Matthew Stock has another collaboration, this time with Emet Ozar. Matthew
is an 8th grade math teacher in Gainesville, Florida.
Emet
Emet Ozar, formerly from Los Angeles but currently in Charlotte, N.C., is a program manager for a software company. She and her wife have three children, all under 7.
9. Targets of some reconstructive surgery, initially: ACLS - Football season sees many problems with the Anterior Cruciate LigamentS
13. Annual telethon held by Comic Relief: RED NOSE DAY - I learned of this event while subbing and I paid a kid $2 for a RED NOSE
16. "Works for me": COOL.
17. "Hm, maybe": I SUPPOSE SO.
18. Concerning: AS TO.
19. Strike zone?: LANE - Here's a double strike on LANE 13. We dedicate this to our favorite bowler Boomer!
20. Call from a night owl to an early bird: DON'T WAIT UP.
22. Like many beep baseball players: BLIND - A wonderful explanation of this sport for the BLIND and visually impaired that features a beeping ball and buzzing bases
24. Alphabetical order?: BLT.
25. Mileage, so to speak: USE - One of these has a lot of USE and high mileage
27. Compass dirección: OESTE.
31. Broke: TAMED - Uh, not 26. So far: YET.
33. Woman who co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World, familiarly: MOTHER JONES.
35. Dojo curriculum: MARTIAL ARTS - Daniel and Mr. Miagi visit the hostile Cobra Kai DOJO. Now what was the name of that movie? 😊
36. Symbols in some price guides: DOLLAR SIGNS.
37. __ box: BENTO - When our granddaughter took us for sushi, she recommended we get a BENTO box, which we did.
38. Imperfect, e.g.: TENSE - TENSE filled itself and then the idea of grammar hit me!
39. Org. whose agenda is up in the air?: FAA.
42. Not fast: EAT - Before a blood draw, we have to fast and not EAT that day
43. Short filmmaker?: CAM - Short for CAMera or CAMcorder
45. Stories: YARNS.
47. Dish also called horiatiki: GREEK SALAD - My half Greek wife does not like blue cheese, black olives or grape leaves.
52. Model Hadid with a Maybelline collection: GIGI.
53. Brute: OGRE.
54. Some long-distance connections: SKYPE DATES.
56. Coward with a knighthood: NOEL - NOEL Coward (1899 - 1973)
57. Spanish soap: TELENOVELA - A portmanteau of Television and Novela
58. "Scooping since 1928" brand: EDY'S.
59. Hi-__: RES.
60. All over the place: MESSY.
Down:
1. Hat with a teardrop-shaped crown: TRILBY - Putting FEDORA first wasn't that bad
2. Consignment shop deal: RESALE.
3. Marketing space on a website, e.g.: AD UNIT.
4. Medtronic injection device for diabetics: INPEN.
5. Dreidel, e.g.: TOP
6. Indicación de afecto: BESO
7. Place with a snake in the grass: EDEN.
8. Cold War capital: EAST BERLIN - The guy at Checkpoint Charlie in EAST BERLIN assured me this was part of the wall.
9. Flavonoids-rich berry: ACAI.
10. Play clothes: COSTUMES.
11. Symbolic flowers in Buddhism: LOTUSES.
12. At an angle: SLOPED.
14. Turf: SOD.
15. Make one's voice heard, in a way: YOWL - Yell and Howl did not work. Yawp from 10/18 didn't work either
21. Professional who goes through the motions?: ATTORNEY - C'mon, that was funny
23. Basic security feature: DOOR LOCK.
28. "__ Is Betta Than Evvah!": 1976 album: ETTA - New cluing for a cwd favorite
29. Custom Ink or RushOrderTees: SHIRT MAKER - I designed this at RushOrderTees.
30. Kid: TEASE.
32. Army __: ANTS.
33. Stout grain: MALT.
34. Florida NFLers: JAGS - Jacksonville is considering building a new football stadium
35. California home of an annual jazz festival: MONTEREY.
36. XTC song with the lyrics "Hope you get the letter and / I pray you can make it better down here": DEAR GOD - Here ya go.
37. "Away with thee!": BEGONE.
