Good morning, cruciverbalists. Malodorous Manatee here with today's puzzle recap.
Let's jump right into things with the reveal:
36 Across: Ones fated to fail, or what the answers to the starred clues are, initially?: BORN LOSERS.
At four successive places in today's grid, starred for our convenience, our puzzle setter, Jeff Stillman, has removed the letters B, then O, then R and finally N from otherwise well-known brand names. So, taken together, we lose BORN. In each case, the Stillman-omitted letter "stands alone" in the name in that all but a single letter of a word has been omitted in the brand name itself. So first, the marketing departments pared words down to a single letter, or initial if you will (in two of the four cases, the letter coincidentally also happens to be the initial letter of the word). Then Jeff came along and removed those vestigial letters. It is far simpler than I have made it sound.
Coincidentally, BORN is an appropriate word of the day as we will see at the end of this recap.
Here are the themed clues and answers:
*18 Across: Children's apparel company: OSH KOSH GOSH. Bye, bye B for By.
*27 Across: Candy with a bee on its wrapper: BIT HONEY. No O for Of here.
*51 Across: Superstore for new parents: BABIES US. That backwards R for aRe has been banished.
*61 Across: Snack brand with Buttery Toffee and Almond Supreme flavors: CRUNCH MUNCH. No N for aNd to be found,
Across:
1. Metric unit: GRAM. Back in the sixties and seventies I became quite adept in working with the metric system. I told my mother that I had learned it all in chemistry class.
5. Some workplace discrimination: Var.: AGISM. Often spelled with the e not removed. AGEISM.
10. Icy street risk: SKID.
14. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" detective Diaz: ROSA. A TV show reference.
15. Good-natured teasing: BANTER. BANTER is often modified, as in the clue, with the descriptive "good-natured".
17. Pre-stereo: MONO. An audiophile reference. Then came quad and surround sound.
20. Swivel around: SLUE.
21. Avenue that's the eastern border of Midway Airport: CICERO. Easier if you knew your Chicago geography. Not too hard to figure out even if you did not. Thanks, perps.
22. Basilica recesses: APSES.
24. Consumed: ATE.
25. Bewitches: ENAMORS.
Ella - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
29. Russo of "Thor": RENE. A frequent visitor - or is that Magritte?
30. Shampoo ad buzzword: BODY. A somewhat undefined term. Not here. In shampoo marketing.
32. Campus security?: TENURE. Not security as in physical safety. Job security.
33. QB stats: YDS. A football reference. QuarterBack is abbreviated so YarDS is also.
34. Sunday seating: PEWS. A Sunday-go-to-meetin' reference.
35. Dealer's inventory: AUTOS. Ah, it's not a drug reference.
40. Like some diets: VEGAN. Hand up for first thinking of the trendy PALEO diet.
43. Barrels into: RAMS.
44. Half of cuatro: DOS. A Spanish and math lesson mashup.
47. Roma locale: ITALIA. An Italian lesson. ROMA not ROME so ITALIA not ITALY (which would not fit in any event).
49. Remain undecided: PEND.
50. Landlord's income: RENT.
53. Herbal drink: SAGE TEA. Personally, this is a type of tea that I have never (knowingly) tasted.
55. Kid: RIB. Not a baby goat this week.
56. Math functions: SINES.
58. File menu option: SAVE AS. It is always a good idea to periodically save one's work.
59. "C'est la vie": ALAS.
63. Jamboree shelter: TENT. A scouting reference.
64. Put under: SEDATE.
65. French 101 verb: ETRE. In French the verbs are conjugated with either ETRE (to be) of Avoir (to have).
66. Voiced: ORAL.
67. Jumps up and down to music: POGOS.
Paul Reubens Shows Us How
68. Origin: SEED. As in the germ of an idea. Both are biology metaphors.
Down:
1. Grub hub?: GROCERY. Nice word play. A nexus for food.
2. Prepared for use, as a violin bow: ROSINED. Or a fiddle.
3. Depth charges, in navy slang: ASH CANS. I learned this term as a child from watching WWII movies. Manatees are not fond of depth charges. Wait a minute. Do manatees watch movies?
4. Defiant response: MAKE ME.
5. Shock __: ABSORBER. Hand up for first trying something along the lines of Shock and Awe. An automobile suspension parts reference.
