Saturday Themeless by Joe Deeney
This is my eighth Joe Deeney Saturday Themeless puzzle and I had a lovely 16 minute solving experience! His impressive pinwheeled stacks of ten letter fills resulted in having only 68 blocks and a lot of wide-open spaces. Wow!
Joe has left the corporate world and is now freelancing at home while he figures out what is next for him. Above is a lovely picture of Joe doing an LA Times puzzle on his tablet while his daughter is offering her assistance.
1. Takes badly?: ROBS 😀
5. Leroy Anderson holiday tune that includes a trumpet "whinny": SLEIGH RIDE - That seasonal song also uses these percussion instruments.
15. Possibly a lot?: ACRE 😀
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| Before After |
16. Sphynx producer: CAT BREEDER 40. Litter peeps: MEWS - I'm sure Mama SPHYNX is hearing a lot of MEWS from her litter.
17. Top suits: CEO'S - Recently we saw that they belong in the C Suites with the CFO, COO, et al.
18. Natalie Dormer's "Elementary" role: IRENE ADLER - An adversary for Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes in this BBC series.
19. New Zealand birds also known as owl parrots: KAKAPOS - Also called the world's fattest parrot.
21. Glue brand that owns X-Acto: ELMERS.
22. Show leader?: ONE MAN - A great one!
23. Toot: SPREE - As in "on a toot!"
25. Take a __: FLIER - The Jets did just that on Aaron Rodgers and he got hurt on the season's first series and was lost for the year.
26. "J to __ L-O!": 2002 remix album: THA.
27. Knock on: RAP AT
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently RAPping,
RAPping AT my chamber door.
31. Civil Rights Memorial architect: LIN - Her work has such grace and elegance
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| Located in Montgomery, Alabama |
32. Crash support: IT HELP -
35. Fatty tuna, to a sushi chef: TORO.
37. Like some store-bought nuts: SHELLED.
39. Ready for the dryer: WET.
42. Museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria: UFFIZI.
43. Member of a peer group?: EYE 😀
44. French physician for whom a part of the brain is named: BROCA.
46. Offer: BID.
47. Oft-burned medium: CD ROM - Burning a CD used to be very common
49. 2004 remake starring Jude Law: ALFIE - What's it all about, ALFIE?
51. Prepares for a drive: TEES UP- If you can't bend over, this device will help you TEE UP the ball and take it out of the hole. Not for me yet.
52. "Fly!": BE FREE.
55. Stayed home: DIDN'T GO - They had tickets for the Titanic but didn't make it onboard
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| Milton Hershey J Pierpont Morgan Henry Clay Frick |
56. "No need to wait": I'LL CATCH UP.
59. Central Asia's North __ Sea: ARAL.
60. Nickelodeon show with a paw print logo: BLUES CLUES - We watched a lot of BLUES CLUES with the original host Steve.
61. Cost of a dozen?: DIME 😀
62. Time for happy hour?: BEER THIRTY 😀
63. Gibbons, e.g.: APES.
Down:
1. Crown roast half: RACK OF LAMB and 11. 1-Down, e.g.: RED MEAT.
2. Carnival ride: OCEAN LINER - Their ships have grown considerably
3. Halved: BROKE IN TWO - Speaking of the Titanic
4. __ oil: SESAME.
5. Heir: SCION.
6. Metallica drummer Ulrich: LARS - Don't know the man but he's here in cwds a lot
7. Bastille Day saison: ETE.
9. "Archer" voice actress Judy: GREER.
10. Shaman: HEALER - In an episode of Grey's Anatomy, a Hmong father would not let the surgeons operate until the Shaman arrived.
12. Run in place: IDLE - I can start my car from any where in the world with this iPhone app. The car will IDLE for 15 minutes while running the heater or a/c and then shut off unless someone with the key fob gets into the car to finish the starting process.
13. Does: DEER - We had Does cluing SHES recently
14. Does wrong: ERRS.
20. "Ratatouille" city: PARIS.
23. Photo that speaks volumes?: SHELFIE - Below is one of mine. Send me a picture of your SHELFIE at gschlapfer@gmail.com and I'll post them next week.
24. Wan: PALLID - I have no idea why I remember this from Mrs. Thomsen's 11th grade English Class.
Why so pale and wan fond lover?
Prithee why so pale?
Will, when looking well can’t move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee why so pale?
26. DOJ division: THE FBI.
28. Juice bar?: POWER STRIP 😀 This might be drawing too much juice
29. In question?: ARE YOU GAME? - Do you think these peeps asked this of each other in Pamplona?
30. Pacific Northwest tribal carvings: TOTEM POLES.
33. Pt. of the week: THU.
34. __ dispenser: PEZ.
38. Like the ingredients in pico de gallo (translates to rooster's beak - hg), typically: DICED.
41. Harder to come by: SCARCER.
45. Div. that has produced 16 World Series champs since 1969: AL EAST - The Yankees have the most (7) but haven't won in 14 years. Chart
48. "Gracias" response: DE NADA.
50. Go get: FETCH - I remember FETCH from my early Macs.
51. Buzzed: TIPSY.
52. Salad option: BIBB.
53. Catherine portrayer in "The Great": ELLE.
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| An interesting picture! |
54. Exhaust pipe: FLUE.
55. Tune two croon: DUET - Not only were their DUETs my favorite but The Beatles and many others patterned themselves after them.
57. 10% of MDX: CLI - I'm surprised Joe didn't use X% of MDX (10% of 1510 = 151)
58. "Ben-__": HUR - Hollywood made versions in 1907, 1925, 1959 and 2016. The 1959 version starring Charlton Heston was the most successful version. I saw it on the Cinema 70 Big Screen as a 13-yr-old when it came out.
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Notes from C.C.:
1) Happy 71st birthday to our witty Chairman Moe (Chris). Here is a picture of Chris, his girlfriend Margaret,
MM and MM's girlfriend Valerie. They finally met last August. Chris
travels extensively every summer. Hope he can meet more of our blog
regulars in the future.
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| Margaret, Chris, Joseph and Valerie |
2) Happy 58th anniversary to the sweetest couple I've ever met: Husker Gary and his wife
Joann. Here's a picture of us from 2014 when Gary attended a wedding here in Minnesota.
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| Left to Right: Boomer, Gary, C.C. & Joann |
