L.A.Times Crossword Corner

Nov 19, 2022

Saturday, November 19, 2022, Kate Chin Park, Brooke Husic

Saturday Themeless by Kate Chin Park and Brooke Husic

Let's start on this fun puzzle with 23 Down - 23. Column crossers: ROWS

Across:

1. Certain pronouncement?: THAT'S FACTS - "That's a fact, Jack!" The actual fill is also a title to a rap song with "explicit" lyrics

11. Some scanners: HP'S - I'm sure Hewlett Packard makes nice scanners but this is what I do:

14. Pity parties?: SORE LOSERS - The NHL is the only North American sports league that makes players shake hands after a game

15. Tender in Tehran: RIAL - $1.00 = ﷼42,484

16. "Don't I know it": ALL TOO TRUE.

17. Survey opción: OTRO

¿Comida rápida favorita?

A) McDonalds

B) Burger King

C) OTRO

18. Brazilian city: RIO - Extreme poverty exists very close to extreme wealth in RIO de Janeiro

19. Ballet bends: PLIES - You can find them working out in the gym or watching The Nutcracker

20. Act big, so to speak: EMOTE.

21. Mud: JOE and 34. Noggin: BEAN. - Slang names for coffee and head respectively

22. Like wrap heels: STRAPPY - It appears that she 24. Tolerates: STANDS the pain

27. Neither partner: NOR.

28. Rx overseer: FDA and 58. Rx items: MEDS.

30. See-__: THRU - The Glass Frog of Ecuador.

31. Some high-occupancy vehicles: CLOWN CARS.

35. Greek city that's one of the oldest in Europe: ARGOS - Evidence of a settlement going back 7,000 years has been found at the foot of Aspida Hill in ARGOS shown here.

36. Mid-month day: IDES - The passage from Julius Caesar

37. Resident of the highest-altitude U.S. capital: SANTAFEAN- Yeah, I'm the only one who thought of Denverite

39. Assessment: TEST.

40. "Arthur" network: PBS.

41. Heated state: IRE.

42. Way out: EGRESS - At the top of Launch Pad 39 A & 39 B, NASA has what they call an "Emergency EGRESS System" that is a basket on a wire that can carry the astronauts to safety in the event of a malfunction at the top of the pad

45. Opposite of coy: UPFRONT.

48. Swift album with "All Too Well": RED.

49. One with a clipped ear, perhaps: STRAY - Cat fight souvenir

50. Talking point: TOPIC.

52. Swiatek who won the French Open in 2020 and 2022: IGA - Our familiar grocery store chain cluing gives way to Polish tennis champion IGA Natalia Świątek

55. Busy, busy, busy: AT IT.

56. One doing spit takes?: WINE TASTER - This allows the TASTER to remain sober and better sample the wine. Not this.

59. Technology swiped by millions: SMART PHONE - 😀 No intellectual property thievery, just the motion we use for cellular navigation.

60. "__ we good?": ARE.

61. Retro footwear made from PVC: JELLY SHOES.

Down:

1. Pre-revolution ruler: TSAR - It did not end well for the Romanovs

2. Spring celebration with colored powder: HOLI - I was happy to learn that Holi (pronounced how-lee) is a Hindi festival that celebrates the end of winter and the arrival of spring.

3. "Collapsed in Sunbeams" singer Parks: ARLO - Here ya go. Arlo Guthrie joins the IGA Grocery chain on the Saturday crossword bench.

4. New Year celebrated with thit kho trung: TET - Vietnamese caramelized braised pork ribs with eggs. Speaking of Saturday cluing for familiar crossword fill...

5. Apply generously: SLOP ON.

6. Got: FOOLED - Gotcha!

7. Bubbly locale: ASTI - The producers dropped the name Spumante when they reformulated the wine in 1993 to differentiate it from being called "the poor man's champagne".

8. Demeter's Roman counterpart: CERES - Goddesses of agriculture

9. Advice for a plant: TRUST NO ONE - This plant is an undercover agent placed in the enemy's camp 😀

10. Dir. from Beverly Hills to Long Beach: SSE - It appears to be a 38 minute 21. Day trip, maybe: JAUNT on the 405. I wonder if our California posters think that is a realistic time.

11. Some flat caps?: HI TOP FADES.

12. Eye-catching number: PARTY DRESS.

13. Gin berry: SLOE.

15. Frolic: ROMP.

20. Get well?: EARN - Obtain legitimately? 😀

24. Ingredient in many L'Occitane creams: SHEA BUTTER - The Butyrospermum ParkII (Shea Butter) is listed as the fourth ingredient.

25. Movement celebrated with a blue, pink, and white flag: TRANSPRIDE - These participants at a TRANS PRIDE event in Las Vegas wore shirts instead of carrying flags.

26. Hours limited by parents: SCREEN TIME - It is possible to set a passcode-protected SCREEN TIME limit on your child's phone.

29. PDA part: Abbr.: ASST - The Personal Data ASSisatanT has been largely supplanted by cell phones

30. Largest of a certain kitchen set, for short: TBSP.

32. NYC hub: LGA - The cost of a one-way flight from OMAha to LaGuardiA today

33. Gave credit: CITED.

35. Hairstyle for Misty Knight: AFRO - A Marvel Comics character

38. Open, in a way: AIRY.

43. Philadelphia Flyers mascot: GRITTY - Gritty makes an entrance

44. Short accounts: RECAPS.

46. Domino's starter?: FATS - ANNO did not work because I read Domoni instead of DOMINO.

47. Like many Asian languages: TONAL - We English speakers have some of this like when we say, "Dude". However this is a lesson about Mandarin Chines and TONAL language.