6. "This is a disaster!": GAH. Today's punt, GAH!
7. "Young Frankenstein" role: INGA.
8. Visit: STOP BY.
9. 2022 World Cup Golden Ball winner Lionel: MESSI.
10. Texting letters: SMS. Short Message Service is a protocol used by cellphones to send and receive text messages.
11. Caffeine source for some soft drinks: KOLA NUT.
12. Prenatal: IN UTERO. Also, a Nirvana album.
13. Makeup trend that imparts an innocent look: DOE EYES.
16. "Country Again" Grammy nominee Thomas: RHETT. I wonder if he has a butler.
19. Spanish gold: ORO. Another Spanish lesson.
23. Shrub cutters: SHEARS. Garden SHEARS are cutting hedge technology.
26. Scattered, as seeds: SOWN.
28. Heavy load: ONUS.
31. ISP option: DSL. Internet Service Provider. Digital Subscriber Line. For transmitting digital data over telephone lines.
34. Stable figures: PONIES. A bit of word play. Stable as in, well, a place to house horses. Not as in a stable economy.
36. Island east of Java: BALI.
37. Redstone in Minecraft, e.g.: ORE. Minecraft is a video game franchise.
38. __-serif: SANS. Fonts without the little dashes at the ends of each letter.
39. Punctuation marks that set off a series within a phrase: EM DASHES.
40. Singer's wavering tone: VIBRATO.
41. Entity with net income?: E-TAILER. Not net income as in what's left over after costs and taxes. Net as in internet.
42. Dolce & __: GABBANA. An Italian luxury fashion house.
44. Cold War warmup: DETENTE. Not as in warming up before starting something, Warmup as in a thaw or easing.
45. Plot size, perhaps: ONE ACRE.
46. Hidden: STASHED.
48. #LiveUplifted sneakers brand: ASICS.
49. Not genuine: PSEUDO.
50. Some Broadway fare: REVUES. REVUES are variety shows with topical sketches, songs, dancing and comedians.
The New Zoo Revue
52. General Assembly figure, for short: UN REP. United Nations REPresentative
54. Whale group: GAM.
57. Hitch: SNAG.
60. Mo. city whose MLS team will play its first game in 2023: STL. Missouri and Major League Soccer are abbreviated in the clue. Therefore the answer is, too. Jeff is also riffing on the name of the team with the "Mo. city" bit because the soccer team is calling itself the Saint Louis City Soccer Club. More often, STL is clued with reference to the SainTLouis Cardinals baseball team.
62. Exec at a gaming startup, e.g.: CTO. Chief Technology Officer. EXECutive is truncated in the clue, therefore . . . .
Here is the completed grid:
That wraps things up for today . . . except for one last thing. A usually reliable source informs me that today is the birthday of my fellow Friday blogger (I tried to come up with something alliterative but could not), Chairman Moe! Thirty-nine, right?
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Notes from C.C.:
1) As Joseph mentioned, today's the Chairman Moe's birthday. A big milestone. Happy 70th birthday, Chris! Here he is with his love Margaret.
2) Big Easy just sent me this picture of him and his wife Diane at their Mardi Gras pickleball tournament.
3) Happy 57th anniversary to our incomparable Husker Gary and his wife Joann. Here's a picture of them with their grandson Hawkin three years ago.
Today marks constructor Joe Deeney's 29th appearance in the LA Times and 15 in the NY Times. We're winning! Will Schortz
has this to say about him: 'Joe Deeney, of Melrose, Mass., is a supply
chain director for Philips, a health technology company based in
Amsterdam (the manufacturer of my CPAP machine!). He's been solving
crosswords for as long as he can remember. In 2015 he was solving one
he wasn't particularly fond of and thought, "I can do better than
that!"' Three years later he had his first trip to the Corner, blogged by TTP. Today his theme asks us what we should do about
Loose Change
...
a problem that has lessened in recent years due to people's
unwillingness to touch the stuff. But if you think it's going to go
away anytime soon, think again. Anyway, Joe has pondered this question in depth and reveals this answer:
50A *Spot for coins, and what five letters in the answer do in each starred clue: CHANGE PURSE. Notice is that the embedded string PURSE has been CHANGED (scrambled) in each of the following 4 clues:
16. *Research without direct application: PURE SCIENCE. Science is not quite as pure as it used to be in the good old days of Galileo and Isaac Newton (17th Century).Things started to get murky with the arrival in the early 20th century of two seismic paradigm shifts: the Theory of Relativity developed by Albert Einstein; and the Theory of Quantum Mechanics (QM) developed by an international team of physicists led by Niels Bohr.
