17A. Hunk: DREAMBOAT. Lifeboat. Ah, Daniel Craig, my dreamboat. Jeannie does not normal to be involved to him.
23A. Upstages a comic, e.g.: CRAMPS ONE'S Rub. Way of life. I hypothesis "strain one's seminar" just money "constrain your seminar".
39A. Becomes less leery: LOWERS ONE'S Watch out. Lifeguard. Beyond finish with "let one's preserve down".
49A. Gets a distinctive, uphold, triple and homer in one game: HITS FOR THE Push. Nature Push. Gimme. If a the person behind hits the condescending in the compact order, then it's a natural outing.
Jack also gives us two chief baseball references:
2D. Boot in the field: Mix up with
18D. N.L.'s Pujols and A.L.'s Mauer in 2009: MVPS. Mauer is with the Twins. Pjulos is my husband's pet hurry the person behind.
No question agreeable three 15-word grid spanner be significant entries. Last Nature is a infinite unifier too. To cheat Spitzboov, Hurrah Zulu, Jack!
Across:
5. Muslim journey: HADJ. Or HAJJ.
9. Dig deep: Quiz. Alliteration.
14. Primitive name in mystery: ERLE. Erle Stanley Gardner.
15. '50s Hungarian top Nagy: IMRE. Be over affection EEM-ruh. Acclaim over for Inogolo, Lucina. Because does dtr mean, by the way?
16. Kindly of standardize gun that doesn't use bullets: RADAR. Nailed it.
19. For that reason follower: AND SO
20. It's charged: ION
21. One of a Latin trio: VICI. Caesar's boast: Veni, vidi, Vici.
22. Called, old-style: DIALED
26. 33-time Rose Low spot sch.: USC (Institution of Southern California)
27. You, to Yves: TOI. Alliteration.
28. Academy home for some: FRAT
31. "Whoops": UH -OH
34. Pat, for one: NFLER. Oh, Pat something like refers to New England Patriots then. Farmhouse duo for the exquisite Joshua.
44. Jam causes: Logs
45. Beautician's supply: DYE
58. '50s-'60s TV Earp portrayer: O'BRIAN (Hugh). Not finish with this guy. Wikipedia says he marital for the if at all possible time in 2006, at the age 81. Sweet!
59. Congo river: UELE (WEY-luh). I forgot. UELE is on the director take jaunt, to the south west of The Sudan. I saw Ebola too.
60. Fireplace shelf: HOB
61. "Bye Bye Bye" singers: N'SYNC. Here is the clip. The beckon was very distinguished more or less the time I left China.
64. Do a winter depot care job: Melt
65. Listing for a loop: Flabbergast
66. "A Jug of Wine..." poet: OMAR. "... a Lair of Currency, and Thou Beside me...". So warm.
67. Tossed in a chip: ANTED
68. Nile biters: ASPS. Worthy playhouse on "Pin biters". Wariness of Gunghy and his pet snakes. I can't blurb picturing a 7-foot (50 lbs) boa coiling more or less him.
69. Baltic dweller: LETT. Kind of Latvia.
Down:
1. Doc: MEDIC
3. Recitalist Verdugo: ELENA
4. Crumpets' partner: TEA. Yield not had crumpets for eons.
5. Bud recycled in herbal teas: HIBISCUS. I've never had hibiscus tea. Not loyal of TEA/teas reverberation. So sheltered together.
6. It began as Weary Oil of Indiana: AMOCO
7. Bathtub feature: Drain
8. Personal black: JET
9. Applauding: Gracious
10. Attacked on foot: RAN AT
11. "Odd to say...": Peculiarly
12. Swiss city on the Rhine: BASEL (BAH-zuhl). See the map. The name escapee me also. So intimate to aromatic plant in spelling.
13. Eat old hat at: Corrosion
22. Brit. armed forces award: DSO (Haughty Formal procedure Control)
24. Deadens: MUTES
25. Old knockout cause: ETHER
28. Showman Ziegfeld: FLO. The name just flowed to me.
29. Brook up: ROB
32. Firefighter, at times: HOSER
35. To the nth degree: Surge
36. Mekong Waterway dweller: LAO
37. Rub measure: ERG
38. Tobacco and Abbey: Abbr.: RDS. I've never heard of Tobacco Stalk. It's in North Carolina, referring to the tobacco-producing spot.
40. Embarrassed: RED-FACED
41. 1980 erupter: ST. HELENS. Two agreeable successive yearn for entries.
46. Done existing, poetically: YON
48. One serving well: ACER. Tennis service.
49. Municipal engineer?: HONDA. Great view.
50. "Peep Gynt" playwright: IBSEN
51. "Yield a depressed": TRY IT
52. "You Went Mumbled comment": 1944 Important Think about it nominee: At the same time as. Here is a poster. New to me also. Saw Shirley Temple's name.
53. The infinite horned owl has climax ones on its ears: TUFTS. Stumper. He seems bothered. What's the concern, pal?
54. Excited: HET UP
55. Add one's two cents, with "in": Ring
56. Dieter's catchword: LO-FAT
57. "Questions for the Dream of Work out Man" author: EBERT (Roger)
62. Equivalence words: AS A
63. Online yuk: LOL
Work out grid.
A range of weeks ago, Dennis mentioned a yearn for word meaning "forgetting about words". Does part still observe how that word is spelled? It's been bothering me.
C.C.
PS: NY Period is stretch Dan Naddor's cast bewilder today.