39. Bistro side: FRITES -
40. The Big A team: ANGELS - The Big A Stadium when the California ANGELS opened it in 1970. They became Anaheim ANGELS and are now the Los Angeles ANGELS.
sumdaze here. C.C. asked me to pitch hit today. It is my pleasure to walk you through this fun and challenging puzzle from Wendy L. Brandes. I will do my best to not let you down.
Today's theme is AL Has Left the Building.
Each of the 3 themed answers come from common phrases in which the letters A and L have been removed to create a new phrase. Additionally, all of the "al"s are removed from the ends of the first words of a 2-word phrase. We have:
17. Across * Desire to dress in Victorian era garb and sip tea daintily?: PRIMal URGES.
very PRIM & proper
23. Across * One who helps fix a banged-up car?: DENTal ASSISTANT. One works on cars, the other on your teeth.
49. Across * Fine print about a knee replacement?: LEGal DISCLAIMER. They can deny responsibility if you have problems with your LEG after the surgery
knee replacement
And the reveal:
59. Across. Favorite time of the school day for some teachers and students, or a two-word hint for the answers to the starred clues: DISMISSAL or DISMISS AL. "Al" technically counts as a word if we think of it as a proper name. So Al is being dismissed (sent out). Are you feeling a bit dazed & confused? Perhaps this video clip from the movie Dazed and Confused (1993) will help.
Let's look at the rest of the clues:
Across:
1. The "sheet" in "three sheets to the wind": ROPE. A tricky start. To be "three sheet to the wind" is to be very drunk. I always thought the "sheet" was the sail. Today I learned that the "sheet" is the line (ROPE) that holds the sail. If the ropes are loose (flapping in the wind), the ship is out of control.
5. European wine region: ASTI. Always a good guess for a 4-letter wine region in Europe. Try "Napa" if in California.
9. Daily crossword review sites, e.g.: BLOGS. This is my first one!
14. "Downton Abbey" title: EARL. He was not invited to the tea party pictured above.
15. One who tweets a lot: BIRD. This is a fun misdirection clue, playing on bird noises and the Twitterati.
16. Sirius business: RADIO. Not "serious" business.
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States.
19. "Inside the NBA" analyst: O'NEAL. Shaquille O'Neal. There is a small hint in this clue with "NBA" to stimulate thoughts of all the famous basketball players one might know... about 5 for me.
20. "Just a __": SEC. At first I had "just a SIP" but perps changed it to SECond.
21. Zip: NONE.
22. "Volunteers?": ANYONE. I have to go with Ferris Bueller (1986) on this one:
26. Anorak part: HOOD. An Anorak is a waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions.
27. Docking spot: PIER. I first tried "moor". "Quay" is another 4-letter option. It cannot be "dock" because that is part of the clue.
28. Spin: TWIRL.
30. Out of juice: DEAD. The batteries died.
32. Hummus and baba ghanouj: DIPS. Hummus is mostly garbanzo beans (AKA chick peas). Baba ghanouj is mostly eggplant. I'll take one of each!
36. Whiskey barrel wood: OAK.
37. Rock equipment: DRUM SET. ♪♪♪
40. "Surely you don't mean me?": MOI.
Miss Piggy
41. Seeing things: EYES. This time "seeing" is not a verb. It is an adjective (present participle) modifying the noun "things".
43. Withdraws, with "out": OPTS.
44. Winter X Games host city: ASPEN. Here's a shocker: according to Wikipedia, the X-Games has never carried out drug testing on its competitors.
46. Simplicity: EASE.
48. Barbecue crust: CHAR.
54. Fish that spawns in fresh water: SALMON. Ballard Locks is a must-see when you go to Seattle. All fish, including endangered salmon, must pass through the locks, spillway or the fish ladder to move between Lake Washington and Puget Sound. Click Here for Ballard Locks Info
58. Furry swimmer: OTTER. I hope Misty likes this pic:
otter mom & pup
61. Make amends: ATONE.
62. Pt. of IMF: INTL. INTernationaL Monetary Fund. Abbreviations in the clue mean the answer will also be abbreviated.
The International Monetary Fund is a major financial agency of the United Nations and an international financial institution.
