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Constructed by: David Alfred Bywaters
Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme: Down in Front

Themed solutions are all within the DOWN-direction. Each is a typical phrase with “IN-” place IN FRONT:

• 3D Orchestra conductor’s memo heading? : IN RE PERCUSSION (from “repercussion”)
• 6D So-so golf swings? : INDIFFERENT STROKES (from “different strokes”)
• 10D How married {couples} could spend Thanksgiving? : IN-LAW ABIDING (from “law-abiding”)
• 14D Baseball groundskeeper’s downside? : INFIELD MOUSE (from “field mouse”)
• 30D Religious seminary? : INVOCATIONAL SCHOOL (from “vocational school”)
• 53D Dragon tattoos, e.g.? : INKING OF BEASTS (from “king of beasts”)
• 61D Take out a coverage for alternative worth? : INSURE ENOUGH (from “sure enough”)
• 63D Finding actors for a small-studio movie? : INDIE CASTING (from “die casting”)

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Bill’s time: 13m 59s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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13 Mint metallic, as soon as : SILVER

The chemical image for the ingredient silver is “Ag”, which comes from the Latin phrase for silver “argentum”.

19 Wine opener? : OENO-

In Greek mythology, Oeno was the goddess of wine, giving us “oeno-” as a prefix which means “wine”. For instance, oenology is the examine of wine and an oenophile is a wine-lover.

20 Home of the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma : ENID

Enid, Oklahoma takes its identify from the outdated railroad station round which town developed. Back in 1889, that practice cease was known as Skeleton Station. An official who didn’t just like the identify modified it to Enid Station, utilizing a personality from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King”. Maybe if he hadn’t modified the identify, town of Enid would now be known as Skeleton, Oklahoma! Enid has the nickname “Queen Wheat City” as a result of it has an enormous capability for storing grain, the third largest grain storage capability on the planet.

26 Paranormal instances : X-FILES

“The X-Files” is a really profitable science fiction present that initially aired on the Fox community from 1993 to 2002. The stars of the present are David Duchovny (enjoying Fox Mulder) and the very proficient Gillian Anderson (enjoying Dana Scully). By the time the sequence ended, “The X-Files” was the longest operating sci-fi present in US broadcast historical past. An “X-Files” reboot began airing in 2016 with Duchovny and Anderson reprising their starring roles.

28 Nintendo consoles : WIIS

Introduced in 2006, Nintendo’s Wii shortly grew to become the biggest-selling sport console on the planet.

29 Designer Versace : GIANNI

Gianni Versace was an Italian clothier. Versace’s dying was maybe as well-known as his life. He was murdered in 1997 outdoors his mansion in Miami Beach by one Andrew Cunanan. It will not be sure that Cunanan knew who his sufferer was, as this was the final in a spree of 5 murders dedicated by him over a 4 month interval. Just a few days after killing Versace, Cunanan used the identical gun to commit suicide.

44 __ Haute : TERRE

Terre Haute, Indiana is a metropolis near the state’s western border with Illinois. The metropolis is dwelling to a state jail which in flip is dwelling to the state’s dying row. The identify “Terre Haute” was chosen by French explorers within the 18th century to explain the placement, as “terre haute” is French for “high ground”.

46 Lawyer’s gp. : ABA

American Bar Association (ABA)

49 NBC founder : RCA

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) has had plenty of completely different logos in its historical past, together with the well-known peacock with which we’re acquainted right now. The first peacock brand was launched within the early days of coloration tv and was designed as an instance how great coloration tv could be, so go purchase one! (NBC was owned by RCA, and so had a vested curiosity in gross sales of coloration tv units).

50 Purple flower : LILAC

The decorative flowering plant often known as lilac is native to the Balkans, and is a member of the olive household.

52 “__ oui!” : MAIS

In French, “oui” interprets as “yes”, and “mais oui!” as “but yes!”

58 Hindu deity : DEVA

In the Hindu transition, the devas are benevolent deities. The feminine type of “deva” is “devi”.

61 McShane of “Deadwood” : IAN

Ian McShane is an English actor who is known in his homeland, and to PBS viewers within the US, for enjoying the title function in “Lovejoy”. In this nation, he’s maybe higher identified for enjoying the conniving saloon proprietor on the HBO western drama “Deadwood”.

