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Constructed by: Bonnie Eisenman
Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme (in accordance with Bill): Garb-led Phrases

Themed solutions every refer to at least one’s garb, and sound like widespread phrases:

• 20A Impractical method to dress? : SHOES ON FIRST (from “Who’s on First?”)
• 31A Planning assembly for the costume division? : CLOTHES CALL (from “close call”)
• 42A Disappointing signal on a retailer promoting warm-weather clothes? : OUT OF SHORTS (from “out of sorts”)
• 53A Really pulls off a jacket? : ROCKS THE COAT (from “rocks the boat”)

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

Bill’s time: 12m 23s! (don’t ask …)

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

Across

16 Many a univ. donor : ALUM

An alumnus (plural “alumni”) is a graduate or former pupil of a faculty or school. The feminine type is “alumna” (plural “alumnae”). The time period comes into English from Latin, wherein an alumnus is a foster-son or pupil. “Alum” is a casual time period used for both an alumna or alumnus.

17 one year : YEAR

The Earth takes about 365¼ days to orbit the Sun. And so, by one definition, a 12 months (a tropical 12 months) lasts 365¼ days. As we progress via 365-day years, we get out of sync with the “true” 12 months, and so the solar seems in a barely completely different place within the sky on the identical time and date, 12 months after 12 months. Pope Gregory XIII determined to cope with this difficulty when he launched the Gregorian calendar in 1582. As every 365-day 12 months was falling behind by 1 / 4 of a day, he determined to make a correction frequently. Our fashionable Gregorian calendar ignores the error till it quantities to a full day. That occurs as soon as each 4 years (4 x ¼), and so we’ve got an additional day each fourth February (the twenty ninth).

19 HBO political satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus : VEEP

“Veep” is a political satire sitcom on HBO that could be a remake of the British present “The Thick of It” (Warning: robust language!). “Veep” is about within the workplace of fictional US Vice President Selina Meyer, performed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Actress and comic Julia Louis-Dreyfus is an alum of the sketch present “Saturday Night Live”, wherein she appeared from 1982 to 1985. Her actually large break got here when she was chosen to play Elaine Benes on “Seinfeld”. More not too long ago, Louis-Dreyfus might be seen taking part in Vice President Selina Meyer on the HBO comedy present “Veep”.

20 Impractical method to dress? : SHOES ON FIRST (from “Who’s on First?”)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made up the comedy duo Abbott and Costello who had been immensely widespread within the forties and fifties. Even after I was rising up in Ireland and knew nothing about baseball, I used to be rolling across the flooring listening to Abbott and Costello’s well-known “Who’s on First?” comedy routine. Can you title all of the gamers?

First Base: Who
Second Base: What
Third Base: I Don’t Know
Left subject: Why
Centerfield: Because
Pitcher: Tomorrow
Catcher: Today
Shortstop: I Don’t Care/I Don’t Give a Darn

23 Barack and Michelle’s eldest daughter : MALIA

Malia Obama is the eldest of Barack and Michelle Obama’s two daughters. She graduated from the personal Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., the identical college that Chelsea Clinton attended. Malia took a niche 12 months after leaving highschool, and spent the 2016 summer season as an intern within the US Embassy in Madrid, earlier than heading off to Harvard in 2017.

27 Impatient : ANTSY

The phrase “antsy” embodies the idea of “having ants in one’s pants”, which means being nervous and fidgety. However, “antsy” has been utilized in English because the 1830s, whereas “ants in the pants” originated a century later.

30 Cookie fruit : FIG

The Fig Newton cookie relies on what is definitely a really outdated recipe that dates again to historic Egypt. Whereas we grew up with “Fig Rolls” in Ireland, right here in America the model title “Fig Newton” was used, because the cookies had been initially produced in Newton, Massachusetts.

44 GPS show : MAP

The fashionable Global Positioning System (GPS) system that we use at the moment was constructed by the US army who obtained the huge funding wanted due to fears through the Cold War of the usage of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. We civilians, all around the world, owe rather a lot to President Ronald Reagan as a result of he directed the army to make GPS expertise accessible to the general public for the widespread good. President Reagan was moved to take action after the Soviet Union shot down KAL flight 007 carrying 269 individuals, simply because the aircraft strayed unintentionally into Soviet airspace.

45 Small village : HAMLET

A hamlet is a small village, particularly one with out a church (it says right here …).

46 Food cart snacks in South Asia : CHAAT

Chaat is a savory snack of Indian origin that could be a widespread providing from meals carts throughout South Asia and the Caribbean.

49 Texting letters : SMS

Short Message Service (SMS) is the title for the textual content messaging service that many people nonetheless use on our cell telephones to contact family and friends.

57 Japanese noodle dish : RAMEN

Ramen is a noodle dish composed of Chinese-style wheat noodles in a meat or fish broth flavored with soy or miso sauce. Ramen is often topped with sliced pork and dried seaweed. The time period “ramen” can also be used for precooked, immediate noodles that are available single-serving, strong blocks.

65 Jekyll’s counterpart : HYDE

Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” was printed in 1886. There are many tales surrounding the writing of the story, together with that the creator wrote the fundamental story in simply three to 6 days, and spent a number of weeks merely refining it. Allegedly, Stevenson’s use of cocaine stimulated his artistic juices throughout these few days of writing.