63. Muscles near delts: PECS. You can work them with REPS (1 Down).
64. Lets: RENTS. I think most of you know these lyrics from King Of The Road by Roger Miller:
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, 50 cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes.
65. Prone to prying: NOSY.
66. US Open stadium: ASHE. 4-letter stadium with a tennis reference -- try "ASHE"
Down:
1. Crunch units: REPS. Ab excercieses.
2. Worked in a galley: OARED.
Galley Slaves
3. Consumer concern: PRICE HIKE. Have you seen the price of green onions lately?!
4. With 7-Down, blight victims: ELM and TREES
5. Overseas: ABROAD.
6. Talks with one's hands, maybe: SIGNS. Sign Language
7. See 4-Down: TREES.
8. Some badges: IDS. IDentification badgeS
9. Heathcliff creator: BRONTE. Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. At first I could only think of the cartoon cat ... very embarrassing.
creator: George Gately (1973)
10. Summer camp project: LANYARD. Hand up for making these while at 4-H camp.
basic lanyard
11. "__ Melancholy": ODE ON.
Wiki: "Ode on Melancholy" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819, along with "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on Indolence", and "Ode to Psyche".
12. Oracle Park player: GIANT. San Francisco Giants. Years ago, I used to go with my family to see the Giants play at Candlestick. One time there was a small commotion when a group of men in suits sat down in the seats just below us. My dad explained to me that they were moving then SF mayor George Moscone to our section (cheap seats) because people kept coming up to him in his regular seat and he could not enjoy the game. Later that year my dad told me that someone shot Mayor Moscone.
13. Lone: SOLE.
18. Incalculable: UNTOLD.
"Untold millions are still untold." John Wesley
22. Off-mic comment: ASIDE. The LA city councilmembers can probably explain this to you better than I can.
24. Scand. land: NOR. Scandinavia is abbreviated -- so is NORway.
25. "Not interested": I PASS.
28. Sock part: TOE.
29. Method: WAY.
for The Mandalorian fans
Side note: If you are not familiar with The Mandalorian, it is a series in the Star Wars universe, available on Disney+. IMHO, it has made its way into CW puzzles because it is where we first meet Baby Yoda (actually a baby of Yoda's species), a character recognized on every continent and generally considered super-cute by people of all ages.
Grogu in The Mandalorian
30. Copies, briefly: DUPES. "Briefly" is a hint that the answer will be shortened. DUPlicatES.
31. CPR expert: EMT. Emergency Medical Technician
33. Dazzles: IMPRESSES.
34. "Tamerlane" poet: POE. I suspect the English majors among us are enjoying today's puzzle.
35. Break a commandment: SIN.
38. Ballet shoe application: ROSIN. We've seen this with baseball pitchers and fiddle players. I wonder who else uses it.
39. South Seas island: TAHITI.
42. Part: SEGMENT.
45. Heughan of "Outlander": SAM. I read that Sam says he is passionate about Scotland, whisky, and fitness ... and newbie crossword bloggers who like to ride bicycles.
Sam Heughan
47. Loves to pieces: ADORES. See 45D.
48. Without panicking: CALMLY.
49. Foamy pick-me-up: LATTE.
50. Taron's "Rocketman" role: ELTON. Sir ELTON John.
I saw this movie (Amazon Prime) but still did not recognize "Taron". "Rocketman" was a big help!
51. Twill fabric: CHINO. CHINO pants are made of CHINO fabric.
52. Has a long shelf life: LASTS. Here are 22 healthy foods that do not spoil easily.
53. Part of a boxer's "tale of the tape": REACH.
"REACH refers to the total length of a fighter's arms from one fingertip to the other. Think of it like a boxer's wingspan. This is not to be confused with arm length, which only measures from shoulder to fist in one arm."
I thought it was the latter. Learning moment.
54. Rise above it all: SOAR. My favorite Disney ride is SOARin' Over California.
It makes you feel like you are hang gliding.
57. "What __ Can I Do?": "Encanto" song: ELSE.
59. Racket: DIN. Noise.
60. Spot for a mud bath: SPA.
Here's the grid:
That's all for today. I look forward to reading your thoughts.
