Of my three grandchildren, the two girls GOWITHTHETRAFFIC and the boy makes an instant decision and becomes intractable. Know any big people like that?
Don and C.C.'s lovely Wednesday offering made for a nice refuge on a cold, windy day on the prairie, and I hope you will read the blog sans an EVITE!
Across
1. Seller's caveat : ASIS. We had a woman want to return a $.25 item at a garage sale
5. Whistle blower : REF. Some zebras blew their whistles when they shouldn't have this past week.
8. Fight : OPPOSE. All pols oppose spending until they get an office on the Potomac
14. Congeniality : BONHOMIE. An abundant quantity on this blog!
16. Edit : REDACT. Anything useful or fun is blacked out!
17. Online data movement : INTERNETTRAFFIC. Our medium
19. Extinguish : DOUSE. Not Dowse
20. Clinch a deal, in slang : ICEIT. What freethrowers can do in the final seconds
21. Thing to do on the cautious side? : ERR. Discretion is the better part of valor
22. "Man in Black" singer : JOHNNYCASH.
27. Tempt with, as a carrot : DANGLE. I wouldn't do all that much for a carrot
30. "Typee" sequel : OMOO. Melville's literary agent, "Hey, Herman, one way to be remembered is to have a lot of vowels in your titles."
31. Highfalutin : LADIDA.
35. Steak order : TBONE. Make mine a filet
36. Symphony or sonata : MUSICALWORK
38. High-tech party notice : EVITE. I was eamazed
40. Jungle queen : SHEENA. Not Jane
41. Enjoy a 10-course Chinese meal : DINE. C.C.'s fav's here?
42. Categorize : ASSORT
46. Pending : UPINTHEAIR. The NFL Playoffs are certainly this
52. VCR button : REW. Not REC
53. Big name in transmission repair : AAMCO. Double A, MCO
54. Cardio-boxing workout regimen : TAEBO. The peeps in the commercials for this look like they don't really need help.
56. Conforms, or what each last word of 17-, 22-, 36- and 46-Across literally does : GOESWITHTHEFLOW. Everybody likes "go along" guy or gal.
61. Intensely devoted : ARDENT. What we are about this site
62. Shanghai setting : EASTASIA. Could also be a bar somewhere if used as a verb
63. Woody's wife : SOONYI. Too disgusting to discuss
64. Mar.-to-Nov. setting : DST. Of no real use and make fireworks very late on July 4.
65. Count (on) : RELY
Down
1. Put up with : ABIDED. A good woman has done this for 45 years at this address.
2. Arizona neighbor : SONORA. Oh, south of the border
3. How board game players play : INTURN. Dang, he took my spot on the scrabble board!
4. Ladies : SHES
5. First pres. to visit China while in office : RMN. After ping pong diplomacy.
6. Farm song refrain : EIEIO. Pasture full of vowels
7. Sell for : FETCH. I wanted to FRONT first.
8. Hatch on the Hill : ORRIN. Two R's or two N's?
9. Boglike : PEATY. Hmmm...
10. Adobe file format : PDF. Very useful when exchaning files.
11. Bungler : OAF. Played golf with one last week as he tried to hit shots he couldn't and we spent a lot of time looking for his errant shots.
12. Lab subj. : SCI. My life!
13. And so forth: Abbr. : ETC
15. Valuable rock : ORE.
18. Top rating : TEN. Bo Derek!
22. Yoda, notably : JEDI. Opposite of Bo!
23. Venomous snakes : COBRAS.
24. Wild way to run : AMOK.
25. Numbered Chan relative : SON. Number One Son!
26. Groundbreaking tool : HOE. I used many in jobs of my youth!
28. Protein in wheat products : GLUTEN. Get thee out of here, for some.
29. Zap : LASE. Tattoo removal is big LASER business today.
32. Suffix with tact : ICS
33. Code word : DAH. A word for something used in code.
34. Draft choice : ALE.
35. A whole bunch : TONS
36. Former iPod model : MINI. Not NANO
37. Sport : WEAR. Less familiar as a verb
38. Academic Web letters : EDU
39. Bigwig : VIP.
43. End of a threat : ORELSE. Bad playground memory for many.
44. Heat again, as water for tea : REBOIL. I'll have some more OOLONG.
45. Like most streets : TWOWAY. Controls TRAFFIC
47. Lion-colored : TAWNY. Sobriquets for strippers too.
48. French-speaking republic : HAITI. I don't see me living there.
49. CPR expert : EMT.
50. Was sore : ACHED. What my heart did for a month when I thought my daughter might have cancer.
51. Smidgens : IOTAS
54. First day of spring, to Vietnamese : TET
55. Miles away : AFAR. "...before I sleep."
56. Total blast : GAS
57. Au, on a Spanish periodic table : ORO
58. Tokyo, once : EDO
59. Bigwig on the Hill: Abbr. : SEN. Most people don't like other people's.
60. Post-WWII pres. : HST. Too honest to be elected today?
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