Saturday Themeless by Rich Norris
Our former editor Rich returns with a Saturday offering.
Across:
1. Loaf traditionally made with clabbered milk: SODA BREAD. Authentic Irish soda bread is made with sour (clabbered) milk, not buttermilk, or milk soured by adding vinegar or lemon juice.
10. Dismiss: LET GO - He wasn't fired, he was, uh, LET GO.
15. New and improved, say: TWO POINT O 😀
15. New and improved, say: TWO POINT O 😀
16. Slim young swimmer: ELVER - A young eel is called an ELVER
17. Decreases: RAMPS DOWN - Parka sales started to RAMP DOWN recently.
18. Mookie who was the 2018 AL MVP: BETTS - He won the MVP with the Boston Red Sox. Today he plays for the LA Dodgers.
19. Miner concern: ORE 😀
20. "Law & Order" actor Jeremy: SISTO.
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| Jeremy SISTO and Jesse L. Martin |
21. Catalan artist Joan: MIRO - Señor MIRO has been a frequent visitor here of of late
22. Cry after seeing a good drawing?: GIN 😀
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| GIN! |
23. Airport safety gp.: TSA - Yeah, I put FAA first too.
26. "Mad __": MEN - This 3:25 video is one of the finest TV scenes I have ever seen.
27. Precipitation that can hurt: HAIL - A 2014 HAIL storm in Blair, NE.
29. Knockoffs of the 1980s and 1990s: PC CLONES.
32. Brand that sponsored early soap operas: CAMAY - Proctor and Gamble used its line of soaps in the 1920's to sponsor these radio serials which became known as, uh, Soap Operas
33. About as bad as it gets: ATROCIOUS.
35. Bleak: GRIM.
36. "One L" author: TUROW - A signed first edition goes for $150
37. __ and void: NULL.
38. Journalist who co-founded the NAACP: IDA B WELLS.
40. __ cash: PETTY.
41. Beanies: KNIT CAPS.
42. Young lady: LASS.
43. Violinist Kavafian: ANI - Not the Cuckoo of long ago crosswords
44. "I get it!": AHA.
45. Block: DAM - The Hoover DAM has blocked the Colorado River in Black Canyon for decades.
46. City southwest of Warsaw: LODZ - An hour-and-a-half drive on E30 across Poland
48. Hitchcock motel: BATES - The famous Bates Motel shower scene from Psycho took 78 Shots and 52 Cuts
51. Food __: DYE - A necessity for Easter eggs
54. Even more distant: ICIER.
56. Hereditary chain: DNA STRAND.
58. Summer Daze cologne brand: CK ONE - Calvin Klein ONE
60. Bar: ESTOP - In the field of contract law, promissory estoppel estops parties from claiming that no contract exists when another party was harmed through the reasonable reliance upon a promise by the first party. 🤔
61. Without restraint: LIKE CRAZY - The tornados blew LIKE CRAZY in Omaha on April 29th.
Down:
1. H-Town ALer: STRO - Eliding a Houston ASTRO baseball player. Some Nebraska fans wanted to use Skers for Huskers. Thankfully, it never caught on.
2. Preakness winner Man __: O'WAR.
3. Capitol cap: DOME.
4. Tablet program: APP.
5. Word in a Tom Swifty about Bruce Springsteen: BOSSILY - Bruce is known as The Boss, so...
6. Chamillionaire song with the lyrics "They see me rollin' / They hatin'": RIDIN - Like Diogonese searching for an honest man, my search continues for a rapper who lyrics I can print.
7. "The Killing" actress Mireille: ENOS.
8. Chem class fig.: AT. WT.
9. Taped message from the police?: DO NOT CROSS 😀
10. Isr. neighbor: LEB.
11. Sch. type: ELEM.
12. Some NFL breaks: TV TIMEOUTS - The man on the sidelines with the orange sleeves raises his hand to signal the referees when to call a TV TIMEOUT and then lowers his arm when play should resume.
13. Succeed: GET RESULTS - The debate rages about whether Kelly Clarkson ever used these
14. Director Welles: ORSON.
22. Jason who was the 2000 AL MVP: GIAMBI.
24. Road warning sign: SLOW.
25. NYC rep since 2019: AOC.
27. Rough treatment: HARD KNOCKS - Your first thought too?
28. Self-critical evaluation: AM I AN IDIOT?
29. Singer who was one of the original judges on "American Idol": PAULA ABDUL - Randy and Paula tried to be nice in those early auditions but Simon changed TV forever.
30. Post-doc combo?: CTRL P. 😀 Post document for printing not post doctoral
31. Starting hour, perhaps: NINE A.M - I've never had a job that started that late!
32. Sci-fi FX: CGI - Computer Generated Imagery
34. Calculated: SLY.
36. Stock sector: TECH.
39. Org. founded by Billie Jean King: WTA - I did a double take when I saw her playing a judge in an episode of Law And Order
40. Artificial: PLASTIC.
43. "... a grin without a cat" observer: ALICE.
45. Italy's Villa __: D'ESTE - The Villa d'Este (summer villa) is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains.
47. Philosopher known for "reductio ad absurdum" arguments: ZENO - Math students know of this famous paradox
49. Years in old Rome: ANNI - Villa d'Este fu costruita 550 anni fa (Villa d'Este was built 550 years ago)
50. Undertaking: TASK.
51. Focus of much analysis: DATA.
52. Santa __ Valley: California setting of "Sideways": YNEZ.
53. Current subject: EDDY 😀
55. Single situp, say: REP.
57. Prescription to fight stress, briefly: RNR - Rest (a)N(d) Relaxation. Characters in M*A*S*H usually went to Tokyo.
BONUS: My granddaughter at her graduation party last night in Lincoln along with me, my wife, her twin and her twin's husband.