Thank you, C.C. for your encouragement & guidance!
Notes from C.C.:
I'm very happy to tell you that Sumdaze (Renee) has joined our blogging team. She'll blog once a month to start with. Can you believe this is only her first blog post? She's just incredible!
Today veteran constructor Michael Lieberman (NYT
&
LAT) presents us with a simple theme, consisting of the names of 4 major
businesses, each truncated by one letter and enclosed in circles in the long
fills. And for those who didn't see it coming he then reveals his game
with this pair of recursive clues:
57A. With 62-Across,
matters left to settle, and what can be found in each set of circled
letters?: UNFINISHED & 62. See 57-Across: BUSINESS.
(do I hear some yawns from AnonymousDNLC?).
Now let's see if we can complete the rest of this business: Across:
1. "American Idol" network: ABC
4. Mayberry boy: OPIE. A small town boy who made good.
Here's Ron Howard telling Colbert that after all these years he still has
problems with authority figures:
8. Add to a website, as a video: EMBED. E.g. the video of
Ron Howard in the previous clue. I've found that the easiest (and
most reliable) way to do this in Blogger is with the YouTube
Share/Embed method. Contact me if you're interested in the
details.
13. Florida, to the Keys: MAINLAND. Our community has a number of
friends in Florida (constructors, bloggers, and solvers) who were severely
impacted by hurricane Ian. Please keep them in your prayers.
18. "Top Chef" judge Simmons: GAIL.
Gail Simmons
is a trained culinary expert, food writer, and dynamic television personality.
Since the show's inception in 2006, she has lent her extensive expertise as a
permanent judge on BRAVO's Emmy-winning series
Top Chef.
Gail Simmons
21. "The Baby-Sitters Club" author __ M. Martin: ANN.
The Baby-Sitters Club
(also known as BSC) is a series of novels written by Ann M. Martin and
published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000, that sold 176 million
copies. Martin wrote the first 35 novels in the series, but
the subsequent novels were written by ghostwriters. The novels are about
a group of friends who live in the fictional, suburban town of Stoneybrook,
Connecticut, who run a local babysitting service called "The Baby-Sitters
Club". The novels also spawned off a TV series and a film.
Ann M. Martin
22. "In __": Nirvana's last studio album: UTERO.
In Utero
is the third and final studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on
September 21, 1993. Curt Cobain committed suicide a year later.
Here's Pennyroyal Tea from the album, planned as a single prior to
Cobain's death, released in 2014, and reached number one on the
Billboard Hot Singles Sales Chart (click ...more for lyrics).
23. Be in arrears: OWE.
24. Long tales: SAGAS.
26. Hi-fi spinners: LPS. Long Playing Records. They're back! CD's are old hat.
28. Fitness revolution?: LAP. Or a place for a CAT to NAP?
36. Ranch unit: ACRE. OUNCE was too long.
39. Campaign manager?: AD REP. Well somebody has to keep track of all that cash being pumped into CAMPAIGNS and make sure that it gets thoroughly washed.
40. "Never Feed a __ Spaghetti": rhyming board book:
YETI. Looks like a great Christmas gift for your two year olds.
44. Unruly crowd: MOB. We've been HEARING quite a lot about one
of these over the last year.
45. L.A. school: USC.
46. Concert souvenirs, for short: MERCH.
50. Actress Thurman: UMA. She has her ownSTAR
on the CROSSWORD WALK OF FAME, but Hollywood still hasn't called her yet.
52. Mixer at a bar: TONIC.
56. Fury: IRE.
60. Norse god with raven messengers: ODIN. Hugin and Munin are two ravens in Norse mythology who are helping spirits of the god ODIN, a self-centered "Wanderer" who prowled about his ancient kingdom as a relentless seeker after and giver of wisdom, but with
little regard for communal values such as justice, fairness, or respect
for law and convention.
