Theme:
BALONEY SANDWICHES: But not entirely edible (Blogged by Argyle)
23A: Baloney sandwich:
BAGUETTE HOKUM BAGUETTE43A: Baloney sandwich:
WHEAT TOMFOOLERY WHEAT71A: Baloney sandwich:
SOURDOUGH ROT SOURDOUGH92A: Baloney sandwich:
BAGEL BALDERDASH BAGEL118A: Baloney sandwich:
ROLL HORSEFEATHERS ROLL(Note from C.C.: Click
March 1, 2009 Sunday for this Newsday puzzle. S.N. is Stan the Man himself. Click on the bottom PDF file if you want to print out the puzzle.)
Across:1A: What “-phile” means:
LOVER e.g., audiophile, a person who is especially interested in high-fidelity sound reproduction. Anglophile likes anything English.
6A: Hole punchers:
AWLS examples10A: Great weight:
HEFT noun form
14A: Informal farewells:
TATAS Chiefly British
19A: Wine’s nose:
AROMA20A: Emphatic denial:
THAT’S A LIE22A: Cologne’s river:
RHINE Cologne, Germany
23A: Baloney sandwich:
BAGUETTE HOKUM BAGUETTE traditional HOKUM - out-and-out nonsense; bunkum. It is thought the term,
hokey came from hokum.
26A: Winter bugs:
FLUS FLU is the brief form of influenza. We have a woman on a local radio station that would read “flus” and pronounce it as rhyming with “plus”.
27A: “___ the fields we go…:
O’ER28A: Zilch:
NIL29A: Two-Oscar actor:
LEMMON Jack Lemmon, Best Supporting Actor for
Mister Roberts (1955) and Best Actor for
Save the Tiger (1973)
30A: Yale student:
ELI Hard to believe that William F. Buckley and George H. Bush both went to Yale.
31A: Theater genre:
COMEDY tragedy and comedy masks33A: Hair cutter:
RAZOR36A: Gershwin’s “Concerto ___”:
IN ‘F’ Excerpt (2:57 min.)37A: Flip-chart holder:
EASEL39A: Bake-sale sponsor:
PTA40A: Beer maker:
BREWER42A: Half of CDIV:
CCII 404/2=202
43A: Baloney sandwich:
WHEAT TOMFOOLERY WHEAT Tomfoolery is foolish or silly behavior. A simpleton can be described as a Tom fool but why should Tom be singled out for this degradation? There seems to be no answer. Tom appears to have been chosen for no identifiable reason, similar to "John Doe".
47A: Mail ctr.:
GPO mail center -
General
Post
Office, the main post office that also has branch post offices.
48A: Part of IRS:
INT Internal
Revenue
Service
49A: Off-Broadway award:
OBIE From O.B., abbreviation for
off-
Broadway.
50A: Close down:
END53A: Swanky sports suite:
SKY BOX Interior view57A: “Face the Nation” network:
CBS Columbia
Broadcasting
System
60A: Builds:
ERECTS64A: Move suddenly:
DART66A: Wasn’t consistent:
YOYOED vacillated
68A: Computer program, for short:
APP An application program is used for a particular application (opposed to system program).
70A: Moral values:
ETHIC71A: Baloney sandwich:
SOURDOUGH ROT SOURDOUGH Something absurd or fatuous is ROT. Making your own
sourdough is delicious.
75A: Fire-gone conclusion:
EMBER Nice take on fore-gone conclusion.
76A: Feel bad about:
RUE77A: Aussie gal:
SHEILA Chosen for no identifiable reason, similar to "John Doe" and “Tom the Fool”.
78A: Internalize anger:
STEW79A: European capital, to natives:
LISBOA Portuguese for Lisbon, seaport and capital of
Portugal81A: AMA members:
MDS American Medical Association members are Medicīnae Doctors in New Latin; is that the proper way to make a plural in New Latin, by adding an “S”.
83A: Doing nothing:
IDLING85A: Chapter of history:
ERA86A: Do nothing:
LOLL88A: Soviet space station:
MIR90A: Expected:
DUE92A: Baloney sandwich:
BAGEL BALDERDASH BAGEL Balderdash is senseless, stupid talk or writing. It once meant a muddled mixture of liquors.
102A: Greek goddess of strife:
ERIS Goddess of discord; sister of Ares, god of war.
103A: Isn’t caught by:
EVADES104A: “Bali __”:
HAI Bali Ha'i, also spelled Bali Hai, is a
show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It is the name of a fictional island with two volcanoes.
105A: Nomad:
ROVER107A: Dash lengths:
EMS In printing, the space needed for an “M” is used as the measure of a dash.
108A: Deliver a speech:
ORATE109A: Frisked, with “down”:
PATTED Just watch the TV show, “COPS”, you’ll get the idea.
111A: “Now ___ seen everything!”:
I’VE112A: ‘70s Minnelli musical:
THE ACT It was a 1977 Broadway show, "concept musical" about a has-been movie star trying to make a comeback. Liza Minnelli won a Tony Award for Best Musical Actress.
114A: Totally:
ALL tot
ALLy, could we have a better clue here, please?
116A: Guerilla Guevara:
CHE Ernesto "Che" Guevara 1928 – 1967, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After death, his
stylized image became countercultural symbol worldwide.
117A: Pet pest:
FLEA118A: Baloney sandwich:
ROLL HORSEFEATHERS ROLL An euphemism for horses**t, rubbish; nonsense; bunk.
124A: “Oklahoma!” aunt:
ELLER “Oklahoma!” is a theatrical musical and movie. The female lead's Aunt Eller Murphy is a peppy and friendly middle-aged ranch owner who pretty much knows everyone, and everyone respects her.
song (you may have to turn up the volume.)
