Saturday, May 4, 2024, Amie Walker

Saturday Themeless by Amie Walker

Amie Walker is an attorney/current stay-at-home parent to three little girls in Chandler, Arizona. When she’s not thinking about puzzles, she loves spending time with her family and singing in her women’s choir. Here is a picture of Amie on Jeopardy on 3/28/22. 

When I did her puzzle in January, I finished the bottom first and the headed back to the top. Today I did just the opposite and you can see by the graphic, the bottom was a struggle for me. Some of the cleverness and 21st century slang gave me a real challenge.

Across:

1. Exclusively: ALONE.

6. Tach readings: RPMS - My car runs so quietly that I have to look at the tach (far left) to see if the engine is still running.

10. Annie Lennox, e.g.: SCOT - Anyone else put ALTO?

14. Spot with spotty reception, perhaps: REMOTE AREA - We got no reception in the Redwoods 😀

16. "Don't start with me": UH UH.

17. Chore that's a bore: MENIAL TASK.

18. __ noire: BETE.

19. "Funny or Die" segment: SKIT.

20. Dishwasher setting: RINSE.

21. Country with the largest number of Quechua speakers: PERU - 4:30 of listening 

22. Time for scare tactics?: SPOOKY SEASON.

25. Sweeney of "Euphoria": SYDNEY - Famous Australian Opera House city is not "Saturday" enough 

28. Deep blush shade: BERRY.

29. Indulge: HUMOR.

30. Gridiron cues: HUTS.

31. Spell: JAG.

34. Moonrise direction: EAST.

35. Signs: OMENS.

37. Caesar dressing?: TOGA 😀

38. __ sample: DNA - #1 and #3, you're free to go. #2, uh, we'd like a word with you.

39. Listen to: OBEY.

40. 1990s TV nerd: URKEL.

41. Cookbook verb: ROAST.

43. Belief systems: CREEDS.

44. Waffle, perhaps: ICE CREAM CONE 😀 An ice cream vendor at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair ran out of dishes. Turns out the vendor next to him was selling thin waffles. Voila! 

48. Chew toy for a naughty puppy: SHOE.

49. Unsmiling: STERN.

50. AFC East team: PATS 

54. "Dance the Night" singer Dua __: LIPA - After sufficient appearances here, I have learned this name. 

55. Tool for turning over a new leaf?: SALAD TONGS 😀

57. Fairly matched: EVEN.

58. Personal driver?: EGO BOOSTER - Your ego might make you have more personal drive

59. Second place at a math Olympiad?: TENS 😀 Amie!

60. Fed. IDs: SSNS.

61. Bares fruit?: PEELS 😀

Down:

1. Plank supports: ARMS.

2. Allium cultivar: LEEK and 45. Allium cultivar: CHIVE.

The Allium Family

3. High-end hotel chain: OMNI.

4. "Wrong": NO IT'S NOT.

5. "Should we start wo u?": ETA - When r u getting here?

6. Flood with negative replies on social media: RATIO - Learning for me. At the bottom of social media like X (formerly Twitter and other social media) there is a list of the number of comments, retweets and likes. Comments are assumed to be negative and so if the RATIO of comments to retweets plus likes is more than 2:1, it is assumed to be a bad tweet. A poster can be said to have been RATIOED if there are a lot of comments.

Comments = 59K, Retweets = 21K
Likes = 6K. Bad RATIO

7. Jape: PRANK.

8. Casual-chic do: MESSY BUN.

9. Collections that include tokkuri and ochoko: SAKE SETS - More

Serving glasses - ochokos
Flask - tokkuri

10. Disappointing: SUBPAR - Not disappointing in golf at all

11. "You gouda brie kidding me," for one?: CHEESY JOKE 😕

12. Closing bars: OUTRO - a short, distinct closing section at the end of something (such as a piece of music, a performance, or a news report). A complement to INTRO.

13. Country group, briefly?: THE UN 😊

15. Cartoon boy in a Space Cub troop: ELROY - ELROY is at the left in front of his dad George Jetson in this 60-yr-old Jetson's cartoon. Yes, I said 60 years!

23. According to: PER.

24. Some hesitations: ERS.

25. Lose: SHED.

26. 10 jiao: YUAN - It takes 10 jiao to make 1 YUAN. 1 Yuan = $0.13 or about a dime. 

 

A new EV car in China costs about ¥100,000  ($13,912)

27. "Feel free to contact me privately on social": DMS ARE OPEN  - This tells the world that you're available and willing to receive and read direct messages from unknown people is by announcing your "DMs are open". A tactic you'll see used by journalists on Twitter looking for scoops.

30. "Watch it!": HEY.

32. Mellowed, perhaps: AGED.

33. Misses: GALS.

35. Loses sleep (over): OBSESSES.

36. HTML data: META TAGS - How the line above looks in HTML:

35. Loses sleep (over): <b>OBSESSES</b>.<br /><br />

37. Yoga stance also called Vrksasana (Sanskrit: वृक्षासन, romanized: vṛkṣāsana): TREE POSE.

39. One of two in a row: OAR - 😀 This hit me like a ton of cute! An OAR is one of two that are in a row in the boat and they are used to row!

40. Samovar: URN.

42. Lots: OCEANS - The Coasters sang, "It's gonna take an OCEAN, Of calamine lotion..."

43. Airbnb listing: CONDO.

44. Key: ISLET 

Quiet Cove Key, Florida 

46. Galia, for one: MELON.

47. "Deadliest Catch" boatload: CRABS.

51. Fee for a card-carrying member?: ANTE - 😀 He had to ANTE but is only carrying these lousy cards

52. Neutrogena product: TGEL.

53. Much of E. Europe, once: SSRS.

56. Exceed: TOP.