In modern times another fictional ODIN
lived in the Antipodes of Southern Australia and was his Northern
counterpart's exact opposite: a kind, gentle, generous soul who at a
young age lost his mother in a car accident, and promised her as she lay
dying that he would do everything he could to keep her children
together. His story is told via the genre of magical realism in the TV
series The Gods of Wheat Street and stars Maori actors in all of the major roles. Streaming on ACORN:
61. Shortcoming: DEFECT.
64. Scramble alternative: OMELET. As least Michael's BUSINESSES weren't
scrambled.
65. Handel work: ORATORIO. While Handel's best known oratorio is Messiah, he wrote many others, including the great work Solomon, based on the biblical stories of the wise Jewish king who built the first Temple in Jerusalem circa 1000 B.C. Probably the most recognizable section of this piece is the interlude The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. If you just happened to catch the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, it was played as James Bond (Daniel Craig) went to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. If you didn't, here it is performed by The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by Sir Neville Mariner (3:17 min):
66. Junction points: NODES.
67. Cellist Ma: YOYO. Much more than just the world's greatest living cellist, Yo-Yo Ma
is also a world class impresario dedicated to bringing great musicians
together to play great music. That's easy to say, but selecting from
his extensive catalogue of collaborations is not so easy. In this one,
appropriate for the holiday season that will soon be upon us, he plays
pizzicato cello to vocalist Alison Krauss' performance of The Wexford Carol:
68. Oft-redacted ID: SSN. There's a whole lotta redactin' going on these days. Seems like everybody's got something to hide ... :
2. Split fruit: BANANA. In 1904, the first banana split recipe was made in Latrobe,
Pennsylvania by David Strickler, an apprentice pharmacist at a local
drug store. Here it is.
All American Banana Split
3. Using as an example: CITING. I got writer's block on this one. I just couldn't come up with an example to CITE.
4. Cheer for un gol: OLE.
5. Blue Ribbon beer: PABST. Pabst Blue Ribbon, commonly abbreviated PBR,
is an American lager beer sold by Pabst Brewing Company, established in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1844 and currently based in San Antonio.
Originally called Best Select, and then Pabst Select, the current name comes from the blue ribbons tied around the bottle neck between 1882 and 1916.
7. Mystery award: EDGAR. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe
(1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in
mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or
produced in the previous year.
10. "Enter the Dragon" star: BRUCE LEE. I've decided to blog him only every third time I come up against him in a puzzle.
11. Otherwise: ELSE.
12. Goes green?: DYES.
14. Org. with many left-wingers and right-wingers: NHL. Everything you need to know about ice hockey politics.
15. Empty space: GAP. As in [ ]
20. Hay fever cause: POLLEN.
22. Forever stamp letters: USA. A hedge against inflation?
25. Protected, at sea: ALEE.
27. Cacio e __: simple pasta dish: PEPE. Today's Italian lesson: "Cheese and Pepper". I'll bet even I could make it.
29. Field for Alice Neel and Kara Walker: ART. Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984)
was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits
depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her
paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological
acumen, and emotional intensity. Her work depicts women through a female
gaze, illustrating them as being consciously aware of their
objectification by men and the demoralizing effects of the male gaze.
She has 75 works currently being exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Kara Elizabeth Walker
(born November 26, 1969) is an American
contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist,
filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence,
and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux
of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was awarded a MacArthur
fellowship in 1997, at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest ever
recipients of the award.
In 1999 the Detroit Institute of Art
removed her "The Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts" (1995)
from an exhibition entitled "Where the Girls Are: Prints by Women from the
DIA's Collection" when African-American artists and collectors protested
its presence:
The Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts Kara Walker 1995
30. Trident-shaped letter: PSI. PSI is used in Quantum Physics to represent the wave function
describing the wave characteristics of a particle. A CSO to any of the
Corner's engineers or scientists who could explain this better in
layman's terms (if that's even possible!).
PSI is also used as a general symbol for parapsychology,
the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception,
telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called
telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, which are usually dismissed by mainstream scientists as pseudoscience.
However,
if you're open to the possibility that there might be something to some
of this stuff, I'd recommend that you explore the writings of Dr. Ian Stevenson (1918 to February 8, 2007) who was a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia and did worldwide case studies of evidence for re-incarnation. For your convenience I've extracted a YouTube video from the above link of a 30 minute lecture given in 2002 by Dr. Stevenson to the UVA medical community, subtitled "Children Who Remember Past Lives" (also the title of this book).
