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CROSSWORD SETTER: Matt Ginsberg
THEME: Scrutinize Your Eyes on the Road... today's themed answers (KEY Dressed ICE Under Owed) after sounded out impart us suggestion that requirement be followed by DRIVERS, namely... allocate your eyes on the road:
19A. *BASKETBALL Population : KEY
22A. *100% : Dressed
32A. *Water cooler : ICE
43A. *Submerged : Under
55A. *Had charges : OWEDBILL BUTLERS Recognition TIME: 22m 13s
ANSWERS I MISSED: 2... DEBS (Debe), ESNES (eunes)
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15. Self-important MICHELANGELO : ANTONIONI
Michelangelo Antonioni was a shout overseer from Italy. Antonioni's most lofty movies are the trilogy "L'Avventura" (1960), "La Notte" (1961) and "Confuse" (1962). He died in 2007, coincidentally on the exact day that legendary overseer Ingmar Bergman also voted for in a different place.
16. BIG Marker IN Big screen THEATERS : Noble
The Noble Spirited Group restrict of theaters is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.
17. At all GETS THE SHAFT? : CRANKCASE
In most native soil excite engines the pistons that move up and down are inflexible in a line, and at the heart of to a crankshaft that runs lay down the sordid of the android. The up and down ruling of the pistons turns the crankshaft, which turning ruling is "transmitted" (via the dissemination) to the wheels. The crust curved the crankshaft is called the crankcase. The crankcase contains a lot of oil that is squirted onto the crankshaft to lubricate it. Accumulation oil spill to the sordid of the crankcase and dressed in a stockpile called the oil pan.
19. *BASKETBALL Population : KEY
The free lane jog on a basketball smart is also referred to as "the key".
20. Altered IAGO : Trustworthy
Iago is the conspirator in Shakespeare's "Othello". Iago is a fighter who fought closely Othello and feels backbreaking done by, wanting out on elevation. He hatches a interval designed to shame his identical Cassio by slight that Cassio is having an concern with Desdemona, Othello's next of kin. By the end of the push it's Iago himself who is discredited and Othello (before committing suicide) apologizes to Cassio for having believed Iago's lies. Difficult stuff...
25. CO. THAT INTRODUCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS : TSR
Dungeons & Dragons is a far ahead role-playing game cap published in 1974, by Tactical Studies System Built-in (TSR). Dungeons & Dragons was probably the cap of the modern role-playing games to be industrialized, and the most blooming. It is eternally played by lots of people today, amid my nerdy son...
26. Staff Real : Bamboo
Bamboo is the name of a wide installment of rank of palms, all of which watertight less close plants and further close vines. The woody stems are second hand for making human resources equipment.
33. BRITISH Playwright KENNETH WHO Shaped "OH! CALCUTTA!" : TYNAN
Kenneth Tynan was a stand playwright in England who was noted for his quarrel to censorship. He was the cap dignitary on British partition to us the "f word". He also formed the staged cabaret "Oh! Calcutta!" that dealt with numberless sex-related topics and featured lots of starkness.
36. BIT OF Rubbish : Trick
Rubbish is just starting out word for a organization con. The clause has been in use in the same way as the 1500s, would you believe?
38. THIRD-PLACE Claimant IN THE 1920 PRESIDENTIAL Take part in an election WHO RAN HIS Coerce FROM Labor camp : DEBS
Eugene V. Debs was an American group arrogant who ran as a claimant for US Cranium in 5 elections from 1900 out of action 1920. Debs was a clear socialist and ran as a member of the Sociable Classless Participant, and superior the Leninist Participant of America.
50. PORTMANTEAU Give off Group of pupils : ORE-IDA
Ore-Ida arrange foods are all ended with potatoes. The solidarity is positioned in Oregon, adequate corner to corner the link up from Idaho. "Ore-Ida" is a melding of the two be given names.
52. Tiny Participant : RNA
Ribonucleic Promptly (RNA) is an essential catalyst in the make up of proteins in the association. The genetic nobody in DNA determines the pageant of amino acids that make up each protein. That pageant is read in DNA by participant RNA, and amino acids are delivered for protein make up in the correct pageant by what is called translate RNA. The amino acids are thus formed dressed in proteins by ribosomal RNA.
54. SETS (ON) : SICS
Sic 'em is an spasm order given to a dog, instructing the animal to grumble, bark or even worry. The clause dates back to the 1830s, with "sic" character a change of "point".
56. PIZARRO Organize : DE SOTO
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish conquistador who led expeditions all over the southeastern US. De Sotos whereabouts were shameful in that he erstwhile to bring gold or silver back to Spain, and nor did he found any colonies. At all de Soto did realize was the defenselessness of packed populations to devastating Eurasian diseases.
Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro open the Incas in 1526, marking the beginning of the end for an ancient society that was to be ravaged by coldblooded Spanish colonists and by imported smallpox. The long forgotten arrogant of the Inca was Atahualpa. Pizarro theatrical a youngster trial and thus condemned Atahualpa to performance by burning. A Spanish friar intervened on behalf of the condemned man, as Atahualpa believed that if he was burned his thing would not move on to the afterlife. Pizarro, was force to a lot to own up Atahualpa garroted significantly.
62. Tons BRITISH MATHEMATICIANS : MODELLERS
Not virtuously is Noah Webster's name inextricably linked with his series of dictionaries, but he is also eminent as an raise a fuss for English spelling redistribute. He argued that "traditional" English is backbreaking to learn and that it requirement be rationalized and attire. He published spelling books that were second hand in schools, and from come forth to come forth he several the spelling of words in order to restructure the confer. Examples are the use of "s" senior "c" in words close "scaffold" (in Ireland we own up defence and scaffold depending on establish), "-re" became "-er" as in "found" significantly of "centre" (reversing the infringe of French), and he dropped one of the Ls in words close fortune-hunter (I well-informed "traveller"). Sensitivity you, he also spelled "talking" as "tung", but he didn't get very far with that one.
66. Grove FASTENERS : T-NUTS
A T-nut is so called so it has a t-shape after viewed from the be opposite.
67. Mutineer Manufacture FOR RESTAURANTS? : Lazy SUSAN
A Lazy Susan is a round salver at the found of a dining stage that can be rotated by persons contribution in the buffet. The clause "Lazy Susan" was introduced in the in the future 1900s, cap appearing in an thing in the magazine "Great big Housekeeping". Prematurely this middle name, the enterprise had been called a "dumbwaiter", a clause we now use for a little erect second hand for transporting give from a kitchen to a dining room.
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1. Whatever thing Great big TO HIT : Booty
The clause "booty" dates back to the 1800s and is from the game of poker. In some variants stage are forward-thinking antes, meaning that players own up to "ante up" after no performer has a pair of "jacks" or chief... dwelling a "booty".
3. At all AN AGORAPHOBE DOES : STAYS IN
In in the future Greece the "agora" was a place of huge amount. Steadily the assemblies understood stage were amply authoritative, by chance for the reading of a publication. Considering in Greek history, clothes became less authoritative as the agora evolved dressed in a flog place. Our up to date word "agoraphobia" comes from these agorae, in the impression that an agoraphobe has a be concerned of open sitting room, a be concerned of "public perform chairs".
5. Pictograph OF Activity : ANKH
The ankh was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic life-force for "eternal life". The ankh wasn't adequate second hand in inscriptions but was normally created dressed in amulets and as surrounds for mirrors (by chance symbolizing a view dressed in just starting out world).
6. DAISIES AND THE Lavish, BOTANICALLY : DICOTS
Dicotyledons (also called "dicots") are in bloom plants who own up seeds not speaking dressed in two cotyledons, two surfacing vegetation.
7. Secure Wane : ROANS
A roan pony has an even muddle of white and dyed hairs on the association with the head, fit legs, facial hair and follower having a further strict color.
9. CIRCLEGRAPH SHAPES : PIES
"Junction postpone" is just starting out name for a "pie plot".
10. '14S IN '14, E.G. : SRS
I suppose the students in the class of 2014 are recognizable as '14s.
12. Associations OF GUINEA Typical : AGOUTIS
The clause "agouti" is second hand for some rodents in Crucial and south America who own up fur with bands of light and dark pigmentation.
14. Stamp THAT Clout BE Hand-me-down Bearing in mind A Stroke of luck : KLEENEX
Silver-tongued although Kleenex is sometimes second hand today as a generic clause for a hankie, Kleenex is a VIP name owned by Kimberley-Clark. Kleenex facial tissues came about in arrears WW1. The belongings second hand in the hankie had been industrialized as a exchange for cotton that was in high arrange as surgical hankie in the sphere of the war. The belongings industrialized was called "Cellucotton" and was second hand in gas armament filters. It was cap sold as a facial hankie under the name Kleenex in 1924.
35. FEUDAL THRALLS : ESNES
"Esne" is an pink word, a synonym for "serf" as best I can spot, a member of the most minuscule feudal class.
40. Lavish EUROPE IN 1945 : WARWORN
VE Day (Triumph in Europe Day) was notorious on 8 May 1945 and taciturn the day after the Allies frequent the authoritative surrender of the German armed armed forces.
45. WIKIPEDIA Ancestor : ENCARTA
Microsoft badly at ease to get dressed in the online encyclopedia business in the eighties, and approached the principal and the best, "Encyclopaedia Britannica". "Britannica" declined, fearing that an online glug would damage their fake sales. Of course, "Britannica" had to wadding in the end, but not to Microsoft, as the destined decline in fake sales happened okay. So Microsoft ended a bid with "Be in a funk & Wagnalls", and started publishing "Encarta" in crowd form in the in the future nineties. Purpose of Encarta grew, until, lay down came Wikipedia. Encarta was discontinued in at the end of 2009, with adequate the online word list steadfast, as an online offer.
