Jeffrey returns with a combination of two of his specialties - add a letter and fun puns. "F" is the added letter, but he really goes out there to get his sound-alike puns. Every one of the sound words is changed when the "F is added but retain the same sound. Consistent as all of his work. 58 squares of theme fill, aided by four cheater squares, still left room for CULPRIT, HAPLESS, STACK UP, SYNDICS, ANOTHER'S and PURE EVIL. To solve one needs to open one's mind and close one's eyes to "hear" what he is saying. I loved FLORAL AND HARDY and BAGELS AND FLOCKS. YMMV let's see what he created.
16A. Feature of frequently sheared sheep?: SHORT TEAM FLEECE (15). Animals really do not care about a short term LEASE.
Across:
1. Court player: JESTER. So nice to see a J word to begin even if it made me think of basketball and tennis.
7. Accident-prone: HAPLESS. To me, they are not the same.
14. Fuel calculation: OCTANE. An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of the performance of an engine or aviation fuel. The higher the octane number, the more compression the fuel can withstand before detonating (igniting).
15. Satanic attribute: PURE EVIL.
18. "__ everything?": HOW'S.
19. Orioles' div.: AL EAST.
20. Chill in the air: NIP. The Cambridge Dictionary says a nip in the air is a feeling of cold.
21. Miss equivalent, in some cases: MILE. A miss is as good as mile probably comes from the 17th century this piece from William Camden's Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, 1614: An ynche in a misse is as good as an ell. An ell is a now obsolete English measure of length, equalling about 45 inches.
22. Player under Auerbach, familiarly: CELT. Nobody quite like RED AUERBACH
30. Namely: TO WIT. That is to say.
31. Turn heads during the audition: SHINE.
32. Whodunit revelation: CULPRIT.
35. Compare to, with "against": STACK UP.
39. Fathers: SIRES.
41. Twill fabric: CHINO.
46. Pennywhistle sound: TOOT. They can be expensive.
47. Take __ empty stomach: ON AN. Part of your doctor's orders.
48. Coffee hour vessel: URN. Do they earn when they hang at the urn?
49. Prohibit: ENJOIN. It stems from an injunction; English is so hard.
52. It might be used before sandpapering: RASP.
59. "__ Arms": Coldplay song: ANOTHER'S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Ob2ltW_wM
60. Brother of Isis: OSIRIS.
61. Business representatives: SYNDICS.
62. Least courteous: RUDEST.
Down:
1. Kid: JOSH.
2. Repeat: ECHO.
3. Put away: STOW.
4. Works on a route: TARS. Not a paperboy but a worker on a roadway.
5. Rhinitis-treating MD: ENT. Ear Nose and Throat.
6. Target field: RETAIL.
7. "__ few bars and I'll play it for you": HUM A.
8. Pound sounds: ARFS.
9. Bearskin rug, e.g.: PELT.
10. "Fever" singer Peggy: LEE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGb5IweiYG8
11. Tied: EVENED.
12. Mediterranean island: SICILY.
13. Was out all night, maybe: SLEPT.
15. Works on one's image, in a way: PREENS.
17. "First Lady of Song": ELLA.
21. 1999 Best Visual Effects Oscar winner, with "The": MATRIX.
22. December display: CRECHE.
23. Fraud watchdog org.: FTC.
24. Comedic Costello: LOU.
25. Big-eyed flier: OWL.
26. Excitedly tries to open, as a gift: RIPS AT.
27. Cabinet agcy. founded under Bush 43: DHS. Department of Homeland Security.
28. Broadway success: HIT.
29. Pain relief brand: ANACIN.
33. North Atl. country: IRE.
34. "Oedipus __" : P.D.Q. Bach western-themed parody: TEX. The long VERSION?
36. Many bar mitzvah guests: KIN.
37. Chapel Hill sch.: UNC. The University of North Carolina.
38. "MS. Found in a Bottle" author: POE. “MS. Found in a Bottle” initially appeared in the October 19, 1833 edition of a Baltimore newspaper, the Saturday Visiter, as the winner of a literary contest for the best short tale. Edgar Allan Poe submitted six stories.
40. Jug band percussionist's tools: SPOONS. Couldn't find a link with spoons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Ntl1uIHVc
42. To fit every possible: FOR ANY. Shouldn't it be "possibility?"
43. Well-supplied with: LONG ON.
44. Oklahoma city: ENID.
45. Tried to be elected: RAN FOR.
46. Marching band section: TUBAS.
49. K-12: ELHI. Ooh, JW, we know it is glue....
50. Very short time pd.: NSEC. Pd? Full stop (or period, in American English), used in coded military communications.
51. Unsettles: JARS. Jarring I know.
52. Source of rage, briefly: ROID. Roid rage is a term given to people who act in a very aggressive or hostile manner after taking large doses, usually on a regular basis, of anabolic steroids, sometimes nicknamed as roids.
53. Farm unit: ACRE.
54. Downhill runners: SKIS.
55. Restrained "Hey!": PSST.
57. LAX stat: ETD.
58. SEC school: LSU. We finish with a CSO shout to all of our Louisiana cornerites.
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