Words: 68
Blocks: 30
I do believe this is my first time blogging a puzzle from our SJSJ
constructor~! As I look, I see that this may be his first Saturday
LAT. Thick triple stacks/10-letter corners - one I got, one took way
too long. I did have to check ONE thing on Google (see below), but
the rest of the grid did fill in slowly and steadily. A crossing of a
spanner and a climber;
35A. "Hold your horses!" : "ONE SECOND PLEASE"~!
8D. One-on-one strategy : MAN-TO-MAN DEFENSE
- I see it's predominantly used in basketball and football; I am just
happy that hockey is back; dad is watching with EddyB tomorrow....
3 and 4 word answers, and two more -
53. Loving way to walk : HAND-IN-HAND - oh, if only there were a hand for me....
11. Erect : STAND ON END - ummm, yeah, that too....
Sorry if this one turns out to be a little rough, Cruciverb was not available until 4am, and I usually stay up Friday to do the write up.
onward
ACROSS:
1. World Series components : POKER GAMES - locked into baseball; night games wouldn't work with OMEGA, which I knew was right
11. Unleashes : SICS - and a semi-clecho 23D. Cut free : RELEASE - which was unLEASh at first
15. Better : AMELIORATE
16. Hardware item : T-NUT
17. What good debaters pounce on : WEAK POINTS
18. No longer tied up : ASEA
19. FBI employees : AGTs - Like Sculder and Mully, I mean Mulder and Scully - do you think he was "stand on end"?
20. Fills : SATES
21. Too curious : NOSY
22. Some grad students : TAs - ah - not EEs, AAs, BAs, MAs, but the Teaching 56A's
23. __-Tahoe Open: annual PGA Tour event : RENO
24. USCG VIP : ADMiral
25. File manager menu option : RENAME
27. Ancient Aegean region west of Lydia : IONIA
30. Sweet-talk : CAJOLE
33. Decking : ADORNING - total WAG for me; I was trying to get TimberTech to fit (it's what I used on the church ramp)
37. Ran out of clothes? : STREAKED - HAR-HAR~!! Running across the baseball diamond 'sans skivvies', 'bare-ass naked'
38. Colors : TINCTS
39. Memorable swimsuit model Cheryl : TIEGS - she's 66 now
40. Put a new cover on, as a book : REBIND
42. Space shuttle astronaut Jemison : MAE - and another semi-clecho, 47D. Curiosity org. : NASA
43. It may be lost or saved : FACE
44. Learning ctr. : SCHool and a TRUE clecho, 28D. Learning ctr. : INSTitution, not UNIV
47. "Sunset Boulevard" genre : NOIR
49. Better : AMEND
51. TV's "__-Team" : THE "A"
52. Not much : A TAD
55. Hypotenuse, e.g. : SIDE - of a triangle
56. Helping people : ASSISTANTS
57. Gp. with common goals : ASSN
58. Least helpful, as a description : SKETCHIEST
DOWN:
1. Investigate, as a toy mouse : PAW AT - had NUDGE to start
2. Greek horseshoe? : OMEGA - sure looks that way ~!
3. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" poet : KEATS
4. Big bucks : ELKS - ah, not the money kind, like THOU, or GEES
5. Let-'er ender : RIP - "Let 'er RIP~!"
6. Manipulable lamp : GOOSE-NECK - ARGH~! I knew what the word meant, but I just couldn't get my mind off "touch" something; this is what we're looking for
7. Richards of "Jurassic Park" : ARIANA - My mind was stuck [again] on Richard Attenborough (John Hammond), so I finally went to find out who the "other" Richard was - little Lex is all grown up ~!
9. Kitchen add-on : ETTE - Kitchenette
10. Court period: Abbr. : SESSion
12. Hardly a dreamer? : INSOMNIAC - I keep a journal of all my dreams, and I try to recall every detail I can. Then I go online to see what certain imagery pertains to; once had a dream about a fish hook stuck in my neck -you can find out what it meant here
13. Sticks around the pool hall : CUES - the sticks that one shoots with
14. Vacation period : STAY
24. Delta, but not gamma : AIRLINE
25. Metaphorical dream world : ROSE GARDEN - I didn't promise you one....
26. Onetime Leno announcer Hall : EDD
29. Forever, it seems : AGES - ugh, not EONS
30. Pain from a sticker? : COST - Sticker shock, like on new cars
31. Foe : ANTI - meh
32. Lamentations : JEREMIADS - new word to me; more here
34. Anatomical blind spot site : OPTIC DISC - see more here - unless it's in your, well....
36. Poetic location word : O'ER
41. Oater baddie : BANDIT and, his 50D. 41-Down's accessory : MASK
44. "A man has to be what he is, Joey" speaker : SHANE
45. Single divisions : CENTS
46. Possessed, biblically : HADST
48. __ B. Driftwood, Groucho's "A Night at the Opera" role : OTIS
49. Cries of clarity : A-HAs
51. Pad __: stir-fried noodles : THAI
54. Degree in algebra? : NTH - just about every Saturday, it seems
Splynter
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