Themeless Saturday by Rich Feely
I blogged Rich's LA Times debut in April and now he is back with this challenge. I zoomed through the NE and SE and had to fish around to earn my "got 'er done" on the western side.
1. Trust-worthy figure: HEIR.😀 - Many of my golf buddies are recommending we set up an irrevocable trust for our two HEIRS.
5. Guardians, on scoreboards: CLE - In 2021 the Cleveland Indians became the Guardians.
8. Daytime fare: SOAPS.
13. Item that may bring a room together: ACCENT RUG.
16. Accustom: INURE.
17. Deep-sea pod cast?: WHALE SONG 😀 - Whales are deep-sea animals whose "singing" can be done by a pod of whales acting as a cast
18. __ four: PETIT.
19. Offensive deception?: NO-LOOK PASS.
21. Patches, in a way: SODS 😀
22. Goons: APES.
23. Fugitive's request: HIDE ME - Rick sticks his neck out for no one
25. Withstood: ABIDED.
28. Early Sony devices: BETA CAMS - Our video guy said a BETA CAM was the future and so we bought one. Everyone else went VHS and we soon had a white elephant.
30. Creed: TENET.
31. Sent in: FILED - Today reporters simply send in/FILE stories from their computers. Before the digital age, reporters had to either call in their stories or drive to the newsroom to type it out to FILE it.
32. Also: TOO.
33. Maintain: HOLD - An air traffic controller might tell a pilot, "Maintain present heading and altitude" which means "fly straight and level"
34. Invoices: BILLS.
35. St. whose Charter Oak fell in 1856: CONN - An interesting story about a 650 year old tree
36. __ pro nobis: ORA - Pray for us
37. Fathers: SIRES - Secretariat had seven of his progeny in the 2023 Kentucky Derby
38. Family nickname: AUNTY - Clara Blandick played Dorothy's AUNITE Em
39. Elements of love and hate: SILENT E'S - 🙄 My last fill as the meta cluing hit me
41. Actress Cuthbert: ELISHA.
42. Sole protector?: GALOSH - Around here we use them in pairs and call them "five-buckle overshoes".
43. NASA __: research center in Silicon Valley: AMES.
44. Third novel in Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" series: LILA.
45. "Just watch me!": YOU BET I CAN.
50. __ purchases: IN APP - Put simply, an IN-APP purchase is something that you buy when using an app on your computer or mobile device.
52. Five-spice powder ingredient: STAR ANISE - Five spice is a blend of star anise, cloves, cinnamon, Sichuan peppercorns and fennel seeds.
53. Clerical home: MANSE.
54. "No sweat": EASY PEASY.
55. "The __ Scrolls": video game series: ELDER - If you have ever played or heard of this game, that makes one of us.
56. Sound before the orchestra begins: SHH.
57. 2020 NL batting champion: SOTO.
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| Juan Soto |
Down:
1. Russell's "The Christmas Chronicles 2" co-star: HAWN - Kurt Russell and his longtime companion Goldie HAWN
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| Rotten Tomatoes Audiences gave it a 44% |
2. Fifth letter of the NATO alphabet: ECHO.
3. Bygone scheduling app: ICAL.
4. Added to a card, e.g.: RELOADED - Chuck E Cheese calls it recharging, just bring your credit card to pay for more games
5. Makes a borderline call: CROPS - Yours truly changing the borderline in cropping this picture of me talking to 500 kids.
6. Moon goddess: LUNA.
7. Source of calcium and magnesium in compost: EGG SHELLS.
8. Taste: SIP.
9. "Hang on": ONE SEC.
10. Robotic sorts: AUTOMATONS - Disney has thousands of them
11. When Obergefell v. Hodges was issued: PRIDE MONTH - Obergefell v. Hodges: On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision that the 14th Amendment requires all states to license marriages between same-sex couples and to recognize all marriages that were lawfully performed out of state.
12. Groups at the gym: SETS.
14. Tamagotchi alternative: NEOPET.
15. Expressed impatience: TSKED.
20. Lots to build on: SITES - How bout these SITES to build on in Italy?
24. "Hi hungry, I'm __": DAD 😀
25. Literary musketeer: ATHOS.
26. "March to the beat of your own drum!": BE ORIGINAL.
27. Checked out: IN LALA LAND 😵 Where Mike Tyson put a lot of boxers
28. Gymnast honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022: BILES.
29. Posthumous "General Hospital" Daytime Emmy winner Eddy: SONYA - Fellow cast member and Emmy winner Robert Gossett paid tribute to the late SONYA in his acceptance speech.
31. Items that wind up on red trucks: FIRE HOSES - Wind up 😀
34. Quite wee: BITSY.
35. Cookbook categories: CUISINES.
37. __-cone: SNO.
38. Public house fixture: ALE TAP.
40. Go by: ELAPSE.
41. __ board: EMERY.
43. Humiliate: ABASH - You have the option to remain unabashed
44. Green shade: LIME.
46. Jazz venue: UTAH - The team kept the nickname when it moved from New Orleans just like the Los Angeles kept the name Lakers when they moved from Minneapolis. UTAH is not known as a hotbed for jazz and LA has very few lakes compared to Minneapolis.
47. Parting word: CIAO.
48. Second: Abbr.: ASST.
49. "Self Explanatory" R&B artist: NEYO.
51. A pop: PER - We buy bottled water at a big box store for $.15 but at this game they are $3.50 a pop.
