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Today’s Reveal Answer: Halloween Choice

Happy Halloween, everybody. Themed clues are both TRICK or TREAT:

• 39A TRICK OR TREAT : HALLOWEEN CHOICE

• 18A TRICK : DOUBLE-CROSS
• 24A TREAT : SPRING FOR DINNER
• 51A TRICK : OPTICAL ILLUSION
• 61A TREAT : FIDO’S REWARD

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

Bill’s time: 6m 45s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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1 “Knives Out” actress de Armas : ANA

Ana de Armas is an actress from Cuba. Having attended the National Theater School of Cuba, she moved to Spain on the age of 18. Thre, she made a reputation for herself in a Spanish TV collection referred to as “El Internado”. De Armas moved to Los Angeles in 2014, after which her efficiency reverse Ryan Gosling in 2017’s “Blade Runner 2049” earned her vital acclaim.

“Knives Out” is an intriguing homicide thriller movie launched in 2019. There’s an important solid together with Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette and Christopher Plummer. I actually loved this one, partly as a result of it’s a intelligent, up to date tackle a basic whodunit film …

9 Bread that’s boiled earlier than it’s baked : BAGEL

The bagel was invented within the Polish metropolis of Kraków within the sixteenth century. Bagels have been delivered to this nation by Jewish immigrants from Poland who primarily established properties in and round New York City.

15 African animal with striped hindquarters : OKAPI

The okapi is carefully associated to the giraffe, though it does have markings on its legs and haunches that resemble these of a zebra. The okapi’s tongue is lengthy sufficient to achieve again and wash its eyeballs, and may return even additional to scrub its ears inside and outside.

16 Monte __: playing resort : CARLO

Monte Carlo is an administrative space within the Principality of Monaco that covers just below 1 / 4 of a sq. mile. The space is thought particularly as the situation of the well-known Monte Carlo Casino. “Monte Carlo” interprets as “Mount Charles”, and was named in 1866 for Charles III of Monaco who was ruling the principality on the time.

17 Thanksgiving tuber : YAM

Thanksgiving Day was noticed on totally different dates in numerous states for a few years, till Abraham Lincoln fastened the date for the entire nation in 1863. Lincoln’s presidential proclamation set that date because the final Thursday in November. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the vacation to the fourth Thursday in November, arguing that the sooner date would give the economic system a much-needed enhance.

28 __-Saxon : ANGLO

Germanic tribes invaded Great Britain from the early fifth century and created the nation that we now name England. The Anglo-Saxons (generally merely “Saxons”), as these tribes got here to be referred to as, held sway within the nation till the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Anglo-Saxons have been descendants of three Germanic tribes:

• The Angles, from Angeln in Northern Germany (and the tribe that gave the title “England”).
• The Saxons, from Lower Saxony and Holland.
• The Jutes, from the Jutland peninsula in Denmark.

29 Mar.-to-Nov. hrs. : DST

Daylight saving time (DST)

30 “Sin City” actress Jessica : ALBA

Actress Jessica Alba bought her massive break when she was solid within the Fox science fiction present “Dark Angel”. Alba had a troublesome life rising up as she spent a number of time in hospital and so discovered it tough to develop friendships. As a teen she twice had a collapsed lung, ceaselessly caught pneumonia, suffered from bronchial asthma, had a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cyst. On high of all that, Alba acknowledges that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive dysfunction as a baby.

“Sin City” is a 2005 thriller film that’s based mostly on a collection of graphic novels by Frank Miller. Miller additionally co-directs the movie. “Sin City” has a big ensemble solid that features Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Clive Owen and Mickey Rourke. The creator Frank Miller even performs a job himself.

39 TRICK OR TREAT : HALLOWEEN CHOICE

All Saints’ Day is November 1st annually. The day earlier than All Saints’ Day is All Hallows’ Eve, higher recognized by the Scottish time period “Halloween”.

