Day: March 24, 2013

Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across
1. Term attributed to architect Le Corbusier ART DECO
Le Corbusier was the pseudonym used by Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret. Some say that the term “Art Deco” was coined by Le Corbusier. Others say that the term comes from a 1925 exhibition in Paris called “L’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

20. Everest climbers SHERPAS
In the Tibetan language, Sherpa means “eastern people” (sher = east, pa = people). Sherpas are an ethnic group from Nepal, but the name is also used for the local guides who assist mountaineers in the Himalayas, and particularly on Mount Everest.

21. Brits’ outerwear MACS
When I was growing up in Ireland, we had to take our “macs” to school in case it rained (and it usually did!). “Mac” is short for “Macintosh”, a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric. The coat was named after its inventor, Scotsman Charles Macintosh.

23. CliffsNotes bio of a civil rights leader? CONDENSED MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK).

CliffsNotes are student study guides here in the US. Publication of CliffsNotes started in 1958 under a licensing arrangement with a Canadian company that was already publishing similar texts called Coles Notes.

28. “Awakenings” drug L-DOPA
L-3,4-DihydrOxyPhenylAlanine, thankfully can be shortened to L-DOPA. Swedish scientist Arvid Carlsson won a Nobel Prize for showing that L-DOPA could be used to reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s Syndrome.

“Awakenings” is a very interesting 1990 film starring Robert De Niro as a catatonic patient who “wakes” after being treated with the drug L-Dopa. Sadly, after a few weeks living his life again, the De Niro character returns to his catatonic state.

31. It can be spun two ways YARN
One can spin a yarn (tell a tale) or spin some yarn (wool).

33. Author Potok CHAIM
Chaim Potok was a Jewish American author. Potok’s most famous novel is “The Chosen”, which recounts the life of a Jewish youth in New York City during WWII.

35. Hungary’s Nagy IMRE
Imre Nagy was twice Prime Minister of Hungary. He was ahead of his time, I think. His second term as Prime Minister came during the Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet Union in October 1956. The Soviet’s invaded of course, and arrested Nagy. He was tried in secret, sentenced to death and hanged.

36. Junk-rated salad? BBB LETTUCE (from “bibb lettuce”)
Bibb is a variety of lettuce in the cultivar known as butterhead. All butterhead varieties have loose-leafed heads and a buttery texture.

38. Stereotypical Monroe roles BIMBOS
Marilyn Monroe was born in 1926 in LA County Hospital, the child of Gladys Pearl Baker. The young girl was given the name of Norma Jeane Mortenson on her birth certificate, but her mother changed this to Norma Jeane Baker almost immediately. She and her estranged husband, Martin Edward Mortensen, had separated before Baker became pregnant so it is suggested that the Mortensen name was used just to give Norma Jeane “legitimacy”. Norma Jeane married a Jim Dougherty when she 16 years old, and took his name to become Norma Jeane Dougherty in 1932. During WWII she was discovered by a photographer and became quite a successful model. The modelling earned her a screen test, at which time it was suggested that Norma Jean change her name yet again. The first name chosen for her by studio executives was Carole Lind (after Carole Lombard and Jenny Lind), but then Norma Jeane chose “Jeane Monroe” for herself, using her mother’s maiden name. It didn’t take long before the studio intervened again, suggesting that they had too many “Jeans” already. The name Marilyn Monroe was floated as it had a nice ring to it. Along with the new name, Marilyn changed from a brunette to a blonde, and a star was born …

43. Arctic explorer John RAE
John Rae was a Scottish explorer, who took on the task of searching for the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. The Franklin Expedition was itself searching for the elusive Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific. John Rae stirred up much controversy back in England when he reported evidence of cannibalism among the ill-fated Franklin explorers.

44. Gretzky, once OILER
Wayne Gretzky is regarded by many as the greatest ever player of ice hockey, and indeed had the nickname “The Great One”.

The National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers are so called because they are located in Alberta, Canada … oil country.

