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Constructed by: Will Eisenberg & Shannon Rapp
Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme (based on Bill): PRNDL

Themed solutions every begin with a gear place in an automated transmission:

• 17A Actor who performs Cho Sang-woo on “Squid Game” : PARK HAE-SOO
• 24A Travel that largely avoids rush-hour visitors : REVERSE COMMUTE
• 35A Cult-favorite indie band fashioned by Jeff Mangum : NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
• 51A Infuriate : DRIVE UP THE WALL
• 59A “Plug me in soon!” warning : LOW BATTERY!

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15 Unseen Beckett character : GODOT

“Waiting for Godot” is a play by novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett that premiered in 1953. Irishman Beckett really wrote the piece in French, below the title “En attendant Godot”. He then translated the play into English himself.

An Irishman I could also be, however I’ve sat by means of a number of performs by Samuel Beckett (the Irish dramatist) and I’ve but to come back away feeling glad that I spent my time effectively. Of course I’m within the minority, as Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” was as soon as voted probably the most vital English language play of the twentieth century. Maybe I’ll give “Waiting for Godot” one other probability in the future, however I doubt it …

16 Bugler’s blast : BLARE

A bugle is a straightforward brass instrument, one which often has no valves with which a participant can alter the pitch. The altering of pitch is achieved by altering the ebay that the lips interface with the mouthpiece. Bugles developed from wind devices constituted of animal horns. “Bugle” is an abbreviation for “buglehorn”, an earlier identify for a similar instrument. Indeed, the time period “bugle” comes from the Latin “buculus” that means “young ox, heifer”.

17 Actor who performs Cho Sang-woo on “Squid Game” : PARK HAE-SOO

South Korean actor Park Hae-soo is probably greatest recognized for his principal position within the disturbing survival drama TV sequence “Squid Game”. He additionally seems within the Netflix present “Money Heist: Korea”, a remake of the unique Spanish sequence “Money Heist”.

“Squid Game” is a brutal survival drama TV sequence made in South Korea for Netflix. The title refers to a Korean kids’s recreation, and the present itself includes a sequence of kids’s video games. The gamers are adults, all of whom are in debt. They play a lethal sequence of video games within the hope of surviving, and successful a multimillion-dollar prize. As I mentioned, brutal …

19 Ingredient in piccata dishes : CAPER

The seasoning we all know as “capers” are the edible flower buds of the caper bush, also referred to as Flinders rose. By the time we get them in a jar, the buds have been pickled and salted. I’m not an enormous fan of capers …

The dish named “piccata” originated in Italy, with the normal meat used being veal. Whatever meat used is sliced and flattened with a tenderizer, seasoned, dredged in flour and browned in a pan. The juices from the pan are the bottom for the sauce, to that are added lemon juice, white wine, shallots, caper and butter.

20 “Exile in Guyville” singer Phair : LIZ

Liz Phair is a rock singer from New Haven, Connecticut. Phair began out within the business releasing do-it-yourself tapes below the identify Girly Sound.

24 Travel that largely avoids rush-hour visitors : REVERSE COMMUTE

An everyday commute typically entails giant numbers of individuals touring from the suburbs into an city space the place they spend the working day, earlier than touring again house to the suburbs within the night. An individual with a reverse commute does the alternative, residing in an city space and touring to and from suburbia for the working day. A reverse commute implies encountering much less visitors.

28 Alcorn __: HBCU in Mississippi : STATE

Alcorn State University is a traditionally black college positioned adjoining to Lorman, within the west of Mississippi. Alcorn was based in 1871, making it the primary black land-grant faculty within the nation. At the time of founding, solely males might apply to the college, and the primary females have been admitted in 1895. Today, ladies outnumber males at Alcorn by a major margin.

32 Arcade large : SEGA

Sega is a Japanese online game firm headquartered in Tokyo. Sega really began out in 1940 as Standard Games and was positioned in Honolulu, which at the moment was a metropolis within the US Territory of Hawaii. The house owners moved the operation to Tokyo in 1951 and renamed the corporate to Service Games. The identify “Sega” is a mix of the primary two letters of the phrases “Se-rvice” and “Ga-mes”.