“Deadwood” is a really fulfilling western sequence that aired on HBO from 2004 to 2006. The present is about in Deadwood, South Dakota within the 1870s. At that point, Deadwood was transitioning from an unlawful settlement on Native American land thriving on the invention of gold, right into a fully-fledged frontier city. Some well-known and colourful characters seem within the storyline, together with Seth Bullock, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Recommended viewing …

65 Rebuke from Caesar : ET TU?

It was Shakespeare who popularized the phrases “Et tu, Brute?” (which means “And you, Brutus?”). They seem in his play “Julius Caesar”, though the phrase had been round lengthy earlier than he penned his drama. It’s not identified what Julius Caesar truly stated in actual life (if something in any respect) as he was assassinated on the steps of the Senate in Rome.

67 Kith and __ : KIN

The phrase “kith” describes associates and acquaintances, and is used within the phrase “kith and kin” which means “friends and family”. “Kith” comes from an Old English phrase which means “native country, home”, because the expression “kith and kin” was used initially to imply “country and kinsmen”.

69 Raised trains : ELS

Elevated railroad (El)

72 “I’ll Be Your Mirror” photographer Goldin : NAN

“I’ll Be Your Mirror” is a 1996 publication that showcases the work of photographer Nan Goldin.

Nan Goldin is an American photographer who works out of New York, Berlin and Paris. She is understood for her work that includes LGBT fashions, and for photos highlighting the HIV disaster and the opioid epidemic.

73 Ebro y Douro : RIOS

The Ebro is the longest river in Spain. The river was identified by the Romans because the Iber, and it’s the “Iber” river that provides the “Iberian” Peninsula its identify.

The Duoro (“Duero” in Spanish) is a serious river within the Iberian Peninsula that rises in Central Spain and flows into the Atlantic on the metropolis of Porto in Northern Portugal.

79 Smelter’s provide : ORE

Metals are present in ore within the type of oxides. In order to get pure metallic from the ore, the ore is heated and the metallic oxides inside are diminished (i.e. the oxygen is eliminated) within the chemical course of often known as smelting. The oxygen is extracted by including a supply of carbon or carbon monoxide which makes use of up the surplus oxygen atoms to make carbon dioxide, a waste product of smelting (and, a greenhouse fuel).

80 Grant-giving gp. : NEA

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an company funded by the federal authorities that gives assist and financing for inventive initiatives. The NEA was created by an Act of Congress in 1965. Between 1965 and 2008, the NEA awarded over $4 billion to the humanities, with Congress authorizing round $170 million yearly via the eighties and far of the nineties. That funding was reduce to lower than $100 million within the late nineties as a result of strain from conservatives involved about the usage of funds, however it’s now again over the $150 million mark.

81 Soy block : TOFU

“Tofu” is a reputation for bean curd, and is a Japanese phrase which means simply that … bean that has curdled. Tofu is produced by coagulating soy milk, utilizing both salt or one thing acidic. Once the protein has coagulated, the curds are pressed into the acquainted blocks. Personally I like tofu, however my spouse completely hates it …

83 Pad krapow gai delicacies : THAI

“Pad krapow gai” is a dish from Thai delicacies. The identify normally interprets as “spicy basil chicken”.

87 Disney CEO Bob : IGER

Robert Iger took over from Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005. Iger labored for ABC when it was taken over by Disney in 1996, and in 1999 he was named president of Walt Disney International. Iger is doing okay for himself; he earned greater than $29 million in 2009.

91 Roth __ : IRA

Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (Roth IRAs) had been launched in 1997 underneath a invoice sponsored by Senator William Roth of Delaware, therefore the identify.

92 Peace activist Yoko : ONO

Artist Yoko Ono operates the web site ImaginePeace.com. I checked it out as soon as and located these two beautiful quotes:

• Imagine all of the folks dwelling life in peace … John Lennon
• A dream you dream alone is simply a dream, a dream you dream collectively is actuality … Yoko Ono

93 Forfeited auto : REPO

Repossession (repo)

96 “Wonder Woman” star Gadot : GAL

Gal Gadot is an actress and former Miss Israel. She performed Gisele Yashar within the “Fast & Furious” movie franchise, after which started portraying Wonder Woman in superhero motion pictures.

