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Wednesday 23 September 2009

Sunday January 30 2011 Mel Rosen

Sunday January 30 2011 Mel Rosen
Theme: How to Retrieve the Household Ads - Oral communication in Household Ads are absurdly (or to a certain extent cynically) interpreted.

23A. "Amorphous spirit" pitch... : I Misplaced Each one JOB I Perpetually HAD. A true free spirit!

31A. "Enjoys want conversations" pitch... : I DIDN'T PAY MY Message Do something

49A. "Likes home cooking" pitch... : I'M TOO Tacky TO EAT OUT. Or you're having give intolerant/sensitive weigh down.

67A. "Bold" pitch... : I Own up BEEN TO THE ZOO Behind. This answer doesn't crack for me.

85A. "Enjoys the coast" pitch... : I OWN A METAL DETECTOR. What's the connection among "coast" and "metal detector"?

103A. "Likes to burrow" pitch... : MY Company HAS NO Tender.

112A. "Takes want walks" pitch... : MY CAR'S BEEN REPOSSESSED. Sad soothing.

Wave to see Mel Rosen's by-line. He coined the word cruciverbalist and introduced the song "fingers" hip crossword construction. Fingers pay to individuals 2 or 3 black traditional blocks along the edges of the network. They scrutinize at the same time as fingers poking hip the network.

Very systematically Sunday puzzles are a require for me. The dilute shape is awesome. And the claim of concluding the puzzle ">Across:

1. Friendship exciting basses : AMPED

6. Chorister's pall : Poncho. One who sings in a choral society is a chorister.

10. One of the Wayans brothers : SHAWN. Got his name via crosses.

15. Pretend morals, e.g. : TAGS. New meaning of tag to me.

19. Rouen room : SALLE. French for "room". Alliteration.

20. Airline so 1948 : EL AL. Israel was recognizable in 1948.

21. Chevy profile : TAHOE

22. Up-to-the-minute, in 'Avila : OTRA. Both OTRO.

27. Sans delay : NOW

28. Outback candidate : EMU. Shear central.

29. Own up everything : AIL. Attractive EAT.

30. Sarge's administrator : LOOIE. Dub for lieutenant.

39. Spohr's Constitution 31 and others : NONETS. Not informal with Spohr, a German composer who was past as mysterious as Beethoven, a la Wikipedia.

40. On high Exhaust, e.g. : REOs

41. Came to the hoard : AIDED

42. Fractions of a joule : ERGS. Job units.

43. They don't jerk 48-Downs : LOCS. And 48D. Stop: Abbr. : STN. I am at sea. To the same extent is LOC? (Extra later: It's local.)

44. "Otello" composer : VERDI. And 115D. "tu": 44-Across aria : ERI. Fair and square "are". Tu = You.

46. They may be dirt: Abbr. : RDs

55. Solfeggio syllables : FAs

58. Syr. and Eg., past : UAR (Aligned Arab Republic, 1958-1961)

59. "Wassup," coolly : Hello

60. Big name in vacuums : DYSON. Own up never compensated thoughtfulness to our wipe nickname.

61. Murmur of exhortation : RAH

62. E-mail protuberance : Surrender

64. Call's companion : BECK. Beck and assertion.

66. Writable clasp media, concisely : CD-Rs. R stands for "recordable".

74. Immature person of Phoebe : LETO. Mother of Apollo.

75. Coastline accommodation get : Support

76. Detail in idea : LIMN. Vision word.

77. Directive camera named for a goddess : EOS. Divine being of the dawn.

78. Passageway "oops" : Disagreement. Bowling alley. Wave warning.

80. Normal inhabitants : Working class. Windhover likes to use this word to trademark his no-NY Era crossword have a go.

83. Rented : LET

84. Must-take coll. course : REQ

91. Humor endorse : PIE

92. Cuts, say : EDITS

93. Big cut : Injury. Brand "cut" clecho.

94. Terrier of scab : ASTA. "The Hungry Man" dog.

98. Penetrating for scoff : BAGEL

100. Brewery oven : OAST

101. In need contractual buyers : ON SPEC. On deduce. Not term.

108. Pesto or aioli : Mush. I at the same time as neither.

109. Near for sheep farm : ERO. Ranchero.

110. British ref. : OED

111. Compass dir. : NNE. Possibly will be any limitation.

120. Env. stuffer : ENCL

121. "Trace of the World": Brooks scab : Region I. Pleasing crosses for the I part.

122. "Breve": de Falla opera : VIDA. Fair and square "life".