125A: Highest point in Wash.:
MT RAINIER Finally a gimme for the you West Coasters.
Mount Rainier in the state of Washington126A: Dogma:
TENET127A: Caterpillar competitor:
DEERE Cat dozer, John Deere dozer128A: Plaintiff:
SUER129A: Hay bundle:
BALE A
painting of hay bales.
130A: None too trusting:
LEERYDown:1D: Tuition add-on:
LAB FEE2D: Unwritten rules:
ORAL LAW3D: Chic:
VOGUISH I checked; it is a word.
4D: Ostrich kin:
EMUS5D: Soul singer Corinne Bailey ___:
RAE British singer: one of her
songs.6D: Try:
ATTEMPT7D: Cabbie’s query:
WHERE TO8D: __-di-dah:
LAH9D: Like some stares:
STONY10D: Drag along:
HAUL11D: Massachusetts state tree :
ELM12D: Minor misstatement:
FIB Is that what Sen. Burris made; some minor misstatements?
13D: It may be bagged:
TEA Good clue.
14D: More devoted:
TRUER Not so good clue.
15D: Throat-clearing sound:
AHEM16D: Chickadee relatives:
TITMICE Two chickadees and a tufted titmouse at the feeder.17D: Cather title character:
ANTONIA The final book(first published in 1918) of Willa Cather's prairie trilogy,
My Antonia, is considered her greatest accomplishment. Antonia is a bold and free-hearted young woman.
18D: Deemed appropriate:
SEEN FIT21D: Snow board:
SKI24D: Overly:
TOO25D: “Goodness gracious!”:
GLORY BE31D: Gives it up (for) :
CLAPS It took awhile to get the clue. Applauds.
32D: Stop up:
DAM33D: Fam. Member:
REL Family member; relative.
34D: Leave agape:
AWE35D: Zilch:
ZERO38D: Brain-scan letters:
EEG electroencephalogram
40D: Good, in Grenoble:
BON Grenoble, France, map41D: Coll. marchers:
ROTC College marchers, (not the protesters but the protestees)
Reserve
Officers
Training
Corps
42D: Party-snack brand:
CHEETOS Cheese puffs; I prefer the
chrunchy.44D: 1964 Summer Olympics site:
TOKYO Tokyo, Japan
map45D: Repairperson:
FIXER46D: Cable-ready:
WIRED50D: ‘50s Ford:
EDSEL Late ‘50s lemon:
never before a car like it51D: Singer Judd:
NAOMI Ashley, Wynonna, Naomi52D: Defeats decisively:
DRUBS54D: Part of FYI:
YOUR For
Your
Information
55A: Mild oath:
BY GUM56D: Showed pleasure:
OOHED58D: Founded:
BASED59A: Turn bad:
SPOIL61D: Water-park slide:
CHUTE62D: Princeton athlete:
TIGER63D: Dull sound:
SCHWA From German Schwa, ultimately from Hebrew. shewa "a neutral vowel quality," literary "emptiness."
for pronunciation65D: Multiplies by three:
TREBLES Yes, I had
triples first.
67D: Requirements:
DOS As in,
DOS and don'ts, customs, rules, or regulations. The do’s are needed and the don’ts are inadvisable.
69D: Hungarian dog:
PULI What a puli dog looks
like. Wait, I still can’t tell. They are suppose to be a sheep herding dog.
72D: Be overly avid:
DROOL Presents a rather crude picture, hey?
73D: Bronze place:
THIRD An obvious answer…once you get it. Gold medal, silver medal, and bronze medal.
74D: Motown music:
R AND B Rhythm
and Blues
80D: Fujimori of Peru:
ALBRTO Alberto Fujimori is a Peruvian of Japanese descent born in Lima, Peru, in1938. He served as President from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability. Unfortunately, he also was charged with human rights violations.
under arrest82D: “Peter Pan” pirate:
SMEE84D: Basketball position:
GUARD87D: Igneous-rock source:
LAVA89D: Apr. payee:
IRS April 15,
pay to the order of Internal
Revenue
Service (Why in the world is it called a
service?
91D: Swelled head:
EGO92D: Clearly embarrassed:
BEET RED93D: Shirt part:
ARM HOLE94D: Coveted ballet role:
GISELLE The role of Giselle is one of the most sought-after in ballet. To win the role, a ballerina must have near perfect technique, outstanding grace, and great drama skills. Giselle revolves around the themes of forest spirits, forces of nature, and death. The second act of the ballet, in which everyone is wearing white, is known as the "white act." First performed in Paris in 1841.
95A: Back muscle, for short:
LAT LATissimus dorsi muscles.
96D: Five-star monogram:
DDE Dwight
David
Eisenhower was a five star General.
97D: Light-dawning cry:
A-HA98D: Small bag:
SATCHEL Satchel Paige99D: Informal greeting:
HI THERE100D: Fiend:
EVIL ONE101D: Evening device:
LEVELER This clue bedeviled me.
106D: Houses, land, etc.:
REALTY108D: Painter’s pigment:
OCHER109D: Back-up strategy:
PLAN B110D: -arian relative:
-EER -arian: denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; librarian; vegetarian.
-EER: denoting a person who produces, handles, or is otherwise significantly associated the base word (auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer).
113D: Oriole, for one:
ALER American
Leag
uer114D: A great distance:
AFAR115D: Orchid product:
LEI OK, more like a product that uses orchids.
117D: For the asking:
FREE119D: B&B offerings:
RMS Bed and Breakfast inns, often in a private house and you are treated more like a guest than a customer. You can get a ROOM and something to eat in the morning.
120D: Alphabetic trio:
STU121D: Afore:
ERE122D: Acapulco aunt:
TIA123D: Mo. City:
STL Saint Louis, Missouri. Looks funny spelled out, doesn’t it?
Argyle
