THEMELESS SATURDAY
In a Tuesday puzzle of nearly a year ago (1/17/17), Alan posted how he liked reading comments on his puzzles and added, "Armenians get to put a "Der" in front of their names if there's been a significant religious person in their family's history, like a bishop. In my case it was my grandfather's father, who was an important religious figure in Eastern Turkey in the late 1800s."
Alan's puzzle provided entertainment and provided new learning por moi (marked in RED below)! Here are some of his gettable long fill that also proved to be useful in solving:
20. '60s counterculture slogan : MAKE LOVE NOT WAR - This iconic Bernie Boston picture for the Washington Star is what always leaps to my mind for this sentiment
25. Cry of dominance : WHO'S YOUR DADDY - Yankee fans having a good time at Pedro Martinez's expense
45. 20-mile annual Boston-area fundraiser sponsored by Project Bread : WALK FOR HUNGER - The Marathon and this are big in Boston
51. Excuse for rowdy behavior : BOYS WILL BE BOYS - A lame excuse that has definitely fallen out of favor
Across
1. Video file format : MPEG - Moving Pictures Experts Group. Lots of internet videos use this format
5. Offenbach opera "Daphnis et __" : CHLOE - One interpretation of the story of the romance between two shepherd girls on the Isle of Lesbos written 1,800 years ago
10. Jerk's concern : SODA - The jerk is so called for this action of "jerking" the handle to get carbonated water
14. Former Sony brand : AIWA - I once had an AIWA boom box
15. Aggressive corporate tactics : RAIDS - He played a corporate RAIDER and she played a, uh, Lady of the 24. Poetic night : EEN
16. Fast-food legend : KROC - Ray Kroc did not invent McDonalds. He took the McDonald brothers system and made it huge
17. Presently : ANON
18. Mail-order outlet for outdoorsy types : ORVIS and 19. Harpsichordist Kipnis : IGOR were consecutive unknowns for this blogger
23. Math ratios : SINES - Ah, back to stuff I know!
30. "The Yankee Doodle Boy" composer : COHAN - Seeing Jimmy Cagney as Cohan singing Yankee Doodle Boy from the movie of the same name should be part of becoming a citizen! 😁
32. Big letters in toys : FAO - I recently posted the picture of Tom Hanks dancing on the FAO Schwarz floor piano in Big
33. CBS Sports NFL analyst Tony : ROMO - His body finally said, "That's enough" and he's now in the broadcast booth
34. Map abbr. : RTE - In my part of the world we say "rout" and in other parts they say "root". You?
35. Loosed : SET FREE - Julia Ward Howe wrote, "He has LOOSED the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword"
39. Neat ending? : NIK - Felix not Oscar
40. After-lunch sandwich : OREO - Haven't we had this word before? 😜
42. Word with big or house : CAT - My loving wife with our BIG HOUSE CAT
43. Together : AS ONE - When the Huskers do their tunnel walk the fans rise AS ONE
49. "Macbeth" character : HAG - Shakespeare's non-PC designation
50. Gay leader? : ENOLA - The 5th line down tells where my Mom worked during WWII and where this B-29 that became the ENOLA GAY was assembled
57. Defeat soundly : DRUB
58. Serve : AVAIL
59. Per : A POP - $2 A POP for bottled water makes it way more expensive than gasoline. When did that happen?
60. "No prob!" : EASY
61. Merci, across the border : DANKE - DANKE Schön worked for Wayne Newton and Ferris Bueller
62. Nigerian pop star : SADE - Born in Ibadan, Nigeria
63. Cry of glee : WHEE
65. Side for a dog : SLAW - KFC has wonderful cole SLAW
Down
1. Hat-tipper's word : MAAM - Who has a hat to tip anymore?
2. Fruit in un cóctel : PINA -Pineapple es "piña" en español
3. Fuzzy Endor resident : EWOK
4. Hindu god with the head of an elephant : GANESHA
5. Sings smoothly : CROONS - Harry Connick Jr., Michael Buble'...
6. "Family Feud" host since 2010 : Steve HARVEY
7. Exists simply : LIVES OFF THE LAND 8. Valhalla VIP : ODIN - ODIN rules over this "house of the slain"
9. ExxonMobil trade name : ESSO
10. Garb for schussing : SKI WEAR - Not much use here for us flatlanders
11. Transplant figure : ORGAN DONOR - This shows 1) I take a lousy picture, 2) my hair is gray and 3) I am a an ORGAN DONOR
12. Way out : DOOR
13. Spanning: Abbr. : ACR - The Royal Gorge Bridge near Canon City, CO spans ACRoss the Arkansas river at 1,000 ft up but all you can do is cross it and turn right around and come back
21. Only NFC team that hasn't played in a Super Bowl : LIONS
22. Talks acronym : TED - Thought provoking online talks about Technology, Entertainment and Design. See more at ted.com
25. Area of expertise : WHEEL HOUSE - Give me the microphone to talk about space and I'm good to go!
26. Nasser's org. : UAR - In last Saturday's puzzle it was 15. Group formed in Cairo in 1945 : ARAB LEAGUE
27. Caviar : ROE
28. Key of Beethoven's Ninth: Abbr. : D MIN - This may be the best 5:4o of your day
29. Tie on the farm : YOKE
30. Talk big : CROW - Peter Pan's self aggrandizing anthem
31. Not esta or esa : OTRA - Not esta (this) or esa (that) but OTRA (another)
36. "Foucault's Pendulum" author : ECO - Umberto ECO's satirical novel
37. Crew member : TAR - Or gob, swab, swabbie, salt, sea dog...
38. Apollo 11 lander : EAGLE - "Houston, Tranquility Base here, the EAGLE has landed"
41. "See ya later" : OKAY BYE
44. Fish market offering : SEA BASS
46. NFL threes : FGS
47. Facebook reversal : UNLIKE - I had to "UNFRIEND" several people in 2016 because I got tired of them 56. Expel strongly : SPEWing their political opinions whether I agreed or not. There's a time and place
48. Word in Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy : NOBLER - I don't know if it is NOBLER, but I sometimes "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and live with them
51. "My man!" : BRAH - Brother -> Bro -> BRAH
52. Cross a stream, perhaps : WADE
53. English : John :: Slavic : __ : IVAN
54. Girasol, e.g. : OPAL - Yeah, I didn't know either. Also called Moon Opal
55. Sci-fi character voiced by Frank Oz : YODA - Oh, that's how it's done!
57. Green moisture : DEW - Early golfers are called "DEW Sweepers"
Time now for your pertinent or impertinent remarks:
DA GRID
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