Saturday, August 3, 2024, Katie Hale

 Saturday Themeless by Katie Hale

Katie, Patti's assistant editor, is a stay-at-home mom living in the London inner-city Borough of Hackney.

Her puzzle required some real head scratching in places but was a pleasant excursion.

Across:

1. Help with spelling: WAND - Oh, that kind of spell! 😀

5. Up: AHEAD - The famous analog Master's Tournament Scoreboard shows Patrick Reed is ONE UP on second place Ricky Fowler -15 to -14 (under par scores are posted in red).   

10. Like cotton candy: SPUN.

14. Steinbeck twin: ARON - Eden, ARON and Cal, hmmm... Genesis anyone? 

 

15. Herd stray: DOGIE.

16. Transparent block in Minecraft: PANE - This appears to be a thing in this game

17. Event responsible for the northern lights: SOLAR STORM - This amateur astronomer confidently entered SOLAR FLARE first.

19. Nobel city: OSLO.

20. Pro across town from a Cap: NAT - In Washington D.C. the NHL Capitals play three miles north of Nationals Park where the MLB NATionals play

21. Takes the cake?: EATS 😀

22. Himalayan kingdom: BHUTAN -  A few hundred miles east of Mt. Everest

24. Sappiness: TREACLE - A mainstay of my lovely bride's very successful Hallmark Channel movies. 

26. Shout to: HOOT AT.

27. Heady list: BEER MENU 😀

29. Listserv setting: BCC - Blind Carbon Copy. 

31. Asa's "Sex Education" role: OTIS - Kate or Patti's Saturday OTIS.

33. God who favored the Trojans: ARES.

34. Steak meat: AHI - Tuna is not what we first think of as steak here on the Great Plains

Tuna 

 

Beef

  

35. "How!?": WHAT'S YOUR SECRET.

39. "TMI!": ICK 😳 - 10 signs you're sharing TMI

40. Née: BORN - Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Kennedy Onassis (NÉE Bouvier /ˈbuːvieɪ/; July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994).

41. Sea __: BASS.

42. Important body part in balancing: TOE.

43. Delicacy often prepared à la Bourguignonne: ESCARGOT.

46. Sappy types: MAPLES 😀 A different kind of sappy from 24 Across - Treacle

48. Some high-end speakers: ORATORS 😀 Some high-end speakers can charge $250,000 and up for an appearance.

52. Take another shot: REFILM - Stanley Kubrick did 148 retakes to get this scene from The Shining the way he liked.

53. Winter layer: COAT 😀

54. Opus __: DEI - Silas was a sincere follower of Opus Dei in The Da Vinci Code. Okay, he was a psycho too but...

 

55. Chamber opening?: ANTE - The ANTEchamber where one waited to see QE II at Buckingham palace. 

56. Late night lament: I CAN'T SLEEP -I never miss an opportunity to post 60's Rock and Roll

59. Chandon partner: MOET.

60. "In the Bedroom" Oscar nominee: TOMEI.

61. Too: ALSO.

62. Off: AWRY.

63. Awards for very good plays: ESPYS - Uh, athletic plays. 😀 The 2024 list of nominees

64. __ Coe: Highlands hiking spot: GLEN - Scottish highlands

Down:

1. Never happened: WASN'T - The Y2K disaster.

2. Loud: AROAR.

3. "The Prince of Tides" star: NOLTE.

4. Genomics focus: DNA - Put simply, genomics is the study of an organism’s genome – its genetic material – and how that information is applied. All living things, from single-celled bacteria, to multi-cellular plants, animals and humans, have a genome – and ours is made up of DNA. 😗

5. Super Bowl goal: AD SALE - $$$

6. More in demand: HOTTER.

7. Alter __: EGOS - Superman, Bat Man, Spiderman, Mr. Hyde, et al.

8. Lack of space?: AIR 😀 Space definitely lacks AIR

9. Spiritual that lists body parts: DEM BONES. 💀

10. Declaim: SPOUT - This is an election year 

11. Shell stations?: PASTA BARS - A small one

12. Lets off the hook: UNLATCHES 😀

13. "__ Bible": Arcade Fire album recorded in a renovated church: NEON.

18. Signal to start playing: RECESS BELL - Those 4th grade eyes are locked onto the clock as it approaches 10 am, 11:35 am and 2:00 pm.

23. Digs in canals: HOUSE BOATS - Digs is slang for where one lives and this HOUSE BOAT was used in Sleepless In Seattle.

32. Resemble: TAKE AFTER - Speaking of Sleepless in Seattle, here is Meg Ryan and her son Jack Quaid

25. Somewhat: A BIT.

26. German address: HERR - HERR Stephan Schläpfer is a distant cousin (and a great guy) we met in St. Gallen, Switzerland. 

28. Luau backdrop, perhaps: MAUNA - Hawaiian for mountain

30. Op. __: CIT - I have never used this term in my real life.

31. "Calm down": OH COME NOW.

35. Card: WIT.

36. "Free Solo" setting: YOSEMITE - The 3,000 ft. vertical face of El Capitan

37. Fantasy monsters: ORCS - From LOTR

38. Nineteenth Amendment campaigner: CATT - Women's Suffrage

44. "Wagatha Christie" subject Coleen: ROONEY- Wagatha origin

45. Complimentary: GRATIS.

47. Reverence: PIETY.

49. "Another Love" singer Tom: O'DELL.

50. First name on "The Morning Show": REESE.

51. Nurse: SIP ON.

52. Protagonist in many a Diwali story: RAMA - Diwali marks the day Rama, Sita and Lakshmana return to Ayodhya after 14 years in exile. Exiled by his own father King Dasharatha, Rama, his wife Sita and his brother, Laxmana, face various hardships as they travel through the forests. Okay...

53. Stay out for the night: CAMP.

57. NYSE listings: COS - Companies

58. Twitch hitch: LAG - Twitch is a streaming service and it can sometimes have a hitch which results in a LAG, I guess...

 

Note from C.C.:

Happy birthday to dear Melissa, who guided us for many Wednesdays in the past. I've never met anyone as brave and tough as Melissa.