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Constructed by: Ed Sessa
Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme (in line with Bill): Good Ol’ Puzzle

Themed solutions are frequent phrases with ending with an “-ole” sound (as in “mole”), however that phrase has been modified to a homophone:

• 18A Okay-pop, e.g.? : SEOUL MUSIC (from “soul music”)
• 62A Survey of hairdressers? : BARBER POLL (from “barber pole”)
• 4D Golfer who’s too afraid to make a putt? : HOLE CHICKEN (from “whole chicken”)
• 27D 1982 movie job that stored an actor on his heels? : TOOTSIE ROLE (from “Tootsie Roll”)

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Bill’s time: 8m 06s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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1 Indulge the munchies : NOSH

Our phrase “nosh” has been round for the reason that late fifties, when it was imported from the Yiddish phrase “nashn” which means “to nibble”. We use “nosh” as a noun which means “snack”, or as a verb which means “to eat between meals”.

5 French mates : AMIS

A male pal in France is “un ami”, and a feminine pal is “une amie”.

9 “It’s Good” root beer model : BARQ’S

When the Barq Brothers determined to enter the basis beer enterprise round 1900, they had been confronted with a dilemma because the Hires Root Beer Company was making an attempt to trademark the time period “root beer”. So, the Barqs produced their beverage and referred to as it merely Barq’s. They did certainly maintain issues easy, with an early promoting slogan of “Drink Barq’s. It’s good.” As the trademark difficulty dissipated, the corporate then launched a slogan “Is it root beer?” earlier than lastly “coming out” and calling their drink “Barq’s root beer”.

14 Miami River locale : OHIO

The Great Miami River is commonly referred to as merely the Miami River. It is a tributary of the Ohio River discovered within the southwest of Ohio. The river is called for the Miami Native American individuals who lived within the space. By the best way, the Miami River in Florida, which provides its identify to the well-known metropolis, is called for the Mayaimi Native American individuals who lived in that area.

15 Knucklehead : BOZO

The unsavory phrase “bozo” describes an individual with a low IQ, and somebody who’s often fairly muscular. The time period has been used for the reason that early 1900s, and presumably comes from the Spanish “bozal” that was used to explain somebody who spoke Spanish poorly.

17 Pedestrian avenue : MALL

Surprisingly (to me!), our phrase “mall”, which means “shady walk” or “enclosed shopping space”, comes from the Italian for “mallet”. All of our shopping-style malls are named for “The Mall” in St. James’s Park in London. This tree-lined promenade was so referred to as because it was once a well-known spot to play the croquet-like sport referred to as “pall-mall”. The sport derived its identify from the Italian for ball (palla) and mallet “maglio”. The London thoroughfare referred to as the Mall nonetheless exists, at one finish of which is Buckingham Palace. Indeed, parallel to the Mall is a avenue referred to as Pall Mall.

18 Okay-pop, e.g.? : SEOUL MUSIC (from “soul music”)

Seoul is the capital metropolis of South Korea. The Seoul National Capital Area is house to over 25 million folks and is the second largest metropolitan space on this planet, second solely to Tokyo, Japan.

Okay-pop (Korean pop) is a style of music from South Korea that emerged within the early nineties.

20 Cat voiced by Debra Messing in “Garfield: The Movie” : ARLENE

“Garfield: The Movie” is a 2004 live-action adaptation of the “Garfield” cartoon by Jim Davis. Bill Murray performs the title character. Murray was given some leeway when recording his dialog. He did so in his personal condominium in New York City, and on set in Greece whereas filming “The Life of the Aquatic with Steve Zissou”.

22 Lackluster : DRAB

Something described as lackluster is boring, it “lacks luster”. The time period “lack-luster” was most likely coined by the Bard himself. William Shakespeare used is in his play “As You Like It”, which was most likely written in 1599:

And then he drew a dial from his poke
And, trying on it with lackluster eye,
Says very properly, “It is ten o’clock.

37 Preserve, in a means : CURE

Salt is used to “cure” meats. Curing is a preservation course of. The salt kills and inhibits the expansion of microorganisms by sucking the water out of the microbe’s cells within the strategy of osmosis. Smoking can also be cited as a curing course of, though smoking alone is inadequate for preserving meals because the antimicrobial smoke compounds solely adhere to the skin of the meat or fish. Smoking is often mixed with salt-curing or drying.

