A return to Friday for another of my favorite regular constructors, Jeffrey Wechsler, gives us five two word phrases, with the first word ending in P and the second starting with P but one of the Ps is eliminated. Graturitously for my write up I have chosen the P at the beginning of the second word as the eliminated letter. For me, the key to all letter adding or subtracting is the wit in the reveal and here is a really fun one. I started out with a bit of trouble only because the HUMAN BRAIN has such adaptive qualities that I read STRIPOKER, as if both Ps were present.
EARTHEN, HAD A KID, OLD WEST, WREATHE, APPARENT, GET A BITE, HARRISON, HOOSIERS and some shorter fun words ADDLED, BURROW, CANTOR, OCTAVE, ORIENT, PARSEC, SCATHE, URANIA
17A. Where shirts may be lost? : STRIP
32A. California Marine Corps base : CAMP
39A. Realm of some self-help books : POP
62A. Update : KEEP
13D. Travel agent's suggestions : TRIP
35D. Soup variety, and a feature of five puzzle answers : SPLIT PEA (8).
Across:
1. Shoot the moon : GO BIG.This was real challenge as well, because it has so many meanings, and I mostly associate with Hearts where you must take all hearts and the Queen of Spades.
6. "Say from whence / You __ this strange intelligence?": Macbeth : OWE. Not my favorite play, but:
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am thane of Glamis.
But how of Cawdor? The thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman, and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence, or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you.
9. Word of possibility : MIGHT.
14. MDX maker : ACURA.
15. __ Pacis: altar of Peace : ARA. This EDIFICE. PAX, was the Roman goddess of peace, from when we derive Pax Vobiscum.
16. Tough test metaphor : A BEAR.
19. Dish man? : PETRI.
20. Measurement for Sagan : PARSEC.
21. One sending out bills : ATM
23. Field guard : TARP
24. Bolivian president Morales : EVO
25. Denounce unmercifully : SCATHE
27. Natl. debt unit : BIL
28. Mountain __: soft drinks : DEWS
30. White : ASHEN
31. Galileo's birthplace : PISA.
35. Snowboarding gold medalist White : SHAUN.
38. Begins : OPENS.
45. Easy pace : LOPE.
46. Idle colleague : PALIN.
47. Conan Doyle, for one : SCOT.
51. "Love __ Rose": Neil Young song : ISA
52. At sea : ADDLED
54. LAX stat : ARR
55. Fade out : TIRE
57. Film with six sequels : SAW
58. Muse for Sagan : URANIA
60. Equals : PEERS.
64. Kovacs of early TV comedy : ERNIE
65. Tao follower? : ISM
66. "JFK" director : STONE
67. Late bloomer? : ASTER
68. Skid row woe : DTS
69. Prepares for recycling : SORTS
Down:
1. Suddenly inspired : GASPED
2. Staff span : OCTAVE
3. Underground shelter : BURROW
4. Camera component : IRIS
5. Is visibly thunderstruck : GAPES
6. Sturdy tree : OAK
7. Encircle : WREATHE
8. Like 3-Downs : EARTHEN
9. Place for an X, perhaps : MAP
10. "That's dubious" : IBET
11. Go for lunch, say : GETABITE
12. President who signed the Sherman Antitrust Act : HARRISON
18. Razor man? : OCCAM
22. Patch : MEND
26. Venomous snake : ASP
29. Informal pardon? : SCUSE
31. 1666 London fire chronicler : PEPYS
33. "__ luck?" : ANY
34. Two-by-four source : LOG.
36. Classic 1986 sports movie : HOOSIERS
37. Obvious : APPARENT
40. Makers of many skeds : CPAS
41. Started one's family, casually : HADAKID
42. Grey area? : OLDWEST
43. Small, made smaller : LIL
44. Get ahead of : ONEUP
48. Fixture at Rosh Hashanah services : CANTOR
49. Put on course : ORIENT
50. Masonry and such : TRADES
53. Metallic waste : DROSS
56. City on its own lake : ERIE
59. In the matter of : ASTO
61. Sun. delivery : SER
63. Acute care initials : EMS
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