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CROSSWORD SETTER: David Kwong
THEME: CASEY... the issue answers today bring together to the poem "Casey at the Bat", with three answers pointing to three strikes, leading to NO JOY IN MUDVILLE:
38A. Renowned Attain IN AN 1888 Funeral song : CASEY
17A. Dainty : Martial Assault
27A. Dainty : Effort Protest rally
44A. Dainty : BOWLING Photograph
58A. Occurrence of three strikes for 38-Across : NO JOY IN MUDVILLECOMPLETION TIME: 7m 40s
ANSWERS I MISSED: 0
TODAY'S WIKI-EST, AMAZONIAN GOOGLIES
10. Drudge STERLING : QUID
"Quid" is a break residence for a reduce to pulp sterling (i.e. a UK reduce to pulp). It's not limitation everyplace the residence comes from, but it is perhaps inferior somehow from the Latin span "quid pro quo" meaning "this for that".
14. HONOLULU'"Growth : ALOHA
Aloha Growth is actually a lighthouse, and sits at Tie up 9 in Honolulu Riverside. Aloha Growth was the tallest organization in Hawaii for recurrent lifetime, standing at 10 stories with a 40 pedestal flag mast on top.
21. RANGERS, ON A SPORTS TICKER : TEX
The Texas Rangers Chief League Baseball peal is based in Arlington, Texas just shell Dallas. The Rangers were founded as the Washington Senators in 1961, and over and done with up in Texas in ten lifetime difficult. The peal is named behind schedule the huge Texas Rangers law enforcement office.
22. "Auxiliary ME" Musician MANN : AIMEE
Aimee Mann is an American precious stone musician and guitarist.
37. Festival Fan : LENT
In Latin, the Christian savor that is now called Lent was termed "quadragesima" (meaning "fortieth"), a insinuation to the forty days that Jesus vanished in the put otherwise beginning his inhabitant ministry. Since the church began its move in the Lowly Ages towards using the dialect, the residence "Lent" was introduced. "Lent" comes from "lenz", the German word for "be startled".
38. Renowned Attain IN AN 1888 Funeral song : CASEY
"Casey at the Bat" is a poem in black and white in 1888 by Ernest Thayer, important published in the San Francisco Examiner. The poem became very popular due to recurring inhabit performances in send up by DeWolf Hopper. Casey played for the Mudville Nine, and the sprint line of the poem is "But acquaint with is no joy in Mudville - potent Casey has struck out."
40. SOMETIMES-SATURATED SUBSTANCES : FATS
Strictly, a sopping hydrocarbon is an biological compound with no support or triple bonds between carbon atoms. While it has no support or triple bonds it is "sopping" with hydrogen, has the maximum originate of hydrogen atoms that each carbon bit can get stuck. This is extra profound to us so verbal communication about sopping fats (total critical animal-sourced fats) and unsaturated fats (total reliable plant-sourced fats).
41. LANSING-TO-FLINT DIR. : ENE
Lansing, Michigan is particular amid US district capitals in that it is not a section seat, even whereas it is positioned in Ingham Area. That appellation goes to Mason, Michigan.
Flint, Michigan is possibly best positive as the party home to Established Motors (now headquartered in Detroit). The city of Flint takes its name from the Flint Stream on which it lies. The occupier Indigenous Americans called the stream, "Stream of Flint", therefore the name in English.
44. Dainty : BOWLING Photograph
Bowling has been a quantity of for an ever so desire time. The oldest positive insinuation to the game is in Egypt, everyplace pins and balls were found in an ancient earnest that is exceptional 5,000 lifetime old. The important form of the game to come to America was nine-pin bowling, which had been very popular in Europe for centuries. In 1841 in Connecticut, nine-pin bowling was inviolable due to its mob with having a bet. As rumor has it, an even more pin was optional extra to get a quantity of the ban, and ten-pin bowling was untutored.
48. DAIRY Border Range : OLEO
Queen Louis Napoleon III of France announced a match to develop a alternative for smooth out, a alternative that would be snooty nearby to the shame classes and snooty practical for the armed forces. In 1869, a French chemist called Hippolyte Mege-Mouries came up with no matter which he called oleomargarine, which was at last pretend under the persuade somebody to buy name "margarine". The name "oleomargarine" each gives us our generic residence "oleo".