32. Small amounts: TADS.
33. Decrees: EDICTS.
34. Soon-to-be alums: SRS.
35. Ritual flammable pile: PYRE. This brings us back full circle to 60A re the Norse God ODIN, who in Richard Wagner's The Twilight of the Gods has, through his own selfishness failed to prevent the destruction of his kingdom. In the climactic scene, the heroine Brunhilde, bereft at the murder of her husband and hero Siegfried, mounts her horse and plunges onto his funeral PYRE, the conflagration finally destroying all of Valhalla (7 min with subtitles).
37. John who plays Sulu in recent "Star Trek" films: CHO. John Cho (born Cho Yo-Han; June 16, 1972) is an American actor known for his roles as Harold Lee in the Harold & Kumar films, and Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek rebooted film series.
John Cho
38. Brushed aside: REBUFFED.
42. Subtle distinctions: NUANCES. A crossword constructor's stock-in-trade.
43. World's largest theater chain: AMC. Founded in 1920, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. is an American movie theater
chain founded in Kansas City, Missouri and now headquartered in Leawood,
Kansas. Here's what's playing at ...
47. Uber patrons: RIDERS.
48. Turning point: CRISIS. I think we're at one.
49. "Hidden Figures" star Taraji P. __: HENSON. Hidden Figures
is a 2016 American biographical drama film, loosely based on the 2016
non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, about African
American female mathematicians who worked at NASA during the Space
Race. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan, Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson. Here's the trailer:
51. High-end German vacuum brand: MIELE. My original riff on this was "In a MIELE, no one can hear you scream", but Teri assured me that it had nothing to do with the movie Alien. She provided me with this MIELEguide to vacuum cleaners. I hope you can find one that doesn't suck your budget dry.
53. "Here we go": OH BOY. Purely perps. A bit sexist?
60. Artist Yoko: ONO. Here's her "Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Her" from Lennon and Ono's Double Fantasy album (lyrics):
63. "Who am __ judge?": I TO. A famous quote by Jorge Mario Bergoglio
in response to a question posed by reporters on a flight from Rio de
Janeiro to Rome in 2013. It delighted some on one side of the aisle and
shocked those on the other.
Pope Francis Bishop of Rome
Cheers,
Bill
As always, thanks to Teri for proof reading and for her constructive criticism.
waseeley
Michael Lieberman, you are invited to post anything you'd like to share about this puzzle,
its evolution, the theme, or whatever, in the Comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.
Notes from C.C.:
Happy 75th birthday to Boomer! Thank
you so much for the cards and notes you've sent to him. I'm saving them
and will read to him when things get tougher.
This picture was taken in 2003. The guy on the left is Tim, Boomer's old Graybar colleague.
Theme: Working a second job. The wording of regular jobs is repurposed to identify alternative activities that might or might not exist in the real world. Moonlighting, one might say.
16 A. Receptionist at a high-rise hotel, one might say: STORY TELLER. One who spins a yarn, or, in this case, who tells you where to go. Or at least what floor to arrive at.
22 A. Instagram influencer, one might say: SOCIAL WORKER. One who helps individuals, groups, and families prevent and cope with problems in their everyday lives. In the not so every day world, one who is a trend setter on social media.
37. Bartender pouring a selection of craft beers for tasting, one might say: FLIGHT ATTENDANT. Up in the air, a person on a commercial air pane who serves drinks and otherwise takes care of the passengers. Back here on earth, one who serves an array of various pre-selected beers - aka a flight..
48. Pathological liar, one might say: MAKE UP ARTIST. One who prepares a performer's face and other features prior to their appearance on stage or set. Alternatively, someone who generates falsehoods. Can you believe it?
59. Audiophile with an extensive collection of club mixes, one might say: HOUSE KEEPER. A person employed to perform cleaning and other domestic tasks in a hotel or institution. Or a "House Music" enthusiast. This is named after The Warehouse club in Chicago where it originated in the early 1980's. It is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago that were influenced by early to mid-1970s dance music as spun by DJs in New York, and spread to Detroit, New York, and eventually Europe.
