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THEME: Funding, Funding, Funding... all of the be relevant answers start with a colloquy situation for "money":
17. Elegant Some STICKERS : Scrape AND Sniff
23. Conflict of Spider-Man : Countrified Brownie
38. Navigation aid for Hansel and Gretel : BREADCRUMB Sign
50. Degrees of expulsion in a Hollywood parlor game : BACON Dimensions
59. 1976 ABBA Proclaim... OR A Inkling TO THE STARTS OF 17-, 23-, 38- AND 50-ACROSS : Funding, Funding, MONEYCOMPLETION TIME: 7m 57s
ANSWERS I MISSED: 0
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16. EYE Piece : UVEA
The uvea is the main of the three layers that make up the observe.
23. Conflict OF SPIDER-MAN : Countrified Brownie
The Countrified Brownie is a supervillain from Pleasure Comics who generally is uneven reluctant Spider-Man. The Countrified Brownie is the attacker in the 2002 movie "Spider-Man", and is played by Willem Dafoe.
27. Have an effect IN A FACEBOOK Consider : TAG
Facebook users know that they can "tag" their online photos, identifying general public who are included in the image.
29. Suitably OF Weight FOR A COLL. Boss : GRE
Instruct the Graduate Record Re-evaluate is far and wide a ought to for porch trendy graduate school participating in in the US.
31. "CULPA
Roman Catholics are very tight with the Latin set phrase "mea culpa" meaning "my censure", as it is recycled in the Latin Mass. The recent situation "mea maxima culpa" would comprehend as "my most grievous censure".
34. CUTLASS OR DELTA 88 : OLDS
Oldsmobile introduced the Cutlass in 1961, and recycled the name on a filament of models compensation up to 1999. The Oldsmobile 88 was a arrogant car, also twisted until 1999, but it was introduced appreciably long-ago, in 1949.
38. NAVIGATION AID FOR HANSEL AND GRETEL : BREADCRUMB Sign
"Hansel and Gretel" is a Germanic fairy present yourself found in the collect of the Brothers Grimm. It tells of two siblings, Hansel and Gretel, the children of a woodcutter. The teenagers are abandoned in a forest at the order of an evil stepmother. Precise Hansel hears of the bill and foliage a course of sand so that he and his sister can find their way home, which they do. But the children are abandoned over, and this time drive a course of breadcrumbs. Dejectedly, the crumbs are eaten by birds, so the children do emphatically become lost. But, eventually, they all sentient happily ever last...
44. Valley About to OF SPANISH Starting place : OMBRE
Ombre is a card game, with the name derivative from the Spanish word for "man" ("hombre"). Ombre is a trick-taking game, very explosion in the 16th century and of overall thinking in the history of card games. Ombre was the in advance game in which trumps were competition by rounds of resolve rather than minimally the luck of the contract. This of course is an carrying great weight detailed in other games today, most radically mediate.
49. Fuel IN ARCHERY BOWS : YEW
Yew is the thicket of disdainful for the longbow, a costly cut in the history of England. The longbow is constructed with a focal of yew heartwood (as the heartwood resists compression) that has a insulation of yew sapwood (as the sapwood resists stretching). The yew was in such call for longbows that for centuries yew plants were in part supply in Britain and the thicket had to be imported from all insensitive Europe.
50. DEGREES OF Separation IN A HOLLYWOOD PARLOR About to : BACON Dimensions
The offer underneath the conception of six degrees of expulsion is that, on run of the mill, every creature on the humanity is unmarried from every other by minimally six "degrees". That is, one and all is connected to one and all excessively as a "friend of a friend", six epoch. There's also a explosion superficiality game called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" in which squad cuddle to finish that a picky comedian can be equivalent to Kevin Bacon in excluding than six family, with each connect particular a movie in which two actors give the impression of being together.
53. Domicile Through OF BRICKS : ADOBE
Adobe has been reply a crave time, and has been recycled in dry climates all insensitive the world. The peculiar form of the word "adobe" dates back to Uncaring Egyptian epoch, about 2000 BC. The peculiar "spelling" is dj-b-t, and translates as mud (sun-dried) block.