45. TV reporter Peter ARNETT
Peter Arnett is an American journalist, originally from New Zealand. I mainly remember him from his coverage of the Gulf War for CNN, although Arnett was awarded his Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his work in Vietnam during the war there.

46. Oregon Coast Aquarium city NEWPORT
The Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon used to be home to Keiko, the orca who was the star of the 1993 film “Free Willy”.

48. “Sesame Street” crank OSCAR
Oscar the Grouch is the Muppet that lives in a garbage can. Oscar’s persona comes from various sources. He is named after Oscar Brand who was one of the board members of the Children’s Television Workshop, the backers for Sesame Street as the Muppets were being developed in the sixties. Oscar’s personality was inspired by an angry waiter that once served Jim Henson (father of the Muppets). And the voice was modeled on a grumpy New York cab driver encountered one day by Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brings Oscar to life.

49. Garson of Hollywood GREER
Greer Garson was a British actress who made a name for herself in Hollywood films in the forties. One of Garson’s most famous roles was playing the title character in the 1942 film “Mrs. Miniver”, starring alongside Walter Pidgen. Garson married a much younger man in 1943, the actor Richard Ney who played her son in “Mrs. Miniver”.

50. Some 6-Downs CLARKS
The Clark Bar is a candy bar made by NECCO. The Clark Bar is named for its inventor, David L. Clark, who created the confection way back in 1917.

51. NYU, for one SCH
New York University (NYU) is comprised of fifteen schools, one of which it the Tisch School of the Arts. The Tisch is famous for its acting program, with notable alumni such as Debra Messing, Christopher Guest and Josh Radnor.

52. Edinburgh native SCOT
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, and is a really beautiful city. In days gone by it might not have been quite so charming though. Like many cities, plumes of smoke hung over Edinburgh when coal and wood fires weren’t regulated. To this day, the city has the nickname “Auld Reekie”, Scots for “Old Smoky”.

61. “Give Peace a Chance” co-songwriter ONO
John Lennon and Yoko Ono had a very public honeymoon in a hotels in Amsterdam and then Montreal, when they staged their famous “bed-in” for peace. In answering questions from reporters Lennon found himself often repeating the words “give peace a chance”. While still in bed, he composed his famous song “Give Peace a Chance” and even made the original recording of the song in the Montreal hotel room, with reporters present, and with a whole bunch of friends. The song was released later in 1969 and became a smash hit.

62. Crossword solver’s ref. book THES
Thesaurus (thes.).

63. Lip-reading alternative: Abbr. ASL
It’s really quite unfortunate that American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL) are very different, and someone who has learned to sign in one cannot understand someone signing in the other.

68. Terrestrial newt EFT
Newts wouldn’t be my favorite animals. They are found all over the world living on land or in water depending on the species, but always associated with water even if it is only for breeding. Newts metamorphose through three distinct developmental stages during their lives. They start off as larvae in water, fertilized eggs that often cling to aquatic plants. The eggs hatch into tadpoles, the first developmental form of the newt. After living some months as tadpoles swimming around in the water, they undergo another metamorphosis, sprouting legs and replacing their external gills with lungs. At this juvenile stage they are known as efts, and leave the water to live on land. A more gradual transition takes place then, as the eft takes on the lizard-like appearance of the adult newt.

71. Title for Connery SIR
Sean Connery is of course most famous for playing the original James Bond in the successful series of movies. Back in his native Scotland, Connery is very active in politics and is a member of the Scottish Nationalist Party. He actively campaigns for Scottish independence from Britain and has stated that he believes Scotland will achieve that goal within his own lifetime.

75. Small flightless bird KIWI
Unlike many nicknames for people of a particular country, the name “Kiwi” for a New Zealander isn’t offensive at all. The term comes from the flightless bird called the kiwi, which is endemic to New Zealand and is the country’s national symbol. “Kiwi” is a Maori word, and the plural (when referring to the bird) is simply “kiwi”. However, when you have two or more New Zealanders with you, they are Kiwis (note the “s”, and indeed the capital “K”!).