44 Batman and Robin, e.g. : DUO

Batman and Robin are considerably distinctive amongst their superhero compatriots in that they haven’t any particular powers, only a complete load of cool devices. Batman is usually known as the Caped Crusader, Robin because the Boy Wonder, and the pair because the Dynamic Duo.

59 Rock’s __ Speedwagon : REO

REO Speedwagon is an American rock band that shaped in 1967, and remains to be going sturdy. The band’s largest hits are “Keep On Loving You” (1980) and “Can’t Fight This Feeling” (1985). The founding members selected the title for the REO Speed Wagon flatbed truck. Note that the band’s title is one phrase “Speedwagon”, whereas the automobile’s title makes use of two phrases “Speed Wagon”.

60 Honolulu-born “E Lei Ka Lei Lei” singer : DON HO

Honolulu-born singer Don Ho wasa a veteran of the US Airforce. He joined up in 1954 and graduated from flight college as a fighter pilot. However, he spent a lot of his lively service flying C-97 Stratofreighters.

“E Lei Ka Lei Lei” is a 1989 recording by Don Ho that’s also called “The Beach Party Song”.

61 TREAT : FIDO’S REWARD

“Fido”, the title for a lot of a canine, is Latin for “I trust”.

65 Spot for an AirPod : EAR

AirPods are Apple’s line of bluetooth earpods. When AirPods have been launched in 2016, the market reacted with some skepticism. The left and proper AirPods should not linked by any wire, so there was concern that particular person earbuds might fall out of the ear, and probably get misplaced. Another concern is Apple’s said intent to desert the wired headphone socket on new iPhone fashions.

66 Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie __” : AMOUR

Stevie Wonder wrote “My Cherie Amour” approach again in 1966, nevertheless it wasn’t launched till 1969. The music tells of Stevie’s infatuation with an actual lady whom he encountered within the Michigan School for the Blind.

The nice musician Stevie Wonder signed on with Motown Records when he was simply 11-years-old. He has been remarkably loyal to the label and remains to be recording with Motown some 50 years later. The degree of Stevie Wonder’s success is illustrated by his 22 Grammy Awards, essentially the most Grammys awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder was born 6 weeks prematurely, and incomplete growth of blood vessels in his eyes triggered the retinas to detach leaving him blind quickly after delivery. His mom, Lula Mae Hardaway, co-wrote a lot of Stevie’s songs when he was a teen, together with “I Was Made to Love Her”, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” and “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”.

68 $200 Monopoly buys: Abbr. : RRS

The 4 railroad (RR) properties within the Monopoly board recreation are:

• Reading Railroad
• Pennsylvania Railroad
• B&O Railroad
• Short Line

Down

1 Vast chasm : ABYSS

“Abyss”, that means “deep chasm”, in the end derives from the Greek “a-” (with out) and “byssos” (backside).

2 Rights org. that awards the Spingarn Medal : NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) awards the Spingarn Medal yearly, to honor excellent achievement by an African American. The award was created in 1914 and is known as for Joel Elias Spingarn, the NAACP’s first Chairman of the Board.

5 Former MGM rival : RKO

During the Golden Age of Cinema (roughly, the thirties and forties), the “Big Five” Hollywood studios have been:

• Lowe’s/MGM
• Paramount
• Fox (later “20th Century Fox”)
• Warner Bros.
• RKO

6 __ de parfum : EAU

In the world of perfumery, eau de parfum (EdP) is mostly extra concentrated than eau de toilette (EdT), which in flip is mostly extra concentrated than eau de cologne (EdC).

7 Tough H.S. science class : AP BIO

The Advanced Placement (AP) program gives college-level programs to children who’re nonetheless in highschool (HS). After being examined on the finish of an AP course, profitable college students obtain credit that depend in direction of a school diploma.