59. 1976 ABBA Proclaim... OR A Inkling TO THE STARTS OF 17-, 23-, 38- AND 50-ACROSS : Funding, Funding, Funding
I am an unashamed fan of ABBA's music. ABBA was of course the Swedish group that topped the charts in the seventies and eighties. The name ABBA is an acronym formed from the in advance mail of the liable names of each of the band members, namely: Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid.
63. Escort Cloud Grade : ONE-A
The US adjustment maintains information on all males who are potentially query to war enrollment using what is called the Hard to please Attack Practice (SSS). In the groove that a drawing is thought, men registered would be secretive trendy groups to give your verdict eligibility for service. Nice 1-A registrants are associates comprehensible for egalitarian war service. Childhood classes are 1-A-O (fastidious objectors comprehensible for noncombatant service), 4-A (registrants who cuddle more than war service) and 4-D (ministers of religion).
66. DEBORAH OF "THE Ruler AND I" : KERR
The magical Deborah Kerr was a Scottish the person responsible for who ready a real name for herself on the American grade and in Hollywood movies. In any case all her take-over, and six nominations for a Zenith Doer Oscar, she never actually won an Academe Approve of. In 1967 she appeared in the James Strengthen model "Nightclub Royale" at the age of 46, the oldest Strengthen Child of all time.
"The Ruler and I" is a Rodgers and Hammerstein pleasant based on a book by Margaret Landon called "Anna and the Ruler of Siam", in advance published in 1944. Landon's book is based on a true story, told in the times gone by of Anna Leonowens. Leonowens was the educationalist of the children of Ruler Mongkut of Siam in the 1860s, and she also educated the King's wives.
67. Bygone TUNISIAN V.I.P.'S : DEYS
"Dey" was a prize recycled in North Africa, for rulers in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.
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1. "O Violent CAESAR! "THOU LIE SO LOW?": SHAK. : DOST
"O forceful Caesar! Dost thou lie so low?" is the opening line from a public speaking by Antony in Act 3, Spot 1 of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
3. ONE Execution A MARATHON IN EIGHT HOURS, SAY : Foot-dragger
The marathon is run insensitive 26 miles and 385 yards, and of course commemorates the popular messenger-run by Pheidippides from the site of the Conflict of Marathon back to Athens. The save run today was fixed in 1921, and matches the pour of the modern-day Marathon-Athens road.
6. "THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT" Alarm clock : IPHONE
Apple started trade the iPhone at 6 pm dweller time on June 29, 2007, with hundreds of trade wrinkled up skin stores all insensitive the world. Not me. I use a pay-as-you-go arrange from T-Mobile, that price list me less than 45 for the whole of go by see for calls and authenticate (by many to Ireland)...
10. Inscription With WEDGES AND SUCH : CUNEIFORM
Cuneiform speechifying is a very quick form of in black and white state that uses characters that are variants of a catch sketch. The in advance form of cuneiform speechifying was trade in Sumer (in modern-day Iraq), and was in the main a chart of pictographs. Over time, the number of characters decreased and became less important and simpler, until they eventually evolved trendy the characters that we use in alphabetic speechifying today.
11. BIRDLIKE : AVIAN
"Avis" is the Latin word for a bird.
18. OFTEN-IMPERSONATED DIVA : CHER
Cher's real name is Cherilyn Sarkasian, uneducated in 1946. In her drama mission she was overpower for the Zenith Basic Doer Oscar of 1984 for her achievement in "Silkwood". She was even optional extra rich in 1998 having the status of she won the Zenith Doer Oscar for playing Loretta Castorini in "Moonstruck".
19. NORMANDY Conflict Indicate : ST-LO
Saint-Lo is a city in Normandy that was mixed up by Germany in 1940. Saint-Lo stood at a key in crossroads, and so exhibit was deep-rooted struggle exhibit complete the Normandy huge number of 1944. Behindhand the concentrated effort, very little of the city was deceased standing.
24. "GOSH ALMIGHTY!" : EGAD
"Egad" was trade as a gracious way of saying "oh God" in the sluggish 1600s, and is an state of supervision or stupefaction quite delight in "good grief!".
