Dropping Your Change. The circles, when read from bottom to top, a spell out a foreign coin
that is "flipped".
3-Down. Fix for distressed genes?: DNA REPAIR. Rand. The Rand is the currency of South Africa. As of
this week, 1 Rand = $0.054 Dollars / $1.00 = 18.68 Rands.
7-Down. Carrier that makes short hops: REGIONAL AIRLINE. Rial. The Rial is the currency of Iran. As of
this week, 1 Rial = $0.000024 / $1.00 = 42,040.00 Rials.
9-Down. Source of information for vacation planners: TRAVEL BUREAU. Ruble. The Ruble is the currency of Russia. As of this
week, 1 Ruble = $0.011 / $1.00 = 90.95 Rubles.
21-Down. Reaction to a chill or a fright, to Brits: GOOSE PIMPLES. On this side of the pond, the expression would be Goose Bumps.
Peso. Several countries use the Peso as currency, including, but
not limited to, Argentina, Columbia, Cuba, and Mexico. For comparison,
I will use our closest neighbor, Mexico: As of this week, 1 Mexican
Peso = $0.060 / $1.00 = 16.80 Pesos.
35-Down. Decide by calling heads or tails, and an apt title for this
puzzle: FLIP A COIN.
Across:
1. Spots for pillow talk: BEDS. // And 55-Across.
"Sweet dreams!": SLEEP WELL.
5. 43,560 square feet: ACRE.
9. British streetcars: TRAMS.
14. Forearm bone: ULNA.
15. Agonize (over): FRET.
16. Morocco's capital: RABAT.
17. Din: ROAR.
18. Like takeout food: TO GO.
19. Love, in Italian: AMORE. Today's Italian lesson
20. Bit of rosemary: SPRIG.
22. Temperature-controlled storage for bottles: WINE VAULT.
24. Shirt that may have a V-neck: TEE.
25. Nabisco brand: OREO. A crossword staple. //
And 30-Across. Nabisco brand: NILLA.
27. Caused: LED TO.
28. Cunning scheme: PLOY.
32. Sentence part with a subject and a predicate: CLAUSE.
Did you have to diagram sentences when you were in high school?
34. Many an Omani: ARAB. The Sultanate of Oman is a country
on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
35. Vaccine-approving org.: FDA. As in the Food and Drug Administration.
38. Trusting to a fault: NAIVE.
39. Sort: ILK.
40. Like some monuments at night: UPLIT.
42. Listener-supported news source: NPR. National Public Radio.
43. Dad: PAPA. We saw Ain't Too Proud recently, which is a musical about The Temptations.
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone.
45. Confident poker declaration: I RAISE.
46. Red Sea peninsula: SINAI.
47. Fill-in worker: TEMP.
48. "__ and Punishment": CRIME. Did you know that Crime and Punishment, an 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (November 11, 1821 ~ Feb. 9, 1881)
was initially published in a Russian literary journal in 12 monthly
installments? I read this book in high school.
50. Alabama-born activist Parks: ROSA. When she died, Rosa
Parks (née Rosa Louise McCauley; Feb. 4, 1913 ~ Oct. 24, 2005) lay in honor in
the Rotunda of the Capitol. She was the first woman and second
African-American to receive that honor. A bronze sculpture depicting the
Rosa Park can be found in the United States Capitol's National Statuary
Hall.
52. Kerfuffle: ADO.
57. Open, as toothpaste: UNCAP.
59. Gem from an oyster: PEARL.
60. Kristen of "Bridesmaids": WIIG. Kristen Carroll Wiig (b.
Aug. 22, 1973) was on Saturday Night Live for many years.
62. Move like sap: OOZE.
63. Close-knit group: CADRE.
64. Jealous feeling: ENVY.
65. Neck and neck: TIED.
66. Districts: AREAS.
67. "We __ to be at an impasse": SEEM.
68. Puts the kibosh on: ENDS.
Down:
1. Fly into pieces: BURST.
2. Get hitched in a hurry: ELOPE.
4. Draped garment in Hindi films: SARI.
5. Toward the rudder: AFT.
6. "Jerry Maguire" director Cameron: CROWE. "You had me at
Hello." This Cameron Crowe (né Cameron Bruce Crowe; b. July 13, 1957)
movie was first released in 1996. Cameron Crowe's first film was the
1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High when he was still in
his 20s.
