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Constructed by: Julian Lim
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Today’s Reveal Answer: Speak of the Devil

Themed solutions every begin with a characteristic OF THE DEVIL:

• 62A “We were just talking about you!” and a touch to the primary phrases of the solutions to the starred clues : SPEAK OF THE DEVIL

• 17A *Equally unpleasant decisions : HORNS OF A DILEMMA
• 23A *Easy to chop, as meat : FORK-TENDER
• 40A *Improvises : WINGS IT
• 51A *Braking indicators : TAILLIGHTS

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Bill’s time: 4m 53s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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5 Baby horse : FOAL

There are a number of phrases to explain horses of various ages and sexes, it appears:

• Foal: horse of both intercourse that’s lower than one 12 months previous
• Yearling: horse of both intercourse that’s one to 2 years previous
• Filly: feminine horse below the age of 4
• Colt: male horse below the age of 4
• Gelding: castrated male horse of any age
• Stallion: non-castrated male horse 4 years or older
• Mare: feminine horse 4 years or older

16 Director Sergio : LEONE

Sergio Leone was an Italian movie director, and somebody very a lot related to the Spaghetti Western film style . Perhaps most well-known of Leone’s westerns had been the so-called “Man with No Name” trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. The three movies are:

• “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964)
• “For a Few Dollars More” (1965)
• “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966)

17 *Equally unpleasant decisions : HORNS OF A DILEMMA

A lemma is a serving to theorem, a subsidiary proposition that helps show another proposition. An issue providing two equally acceptable (or unacceptable) potentialities could be described as a “double lemma”, and therefore our time period “dilemma”. To be on the horns of a dilemma is to be confronted with two equally unattractive decisions. The suggestion is that one is confronted with a “horned” argument, which means that should you keep away from the horn of 1 alternative, you’ll get impaled on the opposite.

32 Mideast title : EMIR

An emir is a prince or chieftain, one most notably from the Middle East in Islamic international locations. In English, “emir” may also be written variously as “emeer, amir, ameer” (be careful for these spellings in crosswords!).

35 Org. that certifies albums as gold or platinum : RIAA

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) represents music distributors. It is the RIAA that certifies data which have gone gold and platinum i.e. reached fastened gross sales thresholds. It’s additionally the RIAA that goes after people who share music illegally on-line.

39 __ Vegas Raiders : LAS

The Las Vegas Raiders soccer group was based in 1960, and was initially supposed to play in Minnesota. Instead, the group performed in Oakland from 1960 to 1981 after which spent 12 years in Los Angeles earlier than returning to Oakland in 1995. In 2017, the Raiders introduced their plan to relocate to Las Vegas beginning in 2020.

40 *Improvises : WINGS IT

To wing it’s to improvise, to do one thing with out adequate preparation. There is a few debate concerning the time period’s etymology, however I like the concept that it got here from the theater. An actor could be described as winging it if she or he realized strains whereas standing within the wings simply earlier than occurring stage.

42 Gym cushion : MAT

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 normally completed unclothed in historical Greece.

43 “Erin go __” : BRAGH

“Erin go bragh!” is an anglicization of the Irish phrase “Éirinn go brách!”, which interprets as “Ireland forever!”

47 “The Handmaid’s Tale” novelist Margaret : ATWOOD

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is finest recognized for her novels. However, Atwood additionally conceived the concept of the LongPen, a distant robotic writing expertise. The LongPen permits a person to put in writing remotely in ink through the Internet. Atwood got here up with the concept in order that she may remotely attend e-book signings.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” is a 1985 novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It is a set in a dystopian New England of the close to future, after the overthrow of the US authorities. The central character is called Offred, who’s a “handmaid” compelled to bear kids for the male ruling class. The novel was tailored right into a extremely profitable TV collection of the identical identify, starring Elisabeth Moss as Offred.

58 Alumna bio phrase : NEE

“Née” is the French phrase for “born” when referring to a feminine. The male equal is “né”. The time period “née” is especially utilized in English when referring to a married lady’s beginning identify, assuming that she has adopted her husband’s identify, e.g. Michelle Obama née Robinson, Melania Trump née Knavs, and Jill Biden née Jacobs.

An alumnus (plural “alumni”) is a graduate or former scholar of a college or faculty. The feminine type is “alumna” (plural “alumnae”). The time period comes into English from Latin, through which an alumnus is a foster-son or pupil. “Alum” is an off-the-cuff time period used for both an alumna or alumnus.

