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Today’s Themed Clue: Items offered in a pop-up store?

Themed solutions all have the identical clue:

• 19A Items offered in a pop-up store? : CHAMPAGNE CORKS
• 24A Items offered in a pop-up store? : TOASTER WAFFLES
• 41A Items offered in a pop-up store? : FOLDING CAMPERS
• 46A Items offered in a pop-up store? : JACK-IN-THE-BOXES

Read on, or soar to …
… a whole record of solutions

Bill’s time: 6m 52s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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1 Creature within the 2019 animated movie “Abominable” : YETI

“Abominable” is a 2019 animated movie a couple of teenage woman named Yi and a younger yeti that she dubs Everest. The film has been banned in a number of nations in Southeast Asia, together with Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines. At subject is a scene displaying a map of the South China Sea that features the disputed Nine-dash line, a disputed demarcation line defining areas claimed by mainland China and Taiwan.

9 Owlet’s residence : NEST

A child owl is an owlet. The time period “owlet” may also be used for the adults of the smaller species of owls.

13 Smartphone border : BEZEL

A bezel is a groove that’s designed to carry a beveled edge. An instance can be the groove across the face of a watch, which accepts the beveled fringe of a watch crystal.

15 German partner : FRAU

In German, a “Herr” (Mr.) is married to a “Frau” (Mrs.), and so they reside collectively in a “Haus” (home).

16 Aquarium ornament : CORAL

“Aquarium” is a Latin phrase that means “pertaining to water”, though in Latin the phrase solely existed as a noun with the that means “drinking place for cattle”. Before the usage of the noun “aquarium” (plural “aquaria”) within the context of fish, a tank was generally known as a marine vivarium.

17 Kate Middleton, to Archie and Lilibet : AUNT

Kate Middleton is the spouse of Prince William of the UK. Middleton is what one would possibly name a commoner, though since her marriage she is called the Duchess of Cambridge. She was born to oldsters who had labored collectively as flight attendants earlier than changing into fairly rich working their very own mail-order enterprise. As is so typically the case in Britain, Kate’s ancestry might be traced again far sufficient to indicate that she and William do have widespread ancestors, relationship again to the 1500s on her mom’s facet and to the 1400s on her father’s facet.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle have two kids, named Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor. The selection of “Archie” appears to don’t have any significance within the British royal household, whereas “Lilibet” is a nod to Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth was often called “Lilibet” by her speedy household.

19 Items offered in a pop-up store? : CHAMPAGNE CORKS

Cork, as within the materials used to make wine stoppers, comes from the bark of cork oak timber. The bark of a cork oak may be very thick and rugged and might be harvested each 7-10 years, with out harming the timber.

23 “Insecure” actress/author Issa : RAE

Issa Rae is a Stanford University graduate who created a YouTube internet collection known as “The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl”. Rae additionally performs the title position within the collection, a younger woman named “J”. “Awkward Black Girl” was tailored into an HBO comedy-drama known as “Insecure”, wherein Issa Rae stars.

24 Items offered in a pop-up store? : TOASTER WAFFLES

By definition, a waffle is constructed from dough or batter cooked between two patterned plates (a waffle iron). Modern-day waffles had been preceded within the Middle Ages by communion wafers used within the Christain custom. Such wafers normally had pictures of a crucified Jesus imprinted by the iron plates.

32 Game with a numbered board : DARTS

Darts is a recreation that’s typically performed in English and Irish pubs, even over right here in America. The scoring in a standard recreation of darts is troublesome to explain in a sentence or two, however the recreation of darts known as “Round the Clock” is solely hitting the numbers 1 by 20 on the dartboard in sequence.

33 “The Fiddler of Dooney” poet : YEATS

“The Fiddler of Dooney” is an 1892 poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The title refers to a hill named Dooney Rock outdoors the city of Sligo within the West of Ireland. There is a music contest known as the Fiddler of Dooney Competition, named for the poem, that’s held in Sligo yearly.