79. Mena of “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” SUVARI
Mena Suvari’s most famous role to date is the “beauty” in the 1999 movie “American Beauty”. In the film, Suvari plays the teenage girl with whom the Kevin Spacey character becomes infatuated.

80. Story in la maison ETAGE
In France, the ground floor (étage) of the house (la maison) isn’t called the first floor. It’s called the ground floor.

86. Title for Dickens’s Defarge MADAME
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a character in the Charles Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities”. As part of her role in the story, Mme. Defarge sits knitting while observing the guillotine doing its macabre work.

88. Liquid fat OLEIN
Triolein (also called “olein”) is a triglyceride, a liquid fat. Triolein is found in various amounts in most fats and oils. For example, olive oil can contain up to 30% triolein.

91. Team with a star in its logo ASTROS
The Houston baseball team changed its name to the Astros from the Colt .45s in 1965 when they started playing in the Astrodome. The Astrodome was so called in recognition of the city’s long association with the US space program.

92. Winnebago-driving elder? OLD MAN RVER (from “Old Man River”)
“Ol’ Man River” is a wonderful song by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, from the musical “Show Boat”. The most famous performances of the song were by Paul Robeson, starting in 1938 when he appeared in a movie version of the stage show. Over the years Robeson changed the lyrics as he sang it at various recitals. The original words used a lot of racial epithets and stereotypical African American slang that he decided to change or omit.

102. Pavarotti’s trio TRE
“One, two, three” in Italian is “uno, due, tre”.

Luciano Pavarotti has to have been one of the most celebrated tenors of all time. He was able to appeal to audiences beyond the traditional fans of opera, helped by his performances “The Three Tenors”, Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. Pavarotti made his final performance on stage at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, where he sang his famous rendition of the moving aria “Nessum dorma” and brought the house down. Pavarotti passed away from pancreatic cancer the following year, at the age of 71.

105. Kindle read ZINE
A “zine” is a “magazine”.

107. Colonel Klink’s clink STALAG
Stalag was the term used for a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. Stalag is an abbreviation for Stammlager, which in turn is the short form of Mannschartsstamm und Straflager, literally meaning “crew master and prison camp”.

On the sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes”, Colonel Klink was the Camp Commandant, played by Werner Klemperer. Klemperer was born in Cologne in Germany, and fled the country with his family in 1935 due to Nazi persecution of Jews. Later, Klemperer joined the US Army and ended up using his show business talent to entertain the troops in the Pacific.

114. Film adventurer, informally INDY
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” is, in my humble opinion, the best of the Indiana Jones franchise of movies. This first Indiana Jones film was released in 1981, produced by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford was Spielberg’s first choice to play the lead, but Lucas resisted as he was concerned that he would be too closely associated with the actor (as Ford played Han Solo in “Star Wars”, and also appeared in Lucas’s “American Graffiti”). Tom Selleck was offered the role but couldn’t get out of his commitments to “Magnum, P.I.” Eventually Spielberg got his way, and that was a good thing I’d say …

116. ’70s fad items shipped in boxes with air holes PET ROCKS
The Pet Rock lives on history, even though the fad really only lasted about 6 months, in 1975. It was enough to make Gary Dahl a millionaire though. His next idea, a “sand farm”, didn’t fly at all.

117. Most ’90s Prizms GEOS
Geos were small vehicles manufactured by General Motors mainly in the nineties. Geos were designed to compete head-to-head with the small imports that were gaining market share at the time in the US. Some Geo models that you might remember are the Metro, the Prizm and the Storm. The cars were actually built as joint-ventures with Japanese manufacturers. The Prizm was a GM/Toyota project, the Metro was GM/Suzuki, and the Storm was GM/Isuzu.

Down
1. Tin Pan Alley gp. ASCAP
ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) collects licence fees for musicians and distributes royalties to composers whose works have been performed. BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) provides the same service.

Tin Pan Alley was originally a specific location, West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. The area was associated with the music publishing business from about 1885 to the start of the Great Depression The name itself is possibly a reference to the tinny sound of cheap pianos that were common at the time.

