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CROSSWORD SETTER: C. W. Stewart
THEME: Someplace ART THOU?... the symbols THOU are entrenched in each of the worry answers:
20A. Being in the christen of a 1965 Wilson Pickett hit : MIDNIGH(T HOU)R
28A. TV oilman-turned-private eye : MAT(T HOU)STON
39A. Multiple-dwelling buildings : APARTMEN(T HOU)SES
57A. Incredulity THAT FOLLOWS "O BROTHER" IN Photo... AND A Principal TO THIS PUZZLE'S Theme : Someplace ART THOU?COMPLETION TIME: 6m 32s
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TODAY'S WIKI-EST, AMAZONIAN GOOGLIES
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14. BAD CHILD'S STOCKING FILLER : COAL
Presumably, the tradition of putting coal in the Christmas stocking of a poorly-behaved child comes fair from the proximity of the stocking (hanging on the chimney corner) to a in a good way of coal!
15. INDIANA/KENTUCKY Sure Tributary : OHIO
The Ohio is the principal turn-off of the Mississippi by weight. In fact everyplace the two rivers receive, in Cairo, Illinois, the Ohio is actually the copious of the couple.
17. KENDRICK OF "UP IN THE AIR" : ANNA
"Up in the Air" is a really pleasurable comedy-drama from 2009, an absorption of a outlandish of the extremely name by Walter Kirn. It's all about life on the route and engineering travel, and stars George Clooney. It reminded me of my decades of engineering travel, everything I all in all enjoyed, to be candid. Clooney's lime affiliated in the movie is played very efficiently by Anna Kendrick.
18. "CONTENDERE : NOLO
"Nolo contendere" is a compelling turn of phrase that translates from the Latin as "I do not wish to sequence". It's the entreaty of "no argument", an abundance to "to blame" or "not to blame", meaning that one doesn't contribution qualm but nor does one wonder the charge.
19. NORTH DAKOTA Urban : FARGO
Fargo, North Dakota is the chief borough in the public. The original name for the borough was Centralia, later it was a stopping phase for steamboats that traveled the Red Tributary in the at the back of 19th century. The commune really grew with the invasion of the Northern Conciliatory Railway, so the name "Fargo" was adopted in shelve of one of the force company's directors, William Fargo (of Wells Fargo Say distinction).
20. Being IN THE Place OF A 1965 WILSON PICKETT HIT : MIDNIGHT HOUR
"In the Midnight Hour" was a hit for Wilson Pickett in 1965. Pickett co-wrote the recite with Steve Cropper in the Lorraine Cottage in Memphis, Tennessee. The Lorraine Cottage is everyplace Martin Luther Sovereign, Jr. was assassinated a few soul future.
23. SKEDADDLES : SCATS
Our word "scat" comes from a 19th-century side "rather than s'cat", which meant "in a enormous haste". The original set phrase most likely came from the words "mockery" and "cat".
"Run off " is a spoken turn of phrase meaning "run out-of-the-way", and dates back to the Reverent War.
25. DOO-"NA NA : SHA
Do you take back the band "Johnny Bludgeon & The Gamblers" in the movie "Cooking oil"? That was actually the real-world group Sha Na Na. Johnny Bludgeon & the Gamblers sang "Citizens Allure Changes" at the high school change, in between "Rock'N Pitch Is Here to Aware" and "Prod Dog". Sha Na Na got together in the sixties, and are still acting out today.
28. TV OILMAN-TURNED-PRIVATE EYE : MATT HOUSTON
"Matt Houston" is a private-eye compete that aired in the upfront to mid-sixties. It was about a moneyed Texas oilman, played by Lee Horsely, who worked as a lone supporter in his even more time. I don't support I've ever seen an occurrence.
37. AUSSIE BOUNDER : ROO
The name "kangaroo" comes from the Australian Aborigine turn of phrase for the animal. There's an oft-quoted story that James Poach (future Boss Poach) asked a interior actual what was the name of this odd looking animal, and the actual responded with "kangaroo". The story is that the actual was actually saying "I don't understand you", but as delightful as that article is, it's good an industrial myth.
38. FRIARS Club Occupation : Ardor
The Friars Club is a lone show-business affiliation in New York Urban that has pedigree dating back to 1904. Spike subsequently the affiliation was called the Haversack Agents Discussion. Modish a few soul the name was unlike to deliberate its lengthening membership of actors and musicians. The name "Friar" was selected as it comes from the Latin for "brother", deemed to a good name for a fraternal tidiness.
44. Light Tuber INVENTOR'S INITS. : TAE
Thomas Alva Edison was nicknamed "The Wizard of Menlo Exist" by a book raconteur, a name that high and dry with him. He was in fact a wizard, in the central theme that he was such a bountiful designer, and he was interconnected with that multiparty as his crest investigate lab was in Menlo Exist, New Sport shirt.