34 Actress Mendes : EVA

I’m most accustomed to actress Eva Mendes as the feminine lead within the film “Hitch”, wherein she performed reverse Will Smith. Mendes began a relationship with fellow actor Ryan Gosling in 2011, and the couple have two kids collectively.

35 Stage award : OBIE

The Obies are the Off-Broadway Theater Awards. They have been introduced yearly since 1956. The recipients was chosen by “The Village Voice” newspaper, however now are collectively administered with the American Theatre Wing.

36 Tigger’s creator : MILNE

Tigger is a personality within the “Winnie-the-Pooh” tales by A. A. Milne. He is a tiger with a springy tail and simply likes to bounce round. Tigger will inform you himself that “bouncing is what tiggers do best.”

37 Home of Iowa State : AMES

Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) is situated in Ames, Iowa. Among many different notable milestones, ISU created the nation’s first college of veterinary drugs, in 1879. The sports activities groups of ISU are often called the Cyclones.

38 Nemesis : FOE

Nemesis was a Greek goddess, the goddess of retribution. Her position was to make pay these people who had been both haughty or boastful. In fashionable parlance, one’s nemesis (plural “nemeses”) is one’s sworn enemy, typically somebody who’s the precise reverse in character however somebody who nonetheless shares some necessary traits. A nemesis is commonly somebody one can’t appear to beat in competitors.

39 Corral, as cattle : PEN IN

“Corral” is Spanish phrase describing an enclosure for livestock that we’ve imported into English. Ultimately, the time period comes from the Vulgar Latin “currale” that means “enclosure for carts”, itself coming from “currus”, the Latin for “cart”.

44 Post-ER place : ICU

An intensive care unit (ICU) and emergency room (ER) are present in a hospital (hosp.).

45 Animated Olive : OYL

“Thimble Theater” was the precursor caricature to the well-known “Popeye” drawn by E. C. Segar. Before Popeye got here into the story, the brother and sister characters Castor Oyl and Olive Oyl had been the protagonists. And then alongside comes a sailor …

46 Items offered in a pop-up store? : JACK-IN-THE-BOXES

A Jack-in-the-box is a baby’s toy. It’s a field with a crank deal with on the facet. Turning the crank causes a tune to play (normally “Pop Goes the Weasel”), and on the proper second the lid pops open and a spring loaded clown character jumps up out of the field.

54 Many-axled car : SEMI

An 18-wheeler semi-trailer truck has eight wheels below the trailer, i.e. 4 on every of the 2 rear axles. There are 10 wheels below the tractor unit. Two of the ten wheels are on the entrance axle, and eight are on the rear two axles that sit below the entrance of the trailer.

55 Lawn care model : TORO

Toro is a producer of garden mowers and snow removing tools that’s based mostly in Bloomington, Minnesota. The firm was based in 1914 to construct tractor engines.

57 “I Dream of Jeannie” star : EDEN

Actress Barbara Eden is greatest identified for enjoying the title position within the sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie”. For a few years, Eden was married to fellow actor Michael Ansara, who was maybe greatest identified for enjoying Apache Chief Cochise within the western collection “Broken Arrow” within the Nineteen Fifties.

Back in 1964, the second most watched present on American tv was ABC’s “Bewitched”. Sidney Sheldon was tasked with the job of making a rival sitcom and he got here up with “I Dream of Jeannie”, which first aired in 1965 and starred Barbara Eden within the title position. The censors had an enormous say in how the story developed. For starters, Jeannie’s skimpy costume was permitted on air, offered that Eden didn’t showcase her navel on the display. Also, Jeannie was solely allowed to reside with an single man so long as the story made it clear that she slept in a bottle.

58 Nefarious : EVIL

Something described as “nefarious” is extraordinarily depraved. The time period comes from the Latin “nefarius” that means “wicked”, which in flip comes from “nefas” that means crime, or “ne-” (not) and “fas” (proper).

60 Pizazz : ZING

Pizazz (additionally “pizzazz”) is vitality, vitality. There’s a type of cool factor in regards to the “pizzazz” spelling, particularly that it’s the solely 7-letter phrase in English that can not be performed in Scrabble. You can get shut through the use of the Z-tile with the 2 clean tiles to get to a few of the required 4 Zs, however there’s no technique to get to the fourth Z.

