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Jul 27, 2024

Saturday, July 27, 2024, Lance Enfinger, Bob Weisz

 Themeless Saturday by Lance Enfinger and Bob Weisz

I had an enjoyable Lance and Bob co-construction a month ago and I had a fun solve again despite obscure names.

The top four lines filled very quickly especially the 10-letter cells. I had a pleasant struggle in the 3 o'clock position where SPED was wrong for race and I had to suss SALT from the clue of "cure".  πŸ˜€ 

Lance is a pharmacist who moved to Mint Hill, NC, so his family could be closer to nature, hiking, and adventure. He helps his amazing wife homeschool his three kids. 


Bob is a “creative, upbeat, meticulous video editor & animator with decades of experience!” He lives in Los Angeles, is a 2007 graduate of Wesleyan University and has been constructing crosswords since 2003.




 Across:

1. Tool for someone with attachment issues: HOT GLUE GUN - It feels good to semi-confidently fill in 1 Across


11. Pros who work according to scheduleπŸ˜€?: CPAS.


15. "I haven't even gotten to the good part": THERE'S MORE.


16. Spot to 14-Down: RINK and 14. Skim the surface?: SKATE πŸ˜€

17. Part of a full count: THREE BALLS.


18. Pond plant: ALGA.

19. Long: PINE πŸ˜€ My good friend is from Long Pine, NE


20. Message with a slammed door: AND STAY OUT πŸ˜–

22. Jack of "Twin Peaks": NANCE.


24. Fourth-highest mountain on Earth: LHOTSE.


25. Cold one: BREWSKI πŸ˜€

28. Person in labor: PEON.

29. "Queen of the Blues" Washington: DINAH - 40 seconds of rare footage of this wonderful performer


30. Foil a foil: PARRY πŸ˜€ A successful thrust and an unsuccessful PARRY


32. COINTELPRO org.: FBI - COunter INTELigence PROgram


35. Exact location, slangily: ADDY.


36. Yankee great who wore No. 9: MARIS - #9 Roger Maris hits his famous #61 home run in 1961 and is greeted at home plate by #7 Mickey Mantle

 

37. Cure component: SALT πŸ˜€ - Gotta love this!


38. "Definitely": YES.

39. Ashtray array: BUTTS - Yuk!

40. Change for a 20: FIVES.


41. Sassiness, informally: TUDE.


42. Infamous fly eater?: OLD LADY - I remember singing this song 


44. "Stand strong": BE FIRM.

47. Weasel: SNEAK - This man was a SNEAK at Los Alamos, NM during while working on The Manhattan Project. He shared atomic bomb secrets with the Soviet Union.


48. Serious violation: ILLEGAL ACT.

50. Title of respect: MAAM.

54. Useless, batterywise: DEAD - Been there, done that


55. Lot lot: SALES FORCE πŸ˜€


57. Like challah: EGGY.


58. Solved crosswords in a waiting room, say: KILLED TIME.


59. CNBC topic: NYSE.

60. Publisher's guideline: STYLE SHEET Sample


Down:

1. Intro to web programming: HTTP.

2. Surprised greeting: OH HI.


3. Arctic __: bird that flies between poles: TERN.


4. New York's High Line or Boston's Emerald Necklace: GREEN WAY.



5. Film producer Daniels: LEE.


6. Wells Fargo rival: US BANK.

7. Free: EMANCIPATE - These child actors EMANCIPATED themselves from their parents as teenagers

McCauley                 Drew               Ariel
   Calkin                   Barrymore         Winter

8. Half of a "Do You Love Me?" duo: GOLDE - GOLDE and Tevye's famous duet from Fiddler On The Roof.


9. Many search results: URLS - Here is the URL for last month's collaboration of these two gentlemen:



11. Drawer in a box: CRAYON πŸ˜€


12. Spirit guide?: PILOT πŸ˜€ Here a Spirit Airline PILOT greets a passenger


13. Cattle breed: ANGUS - Here are some in a feed LOT in Wisner, NE


21. Bridge call: AHOY - Is that what the captain is saying?


23. Incinerator residue: ASH.

25. NYE, for Psy: BDAY - The Korean Rapper was born on New Year's Eve 1977


26. Badger: RIDE.

27. Stops: ENDS.

28. Sentence structure: PRISON CELL πŸ˜€ - A wax figure of Al Capone in his actual PRISON CELL on Alcatraz.


31. "The only way to run away without leaving home," per Twyla Tharp: ART.


32. __ bean: FAVA - _ _ _ A was not LIMA, uh, eventually


33. Ran: BLED - _ _ E D was not SPED, uh, eventually

34. Wee: ITSY.

36. Dirty looks from a spa attendant: MUD MASKS πŸ˜€


37. Creature domesticated in China more than 5,000 years ago: SILK MOTH.


39. Small town: BURG.

40. Org. concerned with recalls: FDA - The Food and Drug Administration issued a Class 1 (most serious) recall of my CPAP machine two years ago and I got a replacement. 


41. It's bound to change colors: TIE DYE.


43. Reveal: LET SEE.

44. Leader from Scranton: BIDEN.

45. Parting words: ELEGY - I know I read this in H.S. but I hope there won't be a quiz.


46. Standards: FLAGS.

47. Oscar nominee Hawkins: SALLY.


49. CafΓ© au __: LAIT.

51. "Voyage to India" Grammy winner: ARIE.


52. High point: ACME.

53. Converge: MEET.

56. Hook-and-ladder cos.: FDS - Kramer on a hook-and-ladder