2. Tenant in Carlton the Doorman’s building RHODA
The unseen character “Carlton the Doorman” appeared, well not literally, in the sitcom “Rhoda”. Carlton was played by voice actor Lorenzo Music.

4. Snoop Dogg’s discoverer DR DRE
Dr. Dre is the stage name of rapper Andre Romelle Young. Dr. Dre is known for his own singing career as well as for producing records and starting the careers of others such Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent.

7. William Donovan’s WWII org. OSS
William J. Donovan was the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII. Given that the OSS was the precursor to the CIA, Donovan is known as the “Father of Central Intelligence”. Donovan was the only person to have received the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Model and the National Service Medal, all four of the highest awards in the US.

9. Rhett’s last word DAMN
In Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind”, when Rhett Butler finally walks out on Scarlett O’Hara he utters the words “My dear, I don’t give a damn”. Most of us are more familiar with the slightly different words spoken by Clark Gable in the film adaption of the story: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

15. __ Bora: Afghan mountain area TORA
The famous cave that almost certainly housed Osama Bin Laden for a while was in Tora Bora in eastern Pakistan. Tora Bora is not far (~ 30 mi) from what used to be an even more famous spot, the Khyber Pass. “Tora Bora” is a Pashto name which translates to “black dust”.

16. Harpers Ferry’s st. W VA
Harpers Ferry is a town in West Virginia located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. We tend to remember Harpers Ferry as the place where John Brown led a raid on a federal armory during the Civil War with the intent of arming slaves.

17. Art teacher’s tip for drawing a lion? REMEMBER THE MANE (from “Remember the Maine”)
The USS Maine was a pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1890. The Maine sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898 due to a massive explosion. A Naval Court of Inquiry found that the explosion was caused by a mine, a finding that helped precipitate the start of the Spanish-American War that began one month later. Those advocating the war were often heard crying, “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

24. Title for Devereux EARL
Robert Devereux was the 2nd Earl of Essex, and a favorite in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Eventually however, Essex fell foul of the government and was found guilty of treason. He was executed on Tower Green in the Tower of London. Famously, his executor took three strokes of the axe to complete the beheading. Essex was the last person to be beheaded at the Tower.

28. Moms, before knot-tying lessons LACERS
Moms are lacing up the kids’ shoes until they young ones learn how tie the knots themselves.

32. Act as accomplice to ABET
The word “abet” comes into English from the Old French “abeter” meaning “to bait” or “to harass with dogs” (it literally means “to make bite”). This sense of encouraging something bad to happen morphed into our modern usage of “abet” meaning to aid or encourage someone in a crime.

34. Symbolic dance HULA
Hula is the name of the Polynesian dance. The chant or song that the dance illustrates, that’s known as the mele.

37. Japanese TV pioneer TOSHIBA
The Japanese company that we know today as Toshiba was formed in 1939 with the merger of Tokyo Electric and Shibaura Engineering Works. The “To-shiba” name comes from a melding of TO-kyo and SHIBA-ura.

38. MacLane who played General Peterson on “I Dream of Jeannie” BARTON
Barton MacLane was an actor from Columbia, South Carolina. MacLane appeared in many classic films in the 1930s and 1940s in particular, including working alongside Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. But MacLane is perhaps best remembered these days for playing General Martin Peterson on the sixties TV classic “I Dream of Jeannie”.

40. Pirates’ home PNC PARK
PNC Park is the home to the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. The park is sponsored by PNC Financial Services, the sixth largest bank in the US, and founded and based in Pittsburgh.

41. Jim of “According to Jim” BELUSHI
“According to Jim” is a sitcom that aired from 2001 to 2009, with JIm Belushi in the title role as a father and husband living in suburban Chicago.

47. Common string that omits Q PRS
In days gone by, telephone keypads had three letters written below each of the numbers 2 through 9. These eight numerical keys only allowed for 24 letters, so two letters had to be omitted, namely Q and Z. So, the 7-key has the letters PRS and 9-key the letters WXY.

51. Bergen dummy SNERD
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s most famous character was Charlie McCarthy, but Bergen also worked with Mortimer Snerd.

