Constructor: Rafael Musa

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Word of the Day: BOTTLE GREEN (5D: Dark hue named after a kind of glassware) —

Bottle inexperienced is a darkish shade of inexperienced, much like pine inexperienced. It is a illustration of the colour of inexperienced glass bottles.

The first recorded use of bottle inexperienced as a shade title in English was in 1816.

Bottle inexperienced is a shade in Prismacolor marker and pencil units. It can also be the colour of the uniform of the Police Service of Northern Ireland changing the Royal Ulster Constabulary‘s “rifle inexperienced” coloured uniforms in 2001. It can also be the inexperienced utilized in uniforms for South Sydney High School in Sydney.

Bottle inexperienced can also be the colour most related to information indicators and road title indicators within the United States.

Bottle inexperienced can also be the background shade of the Flag of Bangladesh, as outlined by the federal government of Bangladesh. Another title for this shade is Bangladesh inexperienced. (wikipedia)

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Wow I simply discovered an terrible bizarre lot about BOTTLE GREEN there. One of the perks of writing the weblog is falling into wikipedia holes, which, as I write it, does not sound like a perk in any respect, however they are often enjoyable whereas they final. Most issues I study in such holes on in the future I overlook by the subsequent day, however I nonetheless like studying issues after which realizing them for a time; then I can overlook them and (perhaps) study them another time sometime. Bangladesh inexperienced! Gonna follow BOTTLE GREEN, however I like realizing its different title. What may stick is the truth that BOTTLE GREEN is the title of the inexperienced on U.S. freeway / road / street indicators. That is a ubiquitous inexperienced the precise title of which I by no means actually thought-about. I’m beginning right here as a result of, effectively, it is the Word of the Day, which form of spilled over into the start of my write-up, and since I simply actually just like the time period. And the colour! And the thought of a shade named for bottles that had been that shade. I get pleasure from issues that are available in such bottles. Mainly wine, however I really feel like (largely in my childhood) glass soda bottles had been generally that shade. All your citrusy ones like 7-Up and Sprite, however even Coke bottles had been generally inexperienced. Almost all soda bottles are plastic now. Safer (cannot break a plastic bottle over anybody’s head, most likely), however duller too. Thank you for permitting me to ruminate haphazardly about inexperienced bottles and BOTTLE GREEN.

[“… and sometimes there’ll be sorrow”]

This one began out SO-SO (actually and figuratively), however then PLAY IT COOL made issues fascinating, after which whoosh “IT CAN’T HURT” and whoosh BOTTLE GREEN despatched me flying into the center of the grid and goodbye SO-SO, whats up enjoyable. Did the puzzle dupe *and* cross the two-letter phrase “IT” there? Yes. Do I care? Not actually. If you’d crossed “IT” at “DO IT” and “IT’S BAD,” I’d’ve questioned aloud what the hell you had been doing, however in two attractive marquee solutions like this, these “IT”s grow to be small and fade into the background. Speaking of “IT,” I obtained all circled for a bit at 51A: Where it is at (VENUE) as a result of … effectively, it appeared prefer it may very well be something, and likewise I’ve been doing so many cryptic crosswords that I assumed perhaps the puzzle was asking me the place “it”aly was “at,” so I briefly tried to think about easy methods to make some abbr. for EUROPE or MEDITERRANEAN match. And then ITALY truly confirmed up within the grid! (42D: Where the piano was invented). Crosswords are filled with probability encounters and bizarre alternatives to get misplaced down varied thought byways. But I did not get really misplaced very a lot at the moment. Once I got here whooshing out of the NW, it did not take lengthy for that middle stack to become visible. Once I modified OOZY (ick) to OILY (nonetheless kinda ick) (30D: Sebaceous), issues settled into place. I like love love “HANG ON A SECOND” over “WAIT RIGHT HERE!” as a result of they sound like issues that may be stated in fast succession by somebody who has a shock for you! Like perhaps he goes into the subsequent room and comes again to indicate you numbers that point out that you just WIN THE LOTTERY! (The clue on WIN THE LOTTERY is intelligent (34A: Make dough from scratch?), although once I consider successful the lottery, I’m considering the massive prize, a lotto drawing, and scratch-off tickets aren’t normally concerned, I do not assume).