Our phrase “arcade” comes from the Latin “arcus” that means “arc”. The first arcades have been passages constituted of a sequence of arches. This may very well be an avenue of timber, and ultimately any lined avenue. I keep in mind arcades lined with outlets and shops after I was rising up on the opposite facet of the Atlantic. Arcades got here to be lined with a lot of amusements, leading to amusement arcades and online game arcades.

33 Culture essayist Tolentino : JIA

Jia Tolentino is a Canadian-American author and editor. One of her higher-profile items of reporting was on the conservatorship of Britney Spears, which she co-authored with Ronan Farrow.

34 Letters of urgency : SOS

The mixture of three dots – three dashes – three dots, is a Morse sign first launched by the German authorities as an ordinary 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 actually solely a mnemonic. Similarly, the phrases “Save Our Souls” and “Save Our Ship” are back-formations that have been launched after the SOS sign was adopted.

35 Cult-favorite indie band fashioned by Jeff Mangum : NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL

Neutral Milk Hotel was an indie rock band from Ruston, Louisiana. One factor distinctive in regards to the band was their use of devices not historically related to rock music, e.g. uilleann pipes and singing noticed.

42 Window packing containers? : ACS

The fashionable type of air con (AC) that’s nonetheless used as we speak was invented by Willis Carrier in 1902. He co-founded the Carrier Engineering Corporation in New York in 1915. The Carrier Corporation ultimately moved to Syracuse, New York in 1937. Beyond the world of air con, the Carrier identify has been related to Syracuse University’s well-known Carrier Dome because it opened in 1980. The Carrier Dome is the biggest on-campus basketball stadium within the nation.

43 __ kwon do : TAE

Tae kwon do is the nationwide sport of Korea. “Tae” means “to strike or break with foot”; “kwon” means “to strike or break with fist”; “do” means “way” or “art”. Along with judo, tae kwon do is one in all solely two martial arts included within the Olympic Games.

44 Sad Keanu or Grumpy Cat : MEME

Actor Keanu Reeves was sitting on a park bench in the future in 2010, consuming a sandwich. He was hungry, and simply interested by issues. Someone snapped {a photograph}, and the pensive look and pose was simply interpreted as indicative of unhappiness. The photograph was shared on-line, and “Sad Keanu” grew to become a factor, and Internet meme. Now there’s even a Cheer-up Keanu Day noticed yearly on June fifteenth.

“Grumpy Cat” was the nickname of a widely known cat on the Internet named Tardar Sauce. She had an underbite that prompted her face to at all times seem “grumpy”. The brother of her proprietor posted an image of the cat on Reddit in the future in 2012, and folk began utilizing the photograph in parodies. By 2020, Grumpy Cat was an Internet meme, with over 8 million likes on Facebook. She even starred in her personal film, “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever”, which was launched in 2014.

49 Thanksgiving mo. in Canada : OCT

October is the tenth month in our calendar however was the eighth month within the previous Roman calendar, therefore the prefix “octo-”. Back then there have been solely ten months within the yr. “Ianuarius” (January) and “Februarius” have been then added because the eleventh and twelfth months of the yr. Soon after, the yr was reset and January and February grew to become the primary and second months.

The Canadian Thanksgiving vacation predates the associated celebration within the US. The first Canadian Thanksgiving was held in 1578 by an explorer from England named Martin Frobisher. Frobisher was giving thanks for his secure arrival within the New World, and made the observance within the month of October as this was a practice in England. All this occurred 43 years earlier than the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

54 Copenhagen resident : DANE

Copenhagen is the biggest metropolis and the capital of Denmark. I haven’t had the privilege of visiting Copenhagen, however I hear it’s a great metropolis with a wonderful high quality of life. The metropolis can also be very environmentally pleasant, with over a 3rd of its inhabitants commuting to work by bicycle.

55 Kung __ rooster : PAO

Kung Pao rooster is a Sichuan stir-fry dish that features rooster, peanuts, greens and chili peppers. The identify “Kung Pao” is believed to come back from a governor of the Sichuan province whose title was “Gongbao”, that means “Palace Guardian”.