Over one hundred years later there are still unresolved conflicts
between these two theories. Efforts to reconcile them have led to a
series of what are called Theories of Everything (TOES). [Geek Alert!] Here is a video by German mathematician and physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on some problems with Relativity (5:27 min). Here are two more videos with her thoughts on problems with two of the most prominent TOES: the Multiverse theory (7:42 min) and String Theory (7:37 min) [End Geek Alert]. Here is a simplified illustration that attempts to stub the second TOE.
23. *Czechoslovakian movement of 1968: PRAGUE SPRING ThePrague Spring was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in
the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček
was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
(KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968, when the Soviet Union and
most of Warsaw Pact members invaded the country to suppress the reforms.
The Prague Spring inspired many Czech and Slovak artists and musicians
to protest the invasion through their work. Here is Czech composer and
guitarist Karel Kryl with his dark song about this period, veiled in cryptic poetry ...
Demonstrations during the Prague Spring
34. *Helpline offering: CUSTOMER SUPPORT. Customer Support
is system of services designed
to assist customers in making cost effective and correct use of a
product. It includes assistance in planning, installation, training,
troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrading, and disposal of a product.
Regarding technology products such as mobile phones, televisions,
computers, software products or other electronic or mechanical goods, it
is termed technical support. Here are some skills needed by a customer support specialist:
45. *Commerce imbalance: TRADE SURPLUS. The balance of trade
is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and
imports over a certain time period. If a country exports a greater
value than it imports, it has a trade surplus or positive trade balance, and conversely, if a country imports a greater value than it exports, it has a trade deficit or negative trade balance.
Balance of trade
Here's the grid:
And now it's time to PURSUE a CHANGE of pace ... Across:
1. Striped pet: TABBY. Here's one of my grandchildren's cats, a TABBY named Poco Loco, and also today's Spanish lesson, an adjective meaning "a little crazy". Actually I think he should have been named Mucho Loco. He and his fellow felines, Rascal, Butterscotch, and Fizzy are all outside cats. Rascal (also a TABBY)
is the oldest and biggest pet, and is a hunter who supplements the food
he gets on the porch with various critters he finds in the nearby
woods.
Poco Loco
6. "__ chic!": TRES. "Very stylish". Today's French lesson.
18. Spending power, for short: CFO. Chief Financial Officer, the member of the C Team who can write checks.
19. "No Ordinary Love" singer: SADE. Helen Folasade AduCBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú[fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/shar-DAY), is a Nigerian-born British singer, known as the lead singer of her eponymous band. Surrealistic.
20. Eleven digits?: ONES. 11.
21. Treadmill setting: PACE. . 23A [Theme clue]
27. Yuletide song: NOEL. Even though 'tis not the season, I interpreted this clue like my favorite conductor Arturo Toscanini, who used to exhort his orchestras: "Come scritto!" ("As written!"):
28. 33-Across years: DECADE. Half a score.
29. Paper or plastic: NOUN. "A
word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people,
places, or things" - Oxford Languages Dictionary. E.g. "Materials used
to make grocery bags".
30. Father of the Muses: ZEUS. Their grandfather and grandmother were Uranus and Gaia. According to ancient Greek mythology, the Muses are the sources of inspiration for all of the arts and of knowledge. The daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, they were the romantic companions of Apollo’s entourage of gods. Their names were Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Thalia, Terpsichore, and Urania.
Apollo and the Muses John Singer Sargent
33. Score half: TEN.
34. [Theme clue]
38. "I see," at sea: AYE.
39. Noodle nugget: IDEA. No doubt an offshoot of the clue "Bean sprout" that we saw recently (e.g. 2/4/23 clue 21A)
40. "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's __": Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema: EARS. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale
is a 1975 children's picture book by Verna Aardema and illustrated by
Leo and Diane Dillon. It is told in the form of a cumulative tale
written for young children, and recounts an African legend.
