Words: 68
Blocks: 29
Always a pleasure when I get a puzzle such as this one, where little by
slowly, the pieces fall in to place, and I get that satisfied feeling
of having successfully tackled another Saturday crossword. Mr. Wilber
offers us FOUR grid spanners double-stacked today:
15. Solution for repairing snagged nylons : CLEAR NAIL POLISH - I have heard this, and you all know me, so I have to offer up a picture of some nylons~!
17. Fitness-focused parent's purchase : JOGGING STROLLER - this thing
44. Spider web's abundance : TENSILE STRENGTH
- the ability to bend and return to its original position; it's why
steel, also high in tensile strength, is used to reinforce concrete,
which is high in compression strength - I'm getting into 37D.
47. Fail to get caught : ESCAPE ATTENTION - no LIPA truck escapes attention right now; we all stood out in the street and watched the guy re-rig the power lines and give us the magic juice back. Now Long Island has almost NO gasoline at all; coming home tonight, 1am, ONE of about 12 stations I passed had gas, and the headlights were lined up as far as the eye could see; the police monitored the entrances to make sure no one was cutting in
47. Fail to get caught : ESCAPE ATTENTION - no LIPA truck escapes attention right now; we all stood out in the street and watched the guy re-rig the power lines and give us the magic juice back. Now Long Island has almost NO gasoline at all; coming home tonight, 1am, ONE of about 12 stations I passed had gas, and the headlights were lined up as far as the eye could see; the police monitored the entrances to make sure no one was cutting in
Aaaawnward~!
ACROSS:
1. "An almond in every bite" candy : MARS BAR
8. Magic Johnson's 10,141 : ASSISTS - not a basketball guy, no slam-dunk for me; had to wait until some downs could 'assist' me on this one
8. Magic Johnson's 10,141 : ASSISTS - not a basketball guy, no slam-dunk for me; had to wait until some downs could 'assist' me on this one
18. Rueful exclamation : OH GEE
19. Ecstatic hymn : PAEAN
20. 1950s Reds nickname : KLU - this guy: more from our illustrious baseball blogger, C.C. -
21. "The Whiffenpoof Song" sound effects : BAAS - sounds like an earworm to me....there's plenty of music to go around in this puzzle
22. Jersey's environs : DAIRY - Jersey cows; moo.
23. Matching : TWIN
24. Paris-to-Vichy dir. : SSE - yeah, uh, I don't make this trip too often; I know the answers are limited to S, N, E and W
25. Post-larval insects : PUPAS - not PUPAE
26. Item with which Osiris is usually pictured : CROOK
27. Clinton's FBI director : FREEH - the Wiki
28. It can have a tail but never legs : SHIRT
29. __ House: Pennsylvania Ave. guest quarters : BLAIR - more here
30. Blowout substitute? : B-TEAM - Sporting blow-out, when one team dominates the competition; sort of like the Dream Team of the US Olympic Basketball team - which I still know nothing about....
31. Cut-up : CLOWN - Not SAAWN - the cut-up with antics
32. Be a Scrooge : HOARD
33. Cassidy who played a Hardy Boy : SHAUN - yeah, grew up with this show
34. Knighted mystery writer who championed the Boer War : DOYLE
35. Enter the pool : BET - the gambling pool, that is
38. Sultry "Mink, Shmink" singer : KITT - Eartha Kitt
39. Coppers in London : PENCE - because POLICE didn't fit
40. Assembled : MADE - So simple, it was hard
41. Ducks' home, on the ticker : ANAheim, one of the NHL's California hockey teams; EddyB was a San Jose Sharks fan; there's also the Stanley Cup champion LA Kings - NONE of whom will be playing anytime soon....greedy bastards
42. Event where lumberjacks get wet : ROLEO
43. Spock specialty : LOGIC - fascinating, captain
48. Red fox of medieval lore : REYNARD - ah, tried MAYNARD first; he's the guy who owned the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction
49. 1993 Kentucky Derby winner sired by Polish Navy : SEA HERO
DOWN:
1. They're often filled with teens : McJOBS - My first job, not a common one as the name here implies, was at Grossman's lumber - home office was in Braintree Mass, not far from BarryG
2. Some hellos ... and goodbyes : ALOHAS
3. Marley's music : REGGAE - Bob Marley, link away ~!!!
4. Gurus : SAGES
5. Some French wheels : BRIE - Cheese wheels
6. Novelist Beattie : ANN
7. Incongruous-sounding high-end stationery : RAG PAPER - I had PUPAE, so the "P" gave me a hint that ---PAPER might be the answer
8. Tweaks, say : ALTERS
9. Surf feature : SPRAY - not CREST
10. Directly : SOON - not ASAP, or ANON
11. Down with something : ILL
12. Source of soft fabric : SILKWORM
13. "The Hollow Men" poet : T.S. ELIOT - our poetry person has passed; who will take up the torch - YR?
14. Dwindled : SHRUNK - ah, not shrAnk
16. Old Testament prophet : ISAIAH
22. Expected to land : DUE IN
23. Basic chord : TRIAD - three notes; "power chords" from just about all hard rock/heavy metal songs are triads - these guys were masters at it
25. Tasty crustacean : PRAWN - reminds me of District 9; we've discussed this before
26. Beloved, in Bordeaux : CHERE - ah, not cherI
27. Thumb one's nose at : FLOUT
28. Shopworn : STALE
29. Glaring quality : BLATANCY
30. Stops patronizing : BOYCOTTS - I read this as the 'other' patronizing - being obnoxiously polite
31. Like many a 12-Down : CHINESE
32. Forthcoming : HONEST
33. Button, notably : SKATER - Dick Button, here
34. Remove element #82 from : DE-LEAD - get the LED out - I was jamming this at Mike's by the fire tonight
35. Hefty product : BAGGIE - Hefty, the brand name, that is - didn't fool me
36. One working on drafts : EDITOR
37. Prefix with babble : TECHNO - when someone tries to explain how a wastegate works on a turbo, they might get into "techno-babble"
39. Gondolier, e.g. : POLER
40. Number before a slash, maybe : MONTH - as in 11/03/12
42. Strahan co-host : RIPA - Kelly and Michael of "Live with_"
43. Hyena in "L'il Abner" : LENA
45. Japanese surname addition : SAN
46. Mr. __!: old whodunit game : REE - get it? Mr. Ree - mystery~!
Splynter
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