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Oct 29, 2022

Saturday, October 29, 2022, Emet Ozar and Matthew Stock

 Saturday Themeless by Emet Ozar and Matthew Stock




Matthew Stock has another collaboration, this time with Emet Ozar. Matthew 
is an 8th grade math teacher in Gainesville, Florida. 






Emet
Emet Ozar, formerly from Los Angeles but currently in Charlotte, N.C., is a program manager for a software company. She and her wife have three children, all under 7. 


Across:

1. Part of one's inheritance: TRAIT 


6. Comedian Samantha: BEE Her show has been cancelled

9. Targets of some reconstructive surgery, initially: ACLS - Football season sees many problems with the Anterior Cruciate LigamentS


13. Annual telethon held by Comic Relief: RED NOSE DAY - I learned of this event while subbing and I paid a kid $2 for a RED NOSE


16. "Works for me": COOL.

17. "Hm, maybe": I SUPPOSE SO.

18. Concerning: AS TO.

19. Strike zone?: LANE - Here's a double strike on LANE 13. We dedicate this to our favorite bowler Boomer!


20. Call from a night owl to an early bird: DON'T WAIT UP.

22. Like many beep baseball players: BLIND A wonderful explanation of this sport for the BLIND and visually impaired that features a beeping ball and buzzing bases


24. Alphabetical order?: BLT.

25. Mileage, so to speak: USE - One of these has a lot of USE and high mileage


27. Compass dirección: OESTE.


31. Broke: TAMED - Uh, not 
26. So far: YET.


33. Woman who co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World, familiarly: MOTHER JONES.


35. Dojo curriculum: MARTIAL ARTS - Daniel and Mr. Miagi visit the hostile Cobra Kai DOJO. Now what was the name of that movie? 😊


36. Symbols in some price guides: DOLLAR SIGNS.


37. __ box: BENTO - When our granddaughter took us for sushi, she recommended we get a BENTO box, which we did.


38. Imperfect, e.g.: TENSE - TENSE filled itself and then the idea of grammar hit me!


39. Org. whose agenda is up in the air?: FAA.

42. Not fast: EAT - Before a blood draw, we have to fast and not EAT that day

43. Short filmmaker?: CAM - Short for CAMera or CAMcorder 

45. Stories: YARNS.

47. Dish also called horiatiki: GREEK SALAD - My half Greek wife does not like blue cheese, black olives or grape leaves.

52. Model Hadid with a Maybelline collection: GIGI.


53. Brute: OGRE.

54. Some long-distance connections: SKYPE DATES.


56. Coward with a knighthood: NOEL - NOEL Coward (1899 - 1973)

57. Spanish soap: TELENOVELA - A portmanteau of Television and Novela 


58. "Scooping since 1928" brand: EDY'S.

59. Hi-__: RES.

60. All over the place: MESSY.


Down:

1. Hat with a teardrop-shaped crown: TRILBY - Putting FEDORA first wasn't that bad


2. Consignment shop deal: RESALE.

3. Marketing space on a website, e.g.: AD UNIT.


4. Medtronic injection device for diabetics: INPEN.


5. Dreidel, e.g.: TOP 


6. Indicación de afecto: BESO 


7. Place with a snake in the grass: EDEN.

8. Cold War capital: EAST BERLIN - The guy at Checkpoint Charlie in EAST BERLIN assured me this was part of the wall.


9. Flavonoids-rich berry: ACAI.

10. Play clothes: COSTUMES.

11. Symbolic flowers in Buddhism: LOTUSES.


12. At an angle: SLOPED.

14. Turf: SOD.

15. Make one's voice heard, in a way: YOWL - Yell and Howl did not work. Yawp from 10/18 didn't work either 

21. Professional who goes through the motions?: ATTORNEY - C'mon, that was funny

23. Basic security feature: DOOR LOCK.

28. "__ Is Betta Than Evvah!": 1976 album: ETTA - New cluing for a cwd favorite


29. Custom Ink or RushOrderTees: SHIRT MAKER - I designed this at RushOrderTees.


30. Kid: TEASE.

32. Army __: ANTS.

33. Stout grain: MALT.

34. Florida NFLers: JAGS - Jacksonville is considering building a new football stadium 


35. California home of an annual jazz festival: MONTEREY.

 
36. XTC song with the lyrics "Hope you get the letter and / I pray you can make it better down here": DEAR GOD Here ya go.

37. "Away with thee!": BEGONE.

39. Bistro side: FRITES 


40. The Big A team: ANGELS - The Big A Stadium when the California ANGELS opened it in 1970. They became Anaheim ANGELS and are now the Los Angeles ANGELS.


41. "To repeat ... ": AS I SAY.

44. Little help?: ASST.

46. Source of the Mexican drink pulque: AGAVE What is pulque and how is it made?


48. Long fish: EELS.

49. Singer Lovett: LYLE - Yes, he was married to her for almost two years.


50. Copies: APES.

51. Hideaway: DEN.

55. __ Pérignon: DOM.