BE the BRIDGE
This is P.S. Bhat's fourth LA Times contribution - and my first time working one of his constructions. The last one was on a Friday in 2021; the one prior to that was in 2018, blogged by Santa ( Argyle ) on the editor' s (then) assistant Patti's B-day, and my anniversary, Jan 8th. Yes, we have the circles again, outlining scrambled, or "troubled" bodies of water. A handful of names, one of which I was totally "huh~?" about ( I am looking at you, 37D.), a mere 14 3LWs, a 'balance' of 22 4-letter and 20 5-letter words, and two of the four theme answers unique to crosswords. The themers and reveal;
19. Equanimity between nations: BALANCE OF POWER - OCEAN - my step-daughter's name, too
24. Technical support team's headache: COMPUTER VIRUS - RIVER
The acronym "PICNIC"
44. "Get Out" and "Nope" star: DANIEL KALUUYA - LAKE - no clue, and not who I envisioned; I figured his was more of a "Hawaiian" name - see 23A. His IMDb
More on the statue here
50. Difficult situation, or what can be found in each set of circled letters?: TROUBLED WATERS
Simon & Garfunkel - Paul explains his influences for the song here
And Away We Go~!
ACROSS:
1. Nonspeaking Marx brother: HARPO - not a tough name, but #1
6. Respectful title in India: SRI
9. Meaty pasta sauce: RAGU
13. Enhance, in a way: ADORN
14. Sn, to a chemist: TIN - from the Latin stannum, "alloy" of silver & lead; the Wiki
15. Adjusts the strings on a guitar, e.g.: TUNES - this one takes a while....
My Epiphone SG-1275 6- & 12-string - inverted for Lefty
16. Surgical tool: LASER
17. Weird: ODD
18. Warning signs: OMENS
23. Island host of the annual Spam Jam festival: OAHU - filled via perps - just missed the 2025 one
29. MC battle genre: RAP
30. Elitist: SNOB
31. Moralist's teaching: TENET
33. Get ready to cook: PREP
35. Kisses, in Kensington: SNOGS - British buss - not a British bus
Kiss on a bus
38. Guacamole and queso: DIPS
39. "The Sound of Music" role: MARIA - name #2
41. Lena of "The Reader": OLIN - seen frequently in crosswords, name #3
43. Thanks for waiting?: TIP - Cute.
48. Indigenous people of Canada: CREE - name(ish)
49. TiVo products: DVRs - Digital Video Recorders
56. Texter's "All good?": HOW R U - AND - 22A. Tepid reply to 56-Across: "I'M OK."
57. Card game for two: WAR
58. Heep of "David Copperfield": URIAH - name #4
60. German autos: OPELS - my mom had one, waaay back ( and name(ish) )
A 1960s model 1900 Sport Wagon
61. Brownie __ mode: Á LA - I have been making a "truffle" dessert from a recipe on the box of a Betty Crocker mix
62. Part of a wash cycle: RINSE
63. Ruby and rose: REDS
64. "Totally!": "YEP~!"
65. Barely beats, with "out": EDGES - better than last week's hairS
DOWN:
1. Sci-fi AI villain: HAL - "Im sorry, Dave." ( name~? )
Oh, we are on our way, aren't we~?
2. Small amount, as of hair gel: A DAB - Meh. I don't care for the floating "A"
3. Civil rights icon Parks: ROSA - name #6
4. Early match, for short: PRELIMinary, a game of a tournament, not this Chinese invention
5. Merging sites: ON-RAMPS
6. California gold rush town: STOCKTON - No clue, filled via perps - I am sure our West Coast crowd nailed this one -the Wiki if you are interested
7. Fair attraction: RIDE - I have done all sorts of rides in the past, even at the big amusement parks, but I am no fan of them; by the time I graduated high school I had developed vertigo
8. Not alfresco: INDOOR - Ah. Now that I think about it, that would be the "antonym"; fresco is Itlalian "fresh"
9. Alleged (to be), to a Brit: RUMOURED - That's Brisitsh behaviour for you
10. From the top: ANEW
11. Heredity unit: GENE - at least is was not clued as "Simmons" of Kiss
Kiss on a bus - get it ~?
12. Letters in a Beatles classic: USSR - I started with HELP!, but that's sung, not spelled
15. First search result in a browser: TOP HIT
20. Basic grammar topic: NOUNS - Dah~! I figured this was what the clue meant, but I didn't account for it being plural; clever
21. Most preferred, casually: FAVorite
24. Driving spot?: CAR AD - Har-har
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The Porsche is nice, too
25. Gig for a tenor: OPERA - uh, well, I guess you'd call it a "gig"; "Hey, bro, where you performin' tonight~?" - "Some place called La Scala."
26. Paperless read: eBOOK - I ready every night before bed, fiction and non-fiction, and Kindle keeps track, but it can't tell when I've switched to an actual printed book
27. Teamwork trait: UNITY - Ah; so there IS an "I" in teamwork . . . .
28. Vintage photo tone: SEPIA
29. Speed fig.: RPM - Meh. Yes, it's the "speed" of the engine, in revolutions, but still, meh.
32. Vanilla extract amt.: TSP - when I'm making my brownies, I pronounce this as a "TiSP" - the larger measurement is a "TiBbleSpiP"
36. Brand of plastic film: GLAD WRAP - HuskerG's go-to "cling" wrap, per his past Saturday
37. Luiz Inácio Lula da __: Brazilian president: SILVA - Geez. A lot of clue for a non-theme answer
40. Helicopter giant based in France: AIRBUS - Ah. I knew this was an airplane manufacturer, didn't know they did helicopters, too
42. Take under one's wing: NURTURE
45. Electric creature: EEL
46. Room to maneuver: LEEWAY
47. Password preceder: USER ID
50. Role for Chris Hemsworth: THOR - name #8
51. Clothesline, perhaps: ROPE
52. Was in the red: OWED
53. Valley: DALE
54. Wedding band: RING - there was the possibility that might be "TRIO"; that kind of band
55. Business letter encl.: SASE - Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
59. "For __ a jolly good fellow": HE'S
Splynter
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