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Today’s Reveal Answer: School Crossings

The grid contains 6 letters that are CROSSING factors for pairs pairs of SCHOOL names:

• 37A Places with guards, and what will be discovered six occasions on this puzzle : SCHOOL CROSSINGS

• 18A Uncomplicated : ELEMENTARY
• 7D Sous-chef’s work : PREP
• 10D Not everlasting : ACTING

• 23A T-shirt measurement: Abbr. : MED
• 1D Captivate : CHARM

• 53A “How Great Thou __” : ART
• 55D Swap : TRADE

• 60A “Literature in a hurry,” per Matthew Arnold : JOURNALISM
• 46D Dead Sea Scrolls language : HEBREW
• 58D Air conditioner setting : HIGH

Read on, or soar to …
… an entire checklist of solutions

Bill’s time: 7m 29s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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1 Stylish eatery phrase : CHEZ

“Chez” is a French time period which means “at the house of”, which comes from the Latin phrase “casa” which means “cottage” or “hut”.

5 Irish icon, informally : ST PAT

There is a good quantity identified about Saint Patrick, a few of which comes from two letters written in his personal hand. St. Patrick lived within the fifth century, however was not born in Ireland. He was first dropped at Ireland at about 16 years of age from his native Britain, by Irish raiders who made him a slave for six years. Patrick managed to flee and returned to his homeland the place he studied and entered the Church. He went again to Ireland as a bishop and a missionary and there lived out the remainder of his life. There appears to be good proof that he died on March seventeenth (now celebrated yearly as Saint Patrick’s Day), though the 12 months is much less clear. The tales about shamrock and snakes, I’m afraid they’re the stuff of legend.

14 “Buenos días” : HOLA

“Hola” is Spanish for the greeting “hi”.

“Buenos dias” interprets from Spanish as “good day”, however can be used to say “good morning”.

15 Google __ : EARTH

Google Earth is a program that maps the Earth by superimposing satellite tv for pc photographs and aerial images. Google acquired the know-how when it bought Keyhole, Inc in 2004. Keyhole had been partially funded by the CIA.

16 Bit of thunder : CLAP

The phrase “thunder” precedes the phrase “lightning” within the phrase “thunder and lightning”. However, thunder comes after lighting in actuality, at the very least to the observer. The observer sees the flash of lightning after which seconds later hears the crash of thunder. That’s as a result of mild travels sooner than sound.

22 Litmus reddeners : ACIDS

Litmus is a mix of naturally-occurring dyes that responds to acidity by altering shade. Litmus was most likely first used round 1300 by the Spanish alchemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova, who extracted the blue dye from lichens. One suggestion is that the time period “litmus” comes from the Old Norse “litmose” which means “lichen for dyeing”. Litmus is commonly absorbed onto filter paper, creating “litmus paper” or “pH paper”. We additionally use the phrase “litmus test” figuratively to explain any check by which a single issue decides the end result.

24 Kylo __: Ben Solo’s chosen identify : REN

Kylo Ren is the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa within the “Star Wars” universe. The character’s start identify was Ben Solo. He was educated as a Jedi knight by his uncle, Luke Skywalker. However, Ben got here to embrace the Dark Side, and adjusted his identify to Kylo Ren. Ren is performed by actor Adam Driver.

25 Before thou know’st : ANON

“Anon” initially meant “at once”, however the time period’s which means advanced into “soon” apparently simply because the phrase was misused over time.

28 Places to get in form : GYMS

Our phrase “gymnasium” comes from the Greek “gymnasion” which means “public place where exercise is taken”. The Greek time period comes from “gymnos” which means “naked”, as that bodily coaching was often carried out unclothed in historical Greece.

35 Half of deux : UNE

In French, half of “deux” (two) is “un, une” (one).

42 Old tape kind : VHS

The VHS video commonplace is extra absolutely known as the Video Home System. VHS was considered one of many requirements touted by numerous producers within the seventies. The largest rival to VHS was Betamax, however all of us knew which of the 2 requirements received the ultimate spherical in that struggle.

43 “Shine a Little Love” band, familiarly : ELO

The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) is a symphonic rock group from the north of England.