9 Slyly embody in an electronic mail, for brief : BCC

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

10 “__ Burr, Sir”: music in “Hamilton” : AARON

Aaron Burr was the third vice-president of the US, and served below Thomas Jefferson from 1801 to 1805. In the ultimate 12 months of his time period in workplace, Burr fought an unlawful duel and killed his political rival Alexander Hamilton. Burr was charged with a number of crimes consequently, however these costs have been finally dropped. The Democratic-Republican Party had already determined to not nominate Burr as candidate for vp to run alongside Jefferson within the 1804 election, largely as a result of the connection between Vice President Burr and President Jefferson was so poor. The subsequent fallout ensuing from the killing of Alexander Hamilton successfully ended Burr’s political profession.

“Hamilton” is a 2015 musical based mostly on the lifetime of US Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, as described within the 2004 biography by Ron Chernow. The present opened off-Broadway in February 2015, and transferred to Broadway in August of the identical 12 months. Advance ticket gross sales for the Broadway manufacturing have been unprecedented, and reportedly amounted to $30 million. The representations of the principle characters are decidedly ground-breaking. The present is rooted in hip-hop and the principle roles akin to Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are all performed by African-American and Hispanic actors.

12 Borden mascot : ELSIE

Elsie the Cow is the mascot of the Borden Company. Elsie first appeared on the New York World’s Fair in 1939, launched to represent the proper dairy product. She is so well-known and revered that she has been awarded the levels of Doctor of Bovinity, Doctor of Human Kindness and Doctor of Ecownomics. Elsie was additionally given a husband named Elmer the Bull. Elmer finally moved over to the chemical division of Borden the place he gave his title to Elmer’s Glue.

21 Concluding episode : FINALE

“Finale” is an Italian phrase that means “final” that we imported into English within the 1780s, initially as a musical time period.

25 Healthy aura : GLOW

An aura (plural “aurae”) is an intangible high quality that surrounds an individual or factor, a “je ne sais quoi”. “Je ne sais quoi” is French for “I don’t know what”.

26 Golfer’s warning shout : FORE!

No one appears to know for certain the place {the golfing} time period “fore!” comes from. It has been used a minimum of way back to 1881, and since then has been referred to as out to warn different golfers {that a} wayward ball may be heading their approach. My favourite risk for its origin is that it’s a contraction of the Gaelic warning cry “Faugh a Ballagh!” (clear the best way!) which remains to be referred to as out within the sport of street bowling. Road bowling is an Irish recreation the place gamers bowl balls alongside roads between villages, making an attempt to achieve the tip of the course in as few bowls as doable, identical to in golf!

27 Calamine lotion goal : ITCH

Calamine is principally zinc oxide, with a small share of iron oxide. Calamine is integrated right into a lotion that’s used for a lot of issues, together with therapy of sunburn and itching.

31 Back muscle, informally : LAT

The muscular tissues referred to as the “lats” are the latissimi dorsi, and are the broadest muscular tissues within the again. “Latissimus” is Latin for “broadest”, and “dorsum” is Latin for “back”.

36 Passenger planes : AIRLINERS

The use of the phrase “line” on the subject of transportation began within the 1780s, within the context of stagecoaches. Such transportation operated a string of stagecoaches between cities and cities alongside common “lines”. The idea shifted to transport “lines” working ocean-going “liners” between ports. And then got here “airliners”.

40 Oil cartel letters : OPEC

The OPEC cartel was formally established in 1960 and has been headquartered in Vienna since 1965. The US is definitely the third largest oil producer on the planet (after Russia and Saudi Arabia). One motive America isn’t in OPEC, although we’re an enormous producer, is that we import much more than we export. But all of us in all probability knew that already …

42 Christmas stocking disappointment : COAL

Apparently, the custom of placing coal within the Christmas stocking of a poorly-behaved baby comes merely from the proximity of the stocking (hanging on the fireside) to a supply of coal!

47 “Hunting Season” novelist Nevada : BARR

Nevada Barr is an creator famous for her collection of thriller novels set in National Parks that function park ranger and detective Anna Pigeon.

