Theme: Fruity Places
17A: Colorado site of three U. S. Opens: CHERRY HILLS
24A: Miami neighborhood: COCONUT GROVE
36A: Atlanta's main drag: PEACHTREE STREET
48A: Santa Ana, CA location: ORANGE COUNTY
58A: Roy and Dale's California town: APPLE VALLEY
COCONUT is not a fruit. It's a nut, isn't it? Such high fat content. I've never been fond of raw COCONUT milk or COCONUT meat. Always bake them first.
I liked this puzzle very much, so fresh, fruity and sweet. I still can not grok Norma Steinberg's choice of CLANG CLANG CLANG as a theme answer yesterday. I know it's trolley sound, but really it does not fit the other 2 theme entry pattern, unless I completely misread her mind.
I also liked how DECKS (1D: Ship's floor) intersects KOS (20A: Bout enders). I wonder what John Underwood's original clue is for DECKS, since it can also mean "Knocks down". The clue for SKILLET (46A: Cast-iron pan) is simply wrong. He probably never cooks.
Across:
1A: Thingamajig: DOODAD. I wonder if anyone has constructed a "Gizmo" themed puzzle. It would be very scrabbly.
11A: Canine grp.: AKC (American Kennel Club). I just learned that except Kenturky Derby (first held in 1875), no other continuously held sporting event in the US is older than Westminster show (1877).
14A: Bakery treat: ECLAIR. Decadent and delicious.
15A: Temple, ancient: NAOS. Greek for "temple". "Cella" for the Romans. I've never heard of it before. I suppose you can call Temple of Applo a NAOS. I wonder what is the diameter of those great columns.
31A: So I think, online: IMO. This is an excellent acronyms list. Thx, Clear Ayes.
27A: Gordon and Sheila: MACRAES. I got it from the down fills. Know neither of them.
32A: "And I love ___": HER. Here is the song. Does "HER" refer to Yoko Ono?
43A: Zigzag: WEAVE. They are not really synonymous, are they?
52A: Paid male date: GIGOLO. "American GIGOLO" is the first Richard Gere movie I saw.
62A: Tours season: ETE. Here is a map, see where Tours is? I like this clue.
Down:
2D: Cinco y tres: OCHO That will be "HUIT" in Tours.
4D: __ es Salaam: DAR. No idea. It's the largest city in Tanzania.
5D: Jordan's nickname: AIR. Always thought it's "AIR Jordan" altogether, not AIR alone.
6D: Solid carbon dioxide: DRY ICE
7D: Vidalia veggie: ONION. Nice gift box.
9D: Cell phone clip-ons: HOLSTERS. Here?
12D: City on the Vyatka River: KIROV. Foreign to me. See this map. Lots of "oblast", what does it mean? Province?
13D: __ de menthe: CREME. But I want some CREME brûlée, and this, and this. Je te veux, que je t'adore.
29D: Hammer end: CLAW. Seattle John said last time that the CLAW "is not technically an end of a hammer. It is an end of the hammer poll. A hammer has two parts - the handle and the poll. The poll is commonly called the hammer head. The poll has two ends - the face and the peen. The face obviously is the flat end for pounding things. The peen can take on various shapes depending on the hammer's intended use. The most common shapes are ball and claw. A ball peen hammer is used for forging materials and a claw peen hammer can be used for prying things like extracting nails."
34D: Campbell of "Scream": NEVE. I've never seen "Scream". I liked her Julia role on "Party of Five".
38D: Recruiting grp.: ROTC. Really?
39D: Piccadilly dilly: TWIT. I don't understand this one. What is "Piccadilly dilly"?
45D: Crazy Horse, for one: OGLALA
46D: Operatic spear carrier: SUPE. I did not know the meaning of "operatic spear carrier".
47D: Jacks: KNAVES. This answer did not come easily to me at all.
48D: Eyeballed: OGLED. I always thought of "eyeball" as "roughly measure something", as Rachel Ray often does.
51D: Tiny hooter: OWLET. Look at this lovely saw-whet, the smallest owl according to Kit.
55D: Unskilled toiler: PEON. So close to PEONY.
59D: Free ad: PSA (Public Service Announcement).