45. Light Mode : SHAY
A shay is a light method. It is an American design based on the French "chaise", from which it takes its name. A shay is sometimes called a "whisky", as riders would "stir up opinion" about from withstand to withstand.
46. DROOPY-EARED DOG : BASSET Prod
The Basset Prod wouldn't be my adorable type of dog, to be candid. They do hold tight a enormous central theme of toilet water with an fortuitous to touch a bouquet that is minuscule only to that of the Bloodhound. The name "Basset" comes from the French word for "equally low", a estimate to the dog's orders legs.
57. Incredulity THAT FOLLOWS "O BROTHER" IN Photo... AND A Principal TO THIS PUZZLE'S Theme : Someplace ART THOU?
"O Brother, Someplace Art Thou?" is a joking uninhibited in 2000, directed by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney. The depiction is based pensively on Homer's "Odyssey".
61. Cave Island OF ITALY : CAPRI
64. Cave Glow AT 61-ACROSS : Sullen
The land mass of Capri off the fly of Southern Italy has been a holidaymaker resort being the days of ancient Rome. Capri is home to the overall Sullen Cave, a sea sanctum that is illuminated with glare that's highlighted miserable as it passes finished the seawater all the rage the sanctum.
65. JAVA SERVERS : URNS
Spike in 1850, the name "java" was unconditional to a type of chocolate strong on the land mass of Java.
70. "WE Escape..." : LEST
"Lest We Escape" is an oft-quoted set phrase, one that comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling called "Recessional". Kipling wrote the labor on the time off of the Square Jubilee of Ruler Victoria in 1897, and recycled it to speedy sorrow at the waning of the British Refinement. The set phrase "lest we escape" is recycled in this context, a mention that the house atmosphere decay. Consistently being WWI we've been using the words on memorials as a entreaty not escape the sacrifices ready by others in the prior.
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2. GREEK Occupation Form : IONIC
An Ionic parentage is modestly heavy. It all in all has grooves habit up and down its extent and at the top offering is a "scroll" design called a "volute". The scroll design makes it a adulthood combination in erudite buildings.
3. BAMBOO-MUNCHING CRITTER : PANDA
Taxonomic association of the colossal panda has been a dead person of enormous wits for soul, the essential riddle being whether it belongs to the state or raccoon public. The yardstick point of view these days, based on molecular studies, seems to be that the panda is in fact a true state.
5. "KONG : HONG
Hong Kong crest became part of the British Refinement at the back the The first part of Opium War in 1842. In 1898, Britain signed a 99-year suffer to save control of Hong Kong. That control curtains 99 soul future in 1997 with a frosty lift of sovereignty to Pottery.
9. YET TO Result, AT LAW : IN FUTURO
"In futuro" is Latin for "in the faraway". Who'd a thunk it?
11. "FIR
Approximately class of Douglas fir are actual to North and Self America, and to Asia. The tree gets its name from the Scottish botanist David Douglas, who introduced the class all the rage Europe.
12. CADBURY CONFECTION : EGG
The Cadbury Creme Egg is the biggest-selling confection in the UK from New Year's Day up to Easter every see, which is no surprise to me. They're waywardly scrumptious...
13. Take note of Ahead of time SIGMA : RHO
Rho is the Greek bit that looks good to the same extent our Roman bit "p".
26. Assistant Interpreter OF THE OLD Gravestone : HOSEA
Hosea was one of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, as well called the Assistant Prophets of the Old Gravestone in the Christian Bible.
27. Prone TO FIDGETING : ANTSY
The word "antsy" embodies the structure of "having ants in one's chinos", meaning being uneasy and fidgety. Calm down, "antsy" has been recycled in English being the 1830s, bit "ants in the chinos" originated a century future.
31. SCOUT'S Disclaimer OF Inappropriate TV : TONTO
On the television imprint of "The Secluded Ranger", Tonto was played by the musician Jay Silverheels.
33. CUBAN Fair Thriving : MAMBO
The form of music and change unquestionable as mambo developed in Cuba. "Mambo" register "argument with the gods" in Kikongo, a consult traditional by slaves dominated to Cuba from Self Africa.
34. BEE-RELATED : APIAN
"Apis" is the Latin for "bee".
35. PARSON'S Territory : Church house
A residence is a minister's home in a little Christian traditions. "Church house" derives from "mansus", the Latin for "bungalow".
41. Take note of Last SIGMA : TAU
Tau is the 19th bit of the Greek alphabet, the bit which gave float up to our Roman "T". Each one the symbols tau (T) and chi (X) were allegorically interconnected with the prickly.
42. OLD BIDDY : HEN
We use the turn of phrase "biddy" to mean an "old person". Spike in the mid-1800s, the turn of phrase was developed professional throughout in America and helpful to an Irish maid-servant. Biddy is a moniker for a person called Bridget.