40 Desktop since 1998 : IMAC

When Apple selected the letter “I” prefix for the iMac in 1998, that letter “I” stood for “Internet”. Steve Jobs and his advertising and marketing workforce adopted up with the message that I additionally stood for “individual, instruct, inform and inspire”.

43 NPR’s Tiny __ Concerts : DESK

NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concerts” is a sequence of reside live shows recorded (with video) on the desk of Bob Boilen, host of “All Songs Considered”. The present happened after Boilen left a South by Southwest pageant annoyed at not with the ability to hear the music over the noise of the gang. One of the acts on the pageant was people singer Laura Gibson. Boilen organized with Gibson to repeat her efficiency at his desk a month later, in order that he may file it and put up it on-line. The identify “Tiny Desk Concert” was used as Boilen performed in a band named “Tiny Desk Unit” from 1979 to1981. That first recording was made in 2008, and artists have been making related recordings ever since then. The listing of artists performing reside on the Tiny Desk contains Coldplay, Pat Benetar, BTS, Tom Jones and Alicia Keys. Great Stuff …

44 “Watchmen” comedian e book author Moore : ALAN

Alan Moore is an English author of “graphic novels”, a time period that Moore himself launched with a purpose to differentiate his work from “comic books”.

45 Places of refuge : ASYLA

Asylum (plural “asyla”) is a Latin phrase which means “sanctuary”.

48 Torah instructor : RABBI

The phrase “Torah” greatest interprets as “teaching”, I’m instructed.

The Torah, the primary 5 books of the Hebrew Bible, are historically believed to have been written by Moses. As such, they’re typically known as the Law of Moses, or Mosaic Law. Those 5 books are:

• Bereshit/Genesis
• Shemot/Exodus
• Vayikra/Leviticus
• Bamidbar/Numbers
• Devarim/Deuteronomy

61 Rio Grande metropolis : LAREDO

Laredo is a border metropolis in Texas that’s located on the banks of the Rio Grande, throughout the border from Nuevo Laredo in Mexico.

62 Survey of hairdressers? : BARBER POLL (from “barber pole”)

Barbers initially supplied a variety of providers, together with surgical procedure. Back within the Middle Ages, one of many main providers supplied was bloodletting. The purple and white signal exterior a barber’s workplace represented bloody bandages wrapped round a pole. Henry VIII restricted barbers to simply haircutting … and dentistry. Our time period “barber” involves us through Anglo-French from the Latin “barba” which means “beard”.

66 Perrier rival : EVIAN

Évian-les-Bains (or just “Évian”) is within the very east of France, on the shores of Lake Geneva immediately throughout the lake from Lausanne, Switzerland. As one may think, Évian is the house of Évian mineral water, essentially the most profitable enterprise on the town. Personally, I can’t stand the distinctive style of Évian water …

67 Shallowest Great Lake : ERIE

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest of the 5 Great Lakes by space (Lake Ontario is the smallest). The lake takes its identify from the Erie tribe of Native Americans that used to reside alongside its southern shore. Erie is the smallest of the Great Lakes by quantity and the shallowest, one thing for which close by residents have to be fairly grateful. Being comparatively shallow, a lot of Erie freezes over half means via most winters placing an finish to a lot of the lake-effect snow that falls within the snow belt extending from the lake’s edge.

68 Euro forerunners : LIRE

The phrase “lira” is utilized in a lot of international locations for forex. “Lira” comes from the Latin for “pound” and is derived from the British pound sterling, the worth of a Troy pound of silver. For instance, the lira (plural “lire”) was the official forex of Italy earlier than the nation modified over to the euro in 2002.

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2 One finish of the Chicago L’s Blue Line : O’HARE

Chicago’s Blue Line is a 27-mile lengthy “L” line that connects the Forest Park suburb to O’Hare International Airport, passing via downtown. The Blue Line is one in all solely two routes in Chicago on which trains function 24 hours a day.

