haff forgooten how to spell Fruit.

29. Fox-and-hounds pursuits: HUNTS.

30. Shade provider: TREE. We just had our back yard elm tree thinned out. It seems to have been providing too much shade.

31. Alphabet sequence symbolizing ease: ABC.  Monday puzzles for our faithful are found to be as easy as ABC. Not me.

32. Word with row or sail: BOAT.  "Gently down the stream",

33. Imperfect, as sale goods: IRREGULAR.

34. Arrival's opposite: DEPARTURE.  At least you do not have to go through a TSA line after an Arrival .

37. Choose (to): OPT.

39. Capitol feature: DOME.  Our Twins and Vikings used to share the Hubert H. Humphrey MetroDOME but it's gone now and both teams have new places to play.  No snow at U.S. Bank stadium in the late fall, but you never know about the Twins in open air Target Field.

43. Absorbed, as a cost: ATE.  I Absorbed breakfast this morning.

45. [Yawn]: MEH.

46. Upscale hotel: OMNI.

49. Ross or Rigg: DIANA.

50. Prefix meaning "between": INTER.  I thought an INTERSTATE Highway meant both states.

51. Sans-serif font: ARIAL.

52. Impoverished: NEEDY.

53. Golfer's putting jitters, with "the": YIPS.  I can miss putts without having YIPS.

54. Curved molding: OGEE.  OH GEE, I missed another ten pin.

55. Do some prose-tightening: EDIT.

56. Nobel Peace Prize city: OSLO.  Norway seldom receives headlines.  Many of my ancestors are from there.

59. Big Aussie bird: EMU.  I really do not like Liberty Mutual commercials!

60. Indian bread: NAN.

61. Pres. advisory group: NSC.  North and South Carolina??

Happy wishes to our sweet Irish Miss - may the doctors and meds bring a smile to your face and ours. 

 

Boomer