66 Basil-based sauce : PESTO

Pesto sauce is extra fully referred to as “pesto alla genovese”, i.e. pesto from Genoa. A standard recipe requires crushed garlic, pine nuts, salt, basil leaves, parmesan cheese and olive oil. Yum …

Down

2 Blip on a polygraph, possibly : LIE

We are most aware of the phrase “polygraph” because the generic title for a lie detector instrument. This utilization started in 1921, though the time period had been round because the finish of the 18th century. Back then, a polygraph was a mechanical machine used to make a number of copies as one thing was written or drawn. Famously, Thomas Jefferson used a polygraph to protect copies of letters that he wrote to correspondents.

3 Hugo-nominated novelist Palmer : ADA

Author Ada Palmer’s first printed work was 2016’s science fiction novel “Too Like the Lightning”. It was to be the primary of a quartet of novels, adopted by “Seven Surrenders” (2017), “The Will to Battle” (2017) and “Perhaps the Star” (2021). Collectively, the 4 books are known as the “Terra Ignota” sequence.

7 Ouzo flavoring : ANISE

Ouzo is an apéritif from Greece that’s colorless and flavored with anise. Ouzo is just like French pastis and Italian sambuca. All three liqueurs flip cloudy with the addition of water.

8 Scouting mission, briefly : RECON

A reconnaissance (recon) is a preliminary survey carried out to assemble data. The time period “reconnaissance” got here into English within the early nineteenth century from French, from which language it interprets actually as “recognition”.

9 Garden with forbidden fruit : EDEN

In the Christian custom, the “fall of man” came about within the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve succumbed to the temptation of consuming from the tree of data of excellent and evil. This went in opposition to the bidding of God, and was on the urging of the serpent. As a end result, Adam and Eve had been banished from Eden to forestall them from changing into immortal by consuming from the tree of life. The first people had transitioned from a state of harmless obedience to a state of responsible disobedience.

12 Ballpark determine : GUESS

A ballpark determine is an estimated amount. The unique “ballpark figure” was an estimate of the variety of individuals attending a baseball sport, the dimensions of the group within the “ballpark”.

23 Anime style that includes large robots : MECHA

The time period “mecha” was coined in Japan to explain each fictional and real-life large robots which are managed by people. Even although the time period originated in Japan, it’s a shortening of an English loanword, “mechanical”.

25 NFL workforce whose mascot is known as Roary : LIONS

There are a number of sporting groups with a mascot named “Roary the Lion”. Here within the US, Roary is the mascot of the Detroit Lions soccer workforce. Over within the UK, there are mascots named Roary for the Middlesbrough soccer membership, in addition to the England and Wales Cricket Board.

33 Corp. laptop exec : CTO

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

34 Fuzzy sitcom star of the Nineteen Eighties : ALF

“ALF” is a sitcom that aired within the late eighties. The title character is a hand-puppet, and supposedly an alien named Gordon Shumway from the planet Melmac. The alien crash-landed into the home of novice radio fanatic Willie Tanner. Tanner renamed the intruder “ALF”, standing for “alien life form”.

35 “The Grouchy Ladybug” author/illustrator : CARLE

“The Grouchy Ladybug” is a youngsters’s guide by Eric Carle, first printed in 1977. The guide was printed utilizing another title “The Bad-Tempered Ladybird”, presumably for kids talking English on the opposite facet of the Atlantic.

Eric Carle is a really profitable youngsters’s creator and guide illustrator, with over 100 million of his books bought all over the world. Carle’s most well-known title is “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, and it alone has bought 30 million copies.

42 Cheerios grains : OATS

Cheerios breakfast cereal has the excellence of being the primary oat-based cereal launched into the market, hitting the grocery retailer cabinets in 1941. Back then, Cheerios had been often known as CheeriOats.

43 “__ Nagila”: Israeli folks tune : HAVA

“Hava Nagila” is a Hebrew folks tune, with the title translating into “Let Us Rejoice”. The melody is from a Ukrainian folks tune. The phrases to “Hava Nagila” had been composed in 1918 to rejoice the British victory in Palestine throughout WWI.

46 Cymbal sound : CRASH

Cymbals are concave metallic plates which are performed as a percussion instrument by putting them with a drumstick or by clashing them collectively as pairs. The time period “cymbal” finally comes from the Greek “kymbe” which means “bowl, drinking cup”, which is a reference to the form of the instrument.

47 Bee product : HONEY

Honey bees (primarily) make the viscous meals substance that we all know as honey. Amazingly, only a few microorganisms can survive in or on honey, and so sealed honey can final 1000’s of years. The oldest identified honey deposits had been discovered lining clay vessels in tombs within the nation of Georgia, deposits that had been about 5,000 years outdated.

50 Fast-spreading social media posts : MEMES

A meme (from “mineme”) is a cultural follow or concept that’s handed on verbally or by repetition from one individual to a different. The time period lends itself very effectively to the web world the place hyperlinks, emails, information and so on. are so simply propagated.

54 Hip hop style : TRAP

Trap is a style of hip hop music that originated within the early twenty first century within the southern US. The title “trap” is a slang phrase utilized in Atlanta for a home used to promote medicine.

59 Pint-size : WEE

A US pint includes 16 fluid ounces, and an imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces. The time period “pint” comes into English through Old French, finally from the Latin “picta” which means “painted”. The title arose from a line painted on the facet of a beer glass that marked a full measure of ale.

60 “Mangia!” : EAT!

“Mangia!” is Italian for “Eat!” and is commonly used within the names of Italian eating places or in model names of Italian meals.

61 Many profs : DRS

“Ph.D.” is an abbreviation for “philosophiae doctor”, Latin for “teacher of philosophy”. Often, candidates for a PhD already maintain a bachelor’s and a grasp’s diploma, so a PhD is likely to be thought of a “third degree”.

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