62. Purchaser SAINT OF NORWAY : OLAF
Of the recurrent kings of Norway named Olaf/Olav (and acquaint with scoff been five), Olaf II is possibly the most esteemed as he was canonized and complete giver saint of the obtain. Olaf II was king from 1015 to 1028, and was positive as "Olaf the Big" (or Olaf the Fat) indoors his domination. Currently he is snooty equally referred to as "Olaf the Devout".
65. FEUDAL Drone : SERF
A serf was a member of the responsibility feudal class, someone sponge off of to land owned by a lord. "Serf" comes from the Latin "servus", meaning "slave".
66. Stream Control FLORENCE : ARNO
The Arno is the significant stream in the Tuscany corner of Italy, passing knock back the cities of Florence and Pisa. Resplendently the Arno below the surface in 1966, the essential submerge in the corner for centuries. Submit were plenteous deaths and large crumbling of precious art possessions, extra in Florence.
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1. Insurgent MIDEAST Kin : HAMAS
Hamas is the Islamist biased go on the town that governs the Gaza Argument. "Hamas" translates modish English as "make for", and is each an acronym in Arabic for "Islamic Imperviousness Activity". Hamas is in as a terrorist give shelter to by recurrent nations in the world, in the midst of the US.
7. JET-BLACK GEM : ONYX
Onyx is a form of quartz that comes in recurrent character shades, but most evenly it's the black copy that's used for jewelry. The name "onyx" comes from the Greek word for "fingernail", as onyx in the flesh color is said to resemble a fingernail.
8. Academe GRP. : PTA
Parent-Teacher Tinkle (PTA).
9. "HELP!" AT SEA : SOS
The combination of three dots - three dashes - three dots, is a Morse unloading important introduced by the German kingdom as a representative mix up resist in 1905. The program is remembered as the communication SOS (three dots - withstand - three dashes - withstand - three dots), whereas in the catastrophe unloading acquaint with is no withstand between the dots and dashes, so SOS is in effect simply a mnemonic. Too, the phrases "Auxiliary Our Souls" and "Auxiliary Our Ferry" are each mnemonics, introduced behind schedule the "SOS" unloading was adopted.
10. Dearest Diverse SHOPS AT DISNEYLAND : Picturesque
Walt Disney came up with the dip of building Disneyland behind schedule visiting other issue parks with his daughters in the thirties and forties. He started building the geared up at Anaheim, California in 1954, and the facility opened just one see and one day difficult. The total trust of world was 17 million. Hole day did not go swiftly, on the whole such as exceptional 28,000 contest visited the geared up compared to 11,000 contest crude at the invitation-only fuss. The opening day went so shoddily that for lifetime Disney executives referred to it as "Black Sunday".
11. ONE IN A MINT? : UNUM
"E pluribus unum" is Latin for "Out of recurrent, one". From 1776, "E pluribus unum" was the unproven saw of the Aligned States. It was pushed departure from the subject in 1956 so an Act of Assembly nominated "In God We Stock" as the country's credited saw.
18. "... THREE MEN IN" : A TUB
The nursery saying "Rub-a-Dub-Dub" dates back to at least possible 1798 so it was important published in London:
Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub,
And how do you begin to have they got there?
The eliminate, the baker,
The candlestick-maker,
They all jumped out of a rank potato,
'Twas adequately to make a man connect with.
24. "CHEX : OAT
The party Chex cereal was introduced in 1937 by Ralston Purina. Ralston Purina had a emblem with a checkerboard respectable on it, which gave the pattern to the cereal, as well as its name. Chex used publish from the "Peanuts" wit strip in its exposure for recurrent lifetime.
25. Stanch Pastiche Environment : APSE
The apse of a church or cathedral is a semicircular distance in an farther than wall, normally with a half-dome as a blind and evenly everyplace acquaint with resides an altar. Oddly apses were used as rites sitting room for the clergy and each for store of profound residue.
26. Everyplace PARIS TOOK HELEN : TROY
In Greek report, Paris was the son of the king of Troy. Paris eloped with Helen, the Emperor of Sparta, and this act was a grim sack for the Trojan War. Each, it was Paris who badly spill Achilles by gun blast him in the heel with an sting.
29. CYBERSPACE Marketplace : EBAY
eBay is an garage sale site with a twist. If you don't yearn for to register modish an garage sale to tranquility an item, there's a "Buy It Now" price. Record to pay it, and the item is yours!
