AUTO PEN, INK SPOT, COSSETS, EASY JOB, BRETHREN, MISNOMER, IN MOTION, U. N. SPEECH, RED AS A BEET, BEER O'CLOCK, BIONIC LEGS, I SMELL A RAT
17A. Art-loving athlete? : CULTURE JOCK (11).
31A. What you don't know about audio equipment? : RADIO JACK (9).
47A. Difficult situation at Bed Bath & Beyond? : PILLOW JAM (9).
61A. Gem of a night out? : EVENING JADE (11).
Across:
1. Wrap alternatives : PITAS.
6. Ill-fated Corleone hoodlum Luca : BRASI.
11. TD scorers : RBS. Running backs.
14. Response to a raise : I'M OUT. Or I fold, or just muck your cards.
15. Element #86 : RADON. Perp time.
16. Fish whose blood is poisonous to humans : EEL. Of course C.C. would know eel blood is poisonous to humans and other mammals, but both cooking and the digestive process destroy the toxic protein. The toxin derived from eel blood serum was used by Charles Richet in his Nobel winning research which discovered anaphylaxis (by injecting it into dogs and observing the effect). Wiki.
19. "Agnus __" : DEI.
20. Home of the annual Norwegian Wood music festival : OSLO. Wonderful excuse for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2xQAeCvOc
21. Heineken symbol : STAR. . C.C. used this before LINK. Do you remember the puzzle where all the companies that use a Star in their logo?
22. Quick : SMART. That boy is as quick as a whip!
24. Sign on a door : PUSH. P U then the perps.
26. Texas county bordering New Mexico : EL PASO. Did not know it was a County. Read a Lawrence Block mini-mstery where he was trying to rhyme El Paso.
28. "__ Irish Rose" : ABIE'S. The modern version had a really fun cast. Turns out may have married Bernie, but she loves Batya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fSnJ0-0PA
34. Chinese checkers, e.g. : MISNOMER. Really fun word, and again we see C.C. playing with her heritage. It is a German variation of an American game that has nothing to do with checkers.
36. Firm : STABLE.
37. Fruit juice brand : POM. Oo buys this regularly.
38. Break up : END IT. Now done by text, I understand.
40. Goddess sister of Selene : EOS. A few years ago, I has this goddess of the dawn many times. LINK.
41. World Heritage Site org. : UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
44. Ban delivery : U. N. SPEECH.
49. Foreigner in "Taxi" : LATKA. The lare great Andy Kaufman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvY_-w12kQ
50. Greensboro Grasshoppers' baseball level : CLASS A. Leave it to c.C. to craft a friday baseball clue.
51. Surprised sounds : OHOS.
53. Appreciative sounds : CLAPS.
54. Wine holders : VATS.
56. "The Ghost of Frankenstein" role : YGOR. Or maybe IGOR?
60. "Away From __": Julie Christie movie : HER. This heart wrenching story of a woman who is institutionalized by her husband due to advanced Alzheimer's disease, is based on a short story by Alice Munro who was in a recent Friday puzzle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5l5J4L1ZdQ
64. Turkish bigwig : AGA.
65. Sculpted trunk : TORSO. The human variety.
66. Chocolate-caramel candies : ROLOS.
67. It ends 11/6/2016 in the U.S. : DST. Daylight Savings Time. First Sunday in November.
68. Evil figure : SATAN.
69. "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough" speaker : EBERT.
Down:
1. __ de gallo : PICO. No self-respecting South Floridian could get this wrong. Spanish for "rooster's beak," pico de gallo is a relish made of finely chopped ingredients like jicama, oranges, onions, bell peppers, jalapeño peppers and cucumbers, along with various seasonings. This condiment was so named because it was once purportedly eaten with the thumb and finger, an action that resembles a rooster's pecking beak. Food Network. Unlike salsa nothing is cooked.
2. Stern rival : IMUS.
3. Crossing cost : TOLL.
4. Signing facilitator : AUTOPEN. This 60 year old DEVICE.
5. Poker great Ungar : STU. Another sad STORY.
6. Members of a flock : BRETHREN.
7. Punjabi prince : RAJA. 23D. Woman whom Goya also painted clothed : MAJA. We have seen both versions here.
8. Flipped over : ADORED. Not a pancake, or amttress- a girl/boy?
9. A behavioral sci. : SOCiology.
10. Laundry challenge : INK SPOT. Use an alcohol based product, no longer hairspray.
11. Visibly embarrassed : RED AS A BEET. I love these two next to each other
12. Time for a cold one : BEER O'CLOCK. This is actually in the 2015 Oxford dictionary.
13. Skirt feature : SLIT.
http://img.wennermedia.com/480-width/1417616639_taylor-swift-zoom.jpg
18. Web feed document letters : RSS. RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio, video. Wiki. Unknown to me.
25. Military support gp. : USO. Think Bob Hope.
27. Memory aids : LISTS.
28. Intensify : AMP UP. C.C. has clearly amp-ed up her game presenting more Friday and Saturday offerings.
29. Brain-controlled transportation devices : BIONIC LEGS. Two more exquisite fill.
30. "Something's fishy" : I SMELL A RAT.
32. Adversity, in the RAF motto : ARDUA. Per ardua ad astra. From adversity to the stars. Good to know some latin. This was chosen in 1912 for the first royal flying corps.
33. "We R Who We R" singer : KESHA. I have only heard of her as Ke$ha. The song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXvmSaE0JXA
35. Catty remarks : MEOWS.
39. Actively operating : IN MOTION.
42. Hit, in a way : SLAP.
43. Mollycoddles : COSSETS. I only know this word from reading scads of British mysteries.
45. West Bank initials : PLO.
46. Not a hard nut to crack : EASY JOB. Seems like a random phrase and clue.
48. "Les Misérables" inspector : JAVERT. A great J word to finish.
52. EVINE Live competitor : HSN. Home Shopping Network. QVC just would not work.
53. Libya neighbor : CHAD. Think we will ever learn African Geography?
55. Archaeologist's handle : ANSA.
57. Severe blow : GALE. Refers to winds blowing.
58. Pure propane's lack : ODOR.
59. Come to a halt : REST.
62. Intl. broadcaster since 1942 : VOA. Voice of America.
63. Hurdle for srs. : GRE.
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