Hi Gang, Jazzbumpa here, working the blog for you today. The puzzle is thematically rich, and the theme is clever and straightforward. A couple of the entries might be a bit of a stretch, but let's bend with it. Now we'll delve into the puzzle and hope it doesn't take us into the second shift. Baylee's name wasn't in the post labels list, so this might be her first LAT entry. Congrats!
Across:
1. Homes in Honduras: CASAS. Houses in Spanish
6. "Let's put a smile on your plate" breakfast chain: IHOP. International House of Pancakes.
10. Chop (off): LOP.
13. Like a brand-new candle: UNLIT. Better to light one, though.
14. __ drum: SNARE.
15. Mimic: APE. Imitate.
18. Pothole filler: TAR. A dark, thick, flammable liquid distilled from wood or coal, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons, resins, alcohols, and other compounds. It is used in roadmaking and for coating and preserving timber.
19. __ card: SIM. An integrated circuit intended to securely store the international mobile subscriber identity number and its related key, which are used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices
20. Kunis of "Black Swan": MILA. Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis [b. 1983] is an American actress. She began playing Jackie Burkhart on the Fox television series That '70s Show (1998–2006) at the age of 14. Since 1999, Kunis has voiced Meg Griffin on the Fox animated series Family Guy.
28. Orchestra leader: MAESTRO. A distinguished musician, especially a conductor of classical music. My friend Adam, who conducts a local Symphony Orchestra, named his dog MAESTRO.
31. Capital city on a fjord: OSLO. In Norway
34. Give up, as a right: WAIVE. As stated.
36. In the know: HIP. Trendy or cool, up on the latest thing. "I'm so hip, I can barely see over my pelvis." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox
37. Bartender pouring a selection of craft beers for tasting, one might say: FLIGHT ATTENDANT.
41. Black Mission fruit: FIG. Despite being called a fruit, a fig is technically a syconium—a tiny group of inverted flowers growing inside a pod. Each pod contains hundreds of flowers, and each flower produces a small seed, which is the actual fruit of the fig plant. An achene contains each seed. The Mission fig (also known as Black Mission or Franciscana) is a popular variety of the edible fig (Ficus carica). It was first introduced to the United States in 1768 when Franciscan missionaries planted it in San Diego.
42. Eggs on: URGES. Encourage (someone) to do something that is usually foolish or dangerous
43. Rolls the credits: ENDS. Figuratively finishes something (off.)
44. "The Office" sales rep who solves crosswords during meetings: STANLEY. Leslie David Baker [b. 1958] is an American actor. He is known for playing disgruntled paper salesman Stanley Hudson in The Office for nine seasons (2005–2013).
46. Actor Meadows: TIM. Timothy Meadows is an American actor and comedian who was one of the longest-running cast members on Saturday Night Live, where he appeared for ten seasons and for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1993.
53. "Take a __ breath": DEEP. Calm down.
55. Futbol cheers: OLÉS. Used as a shout of approval, triumph, or encouragement.
56. Female sheep: EWE. As defined
58. Part of BYOB: OWN. Bring Your Own Bottle.
63. Top of a semicolon: DOT. Can be seen here -- ;
64. Place of refuge: OASIS. Figuratively. More literally, a fertile spot in a desert, where water is found.
65. Unleash upon: LET AT. To allow one to attack someone or something.
66. Approves: OKS.
67. Bring (out): TROT. To bring forward for display or use
68. Cereal tidbit: FLAKE. A small, flat, thin piece of something, typically one that has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece.
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1. Talk a blue streak?: CUSS. Another alternate meaning. Instead of being verbose, using cruse language.
2. Those opposed: ANTIS. The PROS are those in favor.
3. Replay tech: SLO-MO. Abbrv for Slow Motion.
4. __ guitar: AIR. An imaginary guitar one pretends to play. Air trombone, on the other hand, is the real thing.
5. Completely stump: STYMIE. Figurative. Literally, to prevent or hinder the progress of.
6. Kin by marriage: IN-LAW. If you get divorced, they become out-laws.
7. "2001" supercomputer: HAL. Each letter off one from IBM. A mere coincidence.