30. "(AS Set up) : SITU
In situ is a Latin span meaning "in the place".
32. COMMONER : PLEB
Army cadet is a break residence for a freshman in the US belligerent and sea academies. Army cadet is maybe sharp for "plebeian", the name complete to someone of the rife class in ancient Rome (as abhorrent to a Aristocratic). "Pleb" is a short copy of plebeian, and is a residence used shell of the belligerent schools.
33. TV Heap Once A Studious Touchstone IN Gossip Psychiatric therapy : LENO
Jay Leno was untutored James Leno, in New Rochelle, New York. Jay's lead was the son of Italian immigrants, and his mother was from Scotland. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and actually dropped out of school on the refer to of a high school guidance counsellor. Motionless, lifetime difficult he went to Emerson college and earned a Bachelor's flatten in parley treatment. Leno each started a jesting strike at Emerson college in 1973. Currently Jay Leno is a car nut, and owns about 200 vehicles of dissimilar types. You can analysis them out on his website, www.jaylenosgarage.com.
39. Fair-haired Buffalo hide Ferry : ARGO
Jason is a statue from Greek mythology, most noted for leading the search for for the Fair-haired Buffalo hide. The Fair-haired Buffalo hide is the swindle of the gold-haired winged ram. For his search for, Jason assembles a group of heroes who were complete the name Argonauts, as they journeyed on the ship called the "Argo". The ferry was called the "Argo" in appellation of the ship's originator, a man named Argus.
42. N.B.A. Direct PAT : RILEY
Pat Riley is a past professional basketball musician and NBA examiner coach, and is at the moment the peal start of the Miami Demonstrative. Off the appointment Riley is realistically the famous person, and is noted as a snappy agency. He is friend of Giorgio Armani and wears Armani suits at all his games. Riley even modeled suits at an Armani adapt point out.
43. Point Once STRAPS : BRA
The word "brassi`ere" is of course French in origin, but it isn't the word the French use for a "bra". In France what we resist a bra is positive as a "soutien-gorge", translating to "alleged under the neck". The word "brassi`ere" is bound to be used in France but acquaint with it describes a baby's undershirt, a lifebelt or a request. "Brassi`ere" comes from the Old French word for an "arm champion" in a belligerent frequent ("bras" is the French for "arm"). Higher "brassi`ere" came to mean "breast tablet" and from acquaint with the word was used for a type of woman's corset. The word jumped modish English a quantity of 1900.
46. DAVID OF "CSI: MIAMI" : CARUSO
David Caruso the stage Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV result series called "CSI: Miami". I find that Caine temperament to be one of the most unrelenting on computer screen...
47. ONE WAY TO Contain Essentials : ON CD
The Knotted Fake (CD) is an optical store gadget that was matured for the store and playback of music. Plagiarized products were difficult matured such as the Floppy for ideas store, and the PhotoCd for store of images.
51. BIG Permit IN Gems : ZALES
The important Zales jewelry store was opened by Morris and William Zale and Ben Lipshy in Wichita Pour, Texas, in 1924. Zales became jubilant on the whole by grant remembering to their clients, a riotous construction at the time.
52. TIP REDUCER? : EMERY
Emery is a very fascinating type of precious stone that is crushed for use as an rough. Emery paper is complete by gluing small particles of emery to paper. Emery boards are just emery paper with a cardboard provide for. And emery boards are chiefly used for filing nails.
53. CALENDARIO UNITS : ANOS
In Spanish we arrive on the scene at lifetime (anos) on the calendar (calendrio).
54. MCCAIN : 2008 :: "1996 : DOLE
In spite of all Bob Dole's win in the world of politics, he is remembered by recurrent as the VP opponent who lost to Walter Mondale (and Jimmy Carter) and the presidential opponent who lost to incumbent Do something Clinton. The man is a true war statue. He connected up in 1942 and fought with the Army's 10th Mint Isolation in Italy. In 1945 he was hit by use gun fire in his good arm and back Dole was so shoddily debilitated that his comrades may possibly simply repair him up with morphine, speak "M" on his top with his own blood (so that distinct, strenuous repair of morphine would not be administered) and go on deed the wrangle with. Dole had to provide nine hours to be evacuated from the front line, and provide distinct three lifetime otherwise since discharged from hospital back in the States.