8. Elite British boarding school: ETON. Prince William (b.
June 21, 1982) and Eddy Redmayne (né Edward John David Redmayne; b. Jan. 6,
1982) were classmates at Eton.
10. Best Western rival: RAMADA. Both are hotel chains.
11. Approximately: ABOUT.
12. "The Wire" drug lord Stanfield: MARLO. Marlo Stanfield
is a fictional character, portrayed by Jamie Hector (b. Oct. 7, 1975) on the
HBO series The Wire.
13. Editor's "Actually, don't cut that": STET.
23. Fitzgerald of jazz: ELLA. We haven't seen Ella
Fitzgerald (née Ella Jane Fitzgerald; Apr. 25, 1917 ~ June 15, 1996) on a
Tuesday in quite some time. She is a frequent guest in the puzzles.
26. Pastrami on __: RYE.
29. Hon: LUV.
31. Nettle: IRK. A crossword staple
32. "Erin Burnett OutFront" channel: CNN.
33. Friendly cat's spot: LAP.
36. Bad-mouth: DIS.
37. Devoured: ATE.
39. Hoppy brew, briefly: IPA. India Pale Ale. Everything you wanted to know about India Pale Ale but didn't know to ask.
41. Cooking spray brand: PAM. It comes in lots of flavors.
44. Again: ANEW.
45. "__ Always Sunny in Philadelphia": IT'S. It's Always
Sunny in Philadelphia is a comedy series that follows a group of misfit,
narcissistic sociopaths, referred to as "The Gang", who runs a meager,
unsuccessful Irish bar called Paddy's Pub in the neighborhood of South
Philadelphia.
46. Word before Leone or Madre: SIERRA.
48. "Understood?": CLEAR.
49. Duane __: New York drugstore chain: READE. I learned
about the Duane Reade drugstore chain from doing the crossword puzzles.
51. Mediterranean oil source: OLIVE.
53. In a mental fog: DAZED.
54. Newspaper pundit pieces: OP-EDs. The term Op-Ed means
Opposite the Editorial Page.
55. Pet adoption org.: SPCA. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Happy Monday, everyone! sumdaze here with a Dyn-o-Mite puzzle from constructor, Margi Stevenson.
Theme:
Jimmie Walker as J.J. Evans in Good Times (1974-1979) His catchphrase really blew-up in popular culture.
We'll begin with the four themed clues:
17 Across. Sound of the 1970s: DISCO MUSIC.
29 Across. Electronic source of percussion: DRUM MACHINE.
45 Across. Unaccredited source of degrees: DIPLOMA MILL.
61 Across. Hypothetical space stuff that doesn't interact with light: DARK MATTER.
The reveal is nicely tucked into the bottom, right corner:
69 Across. Private chats, briefly, and what 17-, 29-, 45-, and 61-Across literally are: DMS. Direct Messages
It's what you do when you want to chat with someone, but not in the general comments forum.
Across: 1. Was ahead: LED. and15 Across. Ahead by a small margin: UP ONE.
The home team is leading by one point.
4. __ eclipse: daytime celestial event: SOLAR. A big one is coming up on April 8. Where & When - NASA site
9. Iowa State's home: AMES.
13. Opera solo: ARIA.
16. Discourteous: RUDE.
19. Radiate: EMIT.
20. Pours from one container to another: DECANTS. DECANTing allows red wines to aerate. This hack works for me: pour one glass then put the cork back in the bottle. Shake the bottle hard. Remove the cork and let sit a few minutes before pouring the other glasses. (You can sip on the first glass while you wait. 😉)
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21. Blue Ribbon brewery: PABST. Established in Milwaukee, WI in 1844 and currently based in San Antonio, TX.
<no DECANTing required>
22. __ and beans: RICE. I just made a big pot of this yesterday. Two pounds dried pinto beans to 1 cup rice is a good ratio.
23. Novelist O'Brien: EDNA. This D was my last fill. It crosses with another name in 24-Down.
26. Early email provider: AOL.
27. Organ with an iris: EYE. At first I was thinking of Splynter's variety of organs but today it was an EYEball.
32. Cry: WEEP.
34. "Heck if I know": NO IDEA. "SAT XWD" also fit...
