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Mar 24, 2018

Saturday, March 24, 2018, Debbie Ellerin and Jeff Chen

A THEMELESS SATURDAY WITH DEBBIE AND JEFF

Debbie Ellerin and Jeff Chen have collaborated on this wonderful puzzle on National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day. Yum! Horizontal and vertical stacks are very impressive to me. There was also ample supply of Saturday subtleties such as the fabulous 45. Kvetching chorus : OYS.

Husker Gary here today saying OY Vey, let's hope we can make this a kvetching-free zone today as we are now officially in the season of spring!


Now let's see what else this wonderful duo has for us today:


Across

1. __ bar : TAPAS - Hispanic noshes




6. Line used when wrapping? : THAT'S THAT - What we bloggers might say after we wrap up reviewing a puzzle


15. Singer whose three studio albums have numerical titles : ADELE - A woman with a glorious voice and a plethora of vowels in her name

16. Was bugged : WORE A WIRE - Just speak into my shirt




17. Remove, as a corsage : UNPIN - Be careful how you're pinning and unpinning that corsage, Buster!


18. It has a climbing route called "The Nose" : EL CAPITAN 



19. Crude : TASTELESS - That may have been funny years ago but... 


21. Den denizens : CUBS - Saw them play the Royals in beautiful Sloan Stadium in Mesa, AZ on a beautiful 60F day last Sunday. The surrounding area is called Wrigleyville like it is in Chicago surrounding Wrigley Field. 




22. Nice assent : OUI - Yes in Nice, France!


23. League of Women Voters co-founder : CATT - Carrie Chapman CATT. Progress!




24. Assists a chef : PREPS - For me that would be, "Get out the ketchup, Gary!"


26. White House advisory gp. : NSC - JFK and his National Security Council in October 1961 during a very tense time in American history




27. Six-pack group : ABS - Here's how to work on your abdominal muscles 






28. Fighting chance : BOUT - What many consider the greatest and most brutal BOUT of all time. Joe Frazier's corner quit after the 14th round which gave Ali a TKO but Ali was begging his corner to "cut off his gloves" so he could quit but Joe beat him to it.



29. Comics shriek : YEOW


31. The African Queen, for one : STEAMBOAT - Bogie and Hepburn suffered many physical ailments making this movie in the brutal Belgian Congo

35. Former first daughter : MALIA and 2. To an annoying degree : AD NAUSEAM - I had _ U L I _ (JULIE Nixon) for the name for awhile because  I thought AD NAUSEAM ended in UM.


37. Make a call : OPT


38. Conqueror of Valencia in 1094 : EL CID


40. Brain in many an Asimov story : MAIN FRAME - Not exactly a MAIN FRAME but here is Isaac Asimov pitching a computer. Hey, authors have to eat too!




43. British title : DAME


44. Part of a flute : STEM - How 'bout a Champagne flute with a hollow STEM




47. __ shooter : PEA 


48. Buzzed : TIPSY


50. Pokémon that evolves to Kadabra : ABRA - Yeah, I knew that! 😛




51. Org. concerned with child support : PTA - Mrs. Johnson "socked it to the Harper Valley PTA"


52. Singer Vannelli : GINO - 65-yr-old GINO was performing in Scottsdale just after we left this week


53. 1995 AFI Life Achievement Award recipient : SPIELBERG - His first movie was Amblin' which he wrote, directed and edited with $15,000. I can't pick a favorite of his movies  but Apollo 13 is right up there.




55. Spidey sense, basically : ALARM BELL




58. Skateboard leap : OLLIE - Mass OLLIES




59. Stopped taking orders : WENT ROGUE - I did this at several points in my life which almost all turned out to be bad decisions 


60. Home of Armani and Prada : MILAN - Do they sell at Kohl's?


61. News credential : PRESS PASS - Where/when they wore them.




62. Place on a pedestal : EXALT



Down


1. Scientific name involving a repeated word : TAUTONYM - New word for me but you see an example at the bottom of this chart




3. What Brad's Drink became : PEPSI COLA - Invented in 1893 in New Bern, N.C. 



4. Settled down : ALIT


5. Elder or Younger Roman writer : SENECA - PLINY was not only wrong, it was one letter short


6. Modern-day eruption : TWEET STORM - Today everybody has an opinion and an electronic forum


7. "The Planets" composer : HOLST - It has seven movements - one for each planet except the one we inhabit



8. Story lines : ARCS - The ARC in the movie Apollo 13 quickly changed from getting to the Moon to getting back to Earth safely

9. It can be green, red or yellow : TEA - I'll bet a bunch that C.C.'s house does not contain a TEA bag 

10. Con's mark : SAP


11. Hyphenated word in a Hawthorne title : TWICE TOLD - An 1837 compilation of short stories he collected over the years


12. Put the bite on : HIT UP - Every year we get HIT UP for these delights. Gotta love the Thin Mints




13. Many Scheherazade characters : ARABS - A Rimsky-Korsakov symphonic suite based on The Arabian Knights


14. XXX, perhaps : TENS - Olympic judges at the Roman Colosseum? 


20. Big dogs : LABS and 24. Little dog : POM - Here's a cross of a Golden Lab and a Pomeranian. 




25. Self-Operating Napkin creator Goldberg : RUBE Here it is!




28. Rides with wing-shaped tailfins : BAT MOBILES - There's more than one?


30. Game including golf and bowling : WII SPORTS


32. Taker of ppm measurements : EPA - The Environmental Protection Agency decides how many parts per million of any stuff can be in any other stuff


33. Barbershop quartet style : A CAPPELLA - A wonderful scene and fabulous music!




34. Race against the clock : TIME TRIAL - Omaha has been the site of the TIME TRIALS for the U.S. Olympic Swim Team for years.



36. Outdoor party crashers : ANTS


39. Buster? : DEA AGENT - Busting drug rings


41. "Bossypants" memoirist : FEY -Tina FEY is a funny woman


42. Fictional governess : EYRE - 
A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret. 



46. Rita Hayworth's title princess : SALOME - Her Salome dress recently sold at auction for $15,000. (Talk about contrast to Jane Eyre!)




48. Building subcontractor : TILER 


49. Just plain silly : INANE


50. Outstanding : A PLUS 


52. Be a looky-loo : GAWP - Of course I thought it was GAWK first




53. Genesis creator : SEGA

54. "Disarming Iraq" author Hans : BLIX - He was also the first western representative at the Chernobyl disaster site

56. Ceremonial title? : MRS - On What's My Line, Emcee John Daly's first question of a woman contestant after she signed in was, "Is it Miss or MRS. ______"?


57. Jazz genre : BOP- Or BEBOP 


What say you?

DA GRID