44 Joplin’s “Me and Bobby __” : MCGEE

Janis Joplin recorded the music “Me and Bobby McGee” only a few days earlier than she died in 1970. The music was launched anyway, and it turned Joplin’s solely number-one single, topping the charts the next 12 months. There have been simply two posthumous number-one singles: Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee”, and Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay”.

Freedom’s simply one other phrase for nothin’ left to lose
And nothin’ ain’t price nothin’ however it’s free
Feelin’ good was simple, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues
And buddy, that was ok for me
Good sufficient for me and my Bobby McGee.

Famously, the singer Janis Joplin died from an overdose of heroin when she was simply 27 years outdated. That places her within the “27 Club”, a bunch of well-known rock and blues musicians who died on the similar age. In the membership together with Joplin, are Brian Jones (of the Rolling Stones), Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and some others.

45 “Hunny” bear : POOH

Winnie-the-Pooh’s favourite meals is “hunny”, i.e. “honey”.

50 Kitchen initialism popularized by Rachael Ray : EVOO

Virgin olive oil is oil produced from olives with no chemical remedy concerned within the manufacturing course of in any respect. To be labeled “virgin”, the oil should have an acidity stage of lower than 2% and should be judged to have “a good taste”. Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) comes from virgin oil manufacturing, and is the portion with acidity ranges of lower than 0.8% acidity that’s judged to have “superior taste”.

Rachael Ray is a celeb chef and host of a number of reveals on the Food Network tv channel. Ray comes from a household that owned and managed a lot of eating places within the northeast of the nation. One of Ray’s TV reveals is “$40 a Day”, by which she demonstrates find out how to go to numerous cities in North America and Europe and eat three meals and a snack on a every day price range of simply $40.

52 West Coast NFL group, on scoreboards : LAR

The Los Angeles Rams are the one franchise to have received NFL championships in three completely different cities, i.e. Cleveland (1945), Los Angeles (1951 & 2021) and St. Louis (1999). The Rams had been based mostly in Cleveland from 1936 to 1945, in Los Angeles from 1946 to 1994, in St. Louis from 1995 to 2015, and returned to Los Angeles in 2016.

53 “How Great Thou __” : ART

“How Great Thou Art” is a hymn within the Christian custom. The English phrases are a unfastened translation of an 1855 hymn “O Store Gud” from Sweden.

58 Big blow : HAYMAKER

A haymaker is a large, swinging punch. It is so known as as a result of the motion includes utilizing one’s weight and shoulder energy to ship the blow, with a movement very like utilizing a scythe to chop hay.

60 “Literature in a hurry,” per Matthew Arnold : JOURNALISM

I’m guessing that essentially the most well-known poet with “Arnold” as a household identify was Englishman Matthew Arnold. Alfred was energetic throughout the reign of Queen Victoria and is usually known as the third nice Victorian poet, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning.

62 Layered mineral : MICA

Mica is a silicate mineral. Thin sheets of mica are clear and are used instead of glass in sure purposes. This type of mica is known as isinglass, and because it has a greater thermal efficiency than glass it’s a nice alternative for “peepholes” in boilers and lanterns. Mica can also be used within the electronics business, making use of its distinctive electrical and thermal insulating properties.

64 Doctrine : DOGMA

A dogma is a set of beliefs. The plural of “dogma” is “dogmata” (or “dogmas”, in the event you’re not a pedant like me!)

65 Egg on : PROD

The verb “to edge” has been used to imply to incite, to induce on, from the sixteenth century. Somewhere alongside the best way “edge” was mistakenly changed with “egg”, giving us our time period “to egg on” which means “to goad”.

67 __ Allen furnishings : ETHAN

Ethan Allen was one of many founders of the state of Vermont. Allen was additionally a hero within the American Revolutionary War, well-known for main (together with Benedict Arnold) the small band of males often called the Green Mountain Boys that captured Fort Ticonderoga. And sure, the Ethan Allen retailer and furnishings line is called for Ethan Allen the patriot, despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the furnishings enterprise.

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2 Goddesses of the seasons : HORAE

The Horae of Greek mythology had been the goddesses of the seasons. There had been a number of Horae, a lot of them related to pure parts of time. Most generally there have been three, and generally ten (later twelve) Horae, or “Hours”, related to the occasions of the day. For instance, Auge was the goddess of first mild, Gymnastika was the goddess of the morning hour for train, and Dysis was the goddess of sundown.