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1 “Everything Everywhere All at Once” star Michelle : YEOH

Michelle Yeoh is an actress from Malaysia who appeared in a number of Hong Kong motion movies wherein she did her personal stunts and martial arts scenes. Her most well-known motion efficiency was within the 2000 film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, though I greatest know her for enjoying reverse Pierce Brosnan within the Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a 2022 comedy-drama film starring Michelle Yeoh as a lady present process an IRS audit. That mundane storyline will get misplaced utterly in a movie stuffed with science-fiction, fantasy, animation and martial arts. The screenplay was initially written for Jackie Chan, but it surely was reworked deliberately so {that a} feminine lead carried the plot. Frankly, this one sounds a bit of haphazard for my mundane and growing older tastes …

2 Old Testament scribe : EZRA

Ezra the Scribe, additionally known as “Ezra the Priest”, is the central character within the Book of Ezra within the Hebrew Bible.

3 One carrying an identical jersey : TEAMMATE

We use the phrase “jersey” for a sports activities shirt worn by a selected crew member, one which normally bears the participant’s identify and crew quantity. Back within the mid-1800s, the time period was used for a knitted shirt or close-fitting tunic. The merchandise of clothes was named for Jersey within the Channel Islands off the coast of France. The island was well-known for its knitting commerce throughout the Middle Ages.

5 Layered model : SHAG

A shag reduce is a layered coiffure. Actress Meg Ryan famously sported a shag reduce for a few years, as did fellow actress Farrah Fawcett.

7 China __ McClain of “Black Lightning” : ANNE

China Anne McClain began her performing profession with a job within the 2005 movie “The Gospel” as a baby actor at seven years of age. Soon after, she launched a singing profession as a member of the sister group 3mcclaingirls.

“Black Lightning” is a superhero TV collection that initially ran from 2018 to 2021. The title character is from the DC Comics universe.

10 “The Devil in the White City” writer Larson : ERIK

Erik Larson is a journalist, most notably contributing options to “The Wall Street Journal” and “TIME” journal. Larson can also be a really profitable writer of nonfiction books, equivalent to “The Devil in the White City” (in regards to the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893) and “Dead Wake” (in regards to the sinking of the Lusitania).

11 __ Club: Costco rival : SAM’S

Sam’s Club is a warehouse membership that’s owned and operated by Walmart. It is called after the corporate’s founder Sam Walton.

12 Oleo container : TUB

Emperor Louis Napoleon III of France introduced a contest to develop an alternative choice to butter, a substitute that might be extra accessible to the decrease lessons and extra sensible for the armed forces. A French chemist known as Hippolyte Mege-Mouries got here up with one thing he known as oleomargarine in 1869, which was finally manufactured below the commerce identify “margarine”. The identify “oleomargarine” additionally provides us our generic time period “oleo”.

13 Email subject : BCC

A blind carbon copy (bcc) is a duplicate of a doc or message that’s despatched to somebody with out different recipients of the message realizing about that additional copy.

20 Tiny member of a collective : ANT

The research of ants is called myrmecology. The time period “myrmecology” derives from the Greek “myrmex” that means “ant”.

21 Big galoots : OAFS

“Galoot” is an insulting time period describing an ungainly or boorish man, an ape. “Galoot” comes from the nautical world, the place it was initially what a sailor would possibly name a soldier or marine.

24 Party recreation “of unspeakable fun” : TABOO

Taboo is a guessing recreation that was launched by Parker Brothers in 1989. Players should encourage their teammates to guess a phrase on a card, with out utilizing that phrase or associated phrases outlined on the cardboard. It’s a enjoyable recreation that’s performed often round right here …

25 Projecting window : ORIEL

An oriel window is a bay window that initiatives from a wall, however doesn’t attain all the way in which to the bottom.

27 Shrine artifact : RELIC

A relic is one thing that has survived from the previous, reminding us of that previous. In the world of faith, a relic is an object revered attributable to its affiliation with a saint or martyr.