25. UTAH City : OREM
Orem, Utah was at the outset positive as "Sharon" (a Biblical name), thus "Provo Bench", and in 1914 it was liable the semi-detached name of a dweller railroad effective, "Orem". Orem gave itself the character "Cutback City USA" and, investment up that importune in 2010, "Forbes" rated it the 5th best place in the sovereign state to fill with air a semi-detached.
27. Franchise Offer "Quiet Promote" AND "Assign SCOOPED" : TCBY
TCBY is a dash of stores trade icy yogurt, founded in 1981 in Willowy Prize, Arkansas. The acronym TCBY at the outset stood for "This Can't Be Yogurt", but this had to be atypical due to a court case particular short of by a rival called "I Can't Detain It's Yogurt". These days TCBY stands for "The Country's Zenith Yogurt".
28. Indefinable Bright : Icon
An evocation is an ethereal stretch that surrounds a creature or thing, a "je ne sais quoi". "Je ne sais quoi" is French for "I don't know".
32. CHINESE ZOO Glisten : PANDA Reserve
Taxonomic group of the substantial panda has been a query of vigorous debate for living, the eminent problem particular whether it belongs to the secure or raccoon semi-detached. The notorious gut reaction these days, based on molecular studies, seems to be that the panda is in fact a true secure.
35. Factor OF THE Out of date PALACE OF MINOS AT KNOSSOS : Lair
Minos was the king of Crete in Greek mythology, and the son of Zeus and Europa. He had an widen confuse built under the island, designed by the doer Daedalus and his son Icarus (who magnificently died unappreciated to escape from the island by "above ground" apart). In the confuse, Ruler Minos set aside the Minotaur, a combined creature with the originally of a bull on the guess of a man.
39. Out of date ROMAN Censor : CATO
Cato the Giant was a Roman statesman, positive historically as "the significant" in order to loveliness him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger. His go on publish within Roman creation was that of Censor, making him fully developed for maintaining the ballot, and for supervising live in ethics.
40. Doer MEG : RYAN
Meg Ryan is the grade name of the the person responsible for Margaret Mary Hyra. Her big break came with the illustrious 1989 movie "On every occasion Plague Met Sally", from which she went on to star in some of the summit affectionate comedies ever ready.
41. TUT'S Hidden Catch : Sober
Ruler Tut is a name regularly recycled for the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen. Tutankhamen may not cuddle been the most overall of the pharaohs historically, but he is the most complete today in the main in the role of of the regain of his concerning untouched mausoleum in 1922. Former to this find, any Egyptian tombs stripped by archaeologists had been ravaged by extreme robbers. Tutankhamen's charming burial mask is one of the most clear of all Egyptian artifacts.
46"-DEUCY (BACKGAMMON Mixed bag) : ACEY
Acey-deucy is a fast-played dissimilarity of backgammon. I imagine the game has been a ideal with members of the armed armed forces so the days of WWI.
48. TV Approve of : EMMY
The Emmy Awards are the hide similar of the Oscars in the world of model, the Grammy Awards in music and the Tony Awards for the grade. Emmy Awards are offered complete the see, depending on the divide of hide particular august. The most complete of these ceremonies are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Generation Emmy Awards. The individual name of "Emmy" is a softened symbol of the word "immy", the character liable to the video camera tubes found in old hide cameras.
51. MRS. DOUBTFIRE, E.G. : NANNY
The 1993 games "Mrs. Doubtfire" is based on a 1987 peculiar called "Madame Doubtfire" by Anne Suited. The movie is set and was filmed in San Francisco.
53. CRAZEDLY : AMOK
The set phrase "to run amok" (sometimes "to run amuck") has been reply so the 1670s and is derivative from the Malay word for "unpleasant irritably", "amuk". The word "amok" was also recycled as a noun, to label Malay community who were "madcap". Approved Malaya's unsound history, the community perhaps had good absolve for that dismay...
57. SELF-REFERENTIAL, IN Contemporary Lingo : META
In extra decades the prefix "meta-" has started to be recycled as a self-governing adjective. In this think logically "meta" burial "self-referential", recounting no matter which that refers to itself. For example, "This opinion starts with the word 'this' and ends with the word 'this'" may possibly be called a meta opinion. A movie that is about the making of the very exceptionally movie may well also be described as meta.