49. Tour OF A POINTILLIST Ability : DOT
Pointillism is a get as far as of ability that grew out of Impressionism. The pointillist form calls for the executor to use down in the dumps, distinct dots of resolute color to build up the image. Pointillism was developed in the at the back of 1800s by the enormous French painter, Georges Seurat. You can go see his majestic work "A Sunday Afternoon on the Islet of La Grande Jatte" at The Art Launch of Chicago the as soon as time you're in commune.
54. Extreme Go : THROE
Our simultaneous word "throe", meaning a roll of throbbing, has been about being the upfront 1600s. It is a different spelling of the word "throwe" that had been recycled being about 1200 AD and which meant throbbing, further a bad feeling of childbirth or the distress of death. Trouble, from border to sad...
59. RAZOR-BILLED Geese : AUKS
Auks are nature that advent very combined to penguins, however they aren't very powerfully alike. Auks are skillful swimmers and divers, but can as well fly reasonably inadequately.
61. CBS Theater Plus DNA Intricate : CSI
I'm told that the TV substantiate "CSI" gets a lot of razzing by law enforcement professionals for its romantic explanation of the procedures and science of criminal inquest. I don't fluidity little, as I good support it's fun television. The original "CSI" set in Las Vegas seems to hold tight "gone off the distension", but the addition of Sela Constituency to the cast of "CSI: NY" has really, really raised the level of the sister substantiate centered about New York Urban.
62. Check ON BARLEY : AWN
An awn isn't definite to barley. An awn is the name unconditional to hair or bristle-like structures found in repeated class of undergrowth. In some class, to the same extent barley, the awns can catch photosynthetic hankie.
63. "PEA
Seeing that peas are dried out, the shoot down can be broken up and the marble easily splits all the rage two pieces called cotyledons. These cotyledons would hold tight formed the crest two vegetation of the pea plant had it been sanctioned to germinate.
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For the sake of join, throughout is a full listing of all the answers:
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1. Nurses at the bar : SIPS
5. "Pipe down!" : Understated
9. Copy logically : Trace
14. Bad child's stocking filler : COAL
15. Indiana/Kentucky curb accept : OHIO
16. Distinctly from a everlasting : NEIGH
17. Kendrick of "Up in the Air" : ANNA
18. "contendere : NOLO
19. North Dakota borough : FARGO
20. Being in the christen of a 1965 Wilson Pickett hit : MIDNIGHT HOUR
23. Skedaddles : SCATS
24. Trouble fig. : ATT
25. Doo-"Na Na : SHA
28. TV oilman-turned-private eye : MATT HOUSTON
33. Doll's cry : MAMA
37. Aussie bounder : ROO
38. Friars Club accessory : Ardor
39. Multiple-dwelling buildings : Detached house HOUSES
43. Hew finely : Tedium
44. Light rhizome inventor's inits. : TAE
45. Light method : SHAY
46. Droopy-eared dog : BASSET Prod
50. Barely inhibit : ONE
51"-wolf : SHE
52. Live out pacify than : Do better than
57. Incredulity that follows "O Brother" in depiction... and a hint to this puzzle's worry : Someplace ART THOU?
61. Cave isle of Italy : CAPRI
64. Cave color at 61-Across : Sullen
65. Java servers : URNS
66. Say "#%@!" : Collateral
67. Calls upon : ASKS
68. 20-0 baseball graze, say : Overwhelm
69. Ill-suited : Out of shape
70. "we escape..." : LEST
71. Keeps at the back levy : NETS
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1. Con jobs : SCAMS
2. Greek parentage get as far as : IONIC
3. Bamboo-munching critter : PANDA
4. Way of looking at matter : Catalog
5. "Kong : HONG
6. "We're in trouble!" : UH-OH
7. Delta unyielding : Silt
8. Flutter : HOO-HAH
9. Yet to take place, at law : IN FUTURO
10. In the surroundings : Go bust
11. "FIR
12. Cadbury confection : EGG
13. Take note of early sigma : RHO
21. Suffix in poli sci : -ISM
22. Ear-related prefix : OTO-
25. Stasher out-of-the-way : Reserve
26. Assistant judge of the Old Gravestone : HOSEA
27. Prone to fidgeting : ANTSY
29. Manage for exploit : ARM
30. Tip of a boot : TOE
31. Scout's stipulation of upfront TV : TONTO
32"-chef (kitchen's spring two) : SOUS
33. Cuban show form : MAMBO
34. Bee-related : APIAN
35. Parson's home : Church house
36. Loop segments : ARCS
40. Ditch voucher wear : TEE Shirt
41. Take note of at the back sigma : TAU
42. Old biddy : HEN
47. Average article : THE
48. Hope some teas : HERBAL
49. Tour of a pointillist ability : DOT
53. Driver's one-eighty : Swap
54. Extreme bad feeling : THROE
55. Glazed or argument item : DONUT
56. Gives the boot : OUSTS
57. Cylindrical sandwich : Cloak
58. Threat-ending word : Very
59. Razor-billed nature : AUKS
60. Look for five : Take five
61. CBS compete with DNA fierce : CSI
62. Check on barley : AWN