44. "An Caighdeán Oifigiúil" language: ERSE. ERSE is a synonym for the Irish or Gaelic language. And it's today's Irish lesson, i.e. it's an "Official Standard" language in Ireland. I think Joe may be Irish.
45. [Theme clue]
49. Recycle bin, e.g.: ICON. As in ...
50. Shades: HUES.
51. Becomes compost: ROTS.
55. "Gross!": ICK.
[Theme reveal]
56. [Theme reveal]
59. Baseball great Ripken: CAL. Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
(born August 24, 1960), nicknamed "The Iron Man", is an American former
baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major
League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001). One of his position's most offensively productive players, Ripken compiled 3,184 hits, 431 home runs, and 1,695 runs batted in during his career, and he won two Gold Glove Awards for his defense. He was a 19-time All-Star and was twice named American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP). Ripken holds the record for consecutive games played (2,632) on September 6, 1995, having surpassed Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 that had stood for 56
years and that many deemed unbreakable. My son was at that game with 50,000 other fans (and another 150,000 who claim to have been!), and still has the tickets to prove it:
In 2007, Ripken was elected to the
National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility with
98.53% of votes, the sixth-highest election percentage ever.
60. Comes up against: ABUTS.
61. Isaac of "Moon Knight": OSCAR. Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is a
Guatemalan-born American actor. Known for his versatility, he has been
credited with breaking stereotypes about Latino characters in Hollywood. He was named the best actor of his generation by Vanity Fair in 2017 and one of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century by The New York Times in 2020. "I am Moon Knight. The bearer of the mantle of Khonshu. Khonshu the justice bringer. I am vengeance". Looks like a pretty nice guy actually ...
Oscar Isaac
62. U-turn from WSW: ENE.
63. Response heard during a pool game: POLO. Oh "POLO!", as in "MARCO POLO, a game played in swimming pools. Here are the rules.
Marco Polo
64. Pier: WHARF. The word "pier" is Klingon singular for an old English name for "Rock". I'm sure you are familiar with this one:
Lieutenant Wharf
Down:
1. Spigots: TAPS.
2. Río flower: AGUA. A fluid not a flora.
3. __ of paradise: BIRD. A flora not a fauna.
Bird of Paradise
4. Cover up, in a way: BLEEP OUT. There are certainly a lot of BLEEP WORTHY videos on the Internet, but initially I was unable to find any examples that were already BLEEPEDOUT. I did discover an entire cottage industry of apps for BLEEPING OUT YouTube videos, but I really didn't have the time to learn any of them. However it turns out that television host Jimmy Kimmel has done all the work for me with a video series he calls Unnecessary Censorship. Here's his bowdlerized version of an underground Star Wars trailer that somehow must have made it past the censors:
5. [Nod]: YES.
6. Org. with 27 member states: THE EU. The European Union.
7. Salon procedure: RINSE.
8. Key to going back?: ESC.
9. Grassy expanse: STEPPE. The best description for this clue is musical ...
10. Word on an Italian menu that means "hunter": CACCIATORE. Today's Italian lesson. Here's a recipe for Chicken Cacciatore. I'm unclear how this dish got its name, as you don't really have to hunt for chickens. Aren't they usually found in coops?
Chicken Cacciatore
11. Those at fault: OFFENDERS.
12. Classic Pontiac muscle car: GTO.
14. Annex: WING.
17. Anthracite or lignite: COAL.
22. __ de Triomphe: ARC. The Arc de Triomphe was inaugurated in 1836 by French king, Louis-Philippe,
who dedicated it to the armies of the Revolution and the Empire. The
Unknown Soldier was buried at the base of the arch in 1921. The flame of
remembrance is rekindled every day at 18:30.
L'Arc de Triomphe.
24. Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man: RENO. This year this bacchanal takes placefrom Sun, Aug 27, 2023 to Mon, Sep 4, 2023. Mark your calendars!
29. Spanish dialect in the Big Apple: NUYORICAN. A CSO and thanks to Chairman Moe for helping me find a utility showing that this is probably the first crossword to use this fill (and congrats to Joe! (although he probably already knew that)). NUYORICAN is a portmanteau of the terms New York and Puerto Rican and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Ricans located in or around New York City, or of their descendants.
