Words: 68 (missing B,F,J,Q,X,Y,Z)
Blocks: 25
We have us a new Saturday constructor~! Melanie has had 5 LAT puzzles, with the last one coming in Feb on a Monday. Today's offering had some similar clues/answers to that grid, I noticed. Chunky corners of 9's and 8's, with two 11-letter fills on the inside. Fairly difficult for a Saturday, IMHO, but I was able to solve without any look-ups or cheating, and only the SW corner requiring some WAGs to complete. The two longer answers:
20a. Ranks achieved by Armstrong and Lovell : EAGLE SCOUTS - Two astronauts who reached the highest 'rank' in the Boy Scouts - Wiki
53a. Events after shootings : WRAP PARTIES - Melanie's last puzzle was a "party" theme; this in not the violent kind of shooting, but the movie set type - I worked on a made-for-TV film way back in '97, and we had us a Wrap Party the following summer with a preview of the finished show.
"OM" ward~! (working my 60a.)
ACROSS:
1. Harassed, in a way : HEN-PECKED
10. Lenox brand : DANSK - their enameled steel cookware looks familar
15. Busy state to go into : OVERDRIVE
16. Boiling : IRATE
17. Made for the tube : TELEGENIC
18. Decalogue delivery site : SINAI
19. They may hook you up, briefly : RNs - Hook you up to IVs, tho I have seen certain movies....
22. Los __, city near San Luis Obispo : OSOS
24. Greenland capital : KRONE - this being the money kind of capital, not the city
25. Flanged bit of hardware : T-NUT
26. Powder holder : DONUT - Cute
28. Added a little to the pot : ANTED
30. Took in takeout : ATE - Nice clue alliteration
31. First lady after Bess : MAMIE - Truman and Eisenhower
33. Kind : MANNER
35. Kind of support : SPOUSAL
38. "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka" composer : STRAUSS
39. "The Fox and the Hound" hound : COPPER - What does the fox say?
40. Stops running? : CLOTS - Ah, like wounds
41. Beluga output : ROE
42. Arabian capital : SANA'A - Yemen
44. "__ luego" : HASTA
48. Bald eagle cousins : ERNS
50. Settles : CALMS
52. Start of many a prayer : LORD
10. Lenox brand : DANSK - their enameled steel cookware looks familar
15. Busy state to go into : OVERDRIVE
16. Boiling : IRATE
17. Made for the tube : TELEGENIC
18. Decalogue delivery site : SINAI
19. They may hook you up, briefly : RNs - Hook you up to IVs, tho I have seen certain movies....
22. Los __, city near San Luis Obispo : OSOS
25. Flanged bit of hardware : T-NUT
26. Powder holder : DONUT - Cute
28. Added a little to the pot : ANTED
30. Took in takeout : ATE - Nice clue alliteration
31. First lady after Bess : MAMIE - Truman and Eisenhower
33. Kind : MANNER
35. Kind of support : SPOUSAL
38. "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka" composer : STRAUSS
39. "The Fox and the Hound" hound : COPPER - What does the fox say?
41. Beluga output : ROE
42. Arabian capital : SANA'A - Yemen
44. "__ luego" : HASTA
48. Bald eagle cousins : ERNS
50. Settles : CALMS
52. Start of many a prayer : LORD
56. Crib cry : WAH - Two cries, and it's a guitar effects pedal....
57. Gugino of "Night at the Museum" : CARLA - a WAG with the --RL- in place
58. Exterminator's target : CENTIPEDE - among other creepy-crawlies; 'round here, it's ants, crickets and lately, wasps
60. Hindu principle of life : ĀTMAN - this was a WAG for me, too
61. "The Raven" feature : OCTAMETER
62. Pains : PESTS
63. Pump house? : SHOE STORE - Nailed it; I love women in platform pumps - so sexy - and if they zip up at the back....ha-muna ha-muna
1. Zoom : HOT-ROD - the verb, not the noun
2. Yet : EVEN SO
3. Hold on a mat : NELSON - Educated WAG
4. Start to date? : PRE - predate, as in 'comes before'
5. It's uncomfortable to be on it : EDGE
6. Sign of age : CREAK - I had CRACK to start, pretty close; that's 80% right
7. Large, long-billed marsh bird : KING RAIL
10. Round snow toy : DISC - I had a wood and metal sled as a kid
11. "That's __!": "Funny!" : A RIOT
12. Otherworldly greeting? : NANU-NANU - Mork from Ork's greeting
13. Former bills : STATUTES
14. Bums' American counterparts : KEISTERS - anyone else see this as "B-u-r-n-s" first? Once I had the K----STER, I figured out my eyes were getting a bit wacky
21. Look that way : SEEM TO
23. Recap : SUM UP
27. Stuns in an arrest : TASEs
29. Sith title : DARTH - Star Wars reference, which I won't miss~! Vader, Maul, and others
32. Rumba shaker : MARACA - shaking like your keister
34. Cavity opening? : NASAL
35. Cork alternative : SCREW-CAP - DAH~! I wanted TWIST-CAP, but I knew ROE was correct
36. Elizabethan property tax to benefit the disadvantaged : POOR RATE - the "T" was my last fill
37. Title words before "Nothing to hide," in a Journey hit : OPEN ARMS - Link away~!
38. Collide with : SLAM INTO
40. MIT rival, despite the distance : CALTECH
43. Some agents : NARCOs
45. Site of a 1976 anti-apartheid uprising : SOWETO - Part of Johannesburg, South Africa
46. Broker's customer : TRADER
47. Hold tight : ADHERE
49. Fall sound : "SPLAT~!"
51. Spiders' sensors, e.g. : SETAE - Latin for bristle, it's the hairs on a spider's legs, e.g.
54. Sweeps the set : PANS - another movie-making term
55. Virtual people, in a popular game series : SIMs - I love Sim City, but couldn't get into the virtual reality of the individual people version of the game (but I do have it). Here's the crop circles that UFOs left on my farm in my last Sim City game
Splynter
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