62 “We were just talking about you!” and a touch to the primary phrases of the solutions to the starred clues : SPEAK OF THE DEVIL

“Speak/talk of the devil” is used when somebody being mentioned turns up unexpectedly. The phrase is a brief type of the idiom “speak of the devil and he doth appear” that dates again to the sixteenth century.

67 Oompah instrument : TUBA

The tuba is the lowest-pitched of all brass devices, and probably the most latest additions to the trendy symphony orchestra (normally there is only one tuba included in an orchestral line-up). “Tuba” is the Latin phrase for “trumpet, horn”. Oom-pah-pah …

71 Whitehall whitewall : TYRE

The British spelling of “tyre”, for what we name a “tire” right here in North America, was certainly the unique spelling. The English began to make use of “tire” spelling within the seventeenth century, after which shifted again to the present “tyre” within the nineteenth century.

Whitehall is the principle thoroughfare operating from Trafalgar Square in the direction of Parliament Square in London. The road is house to many authorities buildings, together with the British Cabinet Office. It is due to this affiliation that the time period “Whitehall” has turn out to be a metonym for the British Government.

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1 “Who Let the Dogs Out” group __ Men : BAHA

The Baha Men are so referred to as as a result of they hail from the Bahamas. Their massive hit was “Who Let the Dogs Out?” That music as soon as ranked third in a listing of the world’s most annoying songs!

2 Greek Cupid : EROS

The identify of Eros, the Greek god of affection, provides rise to our phrase “erotic” which means “arousing sexual desire”. Eros was referred to in Latin as each “Amor” (which means “love”) and “Cupid” (which means “desire”).

3 Calligraphy stroke : SERIF

Calligraphy is the artwork of effective handwriting. The time period “calligraphy” comes from the Greek “kallos” which means “beauty” and “graphein” which means “to write”.

4 Clay oven for baking naan : TANDOOR

A tandoor is a cylindrical clay or steel oven utilized in cuisines from a number of Asian locales, together with India.

11 House-shaped browser button : HOME

An internet browser is a chunk of software program used to entry the World Wide Web. The first internet browser was referred to as “WorldWideWeb” and was invented in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, the person who created the World Wide Web. The browser often called Mosaic got here out in 1993, and it was this browser that drove a lot curiosity within the World Wide Web, and certainly within the Internet generally. Marc Andreessen led the group that created Mosaic, and he then arrange his personal firm referred to as Netscape. Netscape created the Netscape Navigator browser that additional popularized using the Web beginning in 1994. Microsoft responded by introducing Internet Explorer in 1995, which sparked the so-called “browser war”, a battle that Microsoft clearly received. As Netscape floundered, the corporate launched the open-source Mozilla mission which ultimately led to the Firefox browser. Apple then got here out with its personal Safari browser in 2003. Google’s Chrome browser, launched in 2008, is by far the preferred technique to view the Web in the present day.

18 Balkan native : SERB

Serbs are an ethnic group native to the Balkans in southeastern Europe. Although Serbs exist as a minority group in lots of international locations within the area, they’re the bulk ethnic group in Serbia, in Montenegro and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe is normally known as “the Balkans”. The area takes its identify from the Balkan Mountains situated in present-day Bulgaria and Serbia. “Balkan” is Bulgarian for “mountain”.

19 Film analysis web site : IMDB

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) web site was launched in 1990, and is now owned by Amazon.com. It’s an amazing website for answering questions one has about motion pictures and actors.

24 “The Americans” star Russell : KERI

Actress Keri Russell’s massive break in tv got here with the title position within the drama present “Felicity” that ran from 1998 from 2002. The lead character within the present is Felicity Porter, a younger woman launched to the viewers with a head of lengthy curly blonde hair. Famously, Russell minimize her hair extraordinarily quick firstly of the second season, an motion that was related to a major drop within the present’s viewership. Russell needed to develop out her hair over the season. I haven’t seen “Felicity”, however I actually do take pleasure in Russell enjoying one of many leads within the entertaining Cold War drama referred to as “The Americans” that’s aired by FX.

“The Americans” is a really participating drama collection set in the course of the Cold War that options two KGB spies residing as a married couple simply exterior Washington, D.C. The present was created by Joe Weisberg, who’s a novelist and former CIA officer. The lead roles in “The Americans” are performed by real-life couple Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.

