Paul makes a quick turn around after his Thursday last week, this time featuring humor as the primary theme. The basics- take a breed of dog and pair it with a sound-alike word that creates a funny image. Then clue them all with "Dog who loves..." With only 40 squares of theme and no reveal, we have a variety of longish fill - EPISODE, ITERANT, MANDALA, MONOPOD RAINOUT, TREATER, BREATHER and INERRANT. As we will discuss, ITERANT and INNERANT are both very much Friday words. We have some sports, some music, some food, some French, Italian and Spanish, lots of fun for me. Let's go.
17A. Dog that loves a burger topping?: ONION BEAGLE (11). The ONION BAGEL often dresses up the lox and cream cheese with onion and tomato. Spitz, am I right the word bagel comes from a German word for bracelet?
29A. Dog that loves a winter sport?: HOCKEY PUG (9). Hockey and the PUCK are our first sport of the puzzle and the basis of this punny pup. Ice hockey and its various precursor games utilized balls until the late 19th century. By the 1870s, flat pucks were made of wood as well as rubber. At first, pucks were square. The first recorded organized game of ice hockey used a wooden puck, to prevent it from leaving the rink of play. wiki.
49A. Dog that loves to play in the rain?: MUD POODLE (9). A poodle playing in a mud puddle is a pretty cool image, especially if it a white one.
65A. Dog that loves spaghetti?: PASTA COCKER (11). The use of a PASTA COOKER rather than merely boiling water may seem extreme, but a Cocker Spaniel eating spaghetti is a great image.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFwcl8WMLM
On to the solve.
Across:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFwcl8WMLM
On to the solve.
1. Indian state bordering Bhutan: ASSAM.
6. Pasture sound: BLEAT. And the clecho 34A. Called from the pasture: BAAED.
11. Cheese go-with: HAM. Sorry, this was hard for me.
14. Fiji neighbor: TONGA. Geography 2.
15. Asperity: RIGOR. Fun five letter word, but I never thought of them as synonyms.
Asperity-harshness of tone or manner. Rigor-severity or strictness. Dictionary.
16. Trick taker, often: ACE. Bridge, spades, hearts, etc.
19. Mme., in Madrid: SRA. A little Spanish, literally.
20. Blueprint: MAP.
21. Loved ones: DEARS.
22. Colorless: ASHEN.
24. Repeating: ITERANT. Ah, here we are; we have all heard people reiterate and probably iterate, but the definition repeating; iterating; as an iterant echo? I love this quote from George Sand, “Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.”
26. "__ Day": chapter in the '50s "The Thin Man" TV series: ASTA. What an odd way to clue the dog, but perhaps a bonus dog fill.
28. Noel: CAROL.
36. Bearish?: URSINE.
37. "The Facts of Life" actress Charlotte: RAE.
40. Barbecue, say: BROIL.
42. "As if!": NOT.
43. Equanimity: APLOMB.
46. Vacant, as an apartment: UNLET.
51. Green pair, often: PUTTS. Par is determined by an estimated 2 putts on every green.
55. "Do __ others ... ": UNTO.
56. Cancellation of a sort: RAINOUT. Common in baseball.
58. Bit of statuary: TORSO.
61. Undercover cops' gear: WIRES.
63. Part of un giorno: ORA. Day and Hour in Italian. Buon Giorno!
64. Brown, e.g.: IVY.
68. Born, in Brest: NEE. French.
69. Vast quantity: OCEAN.
70. Socially active sort: DATER.
71. Triage ctrs.: ERS.
72. Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred: DURST.
73. Black shade: EBONY.
Down:
1. Very minute: ATOMIC.
2. Beethoven's "Moonlight," for one: SONATA. Clecho 44D. 27, for Beethoven's "Moonlight": OPUS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsOUcikyGRk
3. Inveterate critic: SNIPER.
4. Back: AGO.
5. Hindu meditation aid: MANDALA.
6. Rest: BREATHER.
7. Pinocchio, at times: LIAR. And now a star of TV commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRIolQQONQg
8. Arachnid's hatching pouch: EGG SAC. All you need to KNOW.
9. Verizon subsidiary: AOL.
10. Generous bar buddy: TREATER. Not my favorite clue/fill.
11. Chop finely: HASH. Dictionary says to chop (food, such as meat and potatoes) into small pieces.
12. Real estate unit: ACRE.
13. Signify: MEAN.
18. Oscar winner Kingsley: BEN.
23. Comes out with: SAYS.
25. Take badly?: ROB. A repeat but fun.
27. "Hamlet" prop: SKULL. Our very brief Will S. reference this week.
30. Two-time N.L. batting champ Lefty: O'DOUL.
31. One standing at the end of a lane: PIN. More sports, and a CSO for Boomer.
32. A, in Acapulco: UNO.
33. Acquire: GET.
35. Brothers' keeper?: ABBOT. Cute clue, as the head of the monks.
37. Zodiac critter: RAM.
38. Toon storekeeper: APU. The Simpsons, not a favorite here. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is an Indian Immigrant settled in Springfield.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi4ujBB7gvw
39. Antiquity, in antiquity: ELD.
41. Perfectly correct: INERRANT. This has a religious meaning, basically infallible but also has a meaning from astronomy : 1650s, in reference to "fixed" stars (as opposed to "wandering" planets), from Latin inerrantem (nominative inerrans) "not wandering, fixed (of stars)," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + errans, present participle of errare "to wander, stray, roam, rove" (see err). Meaning "unerring, free from error" is from 1785.
45. One-legged camera support: MONOPOD. Tripod- three. Mono- one.
47. Netflix installment: EPISODE. They are going after the world of entertainment since streaming began working and you did not have to wait for a disc in the mail.
48. 252 wine gallons: TUN. That is about what my friend drinks annually.
50. Divining rod: DOWSER.
52. Grew fond of: TOOK TO.
53. Deep dish: TUREEN. Generally to serve soup. LINK.
54. Like a cloudless night: STARRY.
57. NRC forerunner: AEC. Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Atomic Energy Commission.
58. Food sticker: TINE. Generally more than one on your fork.
59. "Your turn": OVER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBZf0QdKdE
60. Bakery selections: RYES. It is so hard to find a good rye bread in the south.
62. See __ an omen: IT AS.
66. Prefix with pressure: ACU. Not to be confused with APU.
67. Hack: CAB. You wonder why? Hack short for "hackney cab," which referred to a carriage for hire drawn by a hackney, or an ordinary horse -- leading to the use of "hack" to mean "writer for hire," and the word "hackneyed," which means cliche-ridden. The use of "hacker" to refer to a computer user dates back to the mid-1970s.
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