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Sep 6, 2022

Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Kevin Christian and Mangesh Sakharam Ghogre

Yoga Class:  The last word of each theme answer is also a yoga pose.

17-Across. *   George Plimpton football memoir set in Detroit: PAPER LION.  [Name # 1.]

25-Across. *   Courtroom hotshot: LEGAL EAGLE.


35-Across. *   Informer: STOOL PIGEON.  This is my favorite yoga pose.


48-Across. *   Cowardly type: SCAREDY CAT.

And the unifier:

57-Across. Asanas found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues: YOGA POSES.  Everything you wanted to know about Asana Yoga, but didn't know to ask.

Over a decade ago, C.C. interviewed Mangesh Sakharam Ghogre.  You can read the interview here.

Across:
1. "Sorry, rules __ rules": ARE.


4. Dizzying designs: OP ART.  Short for Optical Art.


9. __ up on: unites against: GANGS.

14. Villain LuthorLEX.  [Name # 2.]  //  Change the vowel, and you get 29-Across. Bagel topper: LOX.

15. Prefix with -lithic: PALEO-.  Paleolithic.  Also known as the Old Stone Age.

16. Love to pieces: ADORE.

19. One awarding stars, perhaps: RATER.



20. "... the __ of defeat": "Wide World of Sports" phrase: AGONY.



21. "Black Panther" director CooglerRYAN.  [Name # 3.]  Ryan Kyle Coogler (b. May 23, 1986) has directed a number of films.


23. Excite, with "up": AMP.

24. King or queen, but not prince or princess: CARD.


28. House pest: ANT.  Remove a consonant from the Pest and the ANT becomes a house Pet.  Yesterday, the ANT was an Unwelcome Picnic Guest.


30. Manage to achieve: ATTAIN.

31. Reciprocal of cosine: SECANT.  //  And 39-Down. Inverse trig function: ARCSINE.  We all remember our high school math class, right?




34. Trace: HINT.

38. Water-to-wine town: CANA.  A Biblical reference where Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine at a wedding.

40. Hiking sites: TRAILS.


41. Maker of Zesty Curly frozen French fries: ORE-IDA.  Yummers!  Actually, I have never tried these, but I do like Ore-Ida's Tater Tots, which appeared in yesterday's puzzle.


44. D.C. stadium: RFK.  Formally known as the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium.  It is currently being demolished.  [Name adjacent.]


45. D.C. fundraising org.: PAC.

51. Love, in tennis: ZERO.  Why does Love mean nothing in Tennis?


52. Chiding syllable: TSK.

53. Milne bear: POOH.  Winnie the Pooh is a fictional teddy bear created by A.A. Milne (né Alan Alexander Milne; Jan. 18, 1882 ~ Jan. 31, 1956) in the 1920s.


54. Puts in order: SORTS.

55. Sibling's daughter: NIECE.  Word origin.

60. Scandal-plagued energy company: ENRON.  This company disintegrated almost overnight back in 2001.


61. Nebraska city: OMAHA.  Hi, Husker Gary!  Years ago, when I was first looking for a job, I was offered a job in Omaha.  My potential boss told me, however, that moving from the Northeast, I would experience "extreme cultural shock" living in Nebraska.  So instead, I moved to the South.  No cultural shock there, eh?

62. Mined resource: ORE.  Not to be confused with the 41-Across and the Ore-Ida potato products.

63. Patch, as a lawn: RE-SOD.

64. Fruit-hitting-the-floor sound: SPLAT.



65. Big Apple paper, for short: NYT.  As in the New York Times.

Down:
1. Llama kin: ALPACA.



2. 1980s president RonaldREAGAN.  Ronald Wilson Reagan (Feb. 6, 1911 ~ June 5, 2004) was the 40th President.  Can it really be over 40 years since he began his term as President?  [Name # 4.]

3. Commodity sold abroad: EXPORT.



4. The Grand Ole __: OPRY.  The home of country music.


5. Chum: PAL.

6. Boxer who said, "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am": ALI.  Muhammad Ali (né Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; Jan. 17, 1942 ~ June 3, 2016) would "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." [Name # 5.]



7. Corp. shake-up: RE-ORG.  As in Reorganize.  It seems like the banking industry is always undergoing re-orgs.

8. Skater HardingTONYA.  Tonya Maxene Harding (b. Nov. 12, 1970) is best known for her troubles past.  In 1994, her ex-husband attacked her rival, Nancy Kerrigan.  Tonya was banned from competitive skating and turned to boxing.   [Name # 6.]


9. January birthstone: GARNET.  I have 3 options for my birthstone.


10. Oral health org.: ADA.  As in the American Dental Association.

11. "Why does this keep happening!?": NOT AGAIN.  Yup.  I'll be out next week again.

12. Unseen troublemaker: GREMLIN.  Also the model of a vehicle that was manufactured in the 1970s.


13. Garden of Eden creature: SERPENT.


18. Terminate: END.

22. Mobile's st.: ALA.  Mobile, Alabama is on the Gulf of Mexico.  The George Washington Tunnel on I-10 runs under the Mobile River, then emerges to join the bridge that spans the Bay of Mobile.  The tunnel is a bottleneck on the interstate and there is always a long line of traffic of cars waiting to go through the tunnel.  Interesting fact about Mobile: the first Mardi Gras in the Americas was held in Mobile.



25. El Pollo __: southwestern restaurant chain: LOCO.  El Pollo Loco is a California-based chain.  I was about to say I had never heard of this restaurant, but our local paper recently announced the company is expanding in south Louisiana.


26. Glorify: EXALT.

27. One of the Musketeers: ATHOS.  The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas.  It was written in 1844 and is on my TBR list.  The novel, which is set in the 1620s, recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan who befriends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who are the musketeers.  [Name # 7.]


29. Summer sign: LEO.  Hi, Leo III!

31. Flight part: STAIR.


32. "Fresh Air" airer: NPR.  Fresh Air is a radio talk show hosted by Terry Gross.  She has been hosting the show since 1975.  [Name # 8.]


33. Small crown: TIARA.  Apparently in the British royal family there are strict rules about wearing Tiaras.


35. Tennis shoes: SNEAKERS.


36. Birthday present: GIFT.

37. Caribou cousin: ELK.  What's the difference between an Elk and a Caribou?

38. Kevin of "Yellowstone": COSTNER.  Kevin Costner (né Kevin Michael Costner; b. Jan. 18, 1955) plays the patriarch in the television show Yellowstone.  [Name # 9.]


42. Rely (on): DEPEND.

43. Commotion: ADO.

45. Human being: PERSON.



46. Major thoroughfare: ARTERY.

47. Pamper: COSSET.  Not a Tuesday word.



49. Toys on strings: YOYOs.



50. Bite hard: CHOMP.

51. Opening setting of "Madagascar": ZOO.


54. Squabble: SPAT.

56. Dove's sound: COO.

58. "Death on the Nile" actress Gadot: GAL.  Gal Gadot (b. Apr. 30, 1985) is an Israeli actress.  [Name # 10.]


59. "I understand now!": AHA!


Here's the Grid:



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