AT FAULT, AURORAS, BAD CALL, DOLLS UP, HAYSEED, I’M TOAST, SPARROW, SPEEDOS, TEARFUL, COPY DESK, SUSPENSE
17A. Top horticulturist? : BUSH MASTER. Ths SNAKE breaks into parts for the theme. It is part of the viper family.
27A. Top orthopedist? : BONE HEAD. Any bonehead know orthopedists deal with bones.
36A. Top dairyman? : CREAM CHEESE. Like wheel below, this one needs a "Big" before it to project the same meaning as the rest of the theme.
47A. Top entomologist? : FLY WHEEL. You had to know John would get something buggy into the grid. A flywheel is a rotating mechanical device that is used to store rotational energy. Flywheels have a significant moment of inertia and thus resist changes in rotational speed. The amount of energy stored in a flywheel is proportional to the square of its rotational speed. Energy is transferred to a flywheel by applying torque to it, thereby increasing its rotational speed, and hence its stored energy. Conversely, a flywheel releases stored energy by applying torque to a mechanical load, thereby decreasing the flywheel's rotational speed. per wiki.
57A. Top cinematographer? : FILM LEADER. The TERM is also about movies but I did not know it.
Across:
1. Like Sherlock's game : AFOOT.
6. Jerk : BOOB. This meaning for the word boob has lng been supplanted by the slang word for femal breast, which makes JL's intersecting 6D. Museum work : BUST so amusing. The king of the cross-reference strikes again.
10. Medical ending : OSIS. For some reason HALITOSIS popped into my head, even though HYPNOSIS, OSMOSIS and TUBERCULOSIS are clearly more common. .
14. Sierra Nevada tourist attraction : TAHOE. A truly awesome place to visit with the mountains, the lake and the casinos.
15. Bruin's home : UCLA. This took much longer than it should have, perhaps a product of growing upo near Boston, though my first answer was CAVE.
16. Leave in a bad way : DUMP. Ah the heartbreak of it all. Any great stories of broken romances?
35D. Like some goodbyes : TEARFUL.
19. East in Ecuador : ESTE. How odd that of all the Spanish speaking countries, JL picked Ecuador. We have clients invo;ved in a big project there.
20. Puncture opening? : ACUpuncture.
21. Lay : PUT.
22. Main signal : SOS.
24. "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" writer : POE. An intersting and tragic figure. You can read more HERE.
25. Less inclined to ramble : TERSER.
29. Get a leg up ... and down : STEP.
30. Pearl Buck heroine : OLAN. How lucky can I get, we just had this.
32. Playground retort : CAN SO.
33. Comparable to a beet : AS RED.
35. Private meetings : TRYSTS..
38. Emulates a fan : ADORES.
40. Lessen : ABATE.
41. Go __ : TO POT.
42. Rosa's rosa, e.g. : FLOR.
43. Cut, in a way : ETCH.
49. Homburg kin : FEDORA. Hats off to John, who actually wears hats for getting this fill in the grid.
51. City VIP : ALDerman.
52. Lamp opening? : ELL. The letter, silly.
53. Cannes confirmation : OUI. Must have some French for Splynter.
54. Even so : YET.
55. Applications : USES.
60. Verdant : LUSH. Usually associated with growing things.
61. "Young Frankenstein" Fräulein : INGA. The incomparable Teri Garr and her knockers.
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62. "If only!" : I HOPE.
63. I-76 in Penn., e.g. : TPKE.
64. Handy : NEAR.
65. "Good Lord!" : OH GOD.
Down:
1. Chances for a walk in the park? : AT BATS. Some baseball misdirection as the park is the ball park. It is safe to say John likes to be misleading, as in another baseball clue 27D. Mistake at home, perhaps : BAD CALL.
2. Tap : FAUCET. So simple but I started out struggling in the NW corner.
3. "And I'm Cleopatra" : OH SURE. followed by...
4. Awed response : OOH. Now if the next clue were Buckeye state, we would have quite a progression. We also have 59D. Spa sound : AHH.
5. Home of Arizona State : TEMPE. I have quite a few cousins who got degrees there.
7. Calendar pg. : OCTober.
8. Nellie __, character in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books : OLESON.
9. Low-grade peer : BARON.
10. Lyric tribute : ODE.
11. Film genre : SUSPENSE.
12. "My goose is cooked" : I'M TOAST. Two cooking references.
13. Small trunks : SPEEDOS. Joe Manganiello anyone?
18. Dawns : AURORAS.
23. It may be told in anger : SECRET. 34D. Rage below the surface : SEETHE. 46D. More than dislike : HATRED. Mini-theme? Hmm, some issues JL?
26. Field chirper : SPARROW.
28. Yokel : HAYSEED. Fun fill.
31. Apollo 11's Eagle, briefly : LEM. Thanks JL for the CSO.
36. News editing site : COPY DESK. Where is our newwoman?
37. Starz rival : HBO. Is htis still an initialism for Home Box Office?
38. Liable : ATFAULT
39. Dons fancy duds : DOLLSUP
42. One may be in your lap : FELINE. The perfect clecho for the Corner. For CED.
44. One may be in your lap : TOY DOG. For Manac.
45. Sleazeball : CREEPO.
48. Puckish : ELFIN.
50. Farm sequence? : EIEIO. Old Macdonald would be proud of so many O words.
53. "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" poet : OMAR.
56. Ship, to the captain : SHE.
58. JFK alternative : LGA. Three letter airport codes. MSY, MCO, ORD are trickier to suss.
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