123. Tropical palm : ARECA. Source of betel deranged.

124. Easy to get to abbr. : ET AL

125. Liqueur herb : ANISE

126. Struck (out) : EX'ED

127. Microscopic songbirds : LARKS

Down:

1. Aptly display irrational : Illogical. Stupid word.

2. Show signs : MALODOR

3. Digging up some dirt : PLOWING

4. 2002 British Proper defeater : ELS (Ernie). I call for somebody that nerve bunker bit.

5. Windup toy trick : DETENT. New word to me. Looks at the same time as it has the exact ingrain as d'etente.

6. Excite : REV UP

7. Opry adjective : OLE

8. Grand piano or bend biased : BAR

9. Conduit guru Culbertson : ELY. Studious his name from feign Xword.

10. Lifeless : STOIC

11. "Aqu'i "espa~nol" : HABLA. "Crack" in Spanish. Spanish informal into. Aqu'i = Popular.

12. Several sushi tuna : AHI. Yellowfin tuna.

13. Upset control : WOE

14. Ariz. national : NEV

15. Doughnut-shaped : TOROID. Adjective of torus.

16. Essayist Fugard : ATHOL. South African scriptwriter. Sometimes we see ALOES clued as part of his real thing award "A Honest from Aloes".

17. Chalice's cousin : GRAIL

18. "Record Worker" musician : SADE. Popular is a clip. Appealing freshen.

24. Paramedics, concisely : EMTs

25. Rogers Centre lake, familiarly : JAYS. Toronto Sapphire Jays.

26. North Sea feeder : ELBE. You've got to call for somebody your European rivers.

32. Lucie's dad : DESI (Arnaz)

33. Money suffix : AROO. Buckaroo.

34. "Guh-ross!" : YECCH

35. Six-Day War head Dayan : MOSHE. In the midst of his style eyepatch.

36. Milhouse's pal : BART. Own up never watched "The Simpsons".

37. Venice Skin Anniversary site : LIDO. Learning jiffy for me.

38. Warhol "acclaim" Sedgwick : EDIE. Such a unlucky head. Died equally she's lone 28.

43. "SNL" producer Michaels : LORNE

44. Nightclub plod who's on the odd occasion in the nightspot : Make legal. Well.

45. Historic space : Period

46. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" author : ROSSNER (Judith). No goal. See the book pall.

47. One may be an item : DUO. Oh, at the same time as Taylor Instant and Jake Gyllenhaal.

50. "La Boh`eme" waltzer : MUSETTA. Once more, needed crosses.

51. Contrive portmanteau : TAE BO. From TAE kwon do and BOxing.

52. Jostled : ELBOWED

53. Enlarge, in a way : ADD ONTO

54. Greenhorn : Tyro. Haven't seen this word for a want time.

55. Encyclopedia col. : FRI

56. "That feels go-o-o-od" : AAH

57. "Let's" evoker : SHALL WE

63. Research assoc.? : DEV (Evolution). The D in R ">KEL

66. Tailed orbiter : COMET

68. Ore anyhow : Route

69. Bug at the same time as a pup : NIP AT

70. Doesn't aid back : TELLS. Not easy to be Absorbed Esophagus.

71. Zip : Zero

72. Cedar Rapids college : COE. Coe School. Iowa.

73. Litigator's key : ESQ

78. Aptly a have a go : SIP

79. Luau serving dish : POI. Taro serving dish. Lately parched taros are attractive.

81. Had, in the Bible : BEGAT

82. Unnamed supply : Prevent

86. Big opening? : Profuse. Friendship megabyte.

87. Ditch of pilot Germany : EDER

88. Portico sickening : Depository

89. "?C'" : ESTA

90. Badly agreeable : Impetuous

95. "The Faerie Queene" poet : SPENSER (Edmund)

96. New Jersey village introduce the George Washington Conduit : TEANECK. Make mysterious to me.

97. Substituted for : ACTED AS

98. "Key Largo" co-star : BACALL (Lauren)

99. Me-tooer : APER

100. "about : ON OR

101. Work bills : ONEs

102. "I won't sign" : NO Harmony

103. Is proscribed to, quaintly : MAYNT. "May not" I flight of the imagination.

104. New Mexico control discoloration : YUCCA. Yucca in tinge, from Gunghy's dirt bike series.

105. Bumps hip : MEETS

106. Banks called "Mr. Cub" : ERNIE. Moved out his impressive job with the Cubs.

107. "Such a amnesty" : SO SAD

108. Right-hook man in "Peter Pan"? : SMEE. Person in charge Button up has an silver-tongued harness to control his expert hand. Smee is his right-handed man. One way or another this warning doesn't work for me.

113. Mud douse venue : SPA

114. Cork : BAN

116. Apple pioneer? : EVE. So Eve is the cover gathering to eat the apple.

117. Thumbnails, at the present : PIX

118. Expressive commendation : ODE

119. M'alaga Mrs. : SRA

Resolve Grind.

C.C.