58. Thespian’s whisper ASIDE
The term “Thespian” is used for an actor. It derives from the name of the Greek poet of the 6th century Thespis, who was known as the father of Greek tragedy.

59. Ohio cager, briefly CAV
The Cleveland Cavaliers are the professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavs joined the NBA as an expansion team in 1970.

In the early days of basketball, when a ball went out of bounds possession was awarded to the player who first retrieved the ball. This led to mad scuffles off the court, often involving spectators. As the game became more organized courts were routinely “caged”, largely because of this out of bounds rule, to limit interaction with the crowd. It’s because of these cages that basketball players are sometimes referred to today as “cagers”.

60. Triathlete’s need STAMINA
An Ironman Triathlon is a race involving a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride, and a marathon run of just over 26 miles. The idea for the race came out of a debate between some runners in the 1977 Oahu Perimeter Relay. They were questioning whether runners, swimmers or bikers were the most fit athletes. The debaters decided to combine three local events to determine the answer, inviting athletes from all three disciplines. The events that were mimicked to come up with the first triathlon were the Waikiki Roughwater swim (2.4 miles), the Around-Oahu Bike Race (115 miles) and the Honolulu Marathon (26.2 miles). The idea was that whoever finished first would be called “the Iron Man”. The first triathlon was run in 1978, with fifteen starters and only twelve finishers. The race format is used all over the world now, but the Hawaiian Ironman is the event that everyone wants to win.

65. Siouan speakers OSAGES
The Osage Nation originated in the Ohio River valley in what we now call Kentucky. They were forced to migrate west of the Mississippi by the invading Iroquois tribe. Most of the tribe members now live in Osage County, Oklahoma.

70. Long-necked strings SITARS
The sitar has been around since the Middle Ages. The sitar is a stringed instrument that is played by plucking, and is used most often in Hindustani classical music. In the West we have been exposed to the instrument largely through the performances of Ravi Shankar and some music by George Harrison of the Beatles, a onetime student of Shankar.

74. Bobby Rydell’s “__ Got Bonnie” I’VE
The singer Bobby Rydell was a teen idol back in the sixties. If you’ve seen the musical “Grease”, the high school setting of “Rydell High” was named after Bobby Rydell.

79. King novel with two apostrophes in the title ‘SALEM’S LOT
Stephen King’s “’Salem’s Lot” was published in 1975, his second novel. It belongs to the horror genre, so you won’t catch me reading it. The title refers to the Maine town of Jerusalem’s Lot, or ‘Salem’s Lot for short. There’s an interesting story about the actual publication of the first edition. The intended price of $8.95 was changed at the last minute to $7.95, but not all the price changes were made before release. A few copies “escaped” with the dust cover marked $8.95, and they are now worth a lot of money. Go check your bookshelves …

81. Latin lover’s word AMO
“Amo, amas, amat: … “I love, you love, he/she/it loves”, in Latin.

83. Sparks and Beatty NEDS
Ned Sparks was a Hollywood character actor noted for his grumpy deadpan expression as he chewed on a cigar. Sparks became so enamoured with his facial expression that the story is he insured his face for $100,000.

88. Chinese teas OOLONGS
The name for the Chinese tea “oolong” translates into English as “black dragon”.

93. Kwan and Kerrigan NANCYS
Nancy Kwan is a Hollywood actress from Hong Kong who was somewhat of a sex symbol in the sixties. Kwan’s most famous role was perhaps her first, playing the title role in 1960’s “The World of Suzie Wong” opposite William Holden.

Nancy Kerrigan is a US Olympic figure skater. It was Kerrigan who was attacked with a club in 1994 at the US Figure Skating Championships, the qualifying event for the Olympic Games. The attack was planned by the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s skating rival, Tonya Harding. Seven weeks later, Kerrigan won the silver medal in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

94. Prefix with stat RHEO-
A rheostat is an electrical device that can offer a varying degree of resistance to current flow. The English physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone first coined the term, using the Greek “rheos” meaning “flowing stream” and “stat” meaning “regulating device”.