3 Soprano dubbed “America’s Queen of Opera” by Time journal : SILLS

Beverly Sills was an operatic soprano from Brooklyn, New York. Sills retired from singing in 1980 to change into the overall supervisor of the New York City Opera. She later turned chairwoman of the Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera.

6 Server of Duff beer in Springfield : MOE

The regulars on “The Simpsons” hang around at Moe’s Tavern, which is called for and run by Moe Szyslak. The hottest beer at Moe’s is Duff Beer. The identify “Duff” is a reference to the real-life Duffy’s Tavern that was once East thirteenth Street in Eugene, Oregon. “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening used to frequent Duffy’s often, and Moe’s seems very very like Duffy’s when it comes to decor and flooring plan.

“The Simpsons” tv present is supposed to be set in “Anytown, USA”. The creators selected the identify “Springfield”, as it’s one in all commonest city and metropolis names within the nation.

7 Polo model : IZOD

Jack Izod was a tailor of some reputation over in England producing shirts for King George V, in addition to different members of the Royal Family. As Izod was about to retire, he was approached for the usage of his identify by an American clothes producer primarily based in New York. The model Izod of London was launched to America in 1938.

René Lacoste was a French tennis participant who went into the clothes enterprise, and got here up with a extra comfy shirt that gamers may use. This turned often called a “tennis shirt”. When it was adopted to be used within the sport of polo, the shirts additionally turned often called “polo shirts”. The “golf shirt” is mainly the identical factor. The Lacoste line of clothes incorporates a crocodile brand, as a result of René was nicknamed “The Crocodile”.

9 Panda fare : BAMBOO

The grass often called bamboo is likely one of the fastest-growing vegetation on this planet. Sadly, there are tales of rising bamboo getting used as a tool of torture. Supposedly, a sufferer might be staked out over bamboo shoots in order that the shoots develop into the human flesh. Theoretically, bamboo can develop a number of inches in simply three days.

The large panda is a bear, and so has the digestive system of a carnivore. However, the panda lives solely on bamboo, despite the fact that its intestine is comparatively poorly tailored to extract vitamins from vegetation per se. The panda depends on microbes in its intestine to digest cellulose, and consumes 20-30 kilos of bamboo every day to achieve sufficient nourishment.

10 __ Dhabi : ABU

Abu Dhabi is likely one of the seven Emirates that make up the federation often called the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The two largest members of the UAE (geographically) are Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the one two of the seven members which have veto energy over UAE coverage. Before 1971, the UAE was a British Protectorate, a set of sheikdoms. The sheikdoms entered right into a maritime truce with Britain in 1835, after which they turned often called the Trucial States, derived from the phrase “truce”.

11 Tabula __ : RASA

Tabula rasa (plural “tabulae rasae”) is the concept that persons are born with a “blank, clean slate”, and that information comes from expertise and notion. “Tabula rasa” interprets actually from Latin as “scraped tablet”.

12 Makeup equipment merchandise : Q-TIP

Cotton swabs had been initially marketed underneath the identify “Baby Gays”. This was modified in 1926 to “Q-Tips”, with the Q standing for “quality”.

25 Tattoo various for the squeamish : DECAL

A decal is an ornamental sticker. “Decal” is a shortening of “decalcomania”. The latter time period is derived from the French “décalquer”, the observe of tracing a sample from paper onto glass or maybe porcelain.

27 1982 movie job that stored an actor on his heels? : TOOTSIE ROLE (from “Tootsie Roll”)

“Tootsie” is a hilarious 1982 comedy starring Dustin Hoffman within the title position, a male actor who adopts a feminine id with a purpose to land an performing job. Jessica Lange received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her efficiency within the movie. “Tootsie” additionally supplied Geena Davis along with her first film position.

Tootsie Rolls had been developed by an Austrian sweet maker referred to as Leo Hirschfeld in New York City in 1896. Hirschfeld named the sweet after his daughter, who had the nickname “Tootsie”. A few spinoff merchandise have change into fairly widespread, specifically Tootsie Pops and Tootsie Roll Midgees.

29 Rock sweet, basically : SUGAR

Rock sweet includes additional massive crystals of sugar. It is made by rising sugar crystals in a supersaturated resolution of sugar and water, similar to all of us did in science class at college, keep in mind?

