Theme: Garbage Collection - The last words are all synonyms of "garbage"
18A. "Too bad we have to throw out this uneaten food" : WHAT A WASTE
60A. Hurls competitive insults : TALKS TRASH
4D. Pet product also used for tire traction : KITTY LITTER
27D. Taiwan Strait vessel : CHINESE JUNK
Reveal:
40A. Muppet who loves this puzzle's four longest answers? : OSCAR
Boomer
here. This famous intro was borrowed by me from Alan Seuss when he
appeared on Rowan and Martin's "Laugh In". I used to enjoy slapstick,
however now I admit to CNN. However - the only fake news I hear is when
the commentator says "We'll be back after a 'Quick Break' ".
Averaged
212 in an 8 game tournament Sunday and cashed for my entry fee back.
So I bowled 8 games free, not counting the 8 bucks worth of gas to get
to the bowling center. Our Twins are playing the Dodgers this week - I
wonder if any of them solved this puzzle. They sure can't solve the
Dodgers.
Across:
1. Understand, in slang : GROK - I am G rok, I am G island!
5. Greek liqueur : OUZO - I never drank in a Greek bar. I will take the constructor's word for this.
9. Time-traveling TV character : DR WHO
14. Strauss of denim : LEVI - I think his wife's name was Jean
15. Hair salon sound : SNIP
16. Setting for much of "Moana" : OCEAN - Or Danny's last name (George Clooney)
17. Final bio : OBIT
20. Asian noodle dish : PAD THAI - Could this be an LPGA golfer ??
22. Bro kin : SIS - Too easy of a clue when even I get it.
23. Earl Grey, e.g. : TEA
24. Shrill barks : YELPS - So sad to hear when someone steps on a dog's paw.
26. Word with room or center : REC - Short for recreation which does not mean to create something again.
28. Storied : FABLED
31. They may need breaking in : NEW SHOES - Absolutely ! Has anyone tried the jelly filled inserts?
36. Bitter-tasting : ACRID- Sounds like a city in Ohio.
37. Sioux City state : IOWA
- Great State! I have many shirttail relations in Cresco. However
Minnesotans created Iowa jokes when the Polish people had had enough.
38. Doing nothing : IDLE
- Except when the engine is running in your car it is not doing
nothing, it is wasting gas - (or getting warmed up in January in MN.)
39. Small IOU : CHIT
41. Astronaut Armstrong : NEIL - July 1969. I was serving in the US Army when he said "One small step for man, one giant step for mankind".
42. With perfection : TO A T - This is hard to parse.
43. Blueprint : PLAN
44. Chevy muscle car : VETTE
- If you own one, I guarantee the insurance company will muscle you out
of a month's pay. Once years ago, Rod Carew bowled in a league that I
was in. He was not as good of a bowler as he was a hitter, but he had
the only Vette in the parking lot on those nights.
45. Condition caused by 31-Across, at times : SORE FEET - Not if you get those jelly filled things to put in the shoe. I learned that during the fake news quick break.
47. Snake warnings : HISSES - Oh a warning? I thought it was when two snakes put their lips together.
48. Darling of baseball : RON - He was pretty good. I think he is a play by play guy now for one of the New York teams.
49. Holey kitchen gadget : SIEVE - Colander nor strainer did not fit.
51. Rooter for the Bulldogs : ELI
54. Bro or sis : SIB
56. Bennie's band, in an Elton John hit : THE JETS - Okay but I think there could be a Broadway Joe Namath clue in there somewhere.
63. D-Day beach : UTAH - Not too many men who hit the beach that day are still around. I respect them all.
64. "I swear!" : NO LIE - There's a comment available, but I cannot print it here.
65. Lotion additive : ALOE - Has there ever been a puzzle without a four letter word containing three vowels?
66. One of Emeril's New Orleans eateries : NOLA - Acronym for New Orleans, LA, home of Mardi Gras.
67. Test one's metal : ASSAY
68. Many a Punjabi : SIKH
69. Was positive : KNEW
Down:
1. Yucky guck : GLOP - Oh I don't know, I might put a glop of syrup on the pancakes.
2. First name in country music : REBA - She also had her own sitcom.
3. Roman poet exiled by Augustus : OVID - I thought Augustus exiled him because of too many poetry leaks.
5. Disney's Lucky Rabbit : OSWALD - I never heard of Disney's rabbit, but I have bristled at this name ever since November 22, 1963.
6. Behind the times : UNHIP
- "For a long time now, I've been aware- that I'm so hip the rest of
the world is square. But I tell you baby, and just take my tip. It
doesn't pay to be too hip." (Words to live by from "The Hip Song" by the
Chad Mitchell Trio.)
7. New Mexico tribe with a Sun symbol : ZIA
8. Goes (for) : OPTS - Normally on the puzzle page of the paper, I OPT for the Soduko. Sorry.
9. Searches for water : DOWSES - Search? I thought dowsing was dumping a bucket full on someone or something.
10. Color TV pioneer : RCA -
Do you remember the picture of the dog by the horn o' plenty shaped
speaker on the phonograph listening for his master's voice.??
11. Way to go, per Horace Greeley : WEST
- Yeah, but only if you were a young man. I have reached the age where
you only go west if that's where the bathroom toilet is.
12. More than dislike : HATE
13. Draft category : ONE A -
I don't think they have a draft anymore, but I remember being ONE A. I
did my time and now I am a 9C - Going to the VA Clinic today. Thank
you Uncle Sam.
19. Conflict with planes : AIR WAR
21. Listen to : HEED
25. Ski resort vehicles : SNO-CATS - I believe these were made by Arctic in Minnesota. They were big and ugly, not like the sleek snowmobiles of today.
28. Trivia quiz fodder : FACTS - So if you are a little older, you may remember when these were sought by Sergeant Joe Friday.
29. Blessing preceder : ACHOO
- These always seem to come in threes. So if you sneeze for a fourth
time is that a mistake or just the start of the next threesome.
30. Prickly shrub : BRIAR - "Song of the South" - Please Please Pleeeease don't throw me into the Briar patch.
32. McGregor of TV's "Fargo" : EWAN
33. "Golden Boy" playwright : ODETS - First name Clifford. Before my time. (ha ha, and you thought nothing was before my time.)
34. A-listers : ELITE
35. Tennis great Monica : SELES
- Very famous. She was World #1 tennis player about 20 year ago when
she was stabbed during a match in Germany. She was never the same after
that.
37. Iona, for one : ISLE - Isle is a city in Minnesota on the south shore of Mille Lacs lake. Home of Fiddlestix golf course. (I played there once).
40. Christmas encouragement : OPEN IT
44. "__ la France!" : VIVE - This must be the Francais spelling. I always spelled it VIVA.
46. "Woman in the Mists" subject Dian : FOSSEY
47. [Snicker] : HEH HEH - Sort of makes you hungry for a candy bar.
50. "There, there" : IT'S OK
51. Sicilian World Heritage Site : ETNA - Wow, a four letter word with only two vowel!
52. Mekong River land : LAOS - Ditto
53. Misfortunes : ILLS - Put a "B" in front of that and you have a real misfortune.
55. Bikini tops : BRAS
57. Kind of collar or jacket : ETON
58. Story : TALE
59. "Pygmalion" playwright : SHAW - George Bernhard - Died in 1950 at the age of 94, a longevity that was unheard of in those days.
61. Bicycle maker turned automotive giant : KIA - Born in South Korea. Not too impressed with the Sportage, but they do make a nice looking van.
62. __ Baba : ALI - "The Greatest"
Boomer