30 Eurasian border river : URAL

The japanese facet of the Ural Mountains in Russia and Kazakhstan is usually thought to be the pure divide between the continents of Europe and Asia.

31 Phased-out quick planes, for brief : SSTS

The first supersonic transport (SST) to fly was the Tupolev Tu-144, which was constructed within the Soviet Union. The Tu-144 first flew in 1968, however didn’t carry passengers till 1977. The plane was completely grounded as a passenger craft in 1978 attributable to considerations about security (there had been two Tu-144 crashes). The second SST to fly was the Anglo-French Concorde, which operated at a revenue for over 27 years till it was withdrawn from service in 2003. There was one Concorde crash, in Paris in July 2000. Since then, there have been no industrial SST companies.

32 Actor Idris : ELBA

English actor Idris Elba performs the drug lord Stringer Bell within the marvelous HBO drama collection “The Wire”, and performed the title character within the 2013 movie “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”. Off the display, Elba sometimes seems as a disk jockey utilizing the identify “DJ Big Driis”.

36 “Four score and seven years __ … ” : AGO

I visited Gettysburg for the primary time in 2010, and goodness me what a transferring place that’s. As I found on my go to, there are 5 recognized copies of Lincoln’s Gettysburg deal with and all of them differ not directly or one other, so I suppose the precise phrases spoken won’t ever be recognized. Martin Luther King Jr. evoked Abraham Lincoln’s phrases in one other of America’s iconic addresses, his “I Have a Dream” speech. Lincoln’s speech started with “Four score and seven years ago …”, and King’s speech started with “Five score years ago …” as a nod to the Gettysburg Address.

37 Japanese beer model : ASAHI

Asahi is a Japanese beer, and the brewery that produces it. “Asahi” is Japanese for “morning sun”. Asahi launched a “dry beer” in 1987, igniting a craze that rocketed the brewery to the primary spot when it comes to beer manufacturing in Japan, with Sapporo shut behind.

44 “Adios!” : GOTTA GO

The time period “adiós” is Spanish for “goodbye”. “Adiós” comes from the phrase “a Dios vos acomiendo” which means “I commend you to God”.

46 Springsteen’s __ Band : E STREET

The E Street Band is the backing group for Bruce Springsteen. The band got here collectively in 1972 however didn’t take a proper identify till two years later. The keyboard participant within the unique line up was David Sancious, and his mom allowed the group to rehearse at her house. That house was on E Street in Belmar, New Jersey, and that’s the place the band acquired their identify.

48 Flintstone household pet : DINO

In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon “The Flintstones”, Dino the pet dinosaur was voiced by the well-known Mel Blanc, till Blanc handed away in 1989.

50 Wearing kicks : SHOD

“Kicks” is American slang for “shoes, sneakers”.

54 Expertise : SAVVY

The time period “savvy”, which means “understanding”, comes from the French “savez-vous?”. The French phrase interprets as “do you know?”

55 Tennis legend Arthur : ASHE

Arthur Ashe was knowledgeable tennis participant from Richmond, Virginia. In his youth, Ashe discovered himself having to journey nice distances to play towards Caucasian opponents because of the segregation that also existed in his house state. He was rewarded for his dedication by being chosen for the 1963 US Davis Cup group, the primary African-American participant to be so honored. Ashe continued to run into bother due to his ethnicity although, and in 1968 was denied entry into South Africa to play within the South African Open. In 1979, Ashe suffered a coronary heart assault and had bypass surgical procedure, with follow-up surgical procedure 4 years later throughout which he contracted HIV from blood transfusions. Ashe handed away in 1993 attributable to problems from AIDS. Shortly afterwards, Ashe was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.

63 London’s __ Gardens : KEW

Kew Gardens is a phenomenal location in southwest London that was previously often called the Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew Gardens has the world’s largest assortment of various residing crops.

64 “House of the Dragon” cable community : HBO

The “House of the Dragon” fantasy TV collection serves as a prequel to the TV present “Game of Thrones”. Both exhibits are diversifications of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels by George R. R. Martin. Due to the success of “Game of Thrones”, expectations had been excessive for “House of the Dragon”. The premiere episode of the latter was very well acquired by audiences, and so it took simply 5 days for HBO to determine to resume “House of Dragons” for a second season.

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