48 Censoring sounds : BLEEPS

The authentic “censor” was an officer in historical Rome who had duty for taking the “census”, in addition to supervising public morality.

50 Rainy day creation : PUDDLE

We’ve been utilizing the phrase “puddle” to imply “small pool of muddy water” for the reason that fifteenth century. The time period in the end comes from the German “pudeln” that means “to splash in water”. “Pudelm” can also be the derivation of “poodle”, a breed of canine that was utilized in looking waterfowl. So, “poodle” and “puddle” are cousins. Quite fascinating …

51 Scraps utilized by nose-to-tail cooks : OFFAL

The inner organs and entrails of a butchered animal are referred to collectively as “offal”. Examples of dishes that make use of offal could be sausages, foie gras, sweetbreads and haggis. The time period is a melding of the phrases “off” and “fall”, and dates again to the 14th century. The thought is that offal is what “falls off” a butcher’s block.

52 __ donna: opera star : PRIMA

The Italian operatic time period “prima donna” is used for the lead feminine singer in an opera firm. “Prima donna” interprets from Italian as “first lady”. The lead male singer is called the “primo uomo”. The time period “prima donna assoluta” is reserved for a prima donna who is mostly accepted as being an excellent performer. We have a tendency to make use of “prima donna” for a feminine performer who has an inflated ego.

55 Des Moines resident : IOWAN

The metropolis of Des Moines is the capital of Iowa, and takes its title from the Des Moines River. The river in flip takes its title from the French “Riviere des Moines” that means “River of the Monks”. It appears like there isn’t any “monkish” connection to the town’s title per se. “Des Moines” was simply the title given by French merchants who corrupted “Moingona”, the title of a gaggle of Illinois Native Americans who lived by the river. However, others contend that French Trappist monks, who lived a full 200 miles from the river, by some means influenced the title.

56 Windy City airport : O’HARE

O’Hare International was the world’s busiest airport from 1963 to 1998. The authentic airport was constructed on the location between 1942 and 1943, and was utilized by the Douglas Aircraft Company for the manufacture of planes throughout WWII. Before the manufacturing unit and airport have been constructed, there was a neighborhood within the space referred to as Orchard Place, so the airport was referred to as Orchard Place Airport/Douglas Field. This title is the derivation of the airport’s present location identifier: ORD (OR-chard D-ouglas). Orchard Place Airport was renamed to O’Hare International in 1949 in honor of Lieutenant Commander Butch O’Hare who grew up in Chicago. O’Hare was the US Navy’s first flying ace and a Medal of Honor recipient in WWII.

It appears that the derivation of Chicago’s nickname “Windy City” isn’t as apparent as I’d have thought. There are two viable theories. Firstly, that the climate may be breezy with wind blowing in off Lake Michigan. The impact of the wind is exaggerated by the grid-layout adopted by metropolis planners after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The second concept is that “windy” means “being full of bluster”. Sportswriters from the rival metropolis of Cincinnati have been keen on calling Chicago supporters “windy” within the 1860s and 1870s, that means that they have been filled with scorching air of their claims that the Chicago White Stockings have been superior to the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

57 Viking language : NORSE

The Vikings have been a Germanic folks from northern Europe who have been famous as nice seafarers. Key to the success of the Vikings was the design of their well-known “longships”. Made from wooden, the longship was lengthy and slender with a shallow hull, It was additionally gentle, in order that the crew would truly carry it small distances over land and round obstacles. Longships have been designed to be propelled by each sail and oars.

63 Singer DiFranco : ANI

Singer Ani DiFranco based her report firm Righteous Records in 1990 with the intention to achieve independence from the established report business. She needed to change the title to Righteous Babe Records as there already was a Righteous Record label, one which printed gospel music.

64 Checkers shade : RED

“Checkers” is yet one more phrase that I needed to be taught transferring throughout the Atlantic. In Ireland, the sport is known as “draughts”.

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