C.C.
17A: Colorado site of three U. S. Opens: CHERRY HILLS
24A: Miami neighborhood: COCONUT GROVE
36A: Atlanta's main drag: PEACHTREE STREET
48A: Santa Ana, CA location: ORANGE COUNTY
58A: Roy and Dale's California town: APPLE VALLEY
COCONUT is not a fruit. It's a nut, isn't it? Such high fat content. I've never been fond of raw COCONUT milk or COCONUT meat. Always bake them first.
I liked this puzzle very much, so fresh, fruity and sweet. I still can not grok Norma Steinberg's choice of CLANG CLANG CLANG as a theme answer yesterday. I know it's trolley sound, but really it does not fit the other 2 theme entry pattern, unless I completely misread her mind.
I also liked how DECKS (1D: Ship's floor) intersects KOS (20A: Bout enders). I wonder what John Underwood's original clue is for DECKS, since it can also mean "Knocks down". The clue for SKILLET (46A: Cast-iron pan) is simply wrong. He probably never cooks.
Across:
1A: Thingamajig: DOODAD. I wonder if anyone has constructed a "Gizmo" themed puzzle. It would be very scrabbly.
11A: Canine grp.: AKC (American Kennel Club). I just learned that except Kenturky Derby (first held in 1875), no other continuously held sporting event in the US is older than Westminster show (1877).
14A: Bakery treat: ECLAIR. Decadent and delicious.
15A: Temple, ancient: NAOS. Greek for "temple". "Cella" for the Romans. I've never heard of it before. I suppose you can call Temple of Applo a NAOS. I wonder what is the diameter of those great columns.
31A: So I think, online: IMO. This is an excellent acronyms list. Thx, Clear Ayes.
27A: Gordon and Sheila: MACRAES. I got it from the down fills. Know neither of them.
32A: "And I love ___": HER. Here is the song. Does "HER" refer to Yoko Ono?
43A: Zigzag: WEAVE. They are not really synonymous, are they?
52A: Paid male date: GIGOLO. "American GIGOLO" is the first Richard Gere movie I saw.
62A: Tours season: ETE. Here is a map, see where Tours is? I like this clue.
Down:
2D: Cinco y tres: OCHO That will be "HUIT" in Tours.
4D: __ es Salaam: DAR. No idea. It's the largest city in Tanzania.
5D: Jordan's nickname: AIR. Always thought it's "AIR Jordan" altogether, not AIR alone.
6D: Solid carbon dioxide: DRY ICE
7D: Vidalia veggie: ONION. Nice gift box.
9D: Cell phone clip-ons: HOLSTERS. Here?
12D: City on the Vyatka River: KIROV. Foreign to me. See this map. Lots of "oblast", what does it mean? Province?
13D: __ de menthe: CREME. But I want some CREME brûlée, and this, and this. Je te veux, que je t'adore.
29D: Hammer end: CLAW. Seattle John said last time that the CLAW "is not technically an end of a hammer. It is an end of the hammer poll. A hammer has two parts - the handle and the poll. The poll is commonly called the hammer head. The poll has two ends - the face and the peen. The face obviously is the flat end for pounding things. The peen can take on various shapes depending on the hammer's intended use. The most common shapes are ball and claw. A ball peen hammer is used for forging materials and a claw peen hammer can be used for prying things like extracting nails."
34D: Campbell of "Scream": NEVE. I've never seen "Scream". I liked her Julia role on "Party of Five".
38D: Recruiting grp.: ROTC. Really?
39D: Piccadilly dilly: TWIT. I don't understand this one. What is "Piccadilly dilly"?
45D: Crazy Horse, for one: OGLALA
46D: Operatic spear carrier: SUPE. I did not know the meaning of "operatic spear carrier".
47D: Jacks: KNAVES. This answer did not come easily to me at all.
48D: Eyeballed: OGLED. I always thought of "eyeball" as "roughly measure something", as Rachel Ray often does.
51D: Tiny hooter: OWLET. Look at this lovely saw-whet, the smallest owl according to Kit.
55D: Unskilled toiler: PEON. So close to PEONY.
59D: Free ad: PSA (Public Service Announcement).
C.C.