98. Sonoran flora CACTI
Sonora is the state in Mexico lying just south of the borders with Arizona and New Mexico. The Sonoran Desert straddles the US-Mexico border, covering 120,000 square miles in parts of the states of Sonora, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Arizona and California.

100. Plymouth pokies GAOLS
Both “jail” and “gaol” are pronounced the same way, mean the same thing and are rooted in the same Latin word for “cave”. The spelling “gaol” is seen quite often in the UK, although it is gradually being replaced with “jail”. The “gaol” spelling has Norman roots and tends to be used in Britain in more formal documentation.

Plymouth is a port city on the coast of Devon in the UK. Plymouth was the point of departure of the Mayflower Pilgrims.

101. Wetlands wader EGRET
At one time the egret species was in danger of extinction due to excessive hunting driven by the demand for plumes for women’s hats.

103. 2013 Northeast superstorm NEMO
Winter Storm Nemo affected the Northeastern US and parts of Canada in February 2013. The storm then headed across the Atlantic and created some havoc over in the British Isles.

104. Like Pindar’s poetry ODIC
Pindar was an Ancient Greek poet, best known perhaps for composing a series of Victory Odes that celebrated triumph in competition, most notably the Olympian Games of the day.

106. Chinese intro INDO-
In the strict sense of the term, Indochina is a region in Southeast Asia that corresponds to the former French territory known as French Indochina. Today this region is made up of the countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. However, the term “Indochina” is more generally used to describe Mainland Southeast Asia, and in this usage it also encompasses Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand.

108. “Intelligence for Your Life” radio host TESH
John Tesh is a pianist and composer, as well as a radio and television presenter.

111. Short pack item CIG
Cigarettes (cigs.) come in packs.

112. Flushing Bay airport letters LGA
Fiorello La Guardia was the Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945, racking up three full terms in office. The famous airport that bears La Guardia’s name was built at his urging, stemming from an incident that took place while he was in office. He was taking a TWA flight to “New York” and was outraged when the plane landed at Newark Airport, in the state of New Jersey. The Mayor demanded that the flight take off again and land at a small airport in Brooklyn. A gaggle of press reporters joined him on the short hop and he gave them a story, urging New Yorkers to support the construction of a new commercial airport within the city’s limits. The new airport, in Queens, opened in 1939 as New York Municipal, often called “LaGuardia” as a nickname. The airport was officially relabeled as “LaGuardia” in 1947.

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Term attributed to architect Le Corbusier ART DECO
8. Black cloud : anger :: light bulb : __ IDEA
12. Amazon checkout option GIFT-WRAP
20. Everest climbers SHERPAS
21. Brits’ outerwear MACS
22. “Who would refuse that?!” I’D LOVE TO!
23. CliffsNotes bio of a civil rights leader? CONDENSED MLK
25. Shoebox creations DIORAMAS
26. Worshipped ADORED
27. Five-star A-ONE
28. “Awakenings” drug L-DOPA
29. Biblical suffix -ETH
30. Curtail PARE
31. It can be spun two ways YARN
33. Author Potok CHAIM
35. Hungary’s Nagy IMRE
36. Junk-rated salad? BBB LETTUCE
38. Stereotypical Monroe roles BIMBOS
40. TV funded by “Viewers Like You” PBS
43. Arctic explorer John RAE
44. Gretzky, once OILER
45. TV reporter Peter ARNETT
46. Oregon Coast Aquarium city NEWPORT
48. “Sesame Street” crank OSCAR
49. Garson of Hollywood GREER
50. Some 6-Downs CLARKS
51. NYU, for one SCH
52. Edinburgh native SCOT
54. Bonus, in adspeak XTRA
57. Beat PULSE
58. Monkeyshines ANTICS
61. “Give Peace a Chance” co-songwriter ONO
62. Crossword solver’s ref. book THES
63. Lip-reading alternative: Abbr. ASL
64. Popular cosmetic surgery? NOSE ABATEMENT
68. Terrestrial newt EFT
69. Frat jacket P’s RHOS
71. Title for Connery SIR
72. Online persona AVATAR
73. One about to shoot AIMER
75. Small flightless bird KIWI
76. Sticks on ADDS
78. Miguel’s “more” MAS
79. Mena of “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” SUVARI
80. Story in la maison ETAGE
82. Pros’ foes ANTIS
85. Approached dusk LATENED
86. Title for Dickens’s Defarge MADAME
88. Liquid fat OLEIN
89. It may be tapped ALE
90. Rare shoe width EEE
91. Team with a star in its logo ASTROS
92. Winnebago-driving elder? OLD MAN RVER
95. Slangy negatives NAHS
96. Getting warm CLOSE
97. “Uh, excuse me …” AHEM
98. Pet pad CAGE
102. Pavarotti’s trio TRE
103. Not in any way NO HOW
105. Kindle read ZINE
107. Colonel Klink’s clink STALAG
109. Applied during a massage RUBBED IN
111. Prison? CON COLLECTOR
113. Causing worry ALARMING
114. Film adventurer, informally INDY
115. Lose freshness GO STALE
116. ’70s fad items shipped in boxes with air holes PET ROCKS
117. Most ’90s Prizms GEOS
118. Parched ATHIRST