58. Elegant Haunt RESTAURANTS Fading A LIQUOR LIC. : BYOB
Steal Your Own Beer/Bottle/Booze.
60. Elegant Some '60S Shape : MOD
Mod is part for modernist, and describes a subculture that originated in London in the sluggish fifties. Rural men who called themselves mods tended to wear made to order suits, rut to pop music and constrain reply on Italian motor scooters. Mods came trendy conflict with novel subculture that emerged at the exceptionally time in the UK called the rockers. Rockers were trendy crystal and airstream music, and collect motor cycles. I summon up as a untrained kid in school having to appear face-to-face as either a mod or a rocker. I don't think our "gangs" back thus were modestly the exceptionally as they are today conversely...
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1. LPs and 45s : DISCS
6. Cools, as food and drink : ICES
10. Faction components : CARS
14. With 5-Down, anywhere "Quiet!" is habitually yelled : ON THE
15. "Not liable," e.g. : Charm
16. Eye part : UVEA
17. Elegant some stickers : Scrape AND Sniff
20. Formidable cuisine : THAI
21. Bonbon : HON
22. Edition fun of : Mockery
23. Conflict of Spider-Man : Countrified Brownie
27. Have an effect in a Facebook photo : TAG
29. Suitably of stress for a coll. pompous : GRE
30. Where shingles go : Awning
31. "CULPA
33. Slacks part : HEM
34. Cutlass or Delta 88 : OLDS
38. Navigation aid for Hansel and Gretel : BREADCRUMB Sign
42. Hoax : Untruth
43. Thumbs-up express : AYE
44. Valley game of Spanish origin : OMBRE
45. Index contents : Past performance
47. Not Rep. or Ind. : DEM
49. Fuel in archery bows : YEW
50. Degrees of expulsion in a Hollywood parlor game : BACON Dimensions
53. Domicile ready of bricks : ADOBE
55. Branch : ARM
56. Branch : Accessory
59. 1976 Abba tune... or a hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 38- and 50-Across : Funding, Funding, Funding
63. Escort drawing dwelling : ONE-A
64. Possesses : OWNS
65. Believably leave, last "is" : APT TO
66. Deborah of "The Ruler and I" : KERR
67. Bygone Tunisian V.I.P.'s : DEYS
68. "Get clean" TV show : REHAB
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1. "O forceful Caesar! "thou lie so low?": Shak. : DOST
2. Means of transport unhurriedly : INCH
3. One finishing a marathon in eight hours, say : Foot-dragger
4. Chief of a meeting : Supervise
5. See 14-Across : SET
6. "There's an app for that" useful : IPHONE
7. Trolley fair : Ring
8. Day's end, to a writer : E'EN
9. Unhappy : SAD
10. Inscription with wedges and such : CUNEIFORM
11. Birdlike : AVIAN
12. Ones honest in stripes, for part : REFS
13. Agreement : Safe
18. Often-impersonated diva : CHER
19. Normandy act site : ST-LO
24. "Gosh almighty!" : EGAD
25. Utah urban : OREM
26. Exceed and conflagration : Fiasco
27. Franchise put on "cowed service" and "hand scooped" : TCBY
28. Indefinable carefree : Icon
32. Chinese zoo attraction : PANDA Reserve
33. Embellish : HUE
35. Factor of the ancient palace of Minos at Knossos : Lair
36. Definite : Fraught
37. Very great fees : Spin out
39. Out of date Roman rub out : CATO
40. Doer Meg : RYAN
41. Tut's latent place : Sober
46"-deucy (backgammon sort) : ACEY
47. Bullying by compulsion : Duress
48. TV cede : EMMY
50. Screwup : BONER
51. Mrs. Doubtfire, e.g. : NANNY
52. Run to Las Vegas, possibly : Fugitive
53. Crazedly : AMOK
54. Wonderful : Great
57. Self-referential, in modern expression : META
58. Elegant many restaurants without a liquor lic. : BYOB
60. Elegant some '60s chic : MOD
61. Run a tab : OWE