Saturday, July 13, 2024

Saturday, July 13, 2024, Ricky Sirois

Thursday Themeless by Ricky Sirois

This is my second Ricky Sirois  Saturday themeless  (first one was 1/14/23) and I gotta tell you, it was a breezy 20-minute exercise that was a lot of fun. My fav had to be the Brady Bunch misdirection! 😀

Across:

1. Part of the healing process: SCAB.

5. Hiss source: LEAK - If you spray the tire with water, bubbles will tell you the source of the LEAK


9. Network, say: CLAN.

13. Giant automaton of Greek mythology: TALOS.


15. French pronoun: ELLE - ELLE est belle (She is beautiful) 

16. Number two: AIDE - Ulysses S. Grant and his AIDE-de-camp, Orville Babcock.


17. Lingo: ARGOT and 50. Raise: HOIST - The STS-79 orbiter being HOISTED from the ET/SRB stack on the MLP in KSC's  VAB - NASA ARGOT


18. Animal in the creation myth of the Achomawi people of Northern California: SILVER FOX.


20. Hybrid pastries: CRONUTS  A portmanteau: A ring-shaped fried pastry made from croissant dough. 


22. Hazelnut: FILBERT - Two names for the same nut. 


23. Range rovers?: HERD 😀

24. Coastal birds: HERONS.

26. Stable diet: HAY 😀


27. Revelation: EYE OPENER.


29. Sheepherder in a 1995 Oscar-nominated film: BABE 
31. 29-Across, for one: PIG.


30. Yak: GAB.

33. Sch. with the second-most NCAA team championships: UCLA.


34. One who spends a lot of time in cabs: LONG HAUL TRUCKER 😀


39. Like a roller derby track: OVAL.


40. Cellular messenger: RNA - A very frequent cwd messenger

41. Letter abbr.: ENC.

42. Shape-shifting prefix: WERE
The prefix "were-" comes from the Old English word for "man".


43. Prevents an actor from getting a breakthrough role, perhaps: TYPECASTS = Speaking of werewolves and typecasting, here's Lon Chaney


48. Demonstrate one's humanity: ERR.


49. Pursued: CHASED.

51. Comedian Trevor: NOAH - His big break


52. Turns the page?: READS ON 😀

54. Result of a successful collaboration: SYNERGY.


56. Conan O'Brien's first talk show: LATE NIGHT.


58. End: CEASE.

59. Avoids injury: IS OK.

60. Gin berry: SLOE.


61. Root used in perfumery: ORRIS - Rootstock of the Iris

     

62. Wicker man, for one: PYRE More


63. Spree: TEAR - Some athletes who are doing very well at some point can be said to be "on a TEAR".

64. Email folder: SENT.



Down:

1. Soup strainer, informally: STACHE.


2. "Dumb and Dumber" star: CARREY.

3. "An Inconvenient Truth" writer: AL GORE.


4. Wasteful project: BOONDOGGLE This word's interesting derivation

5. Reduce: LESSEN.

6. Yale student: ELI.

7. Completely on board: ALL FOR IT - Where'd everybody go?


8. Flightless bird in "Up": KEVIN.


9. Low-__ diet: CARB.

10. Shortcut, of sorts: LIFE HACK - They are ubiquitous on the internet


11. Precious: ADORABLE.

12. Foo Fighters power ballad that was the theme song for the NBC sitcom "Ed": NEXT YEAR - It's not the theme from Hawaii 5-0 but it's okay.


14. R-V connection?: STU - Disco STU gets the day off for this alphabet progression

19. Raised trains: ELS.

21. Legal exam, familiarly: THE BAR - Chuck McGill's reaction to his little brother Jimmy (soon to be Saul Goodman) on Better Call Saul 


25. Do-overs: REPLAYS.

28. Tuba sound: PAH.


29. Brady bunch, once: BUCCANEERS 😀 Gotta love this!



32. Like Midas: GREEDY.

34. Labium inferius oris: LOWER LIP - Labium/LIP, Inferius/LOWER


35. Breakfast specification: OVER EASY - Recently I had OVER HARD as a scrambled alternative

36. David Attenborough, for one: NARRATOR - A hilarious AI application 


37. Straighten out: UNTANGLE.

38. Cousin's dad, casually: UNC.

44. Nag: PESTER.

45. 1957 Jimmy Dorsey hit: SO RARE - Dedicated to my Mom


46. Takes over: TAGS IN.


47. Most reserved: SHYEST.

49. "Marrakesh Express" band, for short: CSN - Crosby, Stills and Nash are the 3-letter abbr. group today.

53. Football : juke :: hockey : __: DEKE - DECOY


55. Many a PX shopper: NCO - Every branch of the service has NCO's these are in the U.S. Army




57. Residential community org.: HOA.