Themeless Saturday by Damon Gulczynski
1. Gallery display: ART which would attract an 34. Gallery visitor, perhaps: AESTHETE.
4. Sweetener option: AGAVE - If you're not making tequila out of AGAVE...
9. Penner of classic tributes: ODIST - Penner is not a proper noun, it is an unusual name for one who pens or writes
14. Spy rings?: PEEPHOLES 😀
16. Butter up, in a way: BASTE.
17. Geographic feature of nine states: PANHANDLE - Nebraska's used to me more pronounced.
18. Unfamiliar: ALIEN.
19. Common ingredient in wellness products: ALOE.
20. Sparks st.: NEV - Sparks is 5 minutes east of Reno down I-80.
21. Writer whose first novel was adapted as a film by Wayne Wang: AMY TAN - I had no real idea but with a few letters our cwd friend AMY TAN showed up.
22. Turkey bacon?: LIRA - Bacon is a euphemism for money and one of these 100₺ = $4.23
25. "Some things are best left unsaid": TMI.
26. Creamy cold beverage: LASSI however I did know (What is one and how do I make it?) 54. Creamy hot beverage: LATTE
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28. However, briefly: THO.
29. "__ bien!": TRES - "Very well" in French
30. Appropriate time for acting unprofessionally: AMATEUR HOUR - Will this karaoke guy really sound like Jim Morrison?
29. "__ bien!": TRES - "Very well" in French
30. Appropriate time for acting unprofessionally: AMATEUR HOUR - Will this karaoke guy really sound like Jim Morrison?
34. "To put it mildly": AND THEN SOME - To put it mildly, we screwed up...
35. Spoilsports: WET BLANKETS.
36. Moccasin sound: HISS - Cottonmouth Moccasin
37. Lack of space?: AIR - Yes, space has a definite lack of air.
38. Hinged fasteners: HASPS.
42. Med. specialty: ENT - My ENT and my audiologist are in the same building. One day I left there with hearing aids and a CPAP machine.
43. David Rakoff compositions: ESSAYS - On leaving Canada and becoming an American citizen: George W. Bush made me want to be an American. It was a need I had not known before. A desire that came over me in a rush one day, not unlike that of the pencil-necked honors student suddenly overwhelmed with the inexplicable urge to make a daily gift of his lunch money to the schoolyard tough.
46. "This is fun!": WHEE - Would you be filled with too much 56. Apprehension: DREAD to ride this?
43. David Rakoff compositions: ESSAYS - On leaving Canada and becoming an American citizen: George W. Bush made me want to be an American. It was a need I had not known before. A desire that came over me in a rush one day, not unlike that of the pencil-necked honors student suddenly overwhelmed with the inexplicable urge to make a daily gift of his lunch money to the schoolyard tough.
46. "This is fun!": WHEE - Would you be filled with too much 56. Apprehension: DREAD to ride this?
47. Prepare, as leftovers: REHEAT
49. Dude: BRO.
50. Easy to maneuver, at sea: YARE - Landlocked me has only seen this word in cwds
51. Looks out for, in a way: ABETS.
52. Ones fluent both in JavaScript and Klingon, perhaps: UBER NERDS - Seems right
55. Youngest MLB player to record 100 career home runs and 100 career stolen bases: MIKE TROUT - Mike makes the list of the best MLB players to never win a World Series
57. Hide away: STASH.
58. New beginning?: NEO.
Down:
1. Shock: APPALL.
2. Teaching aids that illustrate everyday life: REALIA - After 50+ years in education, I have never heard of this word but used it constantly in my classes. At the bottom of my emails, I have, "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."
3. Barbershop fixtures: TENORS - Towels didn't cut it. I was a TENOR as a freshman in our barbershop quartet and a bass as a senior
4. Insightful remark: AHA.
5. Fixin' to: GONNA - Billy Williams had a 1957 hit with this old Fats Waller song about what he was GONNA sit right down and do.
6. Tree whose roots contain nitrogen-fixing organisms: ALDER.
7. Plush toy in a Margery Williams classic: VELVETEEN RABBIT - $12,500 will get you this 1922 first edition in near fine condition
8. Legal conclusion?: ESE - LEGALESE for "date": In witness whereof, the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned.
9. "The Audacity of Hope" memoirist: OBAMA.
10. Longtime "Last Call" host: DALY - Another DALY, John Charles DALY, was the longtime host of what TV show? (*answer below)
11. "Should I believe this?": IS IT TRUE.
12. Dumpling cooker: STEAMER.
13. Court activity: TENNIS 😀
15. Long-tailed birds: PHEASANTS - My friend missed my daughter's wedding because it was on the first day of Nebraska's PHEASANT season
21. In the saddle: AHORSE - Damon probably swallowed hard before he put in this archaic fill.
24. Dull sound: THUNK - How the fill above hit me.
27. Film site: IMDB - and 39. Leal of "Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin": SHARON - SHARON Leal's IMDB entry
29. Twain lad: TOM SAWYER - This 1876 first edition is $45,000
31. Jazz classic with the line "My lonely days are over": AT LAST - and 48. 31-Down singer James: ETTA. ETTA sings her signature song at her 1993 induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
32. Many Bangkok Post readers: THAIS.
33. Ice planet with tauntauns and wampas: HOTH - I'm told this is a Star Wars Wampa preying on a Tauntaun. 🤔
35. Pour house?: WINE BAR 😀
36. Announce with pomp: HERALD.
40. Tyson rival: PERDUE - Oops!
41. Makes sure of: SEES TO.
43. Facilitated: EASED.
44. California town near the Oregon border: YREKA - YREKA (wy REE kuh) is 645 miles north of LA on I-5 and it is like a whole different world.
45. Tender spots: SORES.
52. Hesitant sounds: UMS.
53. To the __ degree: NTH.
In case you missed yesterday afternoon, here is my view as I blog. I got this by using the PAN function on my iPhone.