28 Sheryl Crow’s “All I __ Do” : WANNA

“All I Wanna Do” is a 1994 music co-written and launched by Sheryl Crow. The music’s lyrics are an adaptation of a 1987 poem “Fun” by poet Wyn Cooper.

29 Madagascar primate : LEMUR

Lemurs are unusual-looking creatures which might be native to the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa. With their white fur and darkish eyes which might be very reflective at evening, they’ve a “ghostly” look. Indeed, the animals take their identify from Roman mythology wherein “lemures” had been spirits of the stressed lifeless.

32 Tip : DOFF

One doffs one’s hat, normally as a mark of respect. To doff is to take off, with “doff” being a contraction of “do off”. The reverse of “doff” is “don”, that means “to put on”.

37 Had a farm-to-table meal, say : ATE LOCAL

A locavore is somebody who limits his or her weight loss plan to meals that’s produced regionally, typically inside 100 miles of its level of buy. There’s a fantastic memoir by the writer Barbara Kingsolver that discusses the experiences of her and her household with the locavore life-style known as “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life” An glorious learn …

39 Guitar accent : PICK

A kithara (additionally “cithara”) was a lyre-like instrument in historical Greece. Our phrase “guitar” is finally derived from “kithara”. Indeed, “kithara” is the trendy Greek phrase for “guitar”.

40 Malicious trackers : SPYBOTS

Spybots are a household of pc worms, malware packages that self-replicate to be able to unfold to different computer systems.

43 Oft-pranked Simpsons character : MOE

On the animated TV comedy “The Simpsons”, Bart likes to prank-call Moe’s Tavern. Bart asks Moe to “page” somebody within the bar utilizing a fictitious identify, a reputation which appears like a impolite phrase when known as out loud. This working joke on “The Simpsons” is a homage to a collection of legendary calls made in actual life to the Tube Bar in Jersey City by John Elmo and Jim Davidson that had been taped and circulated broadly within the mid-seventies. Some of the milder names used within the authentic prank calls had been:

• Al Cholic (alcoholic)
• Cole Kutz (chilly cuts)
• Sal Lammy (salami)
• Anita Bath (I would like a shower)

46 Rey of the “Star Wars” movies, for one : JEDI

Rey is a central character within the “Star Wars” universe who first appeared in 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. She is skilled as a Jedi by Luke Skywalker and his sister Princess Leia Organa. In honor of her mentors, she takes the identify Rey Skywalker, and finally turns into “The Last Jedi”. Rey is performed by British actress Daisy Ridley.

48 Stellar explosion : NOVA

A nova (plural “novae”) is mainly a star that immediately will get a lot brighter, regularly returning to its authentic state weeks and even years later. The elevated brightness of a nova is because of elevated nuclear exercise inflicting the star to choose up additional hydrogen from a neighboring celestial physique. A supernova may be very completely different from a nova. A supernova is a really shiny burst of sunshine and vitality created when a lot of the materials in a star explodes. The shiny burst of a supernova may be very short-lived in comparison with the sustained brightness of a nova.

49 Cereal whose flavors embody grapity purple : TRIX

Trix is a corn-based breakfast cereal that has been round since 1954, produced by General Mills. Ads for the cereal featured Trix Rabbit, who would strive arduous to pay money for bowls of the cereal. He would at all times get caught although, and be admonished with, “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!” With 46% sugar content material, the rabbit in all probability wouldn’t have appreciated it anyway …

50 Hindu spring competition : HOLI

Holi is a Hindu competition, celebrated in spring, that’s also called the Festival of Colours.

51 Tide various : XTRA

Xtra is a line of laundry detergents now made by Church and Dwight, the identical firm that makes Arm & Hammer merchandise.

52 Surname on the O.Okay. Corral : EARP

The well-known Earp brothers of the Wild West had been Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan. All three brothers participated in what needs to be probably the most well-known gunfight within the historical past of the Old West, the Gunfight on the O.Okay. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Strangely sufficient, the struggle didn’t occur on the O.Okay. Corral, however came about six doorways down the road in a vacant lot subsequent to a images studio.

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