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Constructed by: MaryEllen Uthlaut
Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme (in keeping with Bill): Witty City

Themed solutions are widespread phrases reinterpreted as CITY names:

• 17A City for delinquent library patrons? : FINE POINT
• 25A City for look-alikes? : DOUBLE PARK
• 37A City for undercover brokers? : MOLEHILLS
• 53A City for financial institution managers? : SAFE HARBOR
• 63A City for feather-bed producers? : DOWNFALLS

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

Bill’s time: 8m 15s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

Across

8 Young deer : FAWNS

A fawn is a younger deer, often one lower than a 12 months previous.

13 Comedian Nwodim : EGO

Actress and comic Ego Nwodim joined the solid of “Saturday Night Live” in 2018. She was a biology main on the University of Southern California, a basic basis for a profitable comic …

14 “Luther” star Elba : IDRIS

English actor Idris Elba performs the drug lord Stringer Bell within the marvelous HBO drama sequence “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”.

19 Sturdy cloth : SERGE

Serge is a kind of twill cloth with diagonal ridges on either side. The identify “serge” comes from the Greek phrase for “silken”.

20 “My Cousin Vinny” Oscar winner : TOMEI

Marisa Tomei’s first display position was within the daytime cleaning soap “As the World Turns”, however her break got here with a recurring position in “The Cosby Show” spin-off “A Different World”. Tomei received an Oscar for her pleasant efficiency in “My Cousin Vinny” in 1992.

“My Cousin Vinny” is a very enjoyable movie from 1992 starring Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei. In 2008, the American Bar Association rated “My Cousin Vinny” because the #3 best authorized film of all time, after “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “12 Angry Men”!

24 Cleveland execs, for brief : CAVS

The Cavaliers are an expert basketball group primarily based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavs joined the NBA as an enlargement group in 1970.

30 Lack of societal values : ANOMIE

Anomie is social breakdown attributable to the erosion of worth and requirements. The time period involves us through French from Greek. The root phrases are “a-” (with out) “nomos” (regulation).

33 “The Little Mermaid” voice actress Benson : JODI

Actress and singer Jodi Benson is probably greatest recognized for voicing the title character Ariel in Disney’s 1989 animated function “The Little Mermaid” (and its sequels). She additionally voiced the character Barbie within the “Toy Story” sequence of movies.

36 Cook quick, as tuna : SEAR

There are 15 species of tuna, the dimensions of which varies enormously. The smallest is the bullet tuna, which might develop to about 4 kilos in weight and simply over 1½ ft in size. The Atlantic bluefin tuna can weigh over 1,500 kilos, and attain about 15 ft in size. That’s numerous tuna …

37 City for undercover brokers? : MOLEHILLS

One of the extra generally recognized details about my native Ireland is that there are not any snakes within the nation (exterior of politics, that’s). A lesser recognized reality is that there are not any moles both. There are loads of snakes and moles in Britain, just some miles away. Over a pint we have a tendency to present the credit score to Saint Patrick, however the final ice age is extra probably the accountable social gathering …

40 Fruit that lives as much as its identify : UGLI

The ugli fruit is a hybrid of an orange and a tangerine that was first found rising wild in Jamaica the place most ugli fruit comes from right now. “UGLI” is a trademark identify that could be a variant of “ugly”, a nod to the fruit’s ugly wrinkled rind.

43 Bodega fixtures : ATMS

“Bodega” is a Spanish time period describing a vineyard, or as of late a grocery retailer.

44 “Sailing to Byzantium” poet : YEATS

“Sailing to Byzantium” is a 1928 poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, and one that nearly each Irish teenager has to review at school.

Byzantium was a Greek colony that was centered on what was to turn into Constantinople, now Istanbul. Legend means that there was a king Byzas, who gave his identify to town and later the Byzantine Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire later turned referred to as the Byzantine Empire, proper up till the Middle Ages.

48 Nucleus particle : PROTON

A proton is a subatomic particle, with at the least one discovered within the nucleus of each atom. Protons will not be “fundamental particles” although, as every is made up of three quarks: two up quarks and one down quark.

56 Org. that delivers : USPS

The US Postal Service (USPS) is a outstanding company in some ways. For starters, the federal government’s proper and accountability to ascertain the Post Office is particularly known as out in Article One of the US structure. Also, the primary postmaster common was none apart from Benjamin Franklin. And, the USPS operates over 200,000 autos, which is the biggest car fleet on the earth.

57 __ for tat : TIT

The phrase “tit for tat”, that means some form of retaliation, has been round for an awfully very long time, because the mid-1500s. It is likely to be derived from “tip for tap”, that means “blow for blow”.

58 Christian with type : DIOR

Fashion designer Christian Dior confirmed off his first assortment in 1947, to nice acclaim. The editor-in-chief of “Harper’s Bazaar” remarked, “it’s such a new look!” as there was a transparent distinction with the austere designs that dominated the warfare years. The comment resulted within the assortment being labeled without end because the “New Look”.

