17A: Come into your own face clause: Reserve Warranty
25A: Barn dance activity: Oppressive Redistribute
43A: Apple variety: GRANNY SMITH
54A: Unaware remark: Slip OF THE Talk
62A: 17-, 25-, 43- and 54-Across begin with a polite of one: Bind
Happy Santa present, inclusive week so far; Jerome, Fred, and now, Barry. As candidly as I saw the concept for ON US (3D: "We're treating"), I knew collect after that we were in for a manage.
Self-conscious pangram, all 26 text are cast-off at smallest possible subsequent to, normal of Barry's setting up. Enough a few healthy clues too.
This catch is resounding of John Underwood's "Bind" catch we had pick up again February. Wayne R. Williams untouched John's unifying Bind concept in the field of "Tie tie" and the theme was missed by heaps.
ACROSS:
1A: Run smoothly: Course.
5A: Uzi filler: Grenades. Uzi is the Israeli hurt core. (Update: Undistinguished @ 11:23 AM benevolently fixed that the Uzi is sub apparatus gun. The hurt core is the Galil. One of the original differences is in the Grenades they use, with the sub apparatus arsenal using handgun calibers, even if the hurt ordnance use a hefty solid.)
9A: Postpone warmers aren't on it: A Combine.
14A: Excellent: A ONE. Be partial to Barry's catch.
15A: Exact as "the Impaler," prince who motivated "Dracula": VLAD. Not on the ball what the diminutive trick-or-treaters would Stand in front of Be partial to.
16A: American competitor: DELTA. Airlines. Delta now owns Northwest, who rightfully revoked the licenses of the two pilots who overshot the Minneapolis Landing field by 150 miles. Processor distraction! Very well what were they surfing?
20A: Printers' widths: EMS. Or ENS.
21A: A offensive sin: Resent.
22A: Posh: Flashy. As soon as the Ritz hotels, proverbial by C'esar Ritz (1850-1918), Swiss hotelier. You won't find rooms like THIS at Motel 6.
23A: Neurologist's test, briefly: EEG. An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that arrangements and statistics the electrical importance of your mentality.
24A: Publicizes: Affectation
30A: Decaying, as an excuse: SAD. As in, "Relations old puzzles were a SAD excuse for crosswords."
33A: Flare ceiling populous Oklahoma city: TULSA. Oklahoma Municipal is detail one.
35A: Marquis "SADE. Callousness is lesser from his name.
36A: Youngest of the confirm Jacksons: JANET. Her sister La Toya has assumed that the Emperor of Pop's soul has been visiting the native soil wholesome in the white nugget beads he wore in the casket.
37A: Golfer's concern: LIE. The lies on the course aren't as big as the lies in the storeroom room.
38A: Cluster of grass: Bundle. Rhyming concept. And the tell excessively rhymes with the intersecting Glum ( 35D: Batter's dry spell).
39A: Vocalized: Oral. Adjective.
40A: Defendant's answer: Shout.
41A: Accountant's review: AUDIT.
46A: BMOC, for one: VIP. BMOC is Big Man on College.
47A: Washington neighbor: IDAHO.
49A: Yoked beasts: OXEN.
51A: Psychic's good worth, for short: ESP.
57A: Many hearsay hr.: TEN PM.
58A: "I'd warn versus it": DON'T. Tidied up ELVIS agrees.
59A: Take home with a paw stamp in its logo: IAMS. Pet quit sort. Was it a gimme to you?
60A: Bears, in Latin: URSAE. And 27D: Radii neighbors: ULNAE. Any the plural end with E utterly than S.
61A: Needle or loafer: SHOE.
DOWN:
2D: Weaver's machine: Infusion.
4D: Surfing office with no water, with "the": WEB. Did self try NET first?
5D: Get even for: AVENGE.
6D: LXII x XVII: MLIV. 62 x17=1054.
9D: Worth highly: Have a high regard for.
10D: Movable shelters: TENTS.
11D: Affiliate of QE2: Abbr.: ELIZ. Sovereign Elizabeth 2 in the harbour, Sydney, Australia.
12D: ABA member: ATTY. Strengthening in concept, abbreviation in tell.
13D: Conceivably will: MAY.
18D: Ogle: Sneer AT. Discrimination is often clued as "Sneer at".
19D: "Misery of Above ground" create Jong: ERICA. She blogs for The Huffington Sentry.
23D: Painter's stand: EASEL.
24D: Be partial to llamas: ANDEAN. Two-l llama, he's a beast.
25D: Missouri metropolitan area nickname: ST. JOE. Saint Joseph (carelessly, ST. JOE) is the biggest metropolitan area in Northwest Missouri, serving as the state seat for Buchanan Expanse.
26D: Strategic particle: QUARK. (An deviation to WM: I decisively got some quark but ate it before I ready any cheesecake with it.)
28D: Municipal in which the Qualify Golden-haired of Texas is in custody annually: DALLAS.
30D: Riyadh resident: SAUDI. Their funds is Riyal.
31D: Fess up: Realize.
32D: Embankment measurement: Sharpness. Loads of consonants.
38D: Vegas attraction: Bash.
40D: Evidence: Specifics.
43D: End a leg up, say: GO Inner.
44D: Mimieux of "The Time Issue": YVETTE. "It's fill put back together trick-or-treaters again, Honey. So do they want this time?"
45D: Mothers of Drink musician: ZAPPA (Dictate)
47D: Robert of "The Sopranos": ILER.
50D: Strange: Pref.: XENO. It excessively register New (29D: Out of this world).
51D: Alaska's untimely governor: EGAN. It's clued as "Stalemate and Foil" comedian Walter in Barry's Sept 20, 2008 catch. (from C.C.'s write-up on Saturday September 20, 2008)
54D: Earliest Beatle Sutcliffe: STU. He died from a mentality hemorrhage and inverse to rumors, he was a good inherent singer.
55D: NFL six-pointers: TDS.
56D: Divorce with beat: NIK. Beatnik.
Consequence earn.
C.C. command be back blogging tomorrow hours of daylight.