3 Iberian people hero : EL CID

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was often called El Cid Campeador, which interprets as “The Champion” or maybe “The Lord, Master of Military Arts”. El Cid was a soldier who fought underneath the rule of King Alfonso VI of Spain (amongst others). However, he was despatched into exile by the King in 1080, after appearing past his authorization in battle. El Cid then supplied his companies to his former foes, the Moorish kings, After a lot of years constructing a fame with the Moors, he was recalled from exile by Alfonso. By this time El Cid was very a lot his personal man. Nominally underneath the orders of Alfonso, he led a mixed military of Spanish and Moorish troops and took town of Valencia on the Mediterranean coast in 1094, making it his headquarters and residential. He died in Valencia, fairly peacefully, in 1099.

The Iberian Peninsula in Europe is basically made up of Spain and Portugal. However, additionally included is the Principality of Andorra within the Pyrénées, a small a part of the south of France, and the British Territory of Gibraltar. Iberia takes its identify from the Ebro, the longest river in Spain, which the Romans named the “Iber”.

4 Journalist Paula : ZAHN

Paula Zahn has labored as a journalist and information anchor with ABC, NBC, Fox News and CNN. In 2009, she first appeared because the host of the long-running true crime present on the Discovery Channel known as “On the Case with Paula Zahn”. Outside of her work on tv, Zahn is an completed cellist and has even performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Orchestra.

6 Claws : TALONS

A talon is a claw of a fowl of prey. The time period “talon” finally derives from “talus”, the Latin phrase for “ankle”.

7 Sous-chef’s work : PREP

The “sous-chef de cuisine” (a French time period) is the “under-chef of the kitchen”, the second-in-command.

8 NCR machine : ATM

NCR is an American firm that has been in enterprise since 1884 and was initially known as the National Cash Register Company. The firm has carried out effectively in a market the place new applied sciences appear to be always disrupting the established order. NCR is a number one provider of automated teller machines (ATMs) and barcode scanners.

9 Highest mountain vary outdoors of Asia : THE ANDES

The Andes vary is the longest steady chain of mountains on the planet. It runs down the size of the west coast of South America for about 4,300 miles, from Venezuela within the north to Chile within the south. The highest peak within the Andes is Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, at an elevation of twenty-two,841 toes. Interestingly, the height of Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador is the furthest level on the Earth’s floor from the middle of the planet. That’s due to the equatorial “bulge” across the Earth’s “waist”.

19 Sgt. or cpl. : NCO

A non-commissioned officer (NCO) could be a sergeant (sgt.) or a corporal (cpl.).

21 Khal __ of “Game of Thrones” : DROGO

Jason Momoa is a mannequin and actor who is probably greatest identified for taking part in superhero Aquaman in a number of DC Comics movies. He additionally performed warrior chief Khal Drogo within the HBO TV collection “Game of Thrones”. In 2017, Momoa married actress Lisa Bonet, who performed Denise Huxtable on “The Cosby Show”.

25 Dating profile phrase? : ANNO

The Latin phrase for 12 months is “annus”. We typically see it utilized in Latin phrases, however often with a distinct spelling. In “anno Domini”, the “anno” is the ablative case of “annus” because the phrase means “in the year of the Lord”. Another instance is “per annum”, by which “annum” is the accusative case because the literal translation of the phrase is “during the year”.

26 Miracle-__ : GRO

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company was based in 1868 by one Orlando Scott, and initially offered seed to the agricultural business. In the early 1900s, Scotts began to promote to owners, and primarily equipped garden seed. The firm merged with the gardening firm Miracle-Gro in 1955, after which with TruGreen in 2016.

27 Continental capital : EUROS

The euro signal (€) appears to be like like a letter C, however with two horizontal traces drawn throughout the center. Inspiration for the design comes from the Greek letter epsilon.

29 “Fire Island” actor Bowen : YANG

Bowen Yang is an actor and comic who joined the solid of “Saturday Night Live” in 2019, after working for a 12 months with the present’s writing workers. When Yank turned a solid member, he was the primary Chinese-American to seem recurrently on SNL.