59 Creator of many speaking animals : AESOP

Aesop is remembered right now as a fabulist, a author of fables. Aesop lived in historical Greece, most likely across the sixth century BC. Supposedly he was born a slave, by some means turned a free man, however then met with a sorry finish. Aesop was despatched to town of Delphi on a diplomatic mission however as an alternative insulted the Delphians. He was tried on a trumped-up cost of stealing from a temple, sentenced to demise and was thrown off a cliff.

61 “Dragon Ball Z” style : ANIME

“Dragon Ball Z” is an anime TV sequence produced in Japan.

66 __ salami : GENOA

Genoa salami is made utilizing preservation strategies that originated in historical Rome.

“Salame” (be aware the letter E on the finish) is an Italian sausage that’s historically related to the peasant courses. The meat within the sausage is preserved with salt, and it may be hung and saved for so long as ten years. The identify “salame” comes from “sale”, the Italian phrase for salt, and “-ame”, a suffix indicating a collective noun. Our English phrase “salami” is definitely the Italian plural for “salame”.

67 Dark beer : STOUT

The time period “stout” was first used for a kind of beer within the 1600s when it was used to explain a “strong, stout” brew, and never essentially a darkish beer as it’s right now.

68 Capital of Vancouver? : VEE

The phrase “Vancouver” begins with a capital letter V (vee).

Vancouver in British Columbia is a serious port in western Canada. It is the third-most populous metropolitan space within the nation (after Toronto and Montreal), and the nation’s most densely populated metropolis. Vancouver grew out of a settlement known as Gastown named for “Gassy” Jack Deighton, a steamboat captain from Yorkshire, England who opened a saloon within the space in 1867. Gastown turned the city of Granville, named for the British Colonial Secretary on the time, Lord Granville. Granville included as a metropolis in 1886, and was named “Vancouver” in honor of Royal Navy officer George Vancouver who explored and charted the northwestern Pacific Coast of North America.

69 “Last Night in Soho” director Wright : EDGAR

Edgar Wright is a movie director from England who steadily collaborates with actor/comedians Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Wright co-wrote the very profitable “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy with Pegg, and was on the helm for the filming of all three motion pictures.

“Last Night in Soho” is a 2021 psychological horror movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a budding clothier in London. I used to be talked into watching this film due to the good solid, which incorporates the marvelous Diana Rigg in her final movie look. But, I regretted my choice, as a result of I actually don’t, don’t get pleasure from horror motion pictures …

70 Gas model with toy vehicles : HESS

Hess Corporation is an oil firm primarily based in New York City. In 1964, the corporate began promoting toy vehicles with the Hess brand on them, in Hess gasoline stations. The firm has been promoting them ever since, bringing out new fashions simply earlier than Christmas. Hess toy vehicles have turn into fairly collectible and the previous ones can fetch a fairly penny.

Down

1 Call the pictures? : REF

Back within the early seventeenth century, a referee was somebody who examined patent purposes. We began utilizing the identical time period for an individual presiding over a sporting occasion within the 1820s. “Referee” is a spinoff of the verb “to refer”, and actually describes somebody who has the authority to decide by “referring” to a ebook, archive and many others.

6 __ Lanka : SRI

The island nation of Sri Lanka lies off the southeast coast of India. The identify “Sri Lanka” interprets from Sanskrit into English as “venerable island”. Before 1970, Sri Lanka was referred to as Ceylon, a reputation given to the nation throughout British rule.

7 Diwali celebrant : HINDU

Diwali is a well-liked Hindu pageant. It is a “festival of lights”, a celebration of the victory of sunshine over darkness, good over evil, and information over ignorance. Diwali is noticed yearly over 5 days on the conclusion of the summer time harvest, and when there’s a new moon.

11 Gulf of Guinea nation : NIGERIA

Nigeria is in West Africa, and it takes its identify from the Niger River that flows by the nation. Nigeria is essentially the most populous nation on the continent, with over 180 million inhabitants. It can be essentially the most populous member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

The Gulf of Guinea is a big gulf that types a part of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Africa. One of the gulf’s claims to fame is that it’s house to the intersecting level between zero levels of latitude and nil levels of longitude, i.e. the place the Equator and Prime Meridian cross.

18 911 responders, briefly : EMS

Emergency medical companies (EMS)

The first use of a nationwide emergency telephone quantity was in 1937 within the UK, the place the quantity 999 was launched to name emergency companies. If you want emergency companies within the UK or Ireland to today, it’s important to dial 999. It’s not likely clear why 911 turned the emergency quantity within the US. The most credible suggestion (to me) is that when it was launched by the FCC in 1967, it was a quantity that “fit” with the numbers already utilized by AT&T without cost companies (211-long distance; 411-information; 611-repair service).

22 Swing wildly : FLAIL

To flail about is to swing wildly, both actually or figuratively. The verb comes from the noun “flail”, which is an implement for threshing grain.