57 Antique mall? : AGORA

In early Greece, an agora was a spot of meeting. The assemblies held there have been typically fairly formal, maybe for the studying of a proclamation. Later in Greek historical past, issues grew to become much less formal because the agora developed right into a market. Our modern phrase “agoraphobia” comes from these agorae, within the sense that an agoraphobe has a concern of open areas, a concern of “public meeting places”.

65 Countryman and Clubman : MINIS

The authentic Mini was a superb automotive, one which I drove throughout Ireland in my youth. It had a novel front-wheel-drive structure that took up little or no area, permitting for lots of room (comparatively talking) for passengers and baggage. One space-saving trick was to mount the engine transversely, so it sits rotated 90 levels from the norm. That engine had a capability of solely 848cc. In 1961, a Mini Cooper mannequin was launched, which was a sporty model. The Mini Cooper was an outstanding hit, particularly after repeated wins within the Monte Carlo Rally. The Mini marque has been owned by BMW since 1994.

66 “Silas Marner” novelist : ELIOT

“George Eliot” was the pen identify of English novelist Mary Anne Evans. As one would possibly assume, Evans selected a male pen identify so that her work could be greatest appreciated within the Victorian period. Eliot wrote seven novels together with “Adam Bede” (1859), “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), “Silas Marner” (1861) and “Middlemarch” (1871-72).

“Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe” is a novel written by George Eliot and first revealed in 1861. There’s a superb BBC TV model of the story (proven on PBS) starring Ben Kingsley within the title position, with Patsy Kensit taking part in Eppie, the younger orphaned youngster that Marner takes below his wing.

68 Does some onstage improv : SCATS

Scat singing is a vocal improvisation discovered on the earth of jazz. There aren’t any phrases as such in scat singing, simply random nonsense syllables made up on the spot.

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2 “When They See Us” creator DuVernay : AVA

Ava DuVernay is a filmmaker who grew to become the primary African-American lady to win the Best Director Prize on the Sundance Film Festival, a feat she achieved in 2012 for her characteristic movie “Middle of Nowhere”. “Middle of Nowhere” tells the story of a lady who drops out of medical college to give attention to her husband when he’s sentenced to eight years in jail. DuVernay additionally directed the 2014 movie “Selma” in regards to the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

“When They See Us” is a miniseries created by Ava DuVernay and first aired in 2019. It is against the law drama based mostly on occasions surrounding the Central Park jogger case from 1989. The present explores the lives of the Central Park Five, the 5 Black males who have been falsely accused and prosecuted on fees associated to the rape of a White lady.

4 Art which may be lined by a boot : ANKLE TAT

The phrase “tattoo” (typically shortened to “tat”) was first utilized in English within the writings of the well-known English explorer Captain Cook. In his descriptions of the indelible marks adorning the pores and skin of Polynesian natives, Cook anglicized the Tahitian phrase “tatau” into our “tattoo”. Tattoos are typically known as “ink”.

5 “The Purloined Letter” author Edgar Allan __ : POE

“The Purloined Letter” is the third of Edgar Allan Poe’s quick tales to characteristic Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, Poe’s well-known detective. The two earlier tales are the celebrated “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget”.

7 Like heavy clogs : WOODEN

Clogs are footwear constituted of wooden, a minimum of partially. The clog originated as a protecting merchandise of footwear to be used by farm, manufacturing unit and mine employees.

8 Showing little emotion : STOIC

Zeno of Citium was a Greek thinker well-known for educating on the Stoa Poikile, the “Painted Porch”, positioned on the north facet of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Because of the placement of his courses, his philosophy grew to become often known as stoicism (from “stoa”, the phrase for “porch”). We get our adjective “stoic”, that means “indifferent to pleasure or pain”, from the identical root.

9 “EastEnders” community : BBC

“EastEnders” is a really, very profitable cleaning soap opera produced and aired by the BBC since 1985. The title refers back to the East End of London.

11 Submit, in an MMA match : TAP OUT

In fight sports activities, an individual can undergo his or her opponent by tapping out, often tapping the ground or the opponent’s physique with a hand.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact fight sport through which opponents use a wide range of strategies from a wide range of conventional fight sports activities and martial arts.