8. Some underground rock bands?: ORE. We are deep [so to speak] into second meanings today. This band is not musicians, but rather a stratum of a mineral that is economically viable; a bed or a distinct layer of vein of rock in other layers of rock.
9. According to: PER. Literal.
10. After: LATER THAN. As stated
11. Birthstone for some Libras: OPAL.
12. BOLO target: PERP. Be On The LookOut for a one who has committed a crime.
14. Advice from a nervous stockbroker: SELL. About 10 1/2 months late. This year has been brutal.
17. Spanish aunts: TIAS. En la familia.
21. "Be glad to": YES. I will do that.
23. Heavy shoe: CLOG. A shoe, sandal, or overshoe having a thick typically wooden sole.
24. Fails to mention: OMITS. Leaves out.
25. Carry on: RAVE. Not continue, but to behave or speak in a foolish, excited, or improper manner. Generally used in the phrase, "rant and rave."
26. Sharp: KEEN. As of a blade or someone's mind.
29. Cocktail garnish: RIND. Of a lemon or lime.
30. Chooses: OPTS. Picks one thing as opposed to another.
31. Send-__: farewells: OFFS. A demonstration of goodwill and enthusiasm for the beginning of something new (as a trip.)
32. Buttonhole, e.g.: SLIT. A long, narrow cut in something.
33. Bone-connecting tissues: LIGAMENTS. Short bands of tough, flexible fibrous connective tissue which connect two bones or cartilages or hold together a joint.
34. Japanese cattle breed used for Kobe beef: WAGYU. Now you know.
35. Had a bite: ATE.
38. She-__: Marvel role for Tatiana Maslany: HULK. Tatiana Gabriele Maslany [b1987] is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science fiction thriller television series Orphan Black, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, and five Canadian Screen Awards.
39. Ancestry.com printout: TREE. Family representation in a diagram.
40. Singer Lovato: DEMI. Demetria Devonne Lovato [b. 1992] known as Demi Lovato, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends, Lovato rose to prominence for playing Mitchie Torres in the musical television film Camp Rock and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.
You probably haven't heard this recently.
45. Short snooze: NAP. About mid-afternoon for me.
46. Taxing trip: TREK. A long arduous journey, especially one made on foot or in a star ship.
47. In and of __: ITSELF. Intrinsically, or considered alone
49. Hypothesize: POSIT. Put forward as a basis of argument.
50. Stout and porter: ALES. types of beer with a bitter flavor and higher alcoholic content.
51. Nasal partitions: SEPTA. A partition separating two chambers, such as that between the nostrils or the chambers of the heart.
52. Tinker with: TWEAK. Make a fine adjustment to a mechanism or system.
53. Long-extinct bird: DODO. An extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy hooked bill. It was found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century.
54. "Star Wars" critter that looks like a teddy bear: EWOK. The Ewok is a fictional species of small, furry, mammaloid, bipeds in the Star Wars universe. They inhabit the forest moon of Endor and live in arboreal huts and other simple dwellings, being seen as primitive in comparison with other sentient species. Ewoks debuted in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi and have since appeared in two made-for-television films.
57. Art Deco icon: ERTE. Romain de Tirtoff [1892 – 1990] was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials (pronounced [ɛʁ.te], AIR TAY) which he shares with me. He was a 20th-century artist and designer in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor.
59. Spicy: HOT. Literally, the last sensation of spicy foods, such as peppers. Figuratively, overtly sexual.
60. Lifeboat blade: OAR. For rowing to safety
61. GI morale booster: USO. The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is an American nonprofit-charitable corporation that provides live entertainment, such as comedians, actors and musicians, social facilities, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.
62. Electric __: EEL. The electric eels are a genus, Electrophorus, of neotropical freshwater fish from South America in the family Gymnotidae. They are known for their ability to stun their prey by generating electricity, delivering shocks at up to 860 volts. Their electrical capabilities were first studied in 1775, contributing to the invention in 1800 of the electric battery.
That wasn't too much hard work, and there were some clever moments. Hope you enjoyed it. See you next month.
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