31 “Iliad” metropolis : TROY

The historical metropolis of Troy was positioned on the west coast of modern-day Turkey. The Trojan War of Greek mythology was precipitated by the elopement of Helen, the spouse of the king of Sparta, with Paris of Troy. The conflict itself largely consisted of a nine-year siege of Troy by the Greeks. We know most in regards to the closing yr of that siege, as it’s described extensively in Homer’s “Iliad”. The metropolis finally fell when the Greeks hid troopers contained in the Trojan Horse, which the Trojans introduced inside town’s partitions. Beware of Greeks bearing items …

33 Purnell of “Yellowjackets” : ELLA

Ella Purnell is an actress from London, now residing within the US, whom I maybe know greatest for enjoying Winston Churchill’s secretary within the 2017 movie “Churchill”.

“Yellowjackets” seems like an fascinating TV present. It is about 4 teenage ladies who survive a aircraft crash, and should reside for nineteenth months alone within the Canadian wilderness. While this story unfolds within the present, we additionally monitor their lives as adults, 25 years later.

34 Laundry detergent in an orange container : TIDE

Tide is a laundry detergent that has been made by Procter & Gamble since 1946. Back then, Tide was marketed as “America’s Washday Favorite”.

36 Playbill listing : CAST

I get fairly a kick out of studying the bios in “Playbill” as a few of them might be actually goofy and entertaining. “Playbill” began off in 1884 in New York as an in-house publication for only one theater on twenty first St. You can’t see any decent-sized manufacturing nowadays anyplace within the United States with out being handed a replica of “Playbill”.

38 Kidney associated : RENAL

Something described as renal is expounded to the kidneys. “Ren” is the Latin phrase for “kidney”.

41 Church chief : PASTOR

A pastor is a minister or priest in some Christian traditions. “Pastor” is the Latin phrase for “shepherd”.

45 “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” pop group : ABBA

“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” is a 1979 hit for the Swedish group ABBA. The album and single model launched typically world wide is 4:48 in size. The single model launched in North America was edited down drastically to three:36.

47 Flemish artist Peter Paul __ : RUBENS

Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish painter who labored within the metropolis of Antwerp in Belgium. Rubens was knighted by two monarchs: Philip IV of Spain, and Charles I of England. When Rubens was 53-years-old, 4 years after the demise of his first spouse, he married a 16-year-old woman. It was his younger second spouse who impressed most of the voluptuous figures with whom Rubens turned related later in his profession.

49 Sent an bill to : BILLED

An bill is an itemized invoice. The time period comes from the Middle French “envois” which means “dispatch (of goods)”. The root verb is “envoyer”, which interprets as “to send”.

55 Actress Sophia : LOREN

Sophia Loren actually has earned her exalted place on this planet of films. In 1962 Loren received an Oscar for Best Actress for her position within the Italian movie “Two Women”, marking the primary actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English talking efficiency. She obtained a second nomination for Best Actress for her position in “Marriage Italian-Style”, one other Italian-language film, launched in 1964.

56 Stand look ahead to, say : ABET

The phrase “abet” comes into English from the Old French “abeter” which means “to bait” or “to harass with dogs” (actually “to make bite”). This sense of encouraging one thing dangerous to occur morphed into our trendy utilization of “abet” which means to assist or encourage somebody in a criminal offense.

58 Kardashian matriarch : KRIS

Kris Kardashian is the matriarch of the Kardashian clan. She was married to the lawyer Robert Kardashian who was one in all O. J. Simpson’s attorneys in his 1995 homicide trial. The couple divorced in 1990 and Kris then married the celebrated decathlete from the 1976 Olympic Games, Bruce Jenner. That marriage resulted in divorce as properly, in 2015.

63 Carlsbad Caverns dweller : BAT

Carlsbad Cavern is the present collapse Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico. The chamber referred to as the Big Room in Carlsbad Cavern is the fifth largest underground chamber in North America. It is estimated that one million bats reside within the park’s cave programs.

64 “In the Heights” creator __-Manuel Miranda : LIN

“In the Heights” is a musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that opened on Broadway in 2008, and received the Best Musical Tony that season. John Chu directed a big-screen adaptation launched in 2021. The title is a reference to the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City.

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