97 Aficionados : BUFFS

An aficionado is an fanatic. Imported from Spanish, “aficionado” was initially utilized in English to explain a devotee of bullfighting.

105 Defame in print : LIBEL

The phrase “libel” describes a broadcast or written assertion more likely to hurt an individual’s popularity. It comes into English from the Latin “libellus”, the phrase for a small guide. Back within the 1500s, libel was only a formal written assertion, with the extra damaging affiliation arising within the 1600s. The associated idea of slander is defamation in a transient kind, comparable to speech, signal language or gestures.

106 Chemical suffix : -ANE

The “smaller” alkanes are gases and are fairly flamable. Methane (CH4) is the principle element of pure fuel, with ethane (C2H6) being the second largest element. Propane (C3H8) can also be present in pure fuel and is heavy sufficient to be readily became a liquid by compression, for ease of transportation and storage. Butane (C4H10) can also be simply liquefied underneath strain and can be utilized because the gas in cigarette lighters or because the propellant in aerosol sprays. The heavier alkanes are liquids and solids at room temperature.

107 Tiny amt. of time : NSEC

“Nanosecond” is extra appropriately abbreviated to “ns” (versus “nsec”) and actually is a tiny period of time: one billionth of a second.

116 Not ajar : SHUT

Our phrase “ajar” is believed to return from Scottish dialect, through which “a char” means “slightly open”.

123 Cheese in some bagels : ASIAGO

Asiago is a cheese that’s named for the area in northeastern Italy from the place it originates. It is available in various textures relying on its age. Fresh Asiago could be very clean, whereas aged Asiago may be very crumbly.

124 Pre-Easter interval : LENT

In Latin, the Christian season that’s now known as “Lent” was termed “quadragesima” (which means “fortieth”), a reference to the forty days that Jesus spent within the desert earlier than starting his public ministry. When the church started its transfer within the Middle Ages in the direction of utilizing the vernacular, the time period “Lent” was launched. “Lent” comes from “lenz”, the German phrase for “spring”.

125 Out of management : AMOK

The phrase “to run amok” (generally “to run amuck”) has been round because the 1670s and is derived from the Malay phrase for “attacking furiously”, “amuk”. The phrase “amok” was additionally used as a noun to explain Malay natives who had been “frenzied”. Given Malaya’s troubled historical past, the natives in all probability had a superb cause for that frenzy …

126 Raison d’__ : ETRE

“Raison d’être” is a French phrase which means “reason for existence”.

128 “Bus Stop” playwright : INGE

During his profession, dramatist William Inge was often known as the “Playwright of the Midwest”, as lots of his works had been set within the American heartland and explored small city life. When Inge was 60 years outdated, he dedicated suicide by poisoning himself with carbon monoxide. He was buried in his hometown of Independence, Kansas. Inge’s grave is marked with a gravestone that reads merely “Playwright”.

“Bus Stop” is a wonderful play written by William Inge in 1955. The well-known 1956 film of the identical identify, starring Marilyn Monroe, is simply very loosely primarily based on the play.

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5 Sans-__: kind model : SERIF

Serifs are particulars on the ends of characters in some typefaces. Typefaces with out serifs are often known as sans-serif, utilizing the French phrase “sans” which means “without” and “serif” from the Dutch “schreef” which means “line”. Some folks say that serif fonts are simpler to learn on paper, whereas sans-serif fonts work higher on a pc display screen. I’m not so positive although …

11 FBI man : G-MAN

The nickname “G-men” is brief for “government men” and refers to brokers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

12 Reddish brown dye : HENNA

Henna has been used for hundreds of years as a dye, for leather-based and wool in addition to hair and pores and skin. In trendy days, henna is commonly used for momentary tattoos.

13 Jazz horn : SAX

The saxophone was invented by Belgian musician Adolphe Sax, therefore the identify. Sax developed lip most cancers at one level in his life, and one has to surprise if his affliction was associated to his saxophone enjoying (I’m positive not!). I had the privilege of visiting Sax’s grave within the Cemetery of Montmartre in Paris a couple of years in the past.

