Theme: 8 Days Late - patriarch party
16. Madonna hit with the lyrics "I'm keeping my baby" : "PAPA DON'T PREACH"(4:31)
26. Like some family-owned businesses : FATHER AND SON(3:06)
41. 2003 Eddie Murphy movie about an entrepreneurial stay-at-home parent : DADDY DAY CARE(2:12)
52. Propose marriage : POP THE QUESTION(3:14)
Argyle here. It feels like Jeff phoned this one in and so I'm phoning my review in, too. Neat look to the grid. Bonus song.(3:04)
Across:
1. Little fight : SPAT
5. Scurries, old-style : HIEs
9. Prefix with chute : PARA. My MOS in the service was 0451 PARACHUTE RIGGER.
13. Other than that : ELSE
14. __ buco: veal dish : OSSO
15. Hieroglyphics bird : IBIS. 3D. Hieroglyphics snakes : ASPS
19. Lacking : SANS. Sans Souci, "without concerns".
20. Choose (to) : OPT
21. Roast host : EMCEE
22. Add up to, in arithmetic : ARE. I tried to make it harder than it is.
23. Skinny swimmer : EEL
24. Live-in nannies : AU PAIRs
29. Kindle buy : e-BOOK
30. Hops-drying oven : OAST
31. Woolf's "__ Dalloway" : MRS. Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Wikipedia
34. Narrow cut : SLIT
35. Bake, as eggs : SHIRR
37. Veggie that can be pickled : BEET
38. Title time traveler with Bill : TED. "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"
39. Fellas : GUYS. Like the two totally excellent dudes above.
40. Hardship : RIGOR
44. Cast maligning remarks at : ASPERSE. verb
47. Watch closely : EYE
48. Sleuths, for short : PIs. (Private Investigator)
49. Meager : SCANT
50. Tavern brew : ALE
51. Ladies : SHEs
56. Olympian's blade : ÉPÉE
57. Baseball tactic to advance a runner : BUNT
58. Desire : WANT
59. Stereotypical techie : NERD
60. Make less intense, as one's breath : BATE. Look it up.
61. Iowa State city : AMES
Down:
1. Unlike bosom buddies : SEPARABLE. Bill and Ted are inseparable.
2. Smallish celestial body : PLANETOID. Another term for asteroids.
4. Beverage leaves : TEA
5. Showy publicity : HOOPLA
6. "This __ working" : ISN'T
7. D.C. winter clock setting : EST
8. Soak (up), as sauce : SOP
9. Merchant whom Simple Simon met : PIEMAN
Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Said Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Let me taste your ware."
Said the pieman unto Simon,
"Show me first your penny."
Said Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Indeed (Sir), I have not any."
10. Beaded calculators : ABACI
11. Potato cutter : RICER
12. Lenten symbol : ASHES
17. Couch potato's opposite : DOER
18. Move to a new container, as a houseplant : REPOT
19. Least dangerous : SAFEST
23. Startled cry : EEK
24. Hebrew winter month : ADAR
25. Cold War country: Abbr. : USSR
27. Selling really well : HOT
28. Clangorous : NOISY
31. Cheerleader's sound booster : MEGAPHONE
32. Adjusts the position of : REORIENTS
33. Emphasize : STRESS
35. Soap bubbles : SUDS. Did you see the bubbles in the "Daddy Day Care" clip?
36. Jekyll's murderous other self : HYDE
37. Ballpoint brand : BIC
39. Brooks of country music : GARTH
40. Pastrami sandwich bread : RYE
41. A little banged up, fenderwise : DENTED
42. Backspace over : DELETE
43. Yes votes : AYEs
44. Colorado ski resort : ASPEN
45. Range : SCOPE. Tried STOVE first.
46. Origami medium : PAPER
50. Em, to Dorothy : AUNT. (Wizard of Oz)
51. Former name of Thailand : SIAM
53. Flow back : EBB
54. Sine __ non: essential : QUA
55. Pan Am rival : TWA
Argyle
