Roland Huget appears in his 4th LAT, and his first Friday. This minimalist puzzle seems to have just three theme fill out of the 60's with a common thread of "shhh"and no reveal, which is very unusual for a Friday. If there is more to this effort I missed it. Of course there is the inclusion of the entire English alphabet (A PANGRAM!). Is this a themeless gone bad? In any event, there is quite a bit of fresh intermediate fill, with THE MET, HIPPIE, ROASTS, TRACES, ED MEESE, ST. SIMON, DEFANGS, BEANERY, FISH TAIL, NETIZENS, RANGE WAR (odd with all the peace and quiet) and TAX HAVEN. Well let us see what Roland has done to befuddle us.
17A. '60s executive order creation : PEACE CORPS (10). HISTORY.
35A. Societal change begun in Quebec during the '60s : QUIET REVOLUTION (15). HISTORY.
52A. '60s aviation nickname : WHISPERJET (10). HISTORY.
Across:
1. Man of many words : ROGET. Thesaurus guy.
6. Course designer : CHEF. Not a golf course, one part of a meal.
10. Hiker's map, briefly : TOPOgraphic. A legitimate word, but unsatisfactory fill for me. LINK.
14. Words spoken on a star? : I WISH. I may, I wish I might.
15. Virna of "How to Murder Your Wife" : LISI. A movie I remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drIOAEE8e_M
16. Organic compound : ENOL.
19. Combine : MELD. Pinochle, anyone?
20. Locks in a zoo : MANE. Those kind of locks.
21. Human Be-In attendee : HIPPIE. Were any of you a human bein' in the 60's?
23. 1988 Cabinet resignee : ED MEESE. An underrated political SCANDAL No comment.
27. Apostle known as "the Zealot" : ST SIMON.
28. Facetious tributes : ROASTS. Do you all watch Comedy Central? I now listen on the radio.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/15-best-comedy-central-roast-sets-ever.html
29. Steady : BEAU. From the French for handsome.
30. Comfort and others : INNS.
31. Avid surfers : NETIZENS. A portmanteau of Internet and Denizens.
39. Money-saving refuge : TAX HAVEN. Anyone do business in the CHANNEL ISLANDS?
40. Subway purchase : HERO. Really.
41. Blue dye : ANIL.
42. Hints : TRACES.
44. Renders harmless : DEFANGS.
48. Greasy spoon : BEANERY. A word from 1877.
49. It's not widely understood : IN JOKE. I guess this is intended as an abbreviation of Inside Joke.
50. Small flaw : WART.
51. Cozy spot : NOOK.
58. Quattro competitor : ATRA. An off semi-clecho with 59. Quattro, e.g. : AUDI. No mention of SUZI who is missing a "T"
60. 2013 One Direction hit : DIANA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BAdysrnyIU
61. Victor's "Samson and Delilah" co-star : HEDY. Lamar
62. Line holder for a cast : REEL. Fishing, not acting.
63. Lustrous synthetic : RAYON. Lustrous...a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
Down:
1. Swindle, with "off" : RIP.
2. Run a tab, say : OWE.
3. 1998 Angelina Jolie biopic : GIA. Lots of nudity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEN49cnwMtA
4. F1 neighbor : ESC. Know your keyboard.
5. It's across from Alice Tully Hall : THE MET. Don't get LOST.
6. One of many in "Orphan Black" : CLONE. This actually looks interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_BCA-vR9E
7. Engage : HIRE.
8. Sixth of five? : ESP. Did you make sense of this clue?
9. Skid : FISH TAIL. Out of control.
10. Largo and presto : TEMPI. More than one Tempo.
11. Matinee hr. : ONE P.M.
12. March of Dimes' original crusade : POLIO.
13. Ancient : OLDEN.
18. Mama in music : CASS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZfKcYlefE
22. Trooper's outfit? : ISUZU. A very tricky clue as this automobile has been out of production since 2002 and the Company out of the US since 2009. Poor Joe.
23. La Salle of "ER" : ERIQ.
24. Fried treat : DONUT.
25. Obsession : MANIA.
26. Thomas Cromwell's earldom : ESSEX.
27. Determined about : SET ON.
29. Oblique cut : BEVEL.
31. Half a Caribbean federation : NEVIS.
32. Tom's "Mission: Impossible" role : ETHAN.
33. Reunion attendee : NIECE.
34. More put out : SORER.
36. "__ heaven" : THANK.
37. American West conflict : RANGE WAR.
38. Overly curious : NOSY.
42. Former Blue Devil rival, briefly : TERP. Maryland in the ACC before they moved to the Big Ten.
43. Not suitable for kids : RATED R.
44. Shore show of the '70s : DINAH.
45. Modern message : ENOTE.
46. Alaskan cruise sight : FJORD.
47. Jim-dandy : A OKAY.
48. Pizza sauce herb : BASIL.
50. Off-target : WIDE.
53. Color distinction : HUE.
54. 46-Down kin : RIA.
55. Magpie relative : JAY.
56. "Microsoft sound" composer : ENO.
57. Brown shade : TAN.
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