Saturday Themeless by Jimmy Peniston and Matthew Stock
Across:
1. Rescue, perhaps: ADOPT - Our kitty Lily ADOPTED us in 2014
6. Work well together: MESH.
10. Blackberry, e.g.: PDA - They are no longer supported
13. Satellite navigation device?: LUNAR ROVER - Navigation here means a device used to actually move around a surface that is a satellite of Earth not a device used for assistance in planning a route on the planet Earth.
15. Fizzles: DIES.
16. Work that's subject to inflation: BALLOON ART 😀 - Wow!
17. River ride: RAFT - The Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges ride at Universal Florida SOAKS you!
18. Foxy?: SLY.
19. Mise en __: French culinary term: PLACE - Mise en place (MEEZ ahn plahs) literally means "put in place" is a French term for having all your ingredients measured, cut, peeled, sliced, grated, etc. before you start cooking.
20. College declaration: MINOR.
21. Enmity: BILE.
22. Silhouette on some jerseys: NBA LOGO - Modeled on Jerry West
24. Hard to come by: SCARCE.
27. Member of a TikTok subculture: E GIRL.
28. Spanish hand: MANO.
29. Concern in the Premier League: RELEGATION - The lowest teams are relegated to the lower division for the championship round.
34. [Eye roll]: UM OK.
35. Dahi-based condiment of Indian cuisine: RAITA - An Indian yogurt-based condiment
36. One might run around the house: EAVE 😀
37. Message from a cast party?: GONE FISHIN 😀 Oh, casting fishing nets!
39. Many moons: AGES.
40. African language group: BANTU
43. Spice in taktouka and shakshouka: PAPRIKA - I first encountered the egg dish shakshouka in a Stella Zawistowski puzzle three years ago.
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47. Stick in a backpack: RULER 😀
48. Renewable energy option: SOLAR - The daily energy output for my town's large solar farm for last month. We got lovely rains in early August!
50. Pretend: ACT.
53. Impression: IDEA.
54. Gem clip?: VIRAL VIDEO - Any event that is interesting or controversial can be shared across the web in a heartbeat and if it attracts a lot of views, it is said to have gone VIRAL.
56. Heed: MIND.
57. Comfortable existence: EASY LIVING - Nobody expresses it better than our crossword favorite
58. Pod unit: PEA.
59. Genesis grandson: ENOS - ENOS can be a biblical character, a baseball player or, lately, an American actress
60. "Nifty!": NEATO.
Down:
1. Some ankle-length attire: ALBS.
3. Just: ONLY.
4. Amigo: PAL.
5. Hot water line?: TROPIC 😀 - The TROPICS of Cancer and Capricorn generally denote where water heats up on a map. (I emailed Matthew to make sure I wasn't missing something here.)
6. "The Age of Pleasure" singer Janelle: MONAE - Janelle recently played New Orleans
7. Brief getaway?: EVAC - I also emailed Matthew to make sure this wasn't some E-"xxx" slang. (BTW, Matthew is a great guy!)
8. National park that's home to more than 3,000 lions: SERENGETI.
9. Menopause treatment option: Abbr.: HRT.
10. Instrument played by Don Shirley in "Green Book": PIANO - Was "Sam's instrument in Casablanca" not "Saturday" enough? 😀
11. Clear up, in a way: DEFOG.
12. Minute Maid Park athlete: ASTRO.
14. Derby locale: ROLLER RINK - It's been around a long time.
15. Squads with precision dance routines: DRILL TEAMS - The Kilgore, TX Rangerettes DRILL TEAM were a staple of football halftimes in my yute.
20. "Matilda" star Wilson: MARA - MARA now and then as the girl in Mrs. Doubtfire
21. Dined together: BROKE BREAD.
23. On the plus side: BIG AND TALL.
24. Holier-than-thou: SMUG.
25. Print found in the woods: CAMO 😀 (Matthew said he was really happy with this clue/fill)
26. Forthwith: ANON - Forthwith: immediately; without delay. ANON: (archaic) soon; shortly
27. Yale founder Yale: ELIHU - A crossword staple that was very helpful early on
30. Japanese or Javanese: EAST ASIAN.
31. "Aladdin" character who calls Jafar "Your Rottenness": IAGO.
32. Brownie point?: OVEN 😀 At some point, I guess that is where brownies go
33. Hard or soft finish?: NESS.
38. Many a venue visited on "Carnival Eats": FAIR - Have you ever had a deep-fried Snickers?
42. Magic man?: EARVIN - He posted a lovely note the night that Husker VB set the world's record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
43. Perfect a part, perhaps: PRIMP 😀 I could never PRIMP any of my parts to perfection!
44. Cornish of CNN: AUDIE.
44. Cornish of CNN: AUDIE.
45. Legislative assemblies: PLENA - .
(Latin for full) A fully attended meeting or assembly, esp. of a legislative body
46. Takes the field: PLAYS.
49. Roundabouts: OR SO 😀 Both are estimates. OTOH, I have to negotiate four roundabouts to get from my house to the Platte River Bridge on the way to Lincoln.
50. Barnes of college basketball: ADIA - Coach Barnes
51. Small price to pay: CENT. 😀 A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
52. Benin neighbor: TOGO - All right, here is the map of Africa, do you know where these two countries are? How did you do?
54. Vegas opener?: VEE - Yeah, I made the same mistake at first too! 😊
55. "__ got it!": IVE - Uh, if you called it, you gotta catch it.