24 Barilla rival : RAGU

The Ragú model of pasta sauce was launched in 1937. The identify ”Ragù” is the Italian phrase for a sauce used to decorate pasta, nevertheless the spelling is a little bit off within the identify of the sauce. In Italian, the phrase is “Ragù” with a grave accent over the “u”, however when you have a look at a jar of the sauce on the grocery store shelf it’s spelled “Ragú” on the label, with an acute accent. Sometimes I believe we simply don’t strive …

Barilla is a provider of Italian meals that’s headquartered in Parma, Italy. It was based as a bakery store in Parma again in 1877, and now provides nearly 50% of the pasta bought in Italy, and about 15% of pasta bought within the US.

28 W-2 fig. : SSN

Form W-2 is offered by US employers to their workers by January 31 every year. The type reviews wages paid to the workers, in addition to taxes withheld.

29 Merch desk purchase : TEE

Merchandise (merch)

33 Raise dramatically, as costs : JACK UP

“Jack” is a nickname for “John”. Back within the 1500s, the time period “jack” got here for use colloquially to explain any man of low standing (as in “jack of all trades, master of none”). The utilization was prolonged to explain any software that saved work, maybe changed menial labor. By the top of the 1600s, the time period “jack” grew to become notably related to a transportable machine used to raise heavy weights utilizing leverage.

38 Brunch alternative : OMELETTE

Our phrase “brunch” is a portmanteau of “breakfast” and “lunch”. The time period was coined as pupil slang in Oxford, England within the late Eighteen Nineties. However, “brunch” described a mixed meal nearer to the breakfast hour, and the time period “blunch” was used for a meal nearer to lunchtime.

39 Aqua kin : TEAL

The lovely shade teal takes its identify from the duck referred to as a teal, which has darkish greenish-blue (teal) markings on its head and wings.

40 Two-fifths of Miami? : EMS

Two of the 5 letters within the phrase “Miami” are letters M (ems).

41 Gymnast Suni : LEE

Suni Lee is an American gymnast who received the ladies’s inventive particular person all-around occasion on the 2020 Olympics. A couple of weeks after her victory in Tokyo, Lee competed within the thirtieth season of “Dancing with the Stars”, ending in fifth place.

45 “Altogether ooky” household : ADDAMS

Charles Addams was a cartoonist who signed his work “Chas Addams”. He didn’t draw a cartoon strip however fairly particular person cartoons, though lots of his cartoons did characteristic common characters. The most well-known of those have been the members of the Addams Family, who have been revealed in single-panel cartoons between 1938 and 1988 in “The New Yorker”. The Addams Family moved onto the small and large screens beginning in 1964.

They’re creepy and so they’re kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They’re altogether ooky,
The Addams Family.

47 Actress Ryder : WINONA

Hollywood actress Winona Ryder’s actual identify is Winona Horowitz. She was born close to the city of Winona in Minnesota, from which she acquired her identify. Ryder’s success on the display has garnered as a lot media consideration as her life off the display. The papers had a discipline day when she was arrested in 2001 on a shoplifting cost adopted by a really public court docket look. Her engagement with Johnny Depp within the early nineties was one other media frenzy. Depp had “Winona Forever” tattooed on his arm, which he had modified after the breakup to “Wino Forever”. A person with a humorousness …

49 Annette of “Virgin River” : O’TOOLE

Among a number of notable roles, Annette O’Toole is the actress who performs Clark Kent’s mom on the TV present “Smallville”. She is married to fellow actor Michael McKean (who performed lead vocalist David St. Hubbins in “This Is Spinal Tap”). Off display, O’Toole and McKean share a musical profession collectively.

58 Burro : ASS

Our phrase “burro”, that means “donkey”, comes from the Spanish phrase for a similar animal, particularly “burrico”.

62 Rowing machine, familiarly : ERG

An indoor rowing machine is also known as an ergometer (or just “erg”). However, the time period “ergometer” actually applies to a tool that measures the quantity of labor carried out.

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