Saturday, April 22, 2023, Doug Peterson

 Saturday Themeless by Doug Peterson

Master constructor Doug Peterson gave me a start when I came across two "I have no idea" names. However, they took care of themselves. I had a fun trip through Doug's lovely puzzle and earned my "got 'er done" reward in short order.

      

Across:

1. "You __!": WISH.

5. Video game portals: WARPS - A warp, also known as a portal or teleporter, is an element in video game design that allows a player character instant travel between two locations or levels. 🤷

10. Remote places: DENS - Mine usually hides in my recliner

14. Namesake of a Queens venue: ASHE - In the Burroughs of Queens in NYC

15. One-named singer whose surname is Adkins: ADELE - ADELE is frequenting crosswords as often as ASHE

16. Suit: EXEC.

17. Grappling style: GRECO-ROMAN - Husker Rulon Gardner stunned the wrestling world by upsetting Russian Alexander Karelin, who had not lost in 13 years, in GRECO-ROMAN wrestling in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 

19. General symbol: STAR - Five Americans have reached the 5-STAR rank

Bradley, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Arnold and Marshall

20. Booted, say: SHOD.

21. Vial sought in some thrillers: ANTIDOTE.

23. First woman to win a Best Director Oscar: KATHRYN BIGELOW.

25. "Malcolm in the Middle" dad: HAL - A Brian Cranston role before Breaking Bad

Walter White                    HAL Wilkerson

26. "Barney Miller" actor: SOO - Jack is on the right next to the other cwd candidate ABE Vigoda 

27. Strategic match game: NIM - You must take at least one match from a row and the winner is either the person who takes the last match or does not take the last match. It can also be played with piles of M&M's or coins or...

28. Saudi, usually: ARAB.

30. Michael's "Space Jam" teammate: BUGS.

33. Speak up (for): VOUCH.

37. "Time Quintet" novelist: MADELEINE L'ENGLE.

40. Touchscreen tappers: STYLI - This senior girl was using a STYLUS (sing.) recently in Arlington

41. Au naturel: NUDE.

42. Flowering succulent: ALOE.

43. Kids' hangout: LEA - 😀

45. Ortiz of 34-Down: ANA and 34. Former ABC series based on a telenovela: UGLY BETTY - ANA (left) played the sister of the title character America Ferrara 

47. Runway letters: YSL.

48. Paper featured in "Spotlight": THE BOSTON GLOBE.

54. Unorganized, in a way: NON-UNION 

55. Air: TUNE- An air (Italian: aria; also ayr, ayre in French) is a song-like vocal or instrumental composition. 

56. Not bamboozled by: ONTO.

57. Field of operations?: ARITHMETIC.

61. Right-thinking Brit?: TORY - Like America (Dem/Rep), Britain (Labor/Tory) alternates between having right and left legislative majorities.

62. Button material: NACRE.

63. Above: ATOP and 38. Rest 63-Across: LIE ON.

64. "__ Tu": 1974 hit: ERES - Is it you? A beautiful air/TUNE where I knew this the beautiful tune but not the title.

65. Polish: SHEEN.

66. Tropical talker: MYNA.

Down:

1. Wit: WAG.

2. Eilat's nat.: ISR - A beautiful resort town on the very south tip of ISRAEL

3. Tom Jones hit with the line "Always treat her with respect": SHE'S A LADY - Another air

4. 1968 Pulitzer-winning poet Anthony: HECHT - Yeah, I knew that 😁

5. Magical portal to Narnia: WARDROBE.

6. Spot of bother: ADO.

7. Staff again: REMAN.

8. Fallback option: PLAN B.

9. Deployed: SENT IN

10. Shakespearean woman who says, "A guiltless death I die": DESDEMONA.

11. Hail: EXTOL.

12. "Cool beans": NEATO - Swell!

13. Hardware item: SCREW.

18. Sounds of wonder: OOHS.

22. "Enough!": I GIVE.

23. Gold unit: KARAT.

24. "Coming with?": YOU IN?

25. Radio hobbyists: HAMS - One of the first scenes in the Jodi Foster movie Contact about SETI

29. Navigation aids that ring in waves: BELL BUOYS 😀 Not the kind usually found in hotel lobbies

31. Horned ungulate native to Africa: GNU.

32. Rental option: SEDAN  - or...

35. Right around the corner: CLOSE - The last day of the 2022 - 2023 school year

36. Bread end: HEEL - I asked two teenage girls and they said they it was the "butt"

39. Stretch: LENGTHEN.

44. Most people: ASIANS.

46. Reunion attendee: ALUM.

48. Govt. bill: T-NOTE.

49. __ guard: HONOR - Watching this put a lump in my throat.

50. __ nous: ENTRE - ENTRE nous, j'adorerais faire la tournée de JSC avec Tony ! (Just between us, I'd love to tour JSC with Tony!) French.

51. Holy scroll: TORAH.

52. Chilling: ON ICE.

53. Day's first stroke: ONE AM - It comes after the last stroke of yesterday's midnight. DRIVE for my first golf stroke, not so much.

58. A quarter of dodici: TRE - Un quarto di dodici fa tre. (One fourth of twelve equals three). Italian

59. Cyclotron particle: ION - Google if you must. 😐

60. Pro with brackets: CPA.