Down
1. Tin Pan Alley gp. ASCAP
2. Tenant in Carlton the Doorman’s building RHODA
3. Voice above baritone TENOR
4. Snoop Dogg’s discoverer DR DRE
5. Sport with feinting EPEE
6. Snack stand array CANDY BARS
7. William Donovan’s WWII org. OSS
8. “That’s about it” I’M DONE
9. Rhett’s last word DAMN
10. Varied ECLECTIC
11. Use the reference desk ASK
12. More flighty GIDDIER
13. Down in the dumps, say IDIOM
14. Dud FLOP
15. __ Bora: Afghan mountain area TORA
16. Harpers Ferry’s st. W VA
17. Art teacher’s tip for drawing a lion? REMEMBER THE MANE
18. Semi-quickly AT A TROT
19. Most swanky POSHEST
24. Title for Devereux EARL
28. Moms, before knot-tying lessons LACERS
32. Act as accomplice to ABET
34. Symbolic dance HULA
35. “My turn” I’M NEXT
36. On the blink BROKEN
37. Japanese TV pioneer TOSHIBA
38. MacLane who played General Peterson on “I Dream of Jeannie” BARTON
39. Spleen IRE
40. Pirates’ home PNC PARK
41. Jim of “According to Jim” BELUSHI
42. What the team’s goat mascot did? SWALLOWED THE BAT
47. Common string that omits Q PRS
48. Twice tetra- OCTA-
49. Toast, with “a” GONER
51. Bergen dummy SNERD
53. Unconscious states COMAS
55. Ring figure REFEREE
56. In the saddle of, traditionally ASTRIDE
58. Thespian’s whisper ASIDE
59. Ohio cager, briefly CAV
60. Triathlete’s need STAMINA
65. Siouan speakers OSAGES
66. Updated midflight nos. ETAS
67. More high-strung TAUTER
70. Long-necked strings SITARS
74. Bobby Rydell’s “__ Got Bonnie” I’VE
77. Sickly-looking SALLOW
79. King novel with two apostrophes in the title ‘SALEM’S LOT
81. Latin lover’s word AMO
83. Sparks and Beatty NEDS
84. Mountain, e.g. TIME ZONE
85. Cleanse LAVE
86. Seductress MANTRAP
87. Generally speaking AS A RULE
88. Chinese teas OOLONGS
93. Kwan and Kerrigan NANCYS
94. Prefix with stat RHEO-
96. Armor problem CHINK
98. Sonoran flora CACTI
99. A train may be headed for it ALTAR
100. Plymouth pokies GAOLS
101. Wetlands wader EGRET
103. 2013 Northeast superstorm NEMO
104. Like Pindar’s poetry ODIC
106. Chinese intro INDO-
108. “Intelligence for Your Life” radio host TESH
110. Cold comment BRR!
111. Short pack item CIG
112. Flushing Bay airport letters LGA

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