15 “__ Eyes”: 1975 Eagles hit : LYIN’

The Eagles track “Lyin’ Eyes” was recorded in 1975. Written by band members Don Henley and Glenn Frey, the lyrics had been impressed by a gathering between a person and a girl the composers witnessed in Dan Tana’s Bar & Restaurant in Los Angeles. Henley and Frey imagined a state of affairs of secret love, and “Lyin’ Eyes” was born.

You can’t conceal your lyin’ eyes
And your smile is a skinny disguise
I assumed by now you’d understand
There ain’t no method to conceal your lyin’ eyes

16 Encyclopedia unit : VOLUME

An encyclopedia is a compendium reference work containing abstract details about a department of data, or about all data. The phrase “encyclopedia” comes from the Greek “enkyklios paideia” which means “general education”, or actually “general rearing of a child”.

17 Cabinet division created underneath Carter : ENERGY

The US Department of Energy (DOE) got here into being largely on account of the 1973 oil disaster. The DOE was based in 1977 by the Carter administration. The DOE is answerable for regulating the manufacturing of nuclear energy, and it is usually answerable for the nation’s nuclear weapons. The official DOE seal incorporates a lightning bolt and symbols denoting 5 sources of power: the solar, an atom, an oil derrick, a windmill and a dynamo.

29 Rte. supplier : GPS

A world positioning system (GPS) may level out a route (rte.).

30 Religious seminary? : INVOCATIONAL SCHOOL (from “vocational school”)

Originally, a seminary was the place crops had been raised from seeds, as “semen” is the Latin for “seed”. The first faculties labeled as seminaries had been established within the late 1500s. Those first faculties had been extra more likely to be academies for younger girls again then, reasonably than for trainee monks.

33 Wrap model : SARAN

What’s often known as plastic wrap in America, we name cling-film in Ireland. The model identify “Saran” is commonly used generically within the US, whereas “Glad” wrap is frequent down underneath. Plastic wrap was a kind of unintended innovations, a byproduct of a growth program to create a tough plastic cowl for vehicles.

34 Some vehicles : SEDANS

The American sedan automobile is the equal of the British and Irish saloon automobile. By definition, a sedan automobile has two rows of seating and a separate trunk (boot in Britain and Ireland), though in some fashions the engine may be on the rear of the automobile.

36 “Culture Warlords” creator Lavin : TAL

Journalist “Tal Lavin” wrote a 2020 non-fiction guide “Culture Warlords”. In it, he describes his use of a number of on-line personae so as to analysis fascism and white supremacy in America.

40 Worshipper of the goddess Pachamama : INCA

Pachamama is a goddess worshiped by indigenous peoples within the Andes of South America. “Pachamama” interprets finest as “Mother World” and embraces the entire universe versus simply the Earth.

43 “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” memoirist Remini : LEAH

Leah Remini is an actress and comic who’s finest identified for enjoying Carrie Heffernan on the sitcom “The King of Queens”. More not too long ago, in 2013, Remini competed on “Dancing with the Stars”. After that, Remini appeared as a visitor co-host on the present a number of instances. Famously, Remini was a member of the Church of Scientology, and left the group in 2013. Since leaving, Remini has been very vocal in her criticism of the practices and insurance policies of the church.

54 Evening occasion : SOIREE

“Soir” is the French phrase for “evening” and a soirée is a night occasion. The French phrase “soirée” has an acute accent over the primary “e”, however we are likely to drop this when utilizing the phrase in English.

55 “__ So Unusual”: Cyndi Lauper’s debut album : SHE’S

“She’s So Unusual” is a really profitable 1983 album by Cyndi Lauper. The listing of singles launched from the album embrace “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, “Time after Time” and “All Through the Night”. That’s a string of hits …

If you’ve ever heard Cyndi Lauper talking, you’d know that she was from Queens, New York. She is the daughter of divorced dad and mom, and strongly influenced by a supportive mom. Lauper was at all times a free spirit, and at the same time as a younger teen within the mid-sixties she dyed her hair completely different colours and wore outlandish fashions. She was a younger lady who needed to “find herself”, and to that finish she as soon as spent two weeks alone within the woods up in Canada, nicely, simply together with her canine.