26 __ d’artwork : OBJET

An “objet d’art” is an merchandise that has inventive advantage. The time period is French for “art object”. The plural is “objets d’art”.

27 Western outfit : POSSE

Our phrase “posse” comes from an Anglo-Latin time period from the early fifteenth century “posse comitatus” that means “the force of the county”

29 Rosalind Brewer of Walgreens, e.g. : CEO

When Rosalind Brewer was appointed as CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance in 2021, she turned solely the second Black lady to guide a Fortune 500 firm (after Thasunda Duckett at TIAA).

34 Physicist with a regulation : OHM

The unit {of electrical} resistance is the ohm (with the image omega) named after German physicist Georg Simon Ohm. Ohm was the man who established experimentally that the quantity of present flowing by a circuit is immediately proportional to the voltage utilized, (V=IR) a relationship that each college child is aware of as Ohm’s Law.

35 Summer songs? : DISCO

Donna Summer is named “The Queen of Disco”, with nice hits like “Love to Love You, Baby”, “I Feel Love” and “Hot Stuff”. In the late sixties and early seventies, LaDonna Gaines (her actual identify) lived and labored in Germany. There she met and married an Austrian actor known as Helmuth Sommer. They divorced not lengthy after the wedding, however Donna saved his household identify, simply altering the “o” to “u” to present her the stage identify of “Donna Summer”.

38 Open veranda : LANAI

A lanai is a kind of veranda, and a design that originated in Hawaii. A form weblog reader tells me that the etymology of “lanai” appears unclear, however that the island identify of “Lana’i” shouldn’t be associated.

39 Soap chemical : LYE

Soap is mainly made by including a robust alkali (like lye) to a fats (like olive oil or palm oil). The fat break down within the fundamental answer in a course of known as saponification. The crude cleaning soap is extracted from the combination, washed, purified and completed in molds.

47 Brief alarm : SOS

The mixture of three dots – three dashes – three dots, is a Morse sign first launched by the German authorities as a normal misery name in 1905. The sequence is remembered because the letters SOS (three dots – pause – three dashes – pause – three dots). That mentioned, within the emergency sign there isn’t a pause between the dots and dashes, so “SOS” is absolutely solely a mnemonic. Similarly, the phrases “Save Our Souls” and “Save Our Ship” are back-formations that had been launched after the SOS sign was adopted.

51 First planet found utilizing a telescope : URANUS

One of the distinctive options of the planet Uranus is that its north and south poles lie the place most different planets have their equators. That signifies that Uranus’ axis of rotation is nearly in its photo voltaic orbit.

54 Some pretzels : RODS

Pretzels originated in Europe and are particularly widespread in Southern Germany the place a pretzel is named “Brezel”. Pretzels had been launched into the US within the 1800s by immigrants from Germany and Switzerland who got here to be recognized over right here because the Pennsylvania Dutch.

56 “Latino __”: podcast hosted by Maria Hinojosa : USA

“Latino USA” is a radio present distributed nationally by NPR since 1992. It was groundbreaking in its early days, because it was a nationwide radio present that was Latino-oriented, however broadcast in English. Today, it’s the longest-running Latino-focused program on radio. Mexican-American journalist and broadcaster Maria Hinojosa has hosted the present from day one.

60 Terrarium kids : EFTS

Newts wouldn’t be my favourite animals. They are discovered all around the world dwelling on land or in water relying on the species, however at all times related to water even when it is just for breeding. Newts metamorphose by three distinct developmental levels throughout their lives. They begin off as larvae in water, fertilized eggs that always cling to aquatic crops. The eggs hatch into tadpoles, the primary developmental type of the newt. After dwelling some months as tadpoles swimming round within the water, they endure one other metamorphosis, sprouting legs and changing their exterior gills with lungs. At this juvenile stage they’re referred to as efts, and depart the water to reside on land. A extra gradual transition takes place then, because the eft takes on the lizard-like look of the grownup newt.

A terrarium (plural “terraria”) is a contained atmosphere used to accommodate land animals. The time period “terrarium“ comes from the equivalent “aquarium”, a tank for holding primarily fish. In common, a contained atmosphere for holding reside animals or crops is named a “vivarium”

62 Extinct New Zealand chook : MOA

Moas had been flightless birds native to New Zealand that at the moment are extinct. The destiny of the Moa is a superb instance of the detrimental impact that people can have on animal populations. The Maoris arrived in New Zealand about 1300 AD, upsetting the stability of the ecosystem. The Moa had been hunted to extinction inside 200 years, which had the knock-on impact of killing off the Haast’s Eagle, the Moa’s solely predator previous to the arrival of man. Moa had been large creatures, measuring as much as 12 ft tall with their necks stretched upwards.

The first European to sight the nation that we all know right now as New Zealand was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. He labeled the land “Staten Landt”, believing it to be a part of South America. Dutch cartographers modified the identify to “Nova Zelandia”, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. That Latin identify advanced into the Dutch “Nieuw Zeeland”, which Captain James Cook anglicized to “New Zealand”.

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