An estimated 1,800,000 Nuyoricans are
said to live in New York City, the largest Puerto Rican community
outside Puerto Rico. Some prominent Nuyoricans you might recognize are Jennifer Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. And here's the band Nuyorican Soul with their 1996 hit Runaway featuring Nuyorican crossword queen india.arie ...
30. Character debuted by Zadie Smith?: ZED. Zadie Smith, FRSL* (born Sadie; Willesden, London, 25 October 1975). Another CSO for MOE, as this also appears to be the first time ever that this clue was used for crosswordese ZED.Zadie is British and ZED
being the first character in her name thus "debuts" it. [Double
groan]. Dr. Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story
writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth
(2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards.
She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010.
Zadie Smith *Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
31. Poetic preposition: ERE.
32. Can. neighbor: USA.
34. "You __ be serious": CAN'T. I avoid it wherever possible.
35. Leave out: MISS.
36. Home of many Quechua speakers: PERU. Quechua is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples,
primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common
ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language
family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of
2004. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan
language.
The four branches of Quechua: I (Central), II-A (North Peruvian), II-B (Northern), II-C (Southern)
37. Means to an end?: PASS RUSH. As the QB is the usual target of a PASS RUSH I was a bit confused by this clue (see also 27D). Or maybe Joe's clever attempt at misdirection was actually a veiled reference to this (Hi Anon -T!):
42. Final words of an engagement: I DO. Before them you're engaged. After them you're married!
43. Top removed before dashing off?: PEN CAP. Precedes "dashing off" a memo.
48. Identifies (as): PEGS. Thought this might be a kinky gender reference, but more than likely it's an abbreviation for more than one MARGARET.
52. Largest member of the dolphin family: ORCA. The OREOS of crossword aquatic mammals.
Orcas
53. Leader in the Bulgarian Empire: TSAR. The title tsar, the Bulgarian form of the Latin Caesar, was first adopted and used in Bulgaria by Simeon I the Great (son of Knyaz Boris I), following a decisive victory over the Byzantine Empire in 913. It was also used by all of Simeon I's successors until the fall of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule in 1396.
Standard of the Tsar of Bulgaria
54. Feudal laborer: SERF. Betcha' Simeon I had more than a few Bulgarian SERFS at his beck and call.
55. Diamonds, in slang: ICE.
57. "Last Week Tonight" network: HBO. Last Week Tonight is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by comedian John Oliver. The half-hour-long show premiered in April 2014 on HBO. Here's the only trailer I could find that didn't need to be BLEEPED OUT ...
58. "Bam!" kin: POW. We now conclude with a few UNBLEEPABLE words from Batman and Robin ...
Cheers, Bill
As always, thanks to Teri for proof reading and for her constructive criticism.
17. Get-together with a sketchy vibe?: OFF[ICE] PARTY.
23. Marketer's blitz campaign?: PR[ICE] INCREASE.
37. Intercom call on Take Your Child to Work Day?: SON[ICE] TO SEE YOU.
51. Shake Weight and The Flex Belt, per their infomercials?: BOD[ICE] RIPPERS.
62. Cold Hawaiian treat ... or a directive followed four times in this puzzle?: SHAVE ICE.
For me this seemed a tad above typical Wednesday level, mostly because of the theme answers - but made easier once I realized the gimmick. Remove ICE from these phrases to reveal a different phrase. SHAVE ICE sounds awkward without the D, but I'll accept it.
Across:
1. Tool that can be a musical instrument: SAW.
4. Not berthed: ASEA.
8. Designated: TERMED.
14. Confidentiality contract: Abbr.: NDA.
15. Spider-Man co-creator Lee: STAN.
16. Prophecy source: ORACLE.
19. Beam benders: PRISMS. Nice clue.
20. Cookie-based dessert: OREO PIE.
21. Spanish "those": ESOS. Ayer esos besos eran por san valentin. (Yesterday those kisses were for Valentine's.)
31. Sign of healing: SCAB. Always have to wait for perps to fill in the last B or R.
32. __ Cruces, New Mexico: LAS.
34. "Yeah, I guess": SURE.
36. Pickleball shot: LOB. From Wikipedia: Pickleball is an indoor or outdoor racket/paddle sport where two players, or four players, hit a perforated hollow polymer ball over a 36-inch-high net using solid-faced paddles. Fun fact: It began soaring in popularity as the search for new activities during the coronavirus pandemic turned many people into “picklers.”
