JW is back and it seems almost as if hre and mark McClain collaborated on the last two offerings. Instead of removing a :T: like we did last week, we add an M to each phrase to create a new and entertaining phrase. 1/3/5 have the M added at the end with a complete change in spelling. 2/4 add the M before a final E, with Tome the only one which does not change the spelling. A minor nit.It may have been his seed entry. The rest is vintage JW with ARCADIA, DAEMONS, SPACIER, SINATRA, YOU HEAR ME, WORK FORCE, TOM SWIFTY, I THINK NOT, FOREIGN MAIL, SCIENCE SHOW all fun longish fill. With so many spaces filled by the theme and the long fill, there are some 3/4 letter fillers but all in all a fun Friday.
27A. Comprehensive text on mints? : TIC TAC TOME (10). Tic tac toe. The Xs and Os GAME.
LINK before they found Kelly Harmon.
37A. Reaction to Bugs' continued evasiveness? : ELMER'S GLOOM (11). Elmer's glue. Poor Elmer Fudd, poor COW. Which leads perfectly to...
48A. How a snail moves? : ON THE SLIME (10). On the sly. LINK.
56A. "I plotted against Caesar completely on my own!"? : CASSIUS' CLAIM (12). Cassius Clay. JW slips a little hint of Shakespeare with a Muhammad Ali reference
1. Out of practice : RUSTY. I like this clue/fill but it actually took me a moment, which suggests that maybe I am....
6. Blue stone : LAPIS. I always think of Lapis Lazuli.
14. Casual opening : INTRO. I was looking for a prefix for casual all too long.
15. Saudi neighbor : OMANI.
16. Part of un giorno : ORA. Italian for a day and an hour.
17. Crayfish habitat : BAYOU. A CSO to all of our Louisiana contingent.
18. Employees : WORK FORCE.
22. Newspaper supporters : ADS. A tricky way to clue a simple one- ads do pay for the newspaper to exist, but...
25. LAX stat : ETA.
26. "You got me there" : SO I DO. This is a bit of confusion for me, though it turns out ok.
So do I is simply "I agree", or "I feel exactly the same" (me too).
So I do can mean several similar things. It is a way of agreeing about something you did not realize, as in "well, how about that, what you say is true." I do in fact do that, what you say. (for example, you raise your eyebrow when you are lying. So I do (I never realized that before).
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It also is a way of agreeing with something fairly obvious, that you have known for some time. (you raise your eyebrow when you are lying. So I do (yes, and you are just noticing that?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhBB4CCB4h4
32. Card game : GIN. I have played many hours, including knock gin and all the rummy cousins.
33. Certain cross-country traveler : SKIER. Hey marti.
34. Crane's construction : NEST. Tricky, the bird not the heavy equipment.
36. "One Mic" rapper : NAS. I will NOT link this song.
41. Common ID : SSN.
43. Soaps actress Rylan : EMME. This diminutive actress appears on soaps mostly and changed her name legally from Marcy.
44. Some kissing sounds : MWAHS. Back at you.
47. Snap : PIC.
51. Lend __ : AN EAR. Friends, Romans....
54. "That's so cute!" : AWW. Two weeks in a row. Did not help the Dolphins.
55. Brine-cured delicacy : LOX. When I was a kid, there was LOX (salty) and Nova, not salty.Now I know Why.
61. "Doubtful" : I THINK NOT. A classic JW multi-word fill.
62. Be enamored of : FANCY. I can almost hear this in a British accent.
66. Relative of -ista : ERO. Spanish that has invaded US speak. LINK.
67. View from the Eiffel Tower : SEINE.
69. Cold and wet : RAW. The night was...
70. Fragrant compound : ESTER. Not Esther Lessner...oh the other ONE.
71. Quite a while : YEARS.
Down:
1. Kid : RIB. I was slow getting this and 1 across, sad, especially for a kidder like me.
2. A, in Acapulco : UNA.
3. Mess metaphor : STY. Rhymes with Sly.
4. Canter cousin : TROT. Many kinds of GAITS for horses. 49D. Bit of equestrian gear : HALTER.
5. "Am I clear?" : YOU HEAR ME? Another classic JW multi-word fill; words a child does not ant to hear from a parent.
6. Dieter's choice : LOW FAT. There are high fat diets as well.
7. Milwaukee : mine :: Marseilles : __ : A MOI. Just French.
8. Last of three Catherines : PARR. 37.5% of Henry VIII wives.
9. Calligrapher's array : INKS.
10. Searches (through) : SIFTS. Even works for emails.
11. Philatelist's source : FOREIGN MAIL. It was always so exciting to get a letter from a foreign country, and look at the stamp.
12. Peloponnesian region : ARCADIA. A reference to both old and new GREECE. Next to....
13. Nature spirits of Greek myth : DAEMONS. BZZZT! That is the Latin term for the GREEK. This like cluing JUPITER as Greek god.
19. Plains tribe : OTO.
21. List substitute: Abbr. : ETC.
22. Cadillac model : ATS. A car- whoopee!
23. Hägar creator Browne : DIK. Gone 27 years, his son Chris now produces the strip.
28. Invoice heading no. : TEL.
29. Initiation : ONSET.
30. Ryan of "Sleepless in Seattle" : MEG. Another victim of plastic surgery.
31. Night sch. staple : ESL. It helped Oo and I become a couple.
35. Bit of adverbial wordplay : TOM SWIFTY. I have a split personality," said Tom, being frank.
38. Confessional music genre : EMO.
39. LBJ's successor : RMN. Tricky Dicky.
40. Real head-turner in the animal kingdom : OWL.
41. Deeper into la-la land : SPACIER.
42. "From Here to Eternity" Oscar winner : SINATRA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvaXp2OM_F0
45. Coverage-providing org. : HMO.
46. __ symbol : SEX. Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Paul Newman,,,who is it now. Link your favorites.
50. __ Beach, Hawaii, home of the 2005 Little League World Series champs : EWA. I can sense some serious grumbling about this fill unless you all know Hawaii much better than I do. It was filled before I got here, but this is obscure.
52. "__ suspected!" : AS I.
53. Salon procedure : RINSE. As a child when my grandmother would go to get her hair rinsed and set, I though 'how stupid' it was, since we had a perfectly serviceable sink and shower. I did not know about THIS.
57. Hawaiian strings : UKES. More Hawaii.
58. Agitated state : SNIT. I hope no reader got in a snit over any of the fill.
59. Pothole warning : CONE. Or barrels? ORANGE.
60. Farm female : MARE.
63. Org. assisting museums : NEA. I always get this wrong.
64. Amtrak unit : CAR. How simple.
65. QB's stat : YDS.
Well, fall has fallen, I get home after dark and another Jeffrey Wechsler is in the record books. It fit and and I had a good tuime. You all have a great week end. Lemonade out.
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