Monday June 24, 2019 Gail Grabowski & Bruce Venzke

Theme: B AND E. (38A. Burglary, for short ... and a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers) - Each theme entry is in the pattern of B* E*:

 

 17A. Medical licensing test: BOARD EXAM.

 59A. Online mass marketing message: BULK EMAIL.

 10D. Wearing away of a riverside slope: BANK EROSION.

 23D. Torso-twisting "spin" that has no effect on the ball: BODY ENGLISH.

Boomer here.

"BE - All that you can -BE". I remember that BEing a commercial to join the Army.  It didn't work for me.  I could not find a bowling center or a golf course in Hardheim, Germany. Spring Bowling League ends tonight.  I will try to keep my golf clubs busy until Labor Day.

Across:

1. Esau's twin: JACOB.  Some of these old biblical stories live on and on.

6. Wee bit: TAD.

9. Cause to blush: ABASH.  Also a big hit by Albert Pujols.

14. Love, in Milan: AMORE.  "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie !"

15. Hoopla: ADO.  What is the next note on the scale after a Ti ?

16. 1945 "Big Three" summit site: YALTA.  The "Big Three" were Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. They agreed to demand that Germany surrender and end WWII, probably because Germany had no golf courses or bowling centers. 

20. "Pull up a chair": SIT.

21. "Ghostbusters" goo: SLIME. "Who ya gonna call ??

22. Sport with rifles and disks: SKEET.  I don't know about rifles. We used to shoot skeet with shotguns.

23. Tot's mealtime chest protector: BIB.  I sometime eat meals in a reclining chair.  I could use a bib.

24. Cardin of design: PIERRE.  The capital city of South Dakota.  C.C. and I visited there once.

25. Translates, as a cipher: DECODES.  Got the sniffles ? Dayquil may DECODE you.

29. Deborah of "The King and I": KERR.

30. Get away from: EVADE.  In Pac-Man you may need to EVADE Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde.

31. Rain really hard: POUR. When it rains, it pours.  A slogan for Morton Salt.  Maybe, but when humidity gums it up in its box, sometimes it does NOT pour.

33. Smell: ODOR.  Would you like a picture of Rougned?  Or will you be happy this time to fill in an easy answer to an easy clue.

37. Group of quail: BEVY.  Quail is common, but I played golf lst week on a hole with a BEVY of ducks.

39. Pen name that sounds like a drink: SAKI. Never heard of these pens.

40. Maple or sycamore: TREE.

41. 1998 film with talking bugz?: ANTZ.

42. Longed (for): PINED.  Add an "N" in the middle and you've added a tail to a donkey.

43. State between Mont. and Minn.: N DAK.  Been there many times.  You may have seen us at Teddy Roosevelt's state park last week.

45. Transfers from computer to cloud, say: UPLOADS.

47. Theater platforms: STAGES.

50. Actor McKellen: IAN.

51. Instruments for Yo-Yo Ma: CELLI.  If that's the plural for cello, I'll take your word for it.

52. Flinch or blink: REACT.

55. "Hulk" director Lee: ANG.

58. Thing of the past: RELIC.  Many churches named after saints may have a relic of that saint somewhere.

61. Won by __: squeaked out the victory: A NOSE.  I'll bet Jimmy Durante won a lot.

62. Wrath: IRE.

63. Artery in an angiogram: AORTA. This is very special, you cannot live without it.

64. Unverified stories: MYTHS.

65. Mariner's "Help!": SOS.  I heard that when Samuel Morse built his code, he made the "S" and "O" short clicks so that a danger could be clicked conveniently and quickly.

66. Called the game: UMPED.  I know many people who have Umpired games. 

Down:

1. Short punches: JABS.

2. Mine, in Metz: A MOI. - Where is METZ? And do they have land mines there ?

3. Paint layer: COAT.

4. Hockey immortal: ORR.  Bruin Bobby.  Defenseman scored more goals than Miguel Sano strikeouts.

5. Place for reading a nighttime story to a tot: BEDSIDE.

6. Ride with a meter: TAXI.  Great sitcom, where Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito became famous. 

7. Actor Sandler: ADAM. He was great in "The Longest Yard" but of course my favorite was "Happy Gilmore".

8. Rotunda topper: DOME.  Also a stadium topper in Minneapolis from 1982 - to about 2010.

9. Sailor's assent: AYE SIR. I think there are two AYEs in that

11. Change: ALTER.

12. Rodeo bovine: STEER.  I have a wheel coming out of dashboard for this.

13. Poker Flat chronicler Bret: HARTE.

18. North Sea feeder: ELBE. This river runs through Germany Northwest to Southeast. Quite a bit east of Hardheim.

24. Dijon dad: PERE.

25. Credit report item: DEBT. FICO score should be good enough.  It rhymes with  GEICO. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike -- What day is it ???  Whatever happened to the cavemen anyway??

26. At any time: EVER.  "If you're ever in a jam, here I am".

27. Home to Alley Oop: CAVE.  The man in the funny papers we all know?  Not in our paper.

28. Hit on the tush: SPANK.  And Darla's forget me not "ALFAL"

29. Invasive Asian vine: KUDZU.

32. Toronto's prov.: ONT.  I am  little more familiar with Manitoba just North of MN.  They play hockey there too.

34. Delany of "Desperate Housewives": DANA.

35. Approved: OKED. Stuck in a panhandle.

36. Frees (of): RIDS.

38. Sounds at shearings: BAAS.  Sounds at a Brewers Cubs game - BOOS

42. Kin of a mesa: PLATEAU.

44. Gets the frost off, as plane wings: DEICES.  Yeah, were two hours late in Feb on a flight MSP to LAS.  

46. Prospector's tool: PICK.  I use one to get little bits of food out of my teeth.

47. "Get lost!": SCRAM.

48. So, so small: TEENY. Weeny itsy bitsy yellow polka dot bikini.

49. Portion out: ALLOT. When I portion out my dinner, I always go with A LOT.

52. Sluggers' stats: RBIS.  Sometimes you need to be lucky to have teammates on base when you get your hits.

53. Milan money: EURO.

54. Taproom orders: ALES.  I expect it may normally be BEER.

55. Strong lobby for seniors: AARP.  Not me.  I canceled  membership after one year.  All I got was a lot of junk mail disguised as good deals if I spent my money. 

56. Late time, in ads: NITE.

57. Delighted: GLAD.  Plastic bag or wrap.  Do not throw it in the ocean!

60. Judy, to Liza: MOM.  We used to have a boss named Marvin O. Mechelke.  When you got a memo signed MOM, you knew who it came from.

Boomer