Theme: Organic Problems - Descriptive idioms ending with the adjective of person's various organs.
18A: Dispirited: DOWNHEARTED.
38A: Loud and long-winded: LEATHER-LUNGED.
55A: Easily offended: THIN-SKINNED.
3D: Cowardly: LILY-LIVERED.
27D: Imbecilic: LAME-BRAINED.
Argyle here. Ambitious Monday puzzle. Five theme entries for a Monday, wow! Oh, and I checked; the skin is considered the largest organ of the body.
Suffix Ss abound: Total 13. Too many.
Across:
1A: MSN competitor: AOL.
4A: Infants "in the woods": BABES. "Babe in the woods", an innocent, unsuspecting person.
9A: Terror: FEAR.
13A: Reagan's "Star Wars" prog.: SDI. (Strategic Defense Initiative)
14A: High-level storage areas: ATTICS.
16A: "Othello" villain: IAGO. Crosswords favorite villain.
17A: Condiment in 51-Across: SEL. (French salt)
20A: Safe haven: ASYLUM. Where Buckeye lives.
22A: Drinks dog-style: LAPS.
23A: Land surrounded by agua: ISLA. (Spanish: water & isle)
24A: Globe: SPHERE.
27A. You may be told to button or zip it: LIP.
30A: Tigers' dens: LAIRs.
32A: "Alley __": OOP. The comic character with a girlfriend named Ooola.
33A: Apiece: EACH.
34A: Austrian city with a sausage named for it: VIENNA. The little sausages that come in a can.
36A: Watson's partner: HOLMES. (Sherlock)
40A: Like a serious sin: MORTAL.
41A: Outlying town, vis-à-vis the city: SUBURB.
42A: Rocks to refine: ORES.
43A: Groundhog Day mo.: FEB..
44A: Feudal peons: SERFS.
47A: Longtime Massachusetts senator Kennedy: TED. RIP
48A: Chicken, so to speak: SCARED.
51A: Normandy city: CAEN. French. The river Orne runs through it into the English Channel.
52A: Saturate: SOAK.
53A: 1966 musical about a marriage: "I DO, I DO".
60A: Presently: NOW.
61A: German automaker: AUDI.
62A: Misprints: ERRATA.
63A: Poet's "before": ERE.
64A: Cream of the crop: BEST.
65A: Back-talking: SASSY.
Down:
1D: Attack violently: ASSAIL.
2D: Black Sea port: ODESSA. The only Black Sea port I know of.
4D: Grammy winner Erykah: BADU. She wears her where many ways, so pictured her in a hat.
5D: Diminutive energy sources: ATOMS.
6D: Incidentally, in texting shorthand: BTW. (By The Way)
7D: "Ich bin __ Berliner": EIN.
8D: Carry laboriously: SCHLEP. Always nice to have some Yiddish.
9D: Fraser and Douglas trees: FIRS.
12D: Word after fishing or lightning: ROD.
19D: Chimp, for one: APE. By the way, look at this wonderful video about an orangutan and a dog Bill G. brought to us yesterday.
21D: Dogie catchers: LARIATS. Dogie is a motherless calf in a cattle herd. Also spelled, dogey, dogy.
25D: Fried corn bread: PONE.
26D: More rasping, as a voice: HOARSER.
28D: Like much tea in summer: ICED.
29D: Acidity nos.: PHS.
31D: __ good example: SET A.
33D: Crete-born artist with a Spanish nickname: EL GRECO.
35D: Org. with Bruins and Coyotes: NHL. Hockey's Boston Bruins and Phoenix Coyotes.
36D: O'Hare, for United Airlines: HUB.
37D: Burden: ONUS.
38D: Traditional wisdom: LORE.
39D: Mechanic's grease job: LUBE.
40D: Bon __: witticism: MOT.
43D: Muslim wonder-workers: FAKIRS.
45D: Bogart's hat: FEDORA.
46D: Flurried, e.g.: SNOWED.
48D: Seaman's "911": SOS.
50D: Weight-loss regimens: DIETS.
52D: Grumpy mood: SNIT.
54D: June 6, 1944: D-DAY.
55D: Drinkers may run one up: TAB.
57D: Points out, as a perp: IDS.
58D: "Right to bear arms" org.: NRA.
59D: "If I Ruled the World" rapper: NAS.
