Friday, November 9, 2012

Saturday, Nov 10th, 2012, Barry C. Silk

Theme:  Saturday Silkie

Words: 72

Blocks: 28

  I do hope all you Orthorunicans managed to get on Mr. Silk's wavelength today - my first pass was nearly blank, but once I changed "RIM" to "FLU", I was off and running - "FORGED AHEAD", if you will.  A pleasant puzzle with little in the way of obscure people, and just a little misdirection on some of the old standbys - for example, see 54D.  Triple 11's and double 10's make up the pinwheel, and some of the notables:

15. 1989 Best Original Song Oscar winner : UNDER THE SEA - From the Little Mermaid

27. Windows alternatives : AISLE SEATS - ah, not "APPLE iPods", or something along one's computer software line; just the regular everyday windows found on airplanes
 

53. Solos : GOES IT ALONE - we just had "GO SOLO" yesterday~!


onWARD~!!!

ACROSS:

1. Fictional sleepwalker : LADY MACBETH - I am not up on my Shakespeare, did not know this; the perps were enough to try a WAG

12. __ shot : FLU - not RIMshot

16. Seed used in cat grass : OAT

17. Holiday staple : ROAST TURKEY - we are almost there ~!!

18. GRF succeeded him : RMN - Richard Mihous Nixon, who became the POTUS after Leslie Lynch King Jr. - see here

19. "The Memory of Trees" album maker : ENYA - crossword staple

20. Join the cast of : ACT IN

21. 1940s Time film critic James : AGEE - crossword staple, I guessed

22. Head turner : NECK - My first thought, but I didn't actually fill it in

24. Winter warmer : MITTEN

26. Consented : SAID O.K.

29. Soften : MODULATE

31. Firing spots : KILNS

32. Bus stop : DEPOT

33. Exhibits : HAS

34. Home of the Kon-Tiki Museum : OSLO

35. It may be marked : TRAIL

36. Signs of neglect : WEBS - cobwebs, that is

37. Mass garb : ALB

38. Worker, informally : PROLE - short for proletariat

39. Kerosene source : SHALE

40. Product with the slogan "Get What Fits." : LEE JEANS

42. Fair one : MAIDEN

43. Political position : STANCE - no more posturing and prattling~!

44. __ tape : DUCT - yes, it's ducT tape, not ducK tape, but there is a brand that went by that name

45. Paint company with an ursine image in its logo : BEHR

 

46. Skiers' aids : T-BARS - crossword staple

48. Rescue team, briefly : EMTs - crossword staple

52. OPEC member : UAE - United Arab Emirates - OPEC is an abbreviation, so...

55. Orch. section : STRings

56. All fuss and feathers : PRETENTIOUS

57. Literary monogram : T.S.Eliot - crossword staple

58. Antipastos, e.g. : ASSORTMENTS

DOWN:
 
1. Fly in a river : LURE

2. Presently : ANON

3. Time to 6-Down : D-DAY - cross referenced with; 6. See 3-Down : ATTACK

4. Equivocal reply : YES AND NO - well, maybe?

5. Bouncer-turned-actor : MR. T - I pity the fool who didn't get this one

7. Berry of St. Louis : CHUCK - also a WAG, but I was right

8. Game show host Convy : BERT - this guy

9. Klondike bar relative : ESKIMO PIE

10. Cause of screaming and fainting, perhaps : TEEN IDOL - always think of the Fab Four

11. Stable diet? : HAY

12. Progress at a faster rate : FORGE AHEAD

13. Unfortunate : LAMENTABLE

14. __ Reader: alternative media anthology : UTNE

21. Hawks' home: Abbr. : ATLanta, the NBA team

23. Volkswagen model : EOS - this car

25. Subject of a 1922 discovery : TUT - King Tutankhamun - more here

26. "Cheers!" : SKOAL - not SALUT

28. "You can count on me!" : I'LL BE THERE

29. Board : MEALS - as a carpenter, I wanted "WOOD", but this is the college "room and board" version

30. City north of Cologne : ESSEN - map

32. They develop from unfertilized eggs : DRONE BEES - huh

35. Cultivation wheels : TRACTORS - good misdirection, not looking for TILLERS ( yes, it's short one letter )

36. Benign fiction : WHITE LIE - from now on, I am going to tell people it was "a little benign fiction"; sounds acceptable, doesn't it?~??

38. Declaration of Independence writer? : PEN - har-har

39. RBI fly : SACrifice - when you swing for the fence, and give your runner on third a chance to 'tag up' and sprint for home before the relay throw - hey, I know a little baseball

41. Tip holder : JAR

42. Taboo word : MUSTN'T - big block of unruly consonants

44. Paint additive : DRIER - not COLOR

45. Run in : BUST

47. About : AS TO

49. Noyes's "ghostly galleon" : MOON - poem

50. Hardware bit : T-NUT - crossword staple

51. Mtg. : SESSion

53. Credit-weighted no. : GPA - Grade Point Average

54. Balance-reducing equipment, often : ATM - crossword staple, our "20's Dispenser" with a new lease on life, so to speak - the Automated Teller Machine - so let's give it a little time in the limelight

Splynter

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