“Fire Island” is a 2022 romantic comedy a couple of group of homosexual pals taking a trip on Fire Island on the South Shore of Long Island. The movie’s storyline was impressed by Jane Austen’s traditional novel “Pride and Prejudice”. I haven’t seen it but, however I hear good issues …

30 World of Warcraft class : MAGE

World of Warcraft is a web based role-playing recreation (RPG). My son informs me that the sport shouldn’t be that nice. Like I’d know …

31 Enc. for a 32-Down : SASE

An SAE is a “stamped, addressed envelope”. An SASE is a “self-addressed, stamped envelope”.

32 Invitation letters : RSVP

“RSVP” stands for “répondez s’il vous plaît”, which is French for “answer, please”.

33 Zoom assembly annoyance : ECHO

Zoom is a videoconferencing app that turned remarkably standard within the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The market deemed Zoom to be the simplest to make use of of the free videoconferencing apps. I’ve been utilizing it, however actually want Google’s Meet providing …

38 Beyoncé album and movie of 2016 : LEMONADE

“Lemonade” is a 2016 studio album launched by Beyoncé. The album goes hand-in-hand with a 65-minute movie “Beyoncé: Lemonade”, which I suppose could be thought of an prolonged music video …

39 Award named for a Muse : CLIO

The Clio Awards are the Oscars of the promoting world and are named after Clio, the Greek Muse of History. Clio was additionally the recorder of nice deeds, the proclaimer and celebrator of nice accomplishments and a supply of inspiration and genius. The Clio Awards had been first offered in 1959.

40 Insincere flattery : SMARM

The phrase “smarm” describes insincere flattery. The time period comes from a colloquial phrase “smalm” that was used within the mid-Nineteenth century to imply “smear the hair with some sort of styling product”.

46 Dead Sea Scrolls language : HEBREW

The Dead Sea Scrolls had been found over a interval of years, between 1947 and 1956, in eleven caves (the Qumran Caves) on the shores of the Dead Sea. The scrolls are believed to have been written by an historical Jewish sect known as the Essenes, though this has been known as into query lately. Many of the texts are copies of writings from the Hebrew Bible.

48 Red Cross provide : PLASMA

Plasma (generally “plasm”) is the clear, yellow-colored liquid element of blood and lymph by which cells are suspended.

Back in 1859, a Swiss businessman known as Henri Dunant went to fulfill French emperor Napoleon III, to debate making it simpler to conduct commerce in French-occupied Algeria. The Emperor was billeted at Solferino, the place France and Austria had been engaged in a significant battle. In at some point, Dunant witnessed 40,000 troopers die or get wounded on the battlefield with none organized medical care. Dunant deserted his enterprise agenda and as an alternative spent per week caring for the sick and wounded. Within a couple of years he had based the precursor to the Red Cross, and in 1901 he was awarded the primary ever Nobel Peace Prize.

49 Nonprofessional : LAYMAN

Anything described as laic (or “laical, lay”) is expounded to the laity, these members of the church who aren’t clergy. The time period “laic” finally comes from the Greek “laikos” which means “of the people”.

51 “The Voice of the Dodgers” Scully : VIN

Vin Scully is a sportscaster who has been calling Dodgers video games since 1950, when the group was nonetheless situated in Brooklyn. When Scully broadcast the 1953 World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers, he turned the youngest individual ever to name a World Series recreation, at solely 25 years of age. When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, Scully went with them.

53 Director Kurosawa : AKIRA

Akira Kurosawa was an Oscar-winning Japanese movie director. His most well-known film to us within the West needs to be “The Seven Samurai”, the inspiration for “The Magnificent Seven” starring Yul Brynner, and certainly a foundation for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”.

54 Intel mission : RECON

A “recon” (reconnaissance) may present “intel” (intelligence).

56 Last identify of each “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” filmmakers : COEN

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” is a 2018 film written, produced and directed by the Coen brothers. It is an anthology movie that includes six vignettes which are set on the American frontier. The first of these vignettes is the titular “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”.

59 Concert gear : AMPS

An electrical guitar, for instance, wants an amplifier (amp) to take the weak sign created by the vibration of the strings and switch it right into a sign highly effective sufficient for a loudspeaker.

60 NYC hub : JFK

The three huge airports serving New York City (NYC) are John F. Kennedy (JFK), LaGuardia (LGA) and Newark (EWR).

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