57 Month between abril and junho : MAIO

In Portuguese, “maio” (May) is a month in spring.

63 Finding actors for a small-studio movie? : INDIE CASTING (from “die-casting”)

Injection molding is a producing course of through which a molten materials, comparable to a plastic, is injected right into a mould. The molten materials cools, and adopts the form of the mould. The associated technique of die-casting entails the pouring of molten metallic right into a custom-shaped die.

71 Little Italy neighbor : SOHO

The Manhattan neighborhood identified right now as SoHo was very trendy within the early 1900s, however because the well-heeled began to maneuver uptown the realm grew to become very run down and poorly maintained. Noted for the variety of fires that erupted in derelict buildings, SoHo earned the nickname “Hell’s Hundred Acres”. The space was then zoned for manufacturing and have become dwelling to many sweatshops. In the mid-1900s artists began to maneuver into open loft areas and renovating outdated buildings because the lofts had been preferrred areas through which an artist might each reside and work. In 1968, artists and others organized themselves in order that they may legalize their residential use of an space zoned for manufacturing. The group they fashioned took its identify from the identify given to the realm by town’s Planning Commission i.e “South of Houston”. This was shortened from So-uth of Ho-uston to SoHo as in “SoHo Artists Association”, and the identify caught.

78 Tap : SPIGOT

Back within the fifteenth century, a spigot was particularly a plug to cease a gap in a cask. Somewhere alongside the way in which, a spigot had a valve added for variable management of stream.

86 Part of UAE : ARAB

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven emirates (states) within the Middle East. Included within the seven are Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with town of Abu Dhabi being the UAE capital and cultural heart.

87 Indigenous folks of the far North : INUIT

The Inuit phrase for “house” is “iglu”, which we normally write as “igloo”. The Greenlandic (sure, that’s a language) phrase for “house” could be very comparable, particularly “igdlo”. The partitions of igloos are large insulators, because of the air pockets within the blocks of snow.

92 Not fairly spherical : OBLATE

Technically talking, a spheroid is a form made by rotating an ellipse round one among its two principal axes. An ellipse rotated round its main axis varieties a form just like an American soccer, i.e. a prolate or elongated spheroid. An ellipse rotated round its minor axis varieties a form just like a lentil, i.e. an oblate or flattened spheroid. A circle can also be an ellipse, only one through which the minor axis and main axis are the identical factor. A circle rotated round its axis is a sphere, i.e. a spheroid with round symmetry.

99 Had a dry spell on the plate : SLUMPED

That could be baseball.

102 Geneticist Stevens who found intercourse chromosomes : NETTIE

American geneticist Nettie Stevens noticed in 1905 that male mealworms produced two distinct kinds of sperm; one had a big chromosome, and the opposite a small chromosome. She additional noticed that sperm with a big chromosome produced feminine offspring after fertilization of an egg. Sperm with a small chromosome produced male offspring. In later years, these two various kinds of chromosomes got the names X and Y intercourse chromosomes.

108 Cook-off dish : CHILI

The full identify of the dish that’s usually known as merely “chili” is “chili con carne”, Spanish for “peppers with meat”. The dish was created by immigrants from the Spanish Canary Islands within the metropolis of San Antonio, Texas (a metropolis which the islanders based). The San Antonio Chili Stand was a preferred attraction on the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and that stand launched the dish to the remainder of America and to the world.

111 Shucker’s discards : HUSKS

To shuck is to take away the husk from (say, an ear of corn) or to take away the shell from (say, an oyster).

113 Superlative acronym : GOAT

Greatest of all time (GOAT)

119 __ loop: easy skating bounce : TOE

A toe loop is a comparatively easy bounce in determine skating (not that I might do one!). In a toe loop, the skater makes use of the toe decide on the skate to carry off on a backward outdoors edge, touchdown on the identical backward outdoors edge.

122 Modern, in German : NEU

In German, the alternative of “alt” (outdated) is “neu” (new).

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