35. Looks up to: ESTEEMS. ...which is why I hold our Sat. blogger Husker Gary in such high ESTEEM.
38. Wine shop event: TASTING. Today I saw this ad in my weekly 'downtown events' email. I thought it was odd to call it a "Cigar Tasting". Have you heard of these?
42. G major analogue: E-MINOR. The song in 63-D is in F Major.
This is another way of asking what the relative key is for G Major. Both scales only have one sharp (F#).
44. Qatari leader: EMIR.
50. Suffix with percent: -ILE.
51. Florida NBA team, on scoreboards: ORL. ORLando Magic...as in the Magic Kingdom (Disney World)
52. CrossFit units: REPS.
53. Wood stove output: HEAT. The Miami HEAT NBA team also plays in Florida.
55. "Works __ time": EVERY.
57. Carrying capacity of a cargo ship: TONNAGE.
60. Trig function that models light waves: SINE. Light acts as both a wave and a particle.
Visible light is one component of the electromagnetism spectrum.
64. Not taken in by: ONTO. Def.: being aware of a scheme.
65. Figure of speech: IDIOM. The IDIOM "barking up the wrong tree" means you are wrong or mistaken.
66. Word repeated after "Que" in a classic song: SERA.
Doris Day famously sang Que Sera, Sera when she appeared in Hitchcock's
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).
Her co-stars were Jimmy Stewart and Peter Lorre.
67. Locksmith's supply: KEYS.
68. Canadian honker: GOOSE.
Down: 1. Diane of "Chesapeake Shores": LADD. Chesapeake Shores aired on the Hallmark Channel from 2016 to 2022.
2. The "E" of the Great Lakes HOMES mnemonic: ERIE.
6. Part of UCLA: LOS. the University of California, Los Angeles
7. Singer DiFranco: ANI.
8. __ room: place for a foosball table: REC.
9. Square footage: AREA.
10. India's largest city: MUMBAI. The weather there today is expected to be sunny with highs in the low 90s and lows in the 70s with light winds and no rain.
11. Inventor Thomas who co-founded General Electric: EDISON.
12. Accept, with "for": SETTLE.
14. Antioxidant berry: ACAI.
18. How software was once sold: ON CD.
21. Dueling steps: PACES.
23. Angsty genre: EMO.
24. Composer Shostakovich: DMITRI. As I said at 23-Across, this D was my last fill. The M made me first do a mental run of the vowels and then the letter S. Nothing felt right. Finally I noticed that the last name was Russian and that gave me DMITRI.
Here is his Suite for Jazz Orchestra #2 (1938). 25. Zero: NADA. and40 Down. Zero: NIL.
27. Woolly mama: EWE. cute play on "wooly mammoth"
28. Agreeable reply: YES.
30. Open with a pop: UNSNAP. Def.: unfasten or open with a brisk movement and a sharp sound.
31. Despise: HATE.
33. Tangerine coat: PEEL.
36. Georgia school that's one of the New Ivies: EMORY.
37. Play charades, say: MIME. and39 Down. Aped: IMITATED.
41. Test for M.A. hopefuls: GRE. The Graduate Record Examinations is a standardized test that is part of the admissions process for many graduate schools in North America. One would need to attend a graduate school to earn a Master of Arts degree.
43. Mantra syllables: OMS.
45. Makes a decent living: DOES OK.
The latest census numbers indicate what income ranges constitute the middle class (as of 2020). This will depend on family size. For a single individual, a middle-class income ranges from $30,000 - $90,000 per year. For a couple it starts at $42,430 up to $127,300; for a family of three, $60,000 - $180,000; and four $67,100 - $201,270.Investopedia article
46. "Trainspotting" novelist Welsh: IRVINE. goodreads link
47. More than enough: PLENTY.
48. YSL men's fragrance: L'HOMME.
about $33 per oz. at Nordstrom
49. "Girls" creator Dunham: LENA. Girls was a show on HBO from 2012-2017.
57. Boxing match decisions, for short: TKOS. Technical Knockouts
58. Antiseptic target: GERM.
59. Notable times: ERAS. "ERAS" is also the name of Taylor Swift's current tour.
61. Use a shovel: DIG.
62. Ruckus: ADO.
63. Ipanema's city: RIO. It's not the first time you've heard this song...and it likely won't be the last. 😊 What a lovely finish to a Delightful Monday solve! Here's the grid:
