Theme: Argyle SoC.C.ks~!
Words: 70 (missing F,J,Q,X)
Blocks: 31
A Saturday collaboration between our Monday/Tuesday blogger and the host of the show, C.C. Lots of multi-word answers today, and a few vague proper names, I caved in to red-letters to help me get the NE corner finished. Staircase pattern grid, with a pair of 9x6 corners, and nothing longer than those;
15. [Yawn] : I NEED A NAP
12. Singer? : DIRTY RAT - the canary stoolie kind of singer. I wondered if it was singe-er, as in one who singes
15. [Yawn] : I NEED A NAP
12. Singer? : DIRTY RAT - the canary stoolie kind of singer. I wondered if it was singe-er, as in one who singes
62. Big brother, often : ROLE MODEL
Monty Python~! - well I got "a" note~! @ 3:30
ONWARD forever~!
ACROSS:
1. Stay in the big house : SERVE TIME - I've done mine - time for someone else
10. Beach pretender : HODAD - I had no idea - I tried POSER to start - tho I probably have seen this in crosswords before - filled via perps, but I had to Google to check it out
16. Many a Studio Ghibli film : ANIME - red letters told me INDIE was wrong - but only 60% wrong
17. Fund for incidentals : PETTY CASH
18. Character who dances on the beach at Stavros : ZORBA - the only Stavros I could think of was Stavro Mueller and his Beta nightclub - the scene of the climactic end to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 5-book trilogy
19. Supporting : PRO - I waited to see if it would be "FOR" or "PRO"
20. Evil skill : SORCERY - I tried spelling it so"U"rcery for some reason
22. Talbot Jr. or Sr. on "Rectify" : TED - Googled; never even heard of the show
23. Obstacles on the set : EGOS
25. Confident response to "Your opponent is ready" : "SO AM I~!"
26. Funeral rite heap : PYRE
27. Poet Thomas : DYLAN - filled via perps
29. "Baby Blues" baby : WREN - filled via perps; I looked it up, realized it was the comic strip, which I read and like, but it did not register during the solve
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30. Maranjab Desert country : IRAN - a WAG off the "I" - either this one or iraQ
31. Empty out badly? : ROB - ah, theft empty out
33. Repertoire : ARSENAL
35. Skeleton's place? : CLOSET
38. Do maintenance on, as a putting green : AERATE - I had "RE-" in the opening position, which stopped me from seeing this answer, better than "reRAKE" - but it works with sand traps....
39. Card carrier : LANYARD - generic cord for holding ID cards, etc., that is
41. Convene : SIT - MET would not work with the tense of the verb
42. Chill (with) : HANG
43. Kate of "House of Cards" : MARA - filled via perps
45. Grouses : CARPS - wait til we get to the leg picture, and the grousing shall commence~!
49. Welding sparks : ARCS
50. Better : AMEND
52. Tar on the ocean : SALT - sailor nicknames
53. Compete : VIE
54. Like free-range chickens : UNCAGED
56. West of Tinseltown : MAE
57. Country album? : ATLAS - clever
59. History buff's artifacts : AMERICANA
61. Tearful queen : NIOBE
63. First chips : ANTEs - poker, and such
64. Chaotic places : SNAKE PITS
DOWN:
1. Nursed : SIPPED
2. Zip : ENERGY - the 'pep' definition, not the 'nothing' one
3. Overhaul the plant : RETOOL - I pondered REPOTS, but it's the other kind of plant
4. Old hand : VET
5. Dessert company founded in 1928 : EDY'S - only so many ways to clue this four-letter word
6. Shells from stands : TACOS - I was thinking tomatoes, as in shelling a bad stage actor
7. Sequentially : IN A ROW
8. It runs in the shower : MASCARA - I suppose it would
9. Short-lived things : EPHEMERA - the plural of ephemeron, Greek for short-lived insect, and subsequently anything designed to be short-lived
10. Indistinct : HAZY
11. Noted resident of The Dakota in Manhattan : ONO
13. Pale order : AMBER ALE
14. Tone down : DEADEN
21. Washes out : RINSES
24. South Seas cover-ups : SARONGS - a golden opportunity for some leg~!
26. They're beaten at parties : PIÑATAS
28. Intrusive : NOSY - it's those uppity trolls around here that give "anonymous" a bad name - now that's funny
32. Tough guy's exhortation : BE A MAN - for the men
34. Church of country : ERIC - his name, not the location
35. Allergy sufferer's choice : CLARITIN
37. Mine carriers : TRAMCARS - oh, that kind of mine - I have been watching The Viet Nam War series on PBS, and those were the mines I was thinking of
40. "As if!" : DREAM ON
42. Caribbean city with cocotaxis : HAVANA
44. German chancellor Merkel : ANGELA
46. City west of Baghdad : RAMADI
47. Mercury, e.g. : PLANET - not the sedan/auto this time
48. Bargains beyond belief : STEALS
51. Teammate of Mariano for 19 years : DEREK - couldn't be a C.C. puzzle without baseball, and even though I knew who Mr. Rivera was, I went with JETER before DEREK
54. Exploits : USES
55. Small change : DIME - the one that fit, but CENT was a possibility, too
58. #16, familiarly : ABE - President of the United States
60. Booking agent? : COP - tell 'em, Steve~!
"Aloha, Suckers~!"
Splynter