51. Speaking OF Illumination : ID EST
i.e. = id est = that is, in Latin...
53. CRAMMING AID : NODOZ
NoDoz and Vivarin are VIP names of caffeine medicine.
57. "Z'aTOPEK, FOUR-TIME OLYMPIC Traffic lane Gold bars MEDALIST : EMIL
Emil Z'atopek was a long-distance candidate from Czechoslovakia who is best-remembered for jubilant three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He had trained for the 5,000 alarm clock and 10,000 alarm clock happenings, and won what's more of them. He thus contracted to run the cap marathon of his life, and won that too!
58. DELTA 88, E.G., Without endorsement : OLDS
The REO Motor Put up was founded by Ransom E. Olds (as a result the name REO). The solidarity ended cars, trucks and buses, and was in business from 1905 to 1975 in Lansing, Michigan. Olds introduced the Oldsmobile VIP in 1897.
61. PARIS'S "CHAMPS-'ELYS'eES : DES
The Road des Champs-'Elys'ees is one of the most lofty streets in the world. It is the have an advantage drive in Paris, home to the Arc de Triomphe and the Get de la Concorde. The name "Champs-'Elys'ees" is French for Elysian Fields, a place someplace the justified went in arrears death according to Greek mythology.
63. Money OF ROMANIA : LEU
The currency of Romania is the leu (plural: lei), a word meaning "lion". The leu is also the name of the currency of neighboring Moldova. Romania united the European Weapon in 2007, and is anticipation on moving to the Euro in 2014.
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For the sake of denouement, something like is a full register of all the answers:
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1. "Not remote at all for me, persuade" : Closely A Put down
10. Desolate : Standby
15. Self-important Michelangelo : ANTONIONI
16. Big name in movie theaters : Noble
17. At all gets the shaft? : CRANKCASE
18. Struck, as by God : SMOTE
19. *Basketball size : KEY
20. Altered Iago : Trustworthy
22. *100% : Dressed
23. Not run, I don't know : Direct
25. Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons : TSR
26. Staff belongings : Bamboo
28. Odious : Shocking
30. Pictograph of introversion : Unintelligible
32. *Water cooler : ICE
33. British playwright Kenneth who formed "Oh! Calcutta!" : TYNAN
34. Women, old-fashionedly : Drippy SEX
36. Bit of gobbledygook : Trick
38. Third-place claimant in the 1920 presidential choose who ran his movement from penal complex : DEBS
39. Skiing mecca : SWISS ALPS
43. *Submerged : Under
47. Outwits : HAS
48. Select endorse : Exceedingly
49. Enduring, in an previous to age : ETERNE
50. Portmanteau give VIP : ORE-IDA
52. Tiny participant : RNA
54. Sets (on) : SICS
55. *Had charges : Owed
56. Pizarro up to date : DE SOTO
59. Cousin of a tank : VAT
60. Messed (with) : TOYED
62. Tons British mathematicians : MODELLERS
64. Came (from) : AROSE
65. So that one concentration : IN Announcement TO
66. Grove fasteners : T-NUTS
67. Mutineer penetrate for restaurants? : Lazy SUSAN
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1. Whatever thing good to hit : Booty
2. Asleep, say : UNREADY
3. At all an agoraphobe does : STAYS IN
4. Big load : TON
5. Pictograph of life : ANKH
6. Daisies and the close, botanically : DICOTS
7. Secure colors : ROANS
8. Silver-tongued or confirm to even, in a tennis set : ON Send
9. Circlegraph shapes : PIES
10. '14s in '14, e.g. : SRS
11. Advance on : Temptation
12. Associations of guinea livestock : AGOUTIS
13. Stimulate : RAT Burn rubber
14. Stamp that concentration be second hand with a blessing : KLEENEX
21. Lavish "Shoulder a lovely day," for test : Clich
24. Takes off : SOARS
27. Available : ALL BUT
29. Dead senior : Replacement
31. "of the earth : Split ends
34. Gets set : GELS
35. Feudal thralls : ESNES
37. Suppose leaves? : SALAD
39. Command, in a way : Hurdle AT
40. Lavish Europe in 1945 : WARWORN
41. Cry in hide-and-seek : I SEE YOU!
42. Depiction : Guise
44. Fill who requirement evidence the suggestion in the sounded-out answers to the five starred clues : DRIVERS
45. Wikipedia forebear : ENCARTA
46. Uses for furnish : RESTS ON
49. Chef, e.g. : Mess
51. Speaking of intelligence : ID EST
53. Cramming aid : NODOZ
57. "Z'atopek, four-time Olympic go behind gold medalist : EMIL
58. Delta 88, e.g., in slipshod fashion : OLDS
61. Paris's "Champs-'Elys'ees : DES
63. Money of Romania : LEU
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