Answer grid.
18A: Dispirited: DOWNHEARTED.
38A: Loud and long-winded: LEATHER-LUNGED.
55A: Easily offended: THIN-SKINNED.
3D: Cowardly: LILY-LIVERED.
27D: Imbecilic: LAME-BRAINED.
Argyle here. Ambitious Monday puzzle. Five theme entries for a Monday, wow! Oh, and I checked; the skin is considered the largest organ of the body.
Suffix Ss abound: Total 13. Too many.
Across:
1A: MSN competitor: AOL.
4A: Infants "in the woods": BABES. "Babe in the woods", an innocent, unsuspecting person.
9A: Terror: FEAR.
13A: Reagan's "Star Wars" prog.: SDI. (Strategic Defense Initiative)
14A: High-level storage areas: ATTICS.
16A: "Othello" villain: IAGO. Crosswords favorite villain.
17A: Condiment in 51-Across: SEL. (French salt)
20A: Safe haven: ASYLUM. Where Buckeye lives.
22A: Drinks dog-style: LAPS.
23A: Land surrounded by agua: ISLA. (Spanish: water & isle)
24A: Globe: SPHERE.
27A. You may be told to button or zip it: LIP.
30A: Tigers' dens: LAIRs.
32A: "Alley __": OOP. The comic character with a girlfriend named Ooola.
33A: Apiece: EACH.
34A: Austrian city with a sausage named for it: VIENNA. The little sausages that come in a can.
36A: Watson's partner: HOLMES. (Sherlock)
40A: Like a serious sin: MORTAL.
41A: Outlying town, vis-à-vis the city: SUBURB.
42A: Rocks to refine: ORES.
43A: Groundhog Day mo.: FEB..
44A: Feudal peons: SERFS.
47A: Longtime Massachusetts senator Kennedy: TED. RIP
48A: Chicken, so to speak: SCARED.
51A: Normandy city: CAEN. French. The river Orne runs through it into the English Channel.
52A: Saturate: SOAK.
53A: 1966 musical about a marriage: "I DO, I DO".
60A: Presently: NOW.
61A: German automaker: AUDI.
62A: Misprints: ERRATA.
63A: Poet's "before": ERE.
64A: Cream of the crop: BEST.
65A: Back-talking: SASSY.
Down:
1D: Attack violently: ASSAIL.
2D: Black Sea port: ODESSA. The only Black Sea port I know of.
4D: Grammy winner Erykah: BADU. She wears her where many ways, so pictured her in a hat.
5D: Diminutive energy sources: ATOMS.
6D: Incidentally, in texting shorthand: BTW. (By The Way)
7D: "Ich bin __ Berliner": EIN.
8D: Carry laboriously: SCHLEP. Always nice to have some Yiddish.
9D: Fraser and Douglas trees: FIRS.
12D: Word after fishing or lightning: ROD.
19D: Chimp, for one: APE. By the way, look at this wonderful video about an orangutan and a dog Bill G. brought to us yesterday.
21D: Dogie catchers: LARIATS. Dogie is a motherless calf in a cattle herd. Also spelled, dogey, dogy.
25D: Fried corn bread: PONE.
26D: More rasping, as a voice: HOARSER.
28D: Like much tea in summer: ICED.
29D: Acidity nos.: PHS.
31D: __ good example: SET A.
33D: Crete-born artist with a Spanish nickname: EL GRECO.
35D: Org. with Bruins and Coyotes: NHL. Hockey's Boston Bruins and Phoenix Coyotes.
36D: O'Hare, for United Airlines: HUB.
37D: Burden: ONUS.
38D: Traditional wisdom: LORE.
39D: Mechanic's grease job: LUBE.
40D: Bon __: witticism: MOT.
43D: Muslim wonder-workers: FAKIRS.
45D: Bogart's hat: FEDORA.
46D: Flurried, e.g.: SNOWED.
48D: Seaman's "911": SOS.
50D: Weight-loss regimens: DIETS.
52D: Grumpy mood: SNIT.
54D: June 6, 1944: D-DAY.
55D: Drinkers may run one up: TAB.
57D: Points out, as a perp: IDS.
58D: "Right to bear arms" org.: NRA.
59D: "If I Ruled the World" rapper: NAS.
Answer grid.
Argyle
