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Sep 23, 2014

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Jeffrey Wechsler

Theme: Quintessential Tuesday

20A. Period of meaningful interaction : QUALITY TIME

28A. "That's using your head!" : QUICK THINKING

46A. Planck's Nobel prize-winning formulation : QUANTUM THEORY. I know about as much about this as I do quarter-tones.

52A. Small musical interval sung in choral warmups : QUARTER-TONE. Classic dictionary entry. "quarter-tone : an interval equivalent to half of a semitone."

65A. Surreptitiously ... and a hint to 20-, 28-, 46- and 52-Across : ON THE QT

Argyle here. Big words Tuesday. Seven letter stacks in two corners. Two big chunks of black on the sides. All-over, not bad.

Across:

1. Reduce to mist : ATOMIZE

8. Insubstantial stuff : PAP

11. Intro deliverers : MCs. (master of ceremonies)

14. Short outing for a jogger : MILE RUN

15. From A to Z : ALL

16. The smile on a smiley face, say : ARC

17. Green gem : EMERALD

18. Where to leggo your Eggo? : TOASTER. Tinbeni is our toaster.

22. Having the wherewithal : ABLE. First thought? Rich.

26. Take to court : SUE

27. From square one : ANEW

33. Detach from the dock : UNMOOR

34. Sharply delineated, as a contrast : STARK

35. Egyptian snake : ASP

36. Actress Charlotte : RAE Or 60D. Stephen of "The Crying Game" : REA

38. __ Lanka : SRI. Tourist enjoying the beaches.

39. Scooby-__ : DOO

42. Living thing : BEING

44. Make responsible for, as chores : ASSIGN

48. Insulting remark : SLUR

50. Equal: Pref. : ISO

51. Carnivorous dinosaur, briefly : T REX

57. Let go : UNLOOSE

58. Movie equipment : CAMERAS

63. "O, __ fortune's fool!": Romeo : I AM (3.1.136)

64. Start to practice? : MAL. Malpractice.

66. 8-Down treaters: Abbr. : DRs. 8D. Waiting room waiters : PATIENTS

67. Get at a store : BUY

68. Traditional Yuletide quaff : WASSAIL

Down:

1. Soul, to Zola : ÂME. Zola, the French writer.

2. "A Christmas Carol" boy : TIM. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit's boy. Keep him away from the wassail.

3. Bullfight "Bravo!" : "¡OLÉ!"

4. Debussy's "La __" : MER

5. Syria neighbor : IRAQ

6. Last letter of a pilot's alphabet : ZULU

7. Mark similar to a hyphen : EN DASH. Traditionally half the width of an em dash.

9. Very much : A LOT

10. Be in the game : PLAY

11. Checking conclusively, in chess : MATING. Another strange definition.

12. __ de cacao : CRÈME

13. Carpentry fastener : SCREW

19. Performed really poorly : STANK

21. San __ Obispo, California : LUIS

22. Color of water : AQUA

23. Cookout supply : BUNS

24. Walk on a bad knee, say : LIMP

25. Novelist Umberto : ECO

29. Divided nation : KOREA

30. Teach a skill to : TRAIN

31. Jeweler's purity unit : KARAT

32. Dublin-born : IRISH

37. In every aspect : ENTIRELY

39. Couturier Christian : DIOR

40. Shrek, for one : OGRE

41. Black stone : ONYX

42. Grand Canyon pack animal : BURRO

43. Sudden wind : GUST

45. Chess pieces and board, e.g. : SET

46. Reservations : QUALMS

47. Barnyard animal, in totspeak : MOO COW. Now for something really different.



48. Ink squirter : SQUID

49. Like some ancient calendars : LUNAR

53. Mummy's home : TOMB

54. Genesis twin : ESAU

55. Grandma : NANA

56. CPR providers : EMTS. (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation/Emergency Medical Technicians)

59. Canadian interjections : EHs

61. EPA concern : AQI. (Air Quality Index)

62. Arch city: Abbr. : ST. L. (St. Louis)



Argyle