40. Mud bath spot: SPA.
42. Bash who co-hosts CNN's "State of the Union": DANA.
43. Mo: SEC. This one had me scratching my head - but fellow guest bloggers helped me out. Shortened forms of moment and second, as in, 'wait a mo,' or 'wait a SEC.'
44. The Buckeye State: OHIO.
46. WNBA official: REF. Basketball referee.
47. A few bucks, say: STAGS. Nice clue. Animal, not cash.
55. Heaps: A LOT.
56. Limo destination: PROM.
57. Jack up: ELEVATE.
59. Nut used to make vegan cheese: CASHEW. Never tried artificial cheese, but what's not to love about cashews? Can anyone recommend?
63. Understood by few: ARCANE. Not unlike many crossword words.
64. Despise: HATE.
65. Org. with seven teams in Canada: NHL. National Hockey League.
66. "This Is Spinal Tap" director: REINER. In the film, Rob Reiner plays a documentary filmmaker named Marty DiBergi who is wearing the same hat throughout the entire film that says "USS OORAL SEA OV-4B" instead of "USS CORAL SEA OV-43." The hat was made because the Navy refused to grant permission to use the real Coral Sea hat. Fun fact: Mark Knopfler told Reiner that he would only do the theme for The Princess Bride if Reiner put the hat into that movie. You can see it in the little boy's room when his grandfather is reading him the story (though apparently it was not the actual hat from This is Spinal Tap because that one had been lost).
67. Lyft competitor: UBER.
68. Game Boy batteries: AAS.
Down:
1. Beagle who pilots an imaginary Sopwith Camel: SNOOPY. The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917.
2. Like premium streaming services: AD FREE. That'll be extra.
10. Ups the ante: RAISES. The phrase originated in betting games like poker. The ante is the amount the player commit to before the game begins. When a player increases the amount, it is termed as upping the ante. The cost, risk, reward all go up as a result of upping the ante.
11. Telethon VIPs: MCS. From the abbreviation MC, which stands for master of ceremonies. Emcee is a less formal way of saying master of ceremonies. Both terms are used in the context of events like weddings, banquets, and awards ceremonies, but, of the two, emcee is more commonly used in less formal situations.
12. Blight-stricken tree: ELM. The disease is still a threat, but fortunately, several resistant American elm and hybrid elm selections are available or being developed. Two insect vectors are responsible for transmitting DED: the native elm bark beetle (Hylurgopinus rufipes) and the European elm bark beetle (Scolytus multistriatus).
25. Rights advocacy gp.: ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union.
26. __ Tomé and Príncipe: SÃO. Uninhabited until being discovered by the Portuguese in the late 15th century, São Tomé and Príncipe is a tiny archipelago situated in the Gulf of Guinea. It became a outpost of the slave trade under Portuguese rule, with sugar cane, cocoa and coffee all prominent exports.
27. Recede: EBB.
29. Hourglass stuff: SAND.
33. Draw for some pictures: STAR POWER. Ah. Pictures as in films.
35. Contact lens holders: EYES. Haha.
37. Uttered: SAID.
38. Hr. for an after-lunch nap, maybe: ONE PM. Tricky when it's spelled out like that.
39. Interval of eight notes: OCTAVE.
40. Cry noisily: SOB.
41. Soup with rice noodles: PHO. Vietnamese soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat.
48. "Riverdale" actress Huffman: ALAINA. Canadian film and television actress.
49. "Caught red-handed!": GOTCHA.
50. Braces (oneself): STEELS.
52. Nobel-winning chemist Joliot-Curie: IRENE. Irène Joliot-Curie was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie and Pierre Curie. Very interesting from nobelprize.org: Women Who Changed Science.
53. Process that may involve PT or OT: REHAB. Physical or Occupational Therapy.
54. Roofing option: SLATE.
58. Of all time: EVER.
59. Subway unit: CAR.
60. "What __ those?": ARE. 61. Bio or chem: SCI. Sciences.
62. Moo __ pork: SHU. More Asian food! Apparently Moo Shu Pork is a very common home-cooked dish in China and the authentic Chinese moo shu pork recipe does not include any moo shu pancakes.
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