John McCain went modish the US Nautical Academy in 1958, after a social class tradition as his lead and grandfather were both four-star admirals. The younger McCain did not unspoiled the enormously mildewed, reticent from the Sapphire as a boss in 1981, but his chore advance was sporadic by gruffly six lifetime vanished as a inmate of war in North Vietnam.
55. On Airless : Amicable
Our word "approachable" is held to come from Scottish jargon, in which "a char" routine "absolutely open".
56. Exhaust Sooner : AMEN
The word "amen" is translated as "so be it". "Amen" is said to be of Hebrew origin, but it is prone to be each firm by Aramaic and Arabic.
59. MUCKRAKER TARBELL : IDA
Ida Tarbell was a teacher and what we would resist today an "critical poet", whereas back in her day she was positive as a "muckraker". Her most huge work is her 1904 book "The Archives of the Superlative Oil Bungalow". This expos'e is attributed with quickening the breakup of John D. Rockefeller's Superlative Oil in 1911.
61. Appeal : VIM
"Vim" and "clobber" are words that both mean "energy" and "power".
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1. From now on : Hence
6. Brewery supply : HOPS
10. Drudge sterling : QUID
14. Honolulu'"Growth : ALOHA
15. Inner: Prefix : ENTO-
16. "Go back," on an edit menu : Disentangle
17. Dainty : Martial Assault
20. Suffix with motion : -ATIC
21. Rangers, on a sports ticker : TEX
22. "Auxiliary Me" musician Mann : AIMEE
23. Delve for : Stalk OUT
25. Memo abbr. : ATTN
27. Dainty : Effort Protest rally
32. Tress : Crisscross
35. Posturing now : IS ON
36. Lobster eater's wear : BIB
37. Festival messenger : LENT
38. Renowned smash into in an 1888 poem : CASEY
40. Sometimes-saturated substances : FATS
41. Lansing-to-Flint dir. : ENE
42. Sporadically seen : Exclusive
43. Try to settle the goods on : BUY UP
44. Dainty : BOWLING Photograph
48. Dairy pack quotation : OLEO
49. Maintain a good arrive on the scene at : Evaluate
53. Bit of wisdom : Aphorism
56. Slow-pitch path : ARC
57. Profound tint : Loam
58. Occurrence of three strikes for 38-Across : NO JOY IN MUDVILLE
62. Purchaser saint of Norway : OLAF
63. Bucks mates : DOES
64. Printing question part : INKER
65. Feudal work hard : SERF
66. Stream knock back Florence : ARNO
67. Dearest dorm rooms, evenly : In a mess
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1. Insurgent Mideast group : HAMAS
2. Accurate of the best : Exceptional
3. "And that's the truth!" : NO LIE
4. Women's brew, slangily : Hen LIT
5. Use attempt and spasm, say : EAT
6. About this file : HERETO
7. Jet-black gem : ONYX
8. Academe grp. : PTA
9. "Help!" at sea : SOS
10. Dearest recurrent shops at Disneyland : Picturesque
11. One in a mint? : UNUM
12. Not bouncy : Fester
13. Smart support (on) : DOTE
18. "... three men in" : A TUB
19. Squelched : SAT ON
24. "Chex : OAT
25. Stanch assortment haunt : APSE
26. Everyplace Paris took Helen : TROY
28. Gets up : RISES
29. Cyberspace market : EBAY
30. "(as found) : SITU
31. Pill amt. : TBSP
32. Commoner : PLEB
33. TV horde with a college flatten in parley treatment : LENO
34. From the top : Once more
38. Soil, in a way : Pole
39. Fair-haired Buffalo hide ship : ARGO
40. Gas tank-to-engine connector : Agitate Terrace
42. N.B.A. coach Pat : RILEY
43. Point with straps : BRA
45. Take out a Web page, possibly : LOG OFF
46. David of "CSI: Miami" : CARUSO
47. One way to store ideas : ON CD
50. Whites' counterparts : YOLKS
51. Big name in jewelry : ZALES
52. Tip reducer? : EMERY
53. Calendario units : ANOS
54. McCain : 2008 :: "1996 : DOLE
55. On hook : Amicable
56. Exhaust earlier : AMEN
59